{"id":5885,"date":"2023-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2023-04-19T06:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T06:47:28","slug":"usag-ka-community-welcomes-back-new-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=5885","title":{"rendered":"USAG-KA Community Welcomes Back New Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Newly promoted Kwajalein Police Chief Thomas Prim, left, gets his badge adjusted March 25, 2023, by his wife Jenny and son Philip, on U.S. Army Garrsion-Kwajalein Atoll.
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The second tour on Kwajalein proved to be the charm, as U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll gains a new police chief.<\/p>\n

Chief Thomas Prim was recently promoted in a ceremony with family, friends and coworkers in attendance.<\/p>\n

Prim was a patrol sergeant on Kwajalein from May 2017 to May 2019. He supported Fort Wainwright, Alaska, as a supervisory police officer before returning to Kwajalein in July 2022 to fulfill that role.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting out early in my career in the Army, I worked hard, and to see it all come together with this promotion means a lot,\u201d said Prim.<\/p>\n

Prim comes from a long line of law enforcement. \u201cMy uncle worked in the Sheriff\u2019s Department in the county we lived in and became the chief of police in the city I grew up in, Jacksboro, Tennessee. My father worked in the Sheriff\u2019s Department as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prim joined the Army and served in the Military Police Corps. He served in the Army from 1993 until 2016, with many roles in law enforcement: certified customs inspector, protective services detail, traffic accident investigations and served as the noncommissioned officer in charge of a traffic section, trained in physical security, anti-terrorism, K-9, and served as a kennel master and dog handler for explosives and narcotics dogs.<\/p>\n

Prim\u2019s wife, Jenny, and his sons Felix, a high school junior, and Philip, a sixth grader, helped promote Prim to the rank of chief.<\/p>\n

The chief said he told his family about the opportunity to return to Kwajalein while in Alaska.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all open to the chance to be able to come back and be a part of the community again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Members of the U.S. Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll police force stand for a photo before the promotion of Chief Thomas Prim March 25, 2023. (Photo Credit: James Brantley) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Newly promoted Kwajalein Police Chief Thomas Prim, left, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5887,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5890,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}