Below are excerpts from an interview with Jason Sotiroff, a regional sales manager for laundry equipment supplier Tingue. Sotiroff oversees a team of three sales representatives serving customers in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and parts of Canada.

Can you tell us a little about your military background?

I enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves in November of 2001 out of a desire to grow in maturity as a young man and be of service to something other than myself. The Marine Corps was the only service that I explored. At a time in my life when ...