Listed by class year - Landon School

Name Last Name Year Record Living Branch of Dates of Service Highest Rank Notes
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Otto Hitchcock, Jr. Hitchcock '30 No Information Information Information Needed
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Ansel Talbert Talbert '30 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Gordon Boucher Boucher '31 No Information Information Information Needed
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Jules Phillips Phillips '31 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Ulri Sloane Sloane '31 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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James Andrews Andrews '32 No Information Information Information Needed
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David Arnold Arnold '32 No Information Information Information Needed
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Herman Caruthers Caruthers '32 No Information Information Information Needed
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Marshall Cuvillier, Jr. Cuvillier '32 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Hanford Gillis Gillis '32 No Information Information Information Needed
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Edgar Orme Orme '32 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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James Sands Sands '32 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Alfred Seccombe Seccombe '32 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Baker Baker '33 No Information Information Information Needed
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John Betts Betts '33 No Information Information Information Needed
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Stirling Harrison Harrison '33 No No Information Information Information Needed
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Joseph Larimer Larimer '33 No Information Information Information Needed
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Joseph Loftus Loftus '33 No Information Information Information Needed
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Rene Martinez Martinez '33 No Information Information Information Needed
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William Sands, Jr. Sands '33 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Castell Castell '34 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Thomas Clagett Clagett '34 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Davis Davis '34 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Burr Edwards Edwards '34 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Herron Herron '34 No Information Information Information Needed
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William Murphy Murphy '34 Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Charles Slaughter Slaughter '34 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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John Raymond Brown Brown '35 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Lamar Brown Brown '35 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Svend Jordan Jordan '35 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Robert Sands Sands '35 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Stallings Stallings '35 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Vernon West West '35 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Wesley Buchanan Buchanan '36 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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John Crocker Crocker '36 No Information Information Information Needed
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Gardner Eaton Eaton '36 No No Information Information Information Needed
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Harry Levely Levely '36 No Information Information Information Needed
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David Nicholson Nicholson '36 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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George Porten Porten '36 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Robert Williamson Williamson '36 No Information Information Information Needed
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Elwood Berkeley Berkeley '37 Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Frank C. Dunham Dunham '37 Yes No USN ?-1973 Captain
John Major Ensey Ensey '37 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Hughes Hughes '37 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Earl Myers Myers '37 No Information Information Information Needed
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Harold P. Padgett Jr. Padgett '37 No Information Information Information Needed
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George Pope Pope '37 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Ward Shephard Shepard '37 No Information Information Information Needed
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Thomas Sherley Sherley '37 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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John Fitch Adams Adams '38 Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Hammond Bennett Bennett '38 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Frank Buck Buck '38 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Norman Davis Davis '38 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Alan Dorian Dorian '38 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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John Gawler Gawler '38 Yes No US Army Information 1st Lieutenant Fighter Pilot, US Europe, flew numerous combat interdiction missions
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Buell Heminway * Heminway '38 No No USNR 1942-45 LTJG PT Boat skipper in the English Channel; participated in D-Day, interdiction of enemy vessels around the
Channel Islands, and repositioning of PT Boats from France to Scotland for transfer to the Russians under
Lend-Lease.
Radford Hibben Hibben '38 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Wolcott Toll, Jr. Toll '38 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Richard Wright Wright '38 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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John Channel Channel '39 Yes Yes Information
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William Garland Garland '39 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Edward Goss Goss '39 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Richard Marsh Marsh '39 Yes Yes USMCR Information 1st Lt.
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Raymond Miller Miller '39 No No Army Air Corps Information Information Needed Killed in Italy 1944
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Quentin Rayhart Rayhart '39 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Fredrick Reuter Reuter '39 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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William Welte Welte '39 No No Information Information Information Needed
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John Amussen * Amussen '40 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Frank de Freyre de Freyre '40 No Information Information Information Needed
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Ahmet Ertegun Ertegun '40 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Herbst Herbst '40 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Robert Hill Hill '40 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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William Hill Hill '40 No Information Information Information Needed
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Cary Jackson Jackson '40 Yes No USArmy Information Information Needed Army Specialized Training Program. Received Purple Heart.
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Robert Kephart Kephart '40 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Benjamin McKelway, Jr McKelway '40 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Thomas Mott, Jr. Mott '40 Yes Yes Army Airforce June 1942 to 1st Lt
Pilot/Navigator. Based in Parham, England, flew 29 missions over Europe, Headquarters 8th Air Force
October 1945
John Sands Sands '40 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Edward Tierney, Jr. Tierney '40 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Crandall Alford Alford '41 Yes No US Navy Information
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1st BN
Dr. Alford served as a Captain in the U.S. Navy where he helped establish the first American hospital, Bad
Kreuznach, in occupied Germany.
Chuck Boetler Boetler '41 Yes Yes USMC 1942-1945 2nd Lt. Infantry, Rifle Instructor and Platoon Leader Paris Island. Platoon Leader's School Quantico 1945, medical
discharge November 1945.
Devol Brett* Brett '41 Yes No USAF Information
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Brigadier General Lieutenant General Devol Brett is commander of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe, with headquarters at
Naples, Italy, and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe's Sixteenth Air Force based at Torrejon Air Base,
Spain. During the Korean Conflict, General Brett flew with the 18th Fighter Wing and logged 100 combat
missions in P-51 aircraft. General Brett joined the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing in July 1967 in the Republic of
Vietnam to serve as vice commander. During his tour, he flew more than 100 missions in F-4C fighter aircraft,
was shot down over North Vietnam and rescued before being captured.
John Buchholz Buchholz '41 No Information Information Information Needed
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Edward Chalkley Chalkley '41 No Information Information Information Needed
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Gilbert Hoover Hoover '41 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Gardner Jackson Jackson '41 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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H. Newman Marsh Marsh '41 Yes No Marines Information Information Needed
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Charles Nicholson Nicholson '41 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Joseph Patch, Jr. Patch '41 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Charles Shepard Shepard '41 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Emery Peter Smith Smith '41 Yes No Navy Four years Information Needed left college after Pearl Harbor and served for four years in the Navy. Because he was on an amphibious
command ship, he was offshore in some of the fiercest battles of the war from Normandy to Okinawa, in
which Kamikazes targeted, but missed, his ship
Robert Amussen Amussen '42 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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John Beatty III Beatty '42 Yes No Navy 1942-45 Lt.
After completing the Navy V-12 Program at Duke University and Columbia Midshipmen School, he served as
a lieutenant aboard a destroyer minesweeper in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during WWII.
Edgar Brawner, Jr. Brawner '42 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Milton Colvin Colvin '42 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Donald Crisp Crisp '42 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Arthur Defenderfer Defenderfer '42 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Richard Gale Jr. Gale '42 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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John Gill Gill '42 Yes Yes US Army Air
Corps
Nov 1942- Sept
1945
Staff Sgt Tail Gunner (B-17). US, North Africa. Infantry Drill Instructor, Truck Driver, Combat Tail Gunner (50
missions), participated in "Why We Fight" Morale Program.
James Harris Harris '42 Yes Yes USNR 7/1/43-7/15/46 Ensign Executive Officer. US, Japan. Executive Officer on USS Reform.
Robert Herbst Herbst '42 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Walter F. Johnson Johnson '42 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Walter M. Johnson, Jr. Johnson '42 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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James Logan, Jr. Logan '42 Yes Information Information Information Needed
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John Mealy, Jr. Mealy '42 Yes Yes USN 6/42-1/62 LCDR Naval Aviator in Fleet (carrier) operations
Richard Patch Patch '42 Yes Yes Information
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John Sager Sager '42 No Information
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Frederick Weekes Weekes '42 Yes Yes Information
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Manfred Wentzel Wentzel '42 Yes No Information
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Donald Wright Wright '42 Yes Yes Information
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Sherburne Anderson Anderson '43 Yes No Information
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Lambert Baker Baker '43 Yes Yes Information
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Lester Barker Barker '43 Yes No Information
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J. Latham Berry Berry '43 Yes Yes Information
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Carl Bruggman Bruggman '43 Yes Yes Information
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Joseph Devereux Devereux '43 Yes Yes Information
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James Guion Guion '43 No Information
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Rex Gygax Gygax '43 Yes No Information
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Robert Hanson Hanson '43 Yes Yes Information
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Ernest Jackson Jackson '43 No Information Information Information Needed
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Richard Kearny Kearny '43 Yes Yes US Army 1944-1946 Infantry. US, France, UK, Belgium, Germany. Wounded in France, returned to his unit in Beligum, appointed
soucte and was captured and taken to Germany (reported MIA) was so ill with dywsnetery that Germans left
him as they moved on; Was found by US soliders and transported to Belgium Field Hosptial, then to Engaldn
and France and finally to Walter Reed hospital in DC. He spent 72 days a POW. Finally discharged in
January 1946. Was drafted into Army as a senior at Landon. Failed due to being underweight. Later
received second draft notice after graduation.
