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Veronica, 3, pins the Sergeant First Class rank on her mother, Deaundra Dotson, during Dotson’s recent promotion ceremony, held atop Koko Head Crater trail. With them are Col. Eddie Rosado (right) and several colleagues from the single mom’s U.S. Army Reserve Theater Support Group-Pacific unit. Dotson chose the site ‘because it was the most challenging thing to do since I first came here in 2011.’ Photo by Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class John Lopez.