Cade Joseph Bonlender

• Operating heavy agricultural equipment
• Calf care
• Driving trucks for moving feed and bedding
• Vaccinating calves
• Building maintenance
• Preventative maintenance on equipment and vehicles
• Maintaining cleanliness of calf and steer barns

Completed Combat Engineer One Station Unit Training and completed training on:

• Priming and detonating Explosive Demolition Charges
• Such as TNT, M112 demolition charge, Bangalore Torpedo, Detonating Cord and Spider System.
• MOUT (Movement on Urban Terrain)
• Clearing and marking minefields
• Setting up and destroying wired obstacles
• Building and destroying bridges
• Building defense systems
• Finding/Clearing IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices)
• Served with 450th and 485th Area Clearance Platoons, 372nd Engineer Brigade (Wausau, WI)
• Training for area/route clearance, recon missions and operations
• Drill one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer

Mobilization to the Southern Border Mission (El Centro, California)(Eagle Pass, TX) Oct. 24th 2024 - Nov. 24th 2025

• Assisted Border Patrol in several successful detections that lead to the apprehensions of Illegal Aliens by operating MSC and MVSS equipment
• Served as Sergeant of the Guard (SOG). Duties were managing the shifts Forward Observers and helping maintain discipline, mission effectiveness and capability by guiding and leading the Forward Observers in the successful detections of IA's
• Served as a Team Leader and ensured that soldiers under me where competent in the mission and other tasks and duties. -
• Served as a Patrol Leader and conducted patrols during operations with successful detections and apprehension of IA's by looking for sign on the border drags and by means of Listening Posts and Observation Posts (LP/OP).
• Maintained 100% accountability of assigned equipment worth more than $500,000.
• Current Rank: Sergeant (E-5)

Awards and Decorations: Army Achievement Medal (2x Decorated), Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal (with Mobilization device), Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with Mobilization Device), Army Service Ribbon, Mexican Border Defense Medal, International March of Diekirch Ribbon.

Qualification Badges: Sharpshooter w/rifle, Expert w/pistol, and Drivers Badge

• Put parts away from stock order.
• Contacted customers with information on their parts and orders
• Worked with other part techs and shop techs to come through for customers.
• Put together weed-eaters and chainsaws for customers.
• Communicate issues with customers and work them out.

• Stacked and measured wood boards
• Worked on the paint line
• Worked on the Planer line
• Clean work areas

• Assembled and built John Deere, MacDon, and CNH sickles for combines, choppers etc.
• Operate and Maintain Punch Press machine
• Operate and Maintain Automated Sickles Assembly Machine
• Operate and program Spindle Trak Mill CNC Machine
• Train associates on maintaining and all the processes of running machines listed above