George Kriner Kriner '43 Yes No USMC Information Information Needed
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Charles Lewis Lewis '43 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Samuel S.D. Marsh Marsh '43 Yes No USMCR 1944-1957 Major
Richard Noyes Noyes '43 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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William A. Patch * Patch '43 Yes Yes US Army Air Information Major General
Force
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Burce Schlosberg Schlosberg '43 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Claxton Walker Walker '43 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Christopher Amussen Amussen '44 No Information Information Information Needed
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David L. Arnold Arnold '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Jack Barriger Barringer '44 Yes Yes Navy Navy 1944 -
1946; Reserves
Seaman First Class I was on active duty in Navy in 1946, in the USN Reserve through 1950 and was commissioned Second Lt in
the Army Transportation Corps in 1950 thru about 1955.
1950 - 1953
Bob Beatty * Beatty '44 Yes No Navy Information Information Needed
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Horace Bernton Bernton '44 Yes Yes US Navy Information Information Needed
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John Boeckel Boeckel '44 Yes Yes USN 6/5/44-6/25/46 Apprentice Seaman College student (Naval Science) based in US. V-12 Program at Duke University.
David Brawner Brawner '44 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Lews G. Coit Jr. Coit '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Robert George George '44 No Information Information Information Needed
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G. Bache Gill Gill '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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John Herbolsheimer Herbolsheimer '44 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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James Kearny Kearny '44 Yes No USN 1947-1966 CDR Submarine Service. US, Spain. Commander two conventional submarines, Commander Fleet Ballistic
Submarine, James Madison. JAMES DEXTER KEARNY April 11, 1926-January 24, 2012 James Dexter
Kearny, age 85, died January 24th. He was born in Washington, DC. A naval career took Commander Kearny
to a number of ports before retiring to Atlanta in 1996, which he made his home. Dex graduated in 1947 from
Yale with a degree in engineering. He spent the next 23 years in the U.S. Navy, starting on destroyers then
serving on submarines in the Atlantic. He was the first commander of the USS James Madison SSBN 627, a
nuclear powered Polaris Missile submarine based in Rota, Spain. Following his military career, he spent the
next 23 years with Merrill Lynch retiring 1989 as a Vice President. Dex was married to Laura Anne Moore,
daughter of Rear Admiral John R. Moore, himself a distinguished WWII submarine commander. The Navy
runs in the family. His grandfather and great grandfather were Academy graduates and admirals, the latter
served the Union during the Civil War. He is survived by his brother Richard A. Kearny of McLean, Virginia;
his sister Edmonia M. Kearny of Washington, DC; and his children Patricia Katz of Atlanta, Rev. Dr. James D.
Kearny, Jr. of Seattle, Washington; Anne K. Hardin of Nashville, Tennessee; and John R. Kearny of
Lawrenceville, Georgia, and 11 grandchildren. Dexter was a scout master, president of the PTA, member of
the Ansley Kiwanis, past president of the Yale Club of Georgia. Upon retirement he volunteered for over a
dozen years for Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta, an organization dedicated to teaching adults to read, and the
Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher. Golf with his buddies, an annual fishing adventure, travel and
enjoying his grandchildren took up his retirement years. The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 9:00pm at
Pattersons at Oglethorpe Hill Chapel, 4550 Peachtree Road Northeast, Atlanta, on Thursday, January 26. A
memorial mass will be at All Saints Catholic church at 11:00am on Friday, January 27. In lieu of flowers, a
contribution to the American Heart Association or Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta, 256 Sycamore St., Decatur,
GA 30030 would be appreciated
Henry Mealy Mealy '44 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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George Mejlaender, Jr. Melaender '44 No Information Information Information Needed
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F. Brett Miller Miller '44 Yes Yes Merchant
Marines/USNR
1944-1967 Lt. Deck and Gunnery Officer. US, Pacific. Merchant Marine Academy, Pacific Theatre and then served in Naval
Reserves until 1967.
Jesse Miller, Jr. Miller '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Alasdair Munro Munro '44 Yes Yes US Army, USAF July 46 -51 2nd Lt. US Army. July 46-May 47 T-5 Army of Occupation Japan (Kyoto). DC Air National Guard Sept 47-1951.
UAFT T/S Gr. 2nd LT 1951-52 (Korean War) Andrews Air Force Base.
Robert Perry Perry '44 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Howard Phillips Phillips '44 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Dean Rathbun Rathbun '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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John Rosenthal Rosenthal '44 No Information Information Information Needed
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Stanley Sager Sager '44 No Information Information Information Needed
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Paul Segal Segal '44 Yes Yes USAAC August 44-June Information Needed I entered the United States Army Air Corps August of 1944. I served till June of 1949
49
Maurice Selinger, Jr. Selinger '44 Yes Yes USN 4/10/44-11/21/45 Hospital Corpsman US, Pacific aboard USS Louisville. Supported Okinawa landings (hit twice by suicide bombers, wounded but
not seriously).
Steve Shafroth Shafroth '44 Yes Yes Navy March 1944-
August 1945,
Lt. j.g
Reserve training cruise to Panama 1947. I graduated from Harvard in June 1947 with physics major and
received a commission as Ensign USNR.
Naval Reserve till
1954
Allen Smith Smith '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Winston Stephens, Jr. Stephens '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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St. Clair Streett Streett '44 Yes Yes Information Information Colonel
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Thomas Thompson, Jr. Thompson '44 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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John Walker Walker '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Peter Welsh Welsh '44 Yes No Information Information Information Needed
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Everett Wilson Wilson '44 Yes Yes USNR 1945 - 1946 SFC
Theodore P Wright, Jr. Wright '44 Yes Yes US Navy SA
(Special
assignment
because of poor
eyesight)
Francis King King '45 Yes Yes Information
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Nov. 6, 1944 to
July 2, 1946
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John Mitchell Mitchell '45 Yes Yes Navy Information
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Winthrop Wilson* Wilson '45 Yes No USNR, US May 45-
Merchant Marines December 46
Aviation Storekeeper
3/c
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Junior Assistant
Purser
Was in an advanced base unit trained in Virginia and was practicing landings on Long Island when the bombs
were dropped and Japan surrendered.After the war ended, I served on the Battleship South Dakota several
months while it proceeded through the Panama Canal to Philadelphia for"mothballing". Then was assigned to
Comairlant, Norfolk for the rest of my service. .
Europe. Captain's secretary, Lieberty ships at 18.
Peter F. Armstrong Armstrong '46 Yes No Information
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Duncan McDonald McDonald '46 Yes Yes USAF July '51 to Nov 1st Lt
Flying Class 53-G - Fighter Pilot in F-86's, Did not get to Korea.
'56
J. Godfrey Crowe Crowe '47 Yes Yes Information Information Colonel Retired 1975
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John LeMoyne Ellicott Ellicott '47 Yes Yes USN 1954-58 LT After OCS and Naval Justice School, served in the office of the Judge Advocate General with Commander Air
Force Pacific Fleet (1955-7) and with the Appellate Section of Navy JAG in the Pentagon (1957-8) arguing
courts martial appeal cases before the Boards of Review and the Court of Military Appeals.
Bradford S. Granum Granum '47 Yes No Navy -1979 Captain Submarine service.
Donald Harris Harris '47 Yes Yes Army Counter 1951-54 Information Needed Special Agent
Intelligence Corps
Jonathan L. Holman Holman '47 Yes No Information Information Colonel
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David Marsh Marsh '47 Yes No Marines Information Information Needed
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William Bashore Bashore '48 Yes Yes USAF 1956-58 Captain US and Germany, Dental Service.
Gil Bogley Bogley '48 Yes Yes US Army Artillery Sept 1952 - Sept 1st Lt.
