SEB teacher deploys with Air National Guard

Choral Director Brent Whitaker takes musical talent to troops

Award-winning Southeast Bulloch High School Choral Program director Brent Whitaker, center, brags on the performance of the Women's Choir in a recent competition during Wednesday's Winter and Holiday show. Whitaker is deploying with the Air National Gurad for the next five months.

Whitaker lead Web — Award-winning Southeast Bulloch High School Choral Program director Brent Whitaker, center, brags on the performance of the Women's Choir in a recent competition during Wednesday's Winter and Holiday show. Whitaker is deploying with the Air National Gurad for the next five months.

While students and teachers headed home Friday for Christmas break, one teacher’s holiday travel plans are quite different. Brent Whitaker is Southeast Bulloch High School’s choral director, and he is being deployed overseas for the next five months. A senior master sergeant in the Air National Guard, Whitaker is the band manager for Band of the South, one of the Guard’s five elite national concert bands.

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