Nathan "Nate" Bech (R)

About The Candidate

Education

    Colgate University, B.A.

Nathan Bech was born in Springfield and now resides in West Springfield. He earned a bachelor's from Colgate University in 1999 and a Russian language diploma from the Defense Language Institute in 1994.

Bech completed West Springfield High School in three years, before being sent to study in India by Rotary International for a year before college.

After Sept. 11, Bech joined the Army and has served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Georgia as an intelligence officer and a linguist. He also owns a property management company that he took over from his parents.

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