Korean War, Bronze Star
1954
Emerson Gardner Gardner '48 Yes Yes US Navy Reserve - 1954-57 Ltg Based at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. and Anacostia, DC
Supply Corps
Michael M. Duffy Duffy '49 Yes No Information Information Colonel
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Burnham C. McCaffree McCaffree '49 Yes Yes Navy Information Admiral
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Chris Slonaker Slonaker '49 Yes Yes Marines 1953 - 1955 1st Lieutenant Pacific Theater
William Landon Banfield III Banfield '50 Yes No USAF 1959-61 3rd Mate and LT
Senior Grade
(USNR)
Halleck Butts Butts '50 Yes Yes USAF 18 AUGUST, Captain
1954 - 17
AUGUST 1957
Active Duty, Plus
Subsequent
Reserve Time.
Flight surgeon. Germany.
Primary Duty: B - 47 Copilot
Jerry Fitzgerald Fitzgerald '50 Yes Yes Navy 1955 - 1959 Lieutenant Flight training NAS Pensacola, designated Naval Aviator l956, qualified in multi-engine, single engine and
helicopters aboard ship(carriers), NAS Key West, numerous deployments on Atlantic Fleet carriers. Delivered
from Sikorsky factory and ran evaluation on first "all weather" helicopter. Wrote original instruction manual for
receiving and launching helicopters from carriers(they didn't know that I was ADD). Discharged out of NAS
Key West, l959.
Kleber Masterson, Jr.
Bob Norris
Masterson
Norris
'50
'50
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
USN
USMC
1950-1982
1955-58
Rear Admiral
Information Needed
B.S. U.S. Naval Academy (1954); M.S. (Physics) U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (1961); Ph.D. (Physics)
University of California at San Diego (1963) (first Ph.D. in physics from UCSD) - Career focused on
introduction of new technologies into the fleet. Served in seven ships, including commanding U.S.S. Preble
(DLG-15) in Vietnam War. Worked in development, production and support of weapons systems as Captain
and Rear Admiral. Worked in analysis of weapons needs in several assignments. Chief of Studies Analysis
and Gaming Agency, doing analysis and wargaming for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc
from 1982-1992 (retired as partner and vice president). Science Applications International 1992-1998) (Senior
Vice President). Awards include Defense Superior Service Medal, 3 awards of the Legion of Merit, 3 awards
of the Navy Commendation Medal (two with combat "V"). B.S.(Engineering) U. S. Naval Academy;
M.S.(Physics) U. S. Naval Postgraduate School; Ph.D.(Physics); University of California, San Diego;
Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School. Served in seven cruisers and destroyers.
Commanded USS Preble in VIetnam. Project Manager Antiship Missile Defense Project. Executive Assistant
and Naval Aide to the Secretary of the Navy. Deputy Commander Naval Sea Systems Command for Surface
to Surface and Surface to Air Weapons Systems. Chief, Studies and Analysis Agency, Office of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Awarded Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (three times), Navy
Commendation I served in the 12th Medal Marines, (three the times, artillery twice regiment with combat of the "V"). 3rd Marine Division.
Richard (Dick) Beatty Beatty '51 Yes Yes U.S. Army, 1956-1959 Sargent
Counter
Intelligence Corps
Richard Beers Beers '51 Yes Yes US Navy 1951-1056 Lieutenant
Midshipman
NROTC Brown
Univ. 1956-59
Active USN. 1960-
62 Active
Reserve
Willard A. Holbrook Holbrook '51 Yes Yes Army 1955-1985 Colonel - 4th AD (TX & Germany) - USASA (VA) - RVN Abn Bde - 82d Abn Div (NC & Dom Rep) - 18th Abn Corps
(NC) - MACV - USMA - Berlin Bde - USAREur - Sixth Army - FEMA Region X.
Roy H. Lynn Lynn '51 Yes Yes USAF Information
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Colonel
Pilot
Peter L. Smith Smith '51 Yes Yes Navy 1957 - 1967 Lieutenant Senior
Grade
Don Wight Wight '51 Yes Yes USN 1955-1977 CDR USN R Pilot
I attended Officers Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1957 and graduated as a U.S. Navy
Ensign. I served on active duty in the Naval Security Group for eleven years, serving in Taiwan, Turkey,
Japan, and the Washington, DC area. Several of these tours were on assignment to the National Security
Agency.
Alonzo O. Bliss Bliss '52 Yes No Information Information Lieuenant
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Charles Buchanan Buchanan '52 Yes Navy 1956-1961 Information Needed He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland with a degree in Engineering. He holds a
Masters Degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International
Studies in Washington, D.C. and a Masters Degree in Business Management from MIT
(Sloan School of Management).
Member of the Executive Council of the Luso-American Development Foundation since 1988. After serving in
the US Navy, he joined the US State Department Diplomatic Service, where he served for 24 years with the
Agency for International Development and was responsible for managing Economic Cooperation Programs in
Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Central America and Portugal.
Champ Buck Buck '52 Yes No US Army 1957-79 Colonel Armor, Ordance. Served US, Germany, Vietnam, Korea. West Point, Airborne Training, GA Tech (MSEE)
West Point Professor, Senior Service School, combat tour Vietnam.
Robert England Bob '52 Yes Yes US Army March 1957-Oct
1960
SP6
I was with the Nike Hercules program for about 40 months and was in a special group that developed this
missile system.
William C. Gawler Gawler '52 Yes Yes Air Force 1954 - 1983 Colonel Command Pilot, Management, Command. US, UK, Greece, Vietnam, Thailand, Iceland. Pilot Training
instruction, Fighter Operations-Air Defense Command, Tactical Air Command, Air Forces Europe, Veitnam
(combat), Senior Service School, Management, Command.
Lloyd Kriner Kriner '52 Yes Yes US Navy 6/30/52 (Approx.) Lt
Graduate US Naval Academy.
- 6/30/64
Dan Thompson Thompson '52 Yes Yes Marines 1956 - 1958 1st Lieutenant 4th Bat. 10th Marines 2nd. Division
Ricardo Alfaro II Alfaro '53 Yes Yes U.S. Army -
SIgnal Corps
1954 - 1956 PFC Had assignments at Ft. Campbell, KY with 511ABN Signal Company, 11ABN DIV, and Airfield Operations
Unit, Ft. Rucker, Alabama where I was Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) Radar Final Approach Controller
with IFR rating.
William Chadduck Chadduck '53 Yes Yes Air Force 1967 - 1969 Captain Hospital Neurosurgeon Clark Air Base, Philippines during the Vietnam conflict. Provided neurosurgical
treatment for Vietnam vet casualties, civilian patients from Philippines.
Alfred Pasternak Pasternak '53 Yes Yes US Air Force 1960-66 Information Needed
Donald Whalen Whalen '53 Yes Yes Army 7July 1953 - 30 Brigadier General
April 1985
John Hains Hains '54 Yes Yes Army Information Information Needed
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Paul Kern Kern '54 Yes Yes US Navy 1959 - 1962 Lt. Jr. (Ltjg)
Richard Dortzbach Dortzbach '55 Yes Yes Army 1964 - 1974 Captain Captain in a medical unit of the U.S. Army Reserves in Madison, WI
Bill Granik Granik '55 Yes Yes U.S. Army
Reserve
July - December
1962
Private First Class

Charles Hayes Hayes '55 Yes Yes Army 1955-1964 Captain Father of Matt Hayes '87, West Point graduate. Indeed, I did serve in the military. Upon graduating from
Landon in 1955, I entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. I graduated in 1959 as a Second
Lieutenant in the Regular Army. My branch of service was the Artillery. I attended and graduated from the
Artillery Basic Officers Course at Ft. Sill, OK and Fort Bliss, TX , Ranger School and Airborne School at Fort
Benning, GA, and the Army Fixed Wing Flight School at Fort Rucker, AL. After this schooling, I was assigned
to the 3rd Aviation Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division in Kitzingen, Germany. I spent three years there flying
the East German border during the era of the Berlin wall crisis, Jack Kennedy's "Ich bien ein Berliner" visit,
and his subsequent assassination, in addition to time on the Battalion staff. I returned the CONUS in May of
1964, resigned my commission and entered civilian life.
Jack Kneipple Kneipple '55 Yes Yes Navy Information Information Needed
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Gordon Littlefield Littlefield '55 Yes Yes US Navy 1954-1967 Lt USNA Graduate. Naval Aviator. Carrier based F-8 fighter pilot.
Sam Milliken Milliken '55 Yes Yes US Army 1959-1962 Specialist 5 Neuropsychiatric Technician, Assistant to Division Psychiatrist in Korea.
