Lieutenant Commander James Bernsen juggles his duties as a Navy intelligence officer, a state agency employee, and a farmer, demonstrating a remarkable commitment to service and family.
Our independent reporting is free for everyone — but it’s not free to produce. If you value trustworthy, high-quality reporting like this story, please consider supporting us by becoming a member. When James Bernsen isn’t working on his family’s farm west of San Antonio and at his job with a state agency, he analyzes top-secret information and interprets spy reports as a Navy intelligence officer.
The Castroville native used his skills to research a two-century-old insurgency, commonly known as the Battle of the Medina, with the precision of a modern-day intelligence officer, resulting inBernsen was working in Dallas as a press secretary for U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) on Sept. 11, 2001. “The staff was evacuated, but I was kept on because I sent out the press releases by fax,” he said. “I realized, this is my generation’s challenge. So I decided to join the military.” Shortly after, Bernsen was commissioned into the Navy Reserve, a program that allows service members to serve in the Navy while also maintaining a civilian life. In the two decades since, the lieutenant commander has served in Iraq and Afghanistan and aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea. “A lot of what I was doing in Iraq particularly was keeping troops safe by providing information that helped protect the force,” he said. “So I feel really blessed to have done that.” Two years ago, Bernsen’s mother died and he bought the family farm near the town of Qhihi, an opportunity afforded by his fully remote job with the Texas Workforce Commission. “Covid saved our farm,” he said of the ability to work from home. During that time, Bernsen also went back to school and earned a master’s degree in history at Texas State University so he could fulfill a longtime goal of not just reading about history but writing about it as wel
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