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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 belowthe DMZ, where I was an infantryman, an MP and finally a supply clerk. I left as a Pfc because there weretoo few openings for me to be promoted to E-4, I left the Army in June 1962. Interesting enough, some ofthose about to leave decided to take an extra year of service in that combat laboratory in Vietnam. Had theyleft after that year, they would not have seen combat because the MAC advisers were still working withVietnamese troops and not conducting separate operations. I was in an infantry unit, in Korea, north of the38th 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, MNRalph Bennett, Jr. Bennett '57 Yes Yes Army 1961-63 CaptainLeo Butler Butler '57 Yes Yes Information Information CaptainNeededNeededE. Morris Davis IV Davis '57 Yes Yes Information Information CommanderNeededNeededRussell Mott Mott '57 Yes Yes Information Information Information NeededNeededNeededPeter Sendroy Sendroy '57 Yes Yes USAF 1964-68 Information Needed Served 2 yr. USAF Dental Corps,Lowery AFB,Denver ColoradoWard T. Smith Smith '57 Yes Yes US Army October 1966October1968Richmond Campbell Campbell '58 Yes Yes USMC 1959 - 1965(active duty Jan1960 - June1960; otherwisereserves)CaptainCatptain JAGCUSNRRoy Cole Cole '58 Yes Yes USMA Colonel Graduate US Military Academy.Medical Officer. US Army Medical Corps. 1st Cavalry Division. 673 Medical Detachment. CentralHighlands, Vietnam. 10/66-5/68 Weed Army Hospital Ft. Irwin, CA 5/68-8/68.Honorable discharge 1965John Doll Doll '58 Yes No USN Information E-5NeededHenry Fowler Fowler '58 Yes Yes USAF Information LCDRAir Force pilot. Vietnam. Shot down over Hanoi. POW.NeededJohn Hardisty Hardisty '58 Yes Yes Army 1960 - 1963 Information Needed Stationed in the PhillipinesFrank Hughes Hughes '58 Yes Yes USN Jun 62-July 84 Navy Lieutenant Served aboard the initial flagship for the quarantine line in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Shipboard service in theVietnam War in the Tonkin Gulf in the years 1966, 1968. and 1972-73.Gerry Luedeman Luedeman '58 Yes Yes USN Information Information NeededNeededMike McConihe McConihe '58 Yes USN Information Information NeededNeededRobert G. Oliver Oliver '58 1st USCGR and 1965-1995 Catptain JAGC JAGC Reserve '67-'95; enlisted USCGR '65-'672nd USNRUSNRKlaas 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 wellas 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 GITMONeededLee 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 trainedDuty 1966-1972Active Reservesas a medic. After duty, I was in the Active Reserves Stationed with a US Army General Hospital Unit as alabortary tech, e-ray tech and EKG tech. My claim to fame is that I gave General Westmoreland an EKG atthe Pentagon while I was on active duty.Stephen Kneipple Kneipple '59 Yes Yes USAF March 3, 1964 to CaptainJune 28, 1968Robert E. Buchanan Buchanan '60 Yes Yes Navy 1964 - 1970(more years inInactiveReserves)Reid Dennis Dennis '60 Yes Yes USMC 1964-1967 DS-2/Captain Infantry Platoon Leader, wounded in VietnamLCDRAfter graduating from Yale in 1964, I was commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy through the ReserveOfficer Candidate (ROC) program and began a tour on the USS America CVA 66 which was the firstaircraft carrier to return to “fossil fuel” after the nuclear powered Enterprise. I next attended the DefenseLanguage Institute and learned Chinese for a year before being sent to Hakata, Japan where I spent 3years engaged in special operations in SE Asia. I left active duty in 1970 and returned to this area to work inthe family business, but I stayed in the inactive Reserves for several more years for a total service of 12-13years.Peter Gibb Gibb '60 Yes Yes USAF 1967-71 Captain Communications Officer. After basic and technical training in Biloxi, Miss., stationed at Wasserkuppe,GermanyPhilip V. Lowenthal Lowenthal '60 Yes Yes USAF Feb 65-August1989Information 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 JUSMMATJoe McCain McCain '60 Yes Yes Information Information Information NeededNeededNeededGeorge G. Poole Poole '