Thomas Baskett Baskett '56 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Blackie Bruner Bruner '56 Yes Yes USN 1967-70 Lt. Cmdr Medical Corps. Served US and Vietnam. Opthamamologist aboard ship "Repose" during Tet Offensive,
Vietnam Vet, Bethesda Naval Hosptial
Alfred Elbrick Elbrick '56 Yes Yes USMC Sept 1960- Captain
1302 (Engineer) Quantico, Camp Lejune, Okinawa, 3rd Division Engineer
October 1963
Tom Kern Kern '56 Yes Yes US Army 1960-61 Information Needed
Heaton Nash Nash '56 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Bill Poulton Poulton '56 Yes Yes USN 5/50-10/63, 1963- Information Needed
1980 (Reserves)
Served aboard the Uss Thetis Bay (LPH-6) as OI Division Officer, CIC Watch officer and OOD. Left active
duty in late '63, but stayed in the Naval Reserve in various billets, retiring from the Navy in 1980 as a
Commander. Active Duty included participating in the Cuban Blockade in the early 60's.
Al Veerhoff Veerhoff '56 Yes Yes Army 1960 - 1962 Infantry After training at Fort Riley Kansas for a year, I was sent to Camp Kaiser in Korea, 7th Division, just below the
DMZ, where I was an infantryman, an MP and finally a supply clerk. I left as a Pfc because there were too few
openings for me to be promoted to E-4, I left the Army in June 1962. Interesting enough, some of those about
to leave decided to take an extra year of service in that combat laboratory in Vietnam. Had they left after that
year, they would not have seen combat because the MAC advisers were still working with Vietnamese troops
and not conducting separate operations. I was in an infantry unit, in Korea, north of the 38th parallel and
south of the DMZ, 1961-62. I carried a rifle, and I got a Good Conduct Medal.
Francis Williams Williams '56 Yes Yes Air Force 1962-67 Captain Served in 74th Air Defense Missile Squadron, Duluth, MN
Ralph Bennett, Jr. Bennett '57 Yes Yes Army 1961-63 Captain
Leo Butler Butler '57 Yes Yes Information Information Captain
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E. Morris Davis IV Davis '57 Yes Yes Information Information Commander
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Russell Mott Mott '57 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Peter Sendroy Sendroy '57 Yes Yes USAF 1964-68 Information Needed Served 2 yr. USAF Dental Corps,Lowery AFB,Denver Colorado
Ward T. Smith Smith '57 Yes Yes US Army October 1966
October1968
Richmond Campbell Campbell '58 Yes Yes USMC 1959 - 1965
(active duty Jan
1960 - June
1960; otherwise
reserves)
Captain
Catptain JAGC
USNR
Roy Cole Cole '58 Yes Yes USMA Colonel Graduate US Military Academy.
Medical Officer. US Army Medical Corps. 1st Cavalry Division. 673 Medical Detachment. Central
Highlands, Vietnam. 10/66-5/68 Weed Army Hospital Ft. Irwin, CA 5/68-8/68.
Honorable discharge 1965
John Doll Doll '58 Yes No USN Information E-5 John attended the Naval Academy but left prior to graduation, serving as an E5.
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Henry Fowler Fowler '58 Yes Yes USAF Information LCDR
Air Force pilot. Vietnam. Shot down over Hanoi. POW.
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John Hardisty Hardisty '58 Yes Yes Army 1960 - 1963 Information Needed Stationed in the Phillipines
Frank Hughes Hughes '58 Yes Yes USN Jun 62-July 84 Commander Graduated from the Naval Academy. Served aboard the initial flagship for the quarantine line in the Cuban
Missile Crisis. Shipboard service in the Vietnam War in the Tonkin Gulf in the years 1966, 1968 and 1972-73.
Gerry Luedeman Luedeman '58 Yes Yes USN Information Information Needed
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Mike McConihe McConihe '58 Yes USN Information Information Needed
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Robert G. Oliver Oliver '58 1st USCGR and 1965-1995 Catptain JAGC JAGC Reserve '67-'95; enlisted USCGR '65-'67
2nd USNR
USNR
Klaas van Esselstyn van Esselstyn '58 Yes Yes USMC 1962-1989 Colonel I was an aviator flying F-4s, F/A-18s, and many other types. I graduated from Navy Test Pilot School as well
as the Navy War College. Interspersed with flying I was a staff officer at HQs USMC in Washington, DC, and
EUCOM HQs in Stuttgart, GE.
Bob Zuckert Zuckert '58 Yes Yes USMC Information Information Needed Marine Air unit and was at Vieques PR and GITMO
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Lee Donovan Donovan '59 Yes Yes Army 1964-1966 Active E-5 After basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC . I went to Ft. Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne where I trained as
Duty 1966-1972
Active Reserves
a medic. After duty, I was in the Active Reserves Stationed with a US Army General Hospital Unit as a
labortary tech, e-ray tech and EKG tech. My claim to fame is that I gave General Westmoreland an EKG at
the Pentagon while I was on active duty.
Stephen Kneipple Kneipple '59 Yes Yes USAF March 3, 1964 to Captain
June 28, 1968
Robert E. Buchanan Buchanan '60 Yes Yes Navy 1964 - 1970
(more years in
Inactive
Reserves)
Reid Dennis Dennis '60 Yes Yes USMC 1964-1967 DS-2/Captain Infantry Platoon Leader, wounded in Vietnam
LCDR
After graduating from Yale in 1964, I was commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy through the Reserve Officer
Candidate (ROC) program and began a tour on the USS America CVA 66 which was the first aircraft carrier to
return to “fossil fuel” after the nuclear powered Enterprise. I next attended the Defense Language Institute and
learned Chinese for a year before being sent to Hakata, Japan where I spent 3 years engaged in special
operations in SE Asia. I left active duty in 1970 and returned to this area to work in the family business, but I
stayed in the inactive Reserves for several more years for a total service of 12-13 years.
Peter Gibb Gibb '60 Yes Yes USAF 1967-71 Captain Served 3 years as communications officer in Wasserkuppe, Germany. While on active duty, also travelled
Europe as part of acting troupe, entertaining US troops in Europe.
Philip V. Lowenthal Lowenthal '60 Yes Yes USAF Feb 65-August
1989
Information Needed Navigator. Throught the United States,Thailand,Vietnam, United Kingdom, Italy, Turkery. Flew in B-52, AC-
130 and F-111, accummulating 3,900 hourss flying time. Plans officer in NATO and JUSMMAT
Joe McCain McCain '60 Yes Yes Information Information Information Needed
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George G. Poole Poole '60 Yes Yes US Army 1966-1987 Major Armored Cavalry. Germany, Vietnam, Korea, USA. In Germany Armored Cavalry Troop Commander in
Vietnam (1st Sqdn, 4th Cavalry Qtr. Cav), 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One), Awarded Silver Star, Bronze
Star with V (twice), 2 meritorious Service Medals, several unit citations, etc.
Steven Rodis Rodis '60 Yes Yes USN 1970-79 CMDR
Brooks Brown Brown '61 Yes Yes US Navy Medical 1973-76 Captain Chief of Ophthalmology, U,S. Naval Hospital Annapolis, Maryland and U.S. Naval Academy
Corp
Ridge Grant Grant '61 Yes Yes USN July 17, 1965 -
August 18, 1970
Lt
I served in Newport, R.I. and Athens, Georgia. After that I served a year's tour of duty at the NATO base at
Keflavik, Icelsnd. My last tour of duty was as an officer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.
C.
David Madison Madison '61 Yes Yes Army 1968-69 Information Needed Although I had orders for Viet Nam twice, I ended up being stationed at the DASA (Defense Atomic Support
Agency) Sandia Base with the 901st Military Intelligence unit in charge of security for Sandia Base, Nevada
Test Site, and Johnson Atoll.
John J. Rhodes III Rhodes '61 Yes No Army 1965 - 1970 Captain Military Intelligence, Service in Vientnam as advisor to Vietnamese military, 1969 - 1970, Bronze Star
Ed Sears Sears '61 Yes Yes U.S.ARMY 1965-1971 E-5
RESERVE
Harrison Brand Brand '62 Yes Yes USMC 1966-72 Captain Helicopter Pilot Vietnam
Ord Elliott Elliott '62 Yes Yes USMC 1966-1969 Rifle Platoon Commander in Vietnam
Samuel O. Lane Lane '62 Yes Yes Air Force 67-94 Colonel Command Pilot. Vietnam Vet.
Jonathan Parker Parker '62 Yes Yes U.S. Naval 1967-1969 Lieutenant Viet Nam Veteran- destroyers
Reserve
Randolph T. Poore Poore '62 Yes No Army Information Brigadier General
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John Slidell Slidell '62 Yes Yes Army 1969-70 Lieutenant I am a graduate of Benning School for Boys (aka U S Army Infantry Platoon Leader Program) and served in
Vietnam 1969-1970 as a Lieutenant in I Corps.
