Falls Church’s Joe Paoletta was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps last Tuesday. He attended St. James Catholic School here in Falls Church before going to The Landon School in Bethesda, where he was captain of the lacrosse and football teams. Paoletta graduated from Cornell University, where he played lacrosse and won the Outstanding Senior award, in May 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
