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Like Nunn, who served in the Air Force, Baccam, 42, is also a military veteran.
He enlisted in the Iowa Army National Guard when he was 17 years old and was deployed to Afghanistan as a combat engineer in 2004. In Kandahar Province, he worked on teams that collected and destroyed unexploded munitions so that they could not be used by opposing forces — including the Taliban — to make IEDs, or improvised explosive devices.
“Mt. Pleasant native announces run for Congress.” Southeast Iowa Union, 11/14/23
Mt. Pleasant native Lanon Baccam has served his country through military service and multiple roles with the United States Department of Agriculture since leaving the community in which he was born and raised.
Baccam lives in Des Moines with his wife and daughter, but was born in Mouth Pleasant where his parents resettled in 1980. They were Tai Dam refugees who came to the United States under a program championed by Gov. Robert Ray.
Coming from a rural town, Baccam said one of his main motivations to run for Congress is to revitalize the rural economy
Women should be able to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions without government interference. In Congress, I will do everything in my power to stop a national abortion ban, and work to codify the protections of Roe v Wade into law.
Like Nunn, who served in the Air Force, Baccam, 42, is also a military veteran.
He enlisted in the Iowa Army National Guard when he was 17 years old and was deployed to Afghanistan as a combat engineer in 2004. In Kandahar Province, he worked on teams that collected and destroyed unexploded munitions so that they could not be used by opposing forces — including the Taliban — to make IEDs, or improvised explosive devices.
Women should be able to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions without government interference. In Congress, I will do everything in my power to stop a national abortion ban, and work to codify the protections of Roe v Wade into law.
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