Guardsman, who returned from Iraq to no job, may get it back

Guardsman, who returned from Iraq to no job, may get it back
By Jim Guy and Chris Collins - McClatchy Newspapers


FRESNO, Calif. — Fresno County, Calif., officials say that Paul Haros, an Army National Guardsman who is just back from Iraq, may not be laid off from his correctional officer job after all.

Kevin Fries, the personnel services business manager in the county’s Human Resources Department, said that he’s “pretty sure” Haros was eligible for a promotion months ago while he was overseas. If the Sheriff’s Department decides to promote Haros from Correctional Officer II to Correctional Officer III, he won’t be laid off.

Haros did not have enough seniority among the department’s Correctional Officer II staff to avoid being caught up in a round of recent layoffs. But if he is promoted to Correctional Officer III, he would be in the clear, Fresno County Supervisor Henry Perea said.

Haros, a corporal in the California Guard, returned to Fresno last week after a year in Iraq and some controversy at home involving a faded and torn American flag that caught national news media attention.

Haros’ homecoming meant that his father, Louis Haros, could finally lower the flag that Paul raised over his parents’ east-central Fresno home just before he left for Iraq. Louis Haros vowed to leave the flag up until his son returned. Paul Haros replaced the flag last week.
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