Pierce Smith Smith '62 Yes Yes US Coast Guard 9/66 - 1/70
(active) and 1/70 -
9/72 (reserve)
Lieutenant
Three extended trips aboard a polar icebreaker includng one to Antartica and around the world

Bill Vance Vance '62 Yes Yes USN 1963-65 E-4
William Bennett Bennett '63 Yes Yes USN 1967-74 Captain Served aboard the USS Jouett during the Vietnam War.
Buell Heminway Heminway '63 Yes Yes USMCR 1964-1970 E-5
Douglas Holloman Holloman '63 No No Army Information Information Needed
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Jeffrey Steele Steele '63 Yes Yes Navy 1967 - 1971 Lieutenant I attended Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI and then served one year in South Vietnam, and
two years back in Newport as an instructor at OCS. I left with the rank of Lieutenant (LT). I spent two years,
thereafter in the naval reserve.
William Triplett, Jr. Triplett '63 Yes Yes USN and SC,
USNR-R
1965-1995 Information Needed Bill Triplett enlisted in the Navy Reserves 1965 while at the University of Maryland. Bill received his
commission as Ensign in 1968 and was assigned to the USS Whitfield County, LST 1169, in Yokosuka, Japan
and spent 3 yerars in Viet Nam. He went Regular Navy, Supply Corps in 1972 and served on the USS
Mullinnix, DD944 and at CB Center Gulfport, MS until 1979. Bill then joined the Naval Reserve Cargo
Handling Forces and served in Operation Desert Storm/Shield in 1990-1 and retired as Captain in 1995.
John P. Wheeler III Wheeler '63 Yes No USMA 1963-1971 Information Needed Graduate of West Point. Served in Vietnam. Chairman of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
http://www.sldinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/John-Wheeler-Bio.pdf
Kerbey Altman Altman '64 Yes Yes Army 1968 - 1972 Captain Entered Sep 1968 - basic/advanced training Fort Dix, NJ (ran into Bill Bennett '64 there); Jan-Jul 1969 - Army
Engineer Officer Candidate School, Ft Belvoir, VA - Graduated 2nd Lt; Dec 1969 - Aug 71 - USArmy Special
Weapons Command, Pirmasens Germany - Captain; Aug 71 - Feb 72 - USArmy Vietnam - Phu Bai and
DaNang; honorably discharged
William Bennett Bennett '64 Army 1968 - 1971
Active; 1972 -
1992 Reserves
Lt. Colonel USAFR – JAG, U. S. Army: 1968 – 1971; commissioned through Officer Candidate School; served in
Vietnam War as advisor in South Vietnamese Army 1969 – 1970; discharged in 1971 as a 1 st Lieutenant. U.
S. Air Force Reserve: 1977 – 1992; transferred Army commission to Air Force Judge Advocate General’s
Corps after receiving law degree in 1974; performed reserve duty as an attorney; retired in 1992 as Lt.
Colonel, USAFR – JAG.
Curt Bradley Bradley '64 Yes Yes USMC 10/68 - 8/71 1st Lieutenant I value my military service highly, both for what I was able to contribute and for its contribution to me, which
was significant. I am struck by a major difference between the military of my era - Vietnam - and today.
During the 60s and 70s, there was wide spread participation in the military effort from across our society,
albeit sometimes with reservations. Today a fraction of 1% of society is involved in military service while most
of the rest of us go about our lives largely oblivious to the military's contribution. In hindsight that contribution
is demonstrably more important today than it was during Vietnam. Our apathy is unfortunate, and I do not
profess to know how to change it. The very least we can do is respect proactively the men and women who
serve in our military and never take them for granted.
Anthony Kupka Kupka '64 Yes No USMC Information 2nd Lt.
Killed in combat, Vietnam.
Needed
Tom O'Bryon O'Bryon '64 Yes Yes USN 1969-74, 1990-91 CDR Naval aviator and supply corp officer
Richard Stifel Stifel '64 Yes Yes Army 6/66 - 5/69 1st Lieutenant Officer in the engineer corps via OCS, 13 months in Seoul, Korea
Wickliffe W. Walker Walker '64 Yes Yes Army 1968 - 1990 Lieutenant Colonel Like Buddy, I served in Vietnam, but we never crossed paths there; sadly, he was killed before I got there.
Quinn Hollomon Hollomon '65 Navy Sep 1970 - Jan
1975
LT (JG)
Was a Vietnam Era Vet. Commissioned as an Ensign at Pensacola, Florida in Jan 1971 and received my
Naval Flight Officer Wings in July 1971. Spent 3.5 years in Pentagon with Defense Intelligence Agency as a
Reconnaissance Watch Officer before getting out.
Larry Lamade Lamade '65 Yes Yes Navy Information Information Needed
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Brooke Seawell Seawell '65 Yes Yes Navy 1970 - 1973 Navy Lieutenant I was stationed on Oahu from 1970-73 as a Navy Lieutenant, running a computer programming group (not a
hardship assignment).
John Stann Stann '65 Yes Yes USAF July 1969 - July Major During VietNam, I served in the 56th Special Operations Wing 1971-1972.
1989
George Wenchel Wenchel '65 Yes Yes USN 30 June 1965 - 1 Commander Supply Corps
Sept 1992
Lawrence K. White White '65 Yes Yes Army June 1970 - April Colonel
Infantry
1998
Marcos Williams Williams '65 Yes Yes US Navy Active Duty -
1966 - 1968
FT3
Served in Viet Nam on USS DuPont DD 941 of the DMZ giving gun fire support to the 12th Marines. My father
Col. Daniel B. Williams served three tours in Viet Nam, returned and after a week I went over. Our son
Kaegan, class of '02 is currently serving in the US Army currently training in the Special Forces.
Spotswood Williams Williams '65 Yes Yes USNR 69-75 and 81-95 CDR Vietnam 72-73, Navy Reserves 81-95
Robert M. Austin Austin '66 Yes Yes US Army/US 1970-1980/1980- Captain/Commander
Coast Guard 1998
Fred Hunt Hunt '66 Yes Yes Army 1971 - 1973 Medal of Honor Specialist - selected by the President to be Medal of Honor Specialist (part of the team that
arranged Medal of Honor awards ceremonies and dealing with the Medal recipients & families). As senior
service, the Army coordinated for all branches of the military. My tiny claim to fame is that my job was the
only one in the entire military that had its own one-person Military Occupation Skill (MOS).
Burr Nello Johnson Johnson '66 No No Information Information Information Needed Died during shipboard accident.
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R. Daniel Ladd Jr. Ladd Jr. '66 Yes Yes USNR 6/1970 - 10/1973 LT I was commissioned from Cornell University ROTC into the USNR on Active Duty in 1970. I attended Legal
School (6 weeks) and then served on two different ships: USS O'Hare DD-889 (a WWII destroyer) for two
cruises to the Med; USS Biddle CLG-34 (a guided missile frigate turned cruiser) for a trip to the Gulf of Tonkin
during the Vietnam War. I visited 14 different countries during all my cruises. A lot of interesting times.
Gregory Martin Martin '66 Yes Yes United States Air
Force
3 June 1970 to
31 August 2005
4 star General After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in 1970 I went to pilot training and was a
distiguished graduate. I was selected to become and F-4 fighter aircraft commander and served in Southeast
Asia in 1972-73 and participated in Operations Linebacker 1 and 2 which ultimately brought our POWs home
in the spring of 1973. After that assingment I was assigned to numerous operational and staff assignments in
the F-4 and F-15 which led to the command of a Fighter Squadron in Okinawa and three Fighter Wings in
New Mexico, Florida and Virginia. From there I was a director on the Joint Staff, the Director of Air Force
Operational Requirements, and the Principal Deputy for Systems Acquisition in the Air Staff Washington. For
my final two assignments, I was the Commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe which also had the
NATO assignment as the Commander of Allied Air Forces Northern Europe and then the Commander of the
United States Air Force Materiel Command in Ohio. I am now an independant consultant and a Senior Mentor
for both the United States Air Force and the United States Joint Forces Command.
