Purple Heart recipient and current Liberty online student receives call to ministry during military service

After high school, at the age of 18, Jatorin Owens began a military career that spanned 16 years and included four overseas deployments in the U.S. Army, twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, before medically retiring as a staff sergeant and becoming a full-time pastor. Owens, now a student with Liberty University Online Programs, received the Purple Heart for his service in 2006, when he was wounded during his second deployment to Iraq. Owens was the convoy commander as he and three other soldiers were escorting civilian vehicles.

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