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Michigan business committed to employing Service Veterans

SGS-Con, Inc. is part of the Strategic Global Solutions family, which is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business. The Dexter, MI based construction company is committed to employing our service veterans internally or through their own companies. SGS-Con, Inc. will also support our veterans with a portion of every dollar they make sent to several veteran support organizations.

Sgt Amanda Mikulka, Army National Guard (Ret), originally of Chesaning, formed SGS-Con, Inc. after serving ten years of active duty in the Army National Guard. Mikulka enlisted in 1999 when she was 17-years-old. She served with the 144th Military Police Unit, based out of Owosso, where she was deployed to the Pentagon for Operation Noble Eagle after 911 to protect the Pentagon while it was rebuilt.

Mikulka was then deployed to Louisiana to work with the Union Parrish Sheriff’s Department to provide support after Hurricane Katrina and Rita. After deploying to Iraq to join Operation Iraqi Freedom in October, 2006, she was not eligible for another military deployment. Determined and committed to serve our country, her team volunteered and pushed for a second deployment for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Her team was training Iraqi Police in an attempt to make the Iraqi Police Independent, and on August 9th, 2007, while on a mission in Mosul Iraq, Mikulka and her team came under enemy fire. Mikulka was hit with an RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) losing much of her right leg, damaging her left leg and causing other severe damages.

Mikulka returned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C where she received the Purple Heart and a hero’s welcome. Through countless surgeries and over the next six months she made a miraculous recovery through her own determination. Mikulka learned to walk again with a prosthetic leg, and is an inspiration to other military wounded personnel and their families.

Mikulka’s entire family has been in the construction business for as long as she can remember. All of her brothers are in construction, and her sisters married construction workers. Her stepfather was a wood-worker, and she built a deck when she was eight-years-old. She built her first shed at the age of ten.

Since construction has always been a part of her life, after returning from Walter Reed Hospital, Mikulka decided to start her own construction company. The company was set up as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), to provide opportunities to other veterans, with the idea to procure federal government contracts as well as military.

When asked how she felt her construction company will hold up in the current economy, Mikulka responded, “If I didn’t believe it would work out I wouldn’t have tried it. But I have a great feeling that it will, especially if we’re able to get government contracts.”

Contact SGS-Con, Inc. by visiting their website at www.sgs-con.com, email Amanda Mikulka at amanda@sgs-con.com, or call 734-424-6494.

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Sgt. Mikulka training Iraqi Police (Courtesy Photo) Sgt. Mikulka at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. (Courtesy Photo)

 

 

 

 

 

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