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Other Memories Heading into Philadelphia, he attended Drexel where he majored in Commerce and Engineering. He attended the orientation for ROTC and the die was cast. He knew that this was the path he would pursue. Here he made friends that are the life-long variety, the people who would be there when needed most. And he met Amanda, the love of his life, and the person who completed him as a person and a man.
As a business and engineering student at Drexel University in Philadelphia, he enrolled at the Naval R.O.T.C. unit at the University of Pennsylvania. He had intended to be a fighter pilot. His direction changed, however, when he met John Ismay, a Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer who took a brief break from security duties at the United Nations to speak to the midshipmen at Penn. Midshipmen Mosko then shifted plans and began competing to be assigned to the explosive ordnance disposal field.
Sean M. Simmons, who was a Navy adviser at the Penn unit, said Midshipman Mosko was drawn to the field and worked intently to be selected. He had been a competitive swimmer, Mr. Simmons said, and soon was training as a triathlete and hoping to be chosen for work alongside Special Forces and SEALs, mixing a calm and methodical intelligence with physical drive. He was commissioned in 2007 and granted his wish. He began his climb in a field that Mr. Simmons said was his match.
?Navy E.O.D. guys are not the chest thumpers that some special ops guys are, because you can?t mad dog a piece of ordnance,? Mr. Simmons said. ?It is a cerebral job, and it appealed to Chris?s engineering side.
