Gwinnett Daily Post | Loganville councilman returns from deployment

LOGANVILLE — For the first time in months, Rey Martinez attended this month’s Loganville City Council meeting out of his pajamas.

And he didn’t have to set his alarm.

Martinez, a petty officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves, spent much of the past year serving his small town from more than 7,000 miles away, deployed on a ship in the Middle East.

“It’s great to be back,” said the councilman who spent months setting his alarm for 3:30 a.m. to call into sometimes lengthy council sessions. “I loved it. It was nice to wear a suit.”

via Gwinnett Daily Post | Loganville councilman returns from deployment.