SGT Peediakal is currently assigned as an Avenger Repair Sergeant (94T) with 1st Battalion 174th Air Defense Artillery regiment.

SGT Peediakal provides direct maintenance support to missile systems inside the National Capital Region. He is responsible for the correct and safe repair of multiple systems in the NCR.

SGT Peediakal is ever hungry for knowledge. He has set himself apart from his peers first at Fort Bliss, where he diligently learned HVAC specific maintenance of the Avenger platform. He set aside specific time to watch and learn from a Soldier who is a 91C (HVAC technician) and is HVAC certified as a civilian.

SGT Peediakal has spent off-duty time working with the extremely short-handed RADAR repair section to accommodate their needed down time and to learn how the RADARs work with his weapon system and the Air Defense as a whole. This in turn has helped him to better grasp air defense specific maintenance requirements. This is SGT Peediakal’s second deployment. His first was to Al-Assad Air base, Iraq, as an Avenger repair specialist. Since coming home from Iraq and while on this deployment he has been promoted to Sergeant, attended Basic Leaders Course, graduating on the Commandant’s List.

He has earned his SEC+ Certification, and he is taking online courses pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Otterbein University.