FROM CALIFORNIA & CAMP PENDLETON TO COWTOWN & THE PENTAGON

"It’s different than California, but at least I’m getting to rope.”

Chief Warrant Officer Mike White, a 22-year Marine, is on the seventh deployment of his career, serving at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters. He’s five weeks in and seems to have the situation dialed in.

“I’m hanging out in my Bloomer trailer at an alfalfa farm, roping on the weekends, teleworking a few days a week and going into the Pentagon two days a week,” White, 45, said, explaining that he’s less than an hour from the weekly PRCA rodeo in Pilesgrove, New Jersey. “We got here on a Saturday morning and then we went to Cowtown that night, and we won