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Bomgaars of Star Valley celebrates the Wyoming Army National Guard’s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. (ESGR) program. Pictured, left: Briton Bommer, Stephanie Palmer, Bob Austin, AZ O’dell, Gene Bates, and JT Bledsoe.
Manager of the Bomgaars store in Afton, Stephanie Palmer, earned the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) award for her helping her employee in his duties as he serves in the Wyoming Army National Guard.
Specialist Britton Bommer works for the store and nominated his manager for the award as she is very accommodating to his busy schedule.
“The National Guard puts the schedule out there of when I will be drilling,” Bommer said. “When I hand it in, it goes to Stephanie and she juggles the schedule.”
Manager of the Bomgaars store in Afton, Stephanie Palmer, earned the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) award for her helping her employee in his duties as he serves in the Wyoming Army National Guard.
Specialist Britton Bommer works for the store and nominated his manager for the award as she is very accommodating to his busy schedule.
“The National Guard puts the schedule out there of when I will be drilling,” Bommer said. “When I hand it in, it goes to Stephanie and she juggles the schedule.”
He is also a single parent and so he balances the times he has his kids plus his military schedule. He also says that a few months into his employment he got called to go to Washington D.C. for the events that happened earlier in the year.