{"id":110405,"date":"2019-12-31T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=110405"},"modified":"2019-12-31T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:46:29","slug":"shawn-tabankin-of-clifton-park-promoted-to-lieutenant-colonel-in-the-new-york-army-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=110405","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Tabankin of Clifton Park, promoted to lieutenant colonel in the New York Army National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New York Army\u00a0National\u00a0Guard\u00a0Lt. Col. Shawn Tabankin is pictured with his family in Latham Dec. 8, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Shawn Tabankin of Clifton Park, a veteran of multiple\ndeployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in\nthe New York Army National Guard during a Dec. 8, 2019, ceremony at the New\nYork National Guard Headquarters in Latham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tabankin enlisted in the United States Army in 1997 as a private\nfirst class in the 82nd Airborne Division. He received his commission as an\nInfantry Officer in 2002 through the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps and\njoined the New York Army National Guard in order to attend New York Law School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003, Tabankin took a voluntary leave of absence from law\nschool in order to deploy to Iraq as a platoon leader with Bravo Company,\n2-108th Infantry. As a platoon leader, Tabankin conducted combat operations for\n11 months, including participation in the October 2004 Battle of Samarra – a\nfour-day house-to-house fight to clear the city of insurgent forces. Upon\nreturn, Tabankin completed law school, began practice as an attorney and began\nservice as a traditional National Guardsman completing assignments as the executive\nofficer for Alpha Company, 1-69th Infantry Regiment and Company Command of\nCharlie Company, 1-69th Infantry Regiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, Tabankin took a second rifle command with Charlie\nCompany, 2-108th Infantry Regiment in order to deploy with the 27th Brigade to\nWestern Afghanistan. Tabankin became a full-time active duty member of the New\nYork Army National Guard in 2012, where he served as the Force Integration\nOfficer (FIRO). In 2017, Tabankin transferred to the 42nd Infantry Division and\ncurrently serves as the chief of plans. Tabankin is a graduate of the Infantry\nOfficer Basic Course, Maneuver Captain’s Career Course, Intermediate Level\nEducation and the Advanced Operations Course. Tabankin’s awards include the\nBronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, the Iraq Campaign\nMedal with two Bronze Service Stars and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with one\nBronze Service Star, Valorous Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Award, the Combat\nInfantryman’s Badge, Parachutist Badge and Air Assault Badge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tabankin was born in Bronx and resides in Clifton Park with\nhis wife Jenn and their children, Addyson and Ephren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn Tabankin of Clifton Park, a veteran of multiple deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the New York Army National Guard during a Dec. 8, 2019, ceremony at the New York National Guard Headquarters in Latham. Tabankin enlisted in the United States Army in 1997 as a private first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story","category-veterans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-sIJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Tabankin_promotion_25753_0.jpeg?fit=649%2C478&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}