Joe Craig Craig '67 Yes Yes USArmy May 1971 to June Captain
1977
I went to Norwich University, a military college, graduating with a BS in EE in 1971. Was a Distinguished
Military Graduate, and, thus, went on active duty upon graduation, as a 2LT. Assigned to the 4th Division at
Fort Carson, CO, from January 1972 to March 1973. Assigned to I-Corps (ROK/US) Group General Staff
(Signal) in Uijongbu, Korea, from May 1973 to May 1974. Assigned to the Army Laser Laboratory from May
1974 to June 1977, where I did research on Laser rangefinders and designators, was promoted to Captain,
and earned my M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Left the service June 1977.
Mike Poore Poore '67 Yes Yes USAF 22 May 1971 - 1
Sep 2001
Colonel
I flew RF-4C Phantoms in Texas and in Germany. Did a long tour at the Pentagon working on
reconnaissance technology projects. In 1995, I took command of the BIG SAFARI flying outfit that modified
many US and foreign aircraft for special reconnaissance missions. I retired out of the Joint Strike Fighter
Progam Office in 2001 where I had been the Chief of Systems Engineering and the Program Manager for the
Boeing X-32 concept demonstrator.
Robert Barter Barter '68 Yes Yes USN 1973-77 Lieutenant Helped with the evacuation of Vietnam in April-May 1975... Spent 45 minutes in the Vietnam War Zone ---
must have the least combat time of any Landon grad who saw combat....
David Kixmiller Kixmiller '68 Yes Yes USN 1972-75 Information Needed Navy Diver, Salvage & Rescue
J Peter Muphy, Jr. Murphy jr '68 Yes Yes US Navy 1976--1984 LCdr
Janvier K. Smith Smith '68 Yes Yes US Navy 13 May 1972 - 30
September 1994
Commander
Naval Flight Officer (1320), scientific and technical intelligence subspecialist. Iceland, Italy, Portugal, South
America, Florida, Maine, California, Washington, DC. Mission commander of P-3C Orion anti-submarine
warfare aircraft (crew of 12), commanding officer of a Navy recruiting district, Naval War College faculty,
Carrier Battle Group staff officer, Patrol Wing staff officer, executive officer at Defense Intelligence Agency,
masters degree in national security affairs from Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
Benton C. Tolley III Tolley '68 Yes Yes USNR, JAG 1975-78 Information Needed I attended Yale University as an NROTC student from 1968-1972 and was the last Naval officer
commissioned from that Naval unit, sad to say; it was removed from Yale my senior year.
Curtis Walker Walker '68 Yes Yes Navy Information Information Needed
Needed
Robert S. Carter Carter '69 Yes Yes USN, USA 78-81 (USN), 85- Colonel
Dental Officer. US, Korea, Germany. Officer in charge of military dental clinic, Director Advanced General
present (USA)
Dentistry Programs.
Randy Langhenry Langhenry '70 Yes Yes U.S. Army 1974-1977 1st Lt. 4th Infantry Division, Infantry Platoon Leader, Information Officer
Thomas Fuller Fuller '71 Yes Yes Information
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James Myers Myers '71 Yes Yes USN 1976-1989 LTCdr 13 years in the Navy including medical training. While I was a George Washington University, I was in the
reserves as an ensign (4 years). For my internship and residency in General Surgery I was stationed at the
Naval Hospital San Diego (5 years active duty). And then I spent four more years on active duty to pay back
for my Medical School years. These four years were spent in San Diego, though I was often deployed on
ships. One year as a general medical officer on a marine amphibious battle group helicopter carrier. One
year as a General Surgeon on a Carrier (Kitty Hawk). Six months deployed as general surgeon on a surgical
trauma team. The other time was spent on the general surgery teaching staff at the Naval Hospital San
Diego. I was not involved in any military conflicts between 1976 and 1989. I resigned my commission in
1989 as a LtCDR on leaving the service. I often ran into Landon graduates: Mike Van Ness, Peter and Brian
Murphy, Dan Simpson, Bill Roberts (who is now a Navy Admiral), Cam McKee, Larry Roberts, all come to
mind now, there may have been others.
Robert Patterson Patterson '71 Yes Yes USNR 1979-2005 Information Needed
William M. Roberts Roberts '71 Yes Yes USN 1975-Present Rear Admiral Rear Admiral Roberts was promoted to his current rank on Feb. 1, 2008. He currently serves as fleet surgeon,
United States Fleet Forces Command, Norfolk Va. Roberts’ awards include the Legion of Merit (four awards),
Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), Navy Commendation Medal (two awards) and Navy Achievement
Medal. http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=445
J. Bret Simpson Simpson '71 Yes Information Information Information Needed
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Michael Van Ness Van Ness '71 Yes Yes USN 1 Sept 1975 - 30 lcdr
Spent the majority of my time at Bethesda Naval Hospital
jun 1988
Mark Pickrell Pickrell '72 Yes Yes Marines 1983 - 1992 Captain I served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1983 to 1992. I was called to active service in support of
Operation Desert Storm/Shield. I served in the Gulf from December 1990 to April 1991 with the 2nd Marine
Division, as a Reconnaissance Platoon Commander. I resigned from the Marine Corps as a Captain (O3).
Daniel Simpson Simpson '72 Yes Yes United States
Navy
July 1976
through
December 1998
Commander
US Naval Aviator, Pacific Fleet, S-3A "Viking" Fleet and Instructor Pilot. Aircraft Battle Damage Repair Officer
3rd US Naval Aviator, S-3A Viking Pilot US Pacific Fleet 1979-1982: RAG Instructor Pilot 1982-1984; US
NAVAL Reserves 1884 to 1998. AEDO for Naval Air Systems Command with Training at PAX River, China
Lake. Deployed to Persian Gulf 1990 to 1991 with 3rd Marine Airwing as Aircraft Battle Damage Repair
Officer. Graduate of Wright Patterson Short Course ABDR. Naval War College tour 1995. Final assignment
as CO of DCMC St. Louis Reserve Command.Marine Airwing; Persian Gulf War; Commanding Officer
(Reserve) DCMC St. Louis
Lauriston Taylor, III Taylor '72 Yes Yes Navy 05/24/76- LT - USN,
Retired
10/01/83 - Active Commander - USNR
Duty 10/2/83-
06/01/03 USNR
Cam McKee McKee '73 Yes Yes USN Information Information Needed Surgeon
Needed
Jim Bullion Bullion '74 Yes Yes Army 1982-Present
(Reserve) 2003-
2005 Active duty
Full Colonel Commanded a Civil Affairs battalion in Northern Iraq then served as chief of Plans and Operations for General
David Petraeus in Baghdad. Still active in Reserves as commander of the Army Reserve Element at Joint
Forces Command, Norfolk, VA
in Iraq
Jeff Georgia Georgia '74 Yes Yes Navy 1978-2009 Navy Captain Flight surgeon in Iceland and Bermuda during the 80's. Radiologist on board USNS Comfort during the first
few months of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Head of Terrorism Preparedness and Response at Bethesda Naval
Hospital during anthrax bioterrorism attack downtown. Was honored to care for those who are protecting our
freedom throughout the world. Retired as a Navy Captain, as an interventional radiologist, who went to both
Gulf Wars on board hospital ships.
Hal Kramer Kramer '74 Yes Yes Marines Information
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William H. Blackburn Blackburn '75 Yes Yes Information Information Captain
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David Beardsley Beardsley '76 Navy 30 years, still Captain
Medical Corps
active
Daniel Devers Devers '76 Yes Yes Information Information E-4
Needed
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James Hodges Hodges '76 Yes Yes Navy April 80-Jun 1987 cdr O-5
Naval aviator
active Jan 88-
Jan 2002
Reserve
Robert Hurley Hurley '77 Yes Yes Navy 12/81 thru 12/91 Lieutenant (O-3) Surface Warfare Officer.
Peter Ill Ill '77 Yes Yes Navy Information Information Needed Navy Fighter Pilot.
Needed
Christopher Connor Connor '78 Yes Yes U.S. Navy 1991-present Lieutenant- JAG Corps, currently with NCIS
Commander
Howard Hill Hill '78 Yes Yes USMC 1982-1987 Captain
As a Charleston Naval Hospital trained physician, I served with the Marines at Camp Lejeune, deploying to
Beirut in 1983 to replace the Sailors and Marines killed in the barracks bombing. After deploying to WestPac
for six months with the same unit (Phillipines and Corregidor, Japan and Mount Fuji, and Okinawa), I later got
out but stayed in the Reserves. We then deployed to Desert Storm, to a fleet hospital in the desert in Saudi
Arabia ( and Jeff off the coast!). I did resign afterwards as I had done my full time, and my wife did not want
to risk me leaving her and our three kids behind again.
