In 2009, Staff Sgt. Goodrich was sitting in college at Central Michigan University thinking about joining the Reserve Officer Training Course program when he enlisted. Instead, he attended basic combat training that summer and became a Military Policeman. He was placed with the 428th MP Company located out of Portage Mich., and mobilized with them to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from 2012-2013. He had always seen Drill Sergeants across the hall and knew that he wanted to become one. He joined the 3/330th Fox Company in 2014 after completing the Kalamazoo Valley Police Academy. In 2015 he became a police officer and started work for the Marshall, Mich., police department. He then completed the United States Drill Sergeant Academy in the summer of 2015.

Leadership, the lifeblood of an army, makes a difference every day in the United States Army. Since the formation of the Continental Army until today with Soldiers deployed around the globe, Army leaders have accepted the challenges before them.