Even during a 17-credit spring semester as a 2L student at St. Thomas School of Law, Trevor Brink knew when he got the call on April 7 he was ready: Two days later he was reporting for duty as the executive officer of his National Guard company and in charge of managing the Minnesota Department of Health’s personal protective equipment (PPE) distribution warehouse.
Brink is leaning on his eight years of National Guard experience to help coordinate the huge volume of PPE distribution to health care facilities across the state. That meant 50-plus-hour weeks over the final five weeks of his 17-credit spring semester, but Brink said there was no hesitation around the idea of stepping up to help.
Brink started with the National Guard as a junior at Elk River High School, and his interests gelled with a law enforcement and military sciences degree from St. Cloud State University.
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