William Leininger Leininger '82 Yes Yes Navy 1992 - Present Navy Captain Assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, serving as the ObGyn Residency Program Director
Josh Freeman * Freeman '83 Yes No Army Information Information Needed Ranger
Needed
Howard T. Minners Minners '83 Yes Yes Army 1989-present LTC Currently assigned to the Deputy Undersecreatary of the Army for Test and Evaluation at the Pentagon
Bill Scott Scott '83 Yes Yes Marines 1987 - 1992 Captain Served with the 2d Marine Division, Field Artillery. Stationed at Camp LeJeune , NC. Saw combat in the First
Gulf War in 1990-1991
Calvin Thorpe * Thorpe '83 Yes No Navy Information Information Needed
Needed
James Ravenel Ravenel '84 Yes Yes US Navy 1989-2000 LT Commander Health Professions Scholarship 1989-1992; Active Duty 1992-1996; Individual Ready Reserve 1996-2000
Tony Fuller Fuller '85 Yes Yes USMC 1989-1993 active
duty; IRR 1993-
1998
Capt.
US, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Norway, Japan. Infantry Officer with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd
Marine Division. Rifle Platoon Comander Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; also
served with Weapons Company as heavy machin gun platoon commander and XO. NATO Exercise Battle
Griffin 1993.
Evan B. (Brett) McMahon McMahon '85 Yes Yes USAF, MDARNG 1987-1990, 1992- Information Needed
1994
Bradford A. Minners Minners '85 Yes Yes US Army 1989 to present LTC Just completed 20 years as an active duty US Army Officer. I am currently assigned to the Defense Science
and Technology Center Europe, in Wiesbaden, Germany as a US Army Acquisition Officer for Information
Technology.
Robert Saunders Saunders '85 Yes Yes Navy 1990-95 Information Needed Surface Warfare Officer. Served on frigate USS Knox, destroyer USS Elliot and at Assault Craft Unit ONE.
Had one deployment to the Persian Gulf as part of Desert Shield and supported a multi-national fleet for the
U.N. pullout out of Somalia.
Don Young Young '85 Yes Yes Army Reserves 6/89-5/90 active, 1st LT
Transportation Corps. Ft. Eustis, VA.
5 years in
reserves
Matthew Hayes Hayes '87 Yes Yes Army 1991-2000 Captain Aviation Branch - I am a West Point Grad, class of 1991. I served active duty for 9 years and resigned my
commission as a Captain, Aviation Branch. Duty assignments include 3 separate stints at Fort Rucker (2
training and one duty assignment) 3 years in Savannah, Ga which at the time was the 24th Infantry Division,
and about 2 and half years in Korea. Over half of that time I commanded a 15 helicopter Air Assault company
in the 2nd Infantry Division.
Bernard F. McMahon McMahon '87 Yes Yes Navy Information Lieutenant
Needed
Kurt Naegele Naegele '87 Yes Yes U.S. Navy 2003-2012 LT Intelligence Officer for COMPACFLT and JICPAC. Honorably Discharged in 2012.
(Reserve)
Christopher D. Thompson Thompson '87 Yes Yes Navy Active Duty 1992- CDR I am still in the Navy Reserves a total of 19 years as of this month (7/2010).
1998, 2001-2003
Rafe Bennett, III Bennett '88 Yes Yes Army 1993-97 Captain Infantry Officer
Eric S. Atherton Atherton '90 Yes Yes Army 1994-Present Lieutenant Colonel Currently serving as the Deputy Commander of the 31st Air Defense Brigade, Fort Sill, OK and recently
deployed one of our Patriot Battalions to Kuwait and another to Turkey on a NATO mission; this summer will
assume duties as an ROTC Professor of Military Science at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD.
Brendan Boler Boler '90 Yes Yes Army 1994 - 1998 Captain I was active duty in the Army from 1994-1998 stationed in Savannah, Georgia and Mubarek Military City,
Egypt. I got out as a Captain.
Eric Glass Glass '90 Yes Yes USA, USAR 1990-1995; 2009 - Lieutenant Senior
present
Grade
Jeffrey Pinco Pinco '90 Yes Yes Army 1994-2007 Major Trained as a Pathologist/Physician, Walter Reed and Navy Medical Center, DC. First duty: Chief of the
Laboratory and Department of Pathology, Winn Army Hospital, Ft. Stewart, GA.
Fred Regan Regan '90 Yes Yes Marines Five years Captain
Tim Winter Winter '91 Yes Yes Navy 1995 - 2003;
Currently in
Reserves
Commander
Naval Aviator - My service as a Naval Aviator took me to Kosovo, Iraq and just about everywhere else
between. I currently fly in the navy reserves.

Mark Alter Alter '92 Yes Yes Air Force 1996 - 2002 Captain Travis AFB, CA, Hickam AFB, HI, and Al-Jaber Airbase in Kuwait
Mac Hooks Hooks '92 Yes Yes Navy Information CDR Navy Reserves active (9/10)
Needed
Mark Mhley Mhley '92 Yes Yes Navy Present Commander US Naval Academy 96 majoring in Physics, MS International Relations from Auburn University 07 and MS
Operational Art and Science from USAF Air Command and Staff College 07. He finished flight school training
in 98, was assigned F-14 Tomcats and joined Fighter Squadron 2 to fly the F-14D Tomcat off the USS
CONSTELLATION. He made two 6-month deployments through the Pacific and to OPERATION SOUTHERN
WATCH in Iraq. After 9/11, CDR Mhley graduated from TOPGUN training and became an East Coast
Weapons School instructor. While there, he deployed for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM for the initial strikes into
Iraq. He then joined Fighter Squadron 31 and made another 6-month deployment flying F-14Ds off USS
THEODORE ROOSEVELT in support of IRAQI FREEDOM. After graduate school, Commander Mhley
transitioned to the F/A-18F Super Hornet and joined Strike Fighter Squadron 213 on the USS THEODORE
ROOSEVELT, making an 8 month deployment to Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of US and
coalition ground forces. CDR Mhley currently serves with Naval Special Warfare Development Group
(DEVGRU) in Virginia Beach as an operational planner and fleet liaison officer. In his current assignment, he
has survived Army Basic Airborne training at Ft Benning and the Navy’s Freefall Parachustist training in
Tucson, Arizona. He is one of a handful of Naval Aviators qualified to strike a target from an aircraft and
skydive to target from another.
Brian Gyovai Gyovai '93 Yes Yes Air Force Oct 97 - Present Major Undergraduate Pilot Training Oct 97 - Dec 98 (Columbus AFB, MS); Undergraduate Pilot Training Instructor
Pilot Jan 99 - May 02 (Columbus AFB, MS); F-15 Pilot Sep 02 - Sep 08 (Tyndall AFB, Panama City, FL, and
Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan); F-16 Pilot Dec 08 - Present. Currently serving in the Ohio Air National Guard,
flying out of Springfield, OH. We train American and Dutch students to fly the F-16.
Chris Pedersen Pedersen '94 Yes Yes Navy 2003 - present Lieutenant Based at Pt. Mugu Naval Air Weapons Center, CA; Work for VX-30 (Air test and evaluation); Naval Flight
Officer S-3B Viking and P-3C Orion
Geoff Hengerer Hengerer '95 Yes Yes USMC 1999-2007 Lt. jg I served a Judge Advocate in the United States Marine Corps. During that time, I held billets as a criminal
defense counsel, a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, and Deputy Staff Judge Advocate for Marine Corps Air
Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. I also deployed to Iraq as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate for the 2d
Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
James Avery Avery '96 Yes Yes US Coast Guard 7/2000 to 7/2004 E-6 I was a member of the US Coast Guard Band for 4 years after receiving my Bachelor of Music degree from
the Eastman School of Music in 2000.
Alexander D'Amico D'Amico '96 Yes Yes USMC June 2000-June
2004
First Lieutenant
(Active Duty);
Captain (IRR)
Judge Advocate
General Corps
Patrick Korody Korody '96 Yes Yes Navy October 2005 -
present
Barret Diefenderfer Diefenderfer '98 Yes Yes Marines 2010 - current Lieutenant
XO of a rifle company in the invasion of Iraq in 2003
John Pontius Pontius '98 Yes Yes Army 2006 - 2009 Captain I was on active duty as an Army Judge Advocate (military attorney) from January 2, 2006- July 27, 2009. My
highest rank was Captain. After completing the Judge Advocate Officer Basic Course (January - April 2006)
in Fort Lee, VA and Charlottesville, VA I was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany with the Headquarters of the
1st Armored Division (April 2006-July 2009). I deployed to Tikrit, Iraq from March- November 2008.
