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  • Sergeant Major John L. Estrada enlisted on 5 September 1973 and attended recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.

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    John L. Estrada

    American diplomat & military officer (born 1955)

    For the Filipino actor, see John Estrada.

    John Learie Estrada (born September 27, 1955[citation needed]) is the former United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and a former United States Marine who served as the 15th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007.[2][3] Estrada stepped down from that post on April 25, 2007, turning over the billet to the next sergeant major, Carlton Kent. Estrada then retired from the military in June 2007, after over 33 years of service.[4][5] He has also worked as a senior manager for Lockheed Martin Training Solutions from 2008 onward.

    Estrada was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago in July 2013, was approved for the position on February 12, 2016,[6] and became the ambassador on March 17.[7]

    Early life and education

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    Estrada was born in Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago[8] on September 27, 1955.[citation needed] He immigrated to the United States as a teenager and became a naturalized citizen in 1988.

    Military career

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    Estrada enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on September 19, 1973, and attended r

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    The former sergeant major of the Marine Corps is President Barack Obama’s choice to be the next ambassador to the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Nominated July 30, John L. Estrada is a native Trinidadian who has been senior manager for Lockheed Martin Training Solutions since 2008. If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed Beatrice Wilkinson Welters, who had served in Trinidad since 2010.

     

    Born circa 1955 in Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago, John Estrada immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 14 and enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 18 in September 1973, staying 34 years and serving as sergeant major of the Marine Corps, the highest-ranking enlisted Marine, from 2003 to 2007. Prior to that, Estrada served as Sgt. Maj. at the recruiting station in Sacramento, California, from 1998 to 2000; as Sgt. Maj. of the Recruit Training Regiment at Parris Island, South Carolina, from 2000 to 2001; and as Sgt. Maj. of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Miramar, Florida, from 2001 to 2003.

     

    After leaving the Marine Corps in 2007, Estrada worked as a business development specialist for engineering firm Coalescent Technology Corporation from 2007 to 2008.

     

    Estrada earned a B.S. in Business from the online University of Phoenix

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