Sgt. Jacob Kohut, 34, has been a band teacher for more than 10 years, and has spent the past five enriching the lives of students at both Canterbury Woods and Frost Middle School in Fairfax County, Virginia, the Washington Post reported.
On top of being a band teacher, he is a National Guardsman who's taken his lessons to Zoom while being deployed.
Since arriving in D.C., Kohut has been giving his elementary school lessons on the drill floor of the D.C. Armory in the mornings before his 12-hour Guard shift, then teaching his middle schoolers from the back of a Humvee while on break, according to the post.
It's also not the first time he's combined his Army experiences with his love of music; he's played the bassoon and the saxophone in the 257th Army Band for the past 11 years.
Canterbury Woods principal Diane Leipzig told the post that she offered to find Kohut, who is married and has a young son, a substitute to cover his lessons during his deployment, but he declined.
Hopefully, he will not have to pull double duty soon. We were able to talk to him this morning and you can hear his experience down below!
Source: People
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