By Amanda Kim Stairrett
Killeen Daily Herald

FORT POLK, La. – First Lt. Jeff Ellis is the oldest and one of the newest people in the 1st Cavalry Division’s 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team.

At age 45, he beat out the squadron’s senior noncommissioned officer, Command Sgt. Maj. James Daniels, by just a few months.

Ellis arrived to the squadron a week ago on Tuesday.

He graduated from the Army’s chaplain school at Fort Jackson, S.C., came to his first duty station at Fort Hood and immediately joined the squadron at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk. Three of the chaplains he graduated with also were placed in the 2nd Brigade

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