Daniel Freer Freer '99 Yes Yes USMC 2000-06;
deployed 2004
OIF II
Sergeant
Chris Just Just '99 Yes Yes Navy 5/17/2003 - Lt. Junior Grade
5/1/2008
David Taylor Taylor '99 Yes Yes Army 1994 - 1998 Captain
Active; 1998 -
present Reserves
Location was Kuwait, duty was Mortuary Affairs.
Served aboard USS TORTUGA (LSD 46), USS KAUFFMAN (FFG 59), and Expeditionary Training Command.
Eric C. Bailey Bailey '00 Yes Yes Army 2004-2012 1st Lt. Medically retired on 19 December 2012.
Garrett Slaughter* Slaughter '00 Yes NO Army 2005 - 2010 1st BN I served in Iraq from 2005-2006 with the 101st Airborne Division. I served in Afghanistan from 2007-2008 with
the 10th Special Forces Group. And I am currently in Afghanistan from 2009 until 2010 for my third tour of
combat duty. I have served in other hostile areas such as Africa as well, but I cannot disclose some of the
operations due to the classified nature of my unit's mission.
Alexander Emmert Emmert '01 Yes Yes U.S. Navy June 2001- Lieutenant (O-3) Served two deployments on nuclear submarines. Currently serving with U.S. Naval Forces in Bahrain.
Present
David A. Peters Peters '01 Yes Yes USMC 2005-present Captain V2/8 OEF 2011
Raphael A. Clarke Clarke '02 Yes Yes Marines Present 1st Lieutenant Served in Al Anbar, Iraq (January 2009-October 2009)
J. Joseph G. Goodell Goodell '02 Information
Needed
Information
Needed
Lieutenant-
Commander
Kaegan Williams Williams '02 Yes Yes Army Juen 2008- Sargent
Present
Warner Ball Ball '03 Yes Yes Army, Special
Forces
2009-current Staff Sergeant I am currently deployed to Eastern Afghanistan on my second trip with my Special Forces Team. I should be
home late Spring, just in time to see Landon lax crush Prep!
Mike Chapman Chapman '03 Yes Yes Marines Information Information Needed I am at the Basic School in Quantico.
Needed
Will DeFrancis DeFrancis '03 Yes Yes USMC 18JAN2008-
Active Duty
Ist Lt.
Rifle Platoon Commander-Golf 2/5, Rifle Company XO-Golf 2/5, OEF-2010 Kandahar- Afghan National Police
Training Team Leader
Douglas W. Gates Gates '03 Yes Yes Navy July 1, 2003 - Lieutenant
Instructor of Political Science, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
present
Joseph H. Comiskey Comiskey '04 Yes Yes USMC 2010-Present 1st Lt. USNA '10, Stationed: Camp Lejeune, NC
Phillip Muhawi Muhawi '04 Yes Yes USMA 2004- present Information Needed West Point graduate.
Robert Kaplan Kaplan '05 Yes Yes US Navy 2011 - Present Ensign, Student
Naval Aviator
Michael J. Frank Frank '05 Yes Yes USMC 2010-Present 1st Lt Platoon Commander, HQCO, 4th Marines, 3D MarDiv
Robert Morrison Morrison '05 Yes Yes Navy Active Information Needed In the process of becoming an enlisted SEAL.
I just commissioned last Friday as an Ensign in the US Navy following completion of the 13 week OCS
program, and will be headed down to Pensacola next Monday to check in for flight training as a Student Naval
Aviator.
Brendan W. Reilly Reilly '05 Yes Yes USMC 2009-Present 1st Lieutenant Rifle Platoon Commander, Weapons Platoon Commander, Kilo Company, 3d Battalion 1st Marines
Alexander D. Rhoads Rhoades '05 Yes Yes Army Information Information Needed
Needed
Jeffrey S. Clauser Clauser '06 Yes Yes USN 2010-Present Ensign Currently training as an NFO on the P3 Jacksonville, FL
Jonathan E. Black Black '07 Yes Yes Army January 7, 2009- Information Needed
present
William D. Comiskey Comiskey '07 Yes Yes USMC Information Information Needed Will is deployed to Japan 9 for months right now. His station is Camp Pendleton. Update February 6, 2013.
Needed
Christopher Goubeaux Goubeaux '07 Yes Yes USMC 2010 LCLP Rank Infantry, explosives specialist; deployed to Okinawa, Japan 2013
Samuel J. Wilkins Wilkins '07 Yes Yes Army Information Information Needed
Needed
Matthew D. Morrison Morrison '09 Yes Yes USN Information Information Needed
Needed
Stephen Potts Potts '09 Yes Yes Marines May-13 2nd Lt. Stephen successfully completed his second grueling six week Officer Candidate School (OCS) course at
Quantico this summer (2012). He will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps upon
graduation in May 2013. After the mandatory six months of Basic School, he will then go to Pensacola for a
two year flight training program.
Patrick Keena Keena '11 Yes Yes Navy Prep Active Information Needed Will attend Annapolis in the Fall of 2012.
Landon Banfield Banfield HA Yes No Air Corp Information Major
Founder of school
Needed
Tom Dixon Dixon HA/F Yes Yes Infantry, Army 1943 - 1946 Private First Class, With 104th Timberwolf Division, Company I, 45th Regiment
Rifleman
Mac Jacoby Jacoby HA/F Yes Yes USAF 1945-1984 Lt. Colonel I enlisted in the Navy at age 17 in February, 1945. The war ended a few months later and I was in for about a
year after that. I was discharged in August, 1946 as a Yeoman 3 rd Class. I joined the Air Force ROTC at
Trinity and graduated as a Second Lieutenant in June, 1951. I went on active duty that August and was in
Korea by spring of ’52. I was there a year, returning to the US in April or May of ’53. I stayed in the reserve
and retired from the Air Force at Andrews AFB in February, 1984 as a Lieutenant Colonel.
William Triplett Triplett HA/F Yes No USN 1941-1953 Information Needed Bill Triplett served on PT Boats in the Pacific during World War II. He remained in the Naval Reserves in an
Intelligence unit in Bethesda into the 50's.
Malcolm Coates Coates HM Yes Yes USN June 43 - June Information Needed
46
Gordon Bartlett Bartlett F No Information Colonel
French Teacher
Needed
Donald Dunn Dunn F No Information
Needed
Colonel
French Teacher

Lawrence Fullerton Fullerton F Yes USN 2/1971 - 11/1978 First Class Petty I served as an Air Traffic Control Specialist; Director of Academic Techology; Sciene Teacher
Officer
Lee Gause Gause F Yes Navy 1973 - 2003 Master Chief Served with the United States Navy Band in Washington DC. Leader of the Commodores Jazz Band for 8
years.
Armand Hopkins Hopkins F No Yes USMC Information
Needed
Colonel
Former Landon faculty member, French teacher from 1959-1970 and chairman of the Language Department:
1925 graduate of US Military Academy at West Point. During WWII he commanded Fort Hughes in Manila
Bay in the Philippines until the surrender of Corregidor in May of 1942. He spent imprisonment in the
Philippines, Japan, and Korea. It is thought that he survived the notorious Bataan Death March.
Mark Jenkins Jenkins F Yes Yes USMC Active Duty Gunnery Sergeant Currently serving in Washington D.C. with the United States Marine Band.
Ned Lathrop Lathrop F No USN Information Commander Ned was a math teacher and had been a submarine commander.
Needed
Robert Oetting Oetting F Yes USMC 6/63 - 7/89 Colonel Science Teacher
Bert Park Park F No USN Information Commander Math
Needed
Jack Porter Porter F No Information Information Needed Math Teacher
Needed
Floyd Parker Parker F No Information Information Needed
Needed
Randall Riffle Riffle F Yes USMC 1988 - Present MSgt Adjunct music faculty
Harold Russo Russo F No Information Information Needed Spanish Teacher
Needed
Paul Scimonelli Scimonelli F Yes U.S.M.C. 1969-1973 Staff Sergeant Member, U.S. marine Corps band in Washington DC.
William Scott Scott F Yes Yes Marines 1959-1961 Information Needed History Teacher
Olive Wagner Wagner F Yes USMC 1980 - 2006 Master Sergeant Adjunct music faculty; United States Marine Band
David Wray Wray F Yes Army National
Guard
8/86 - 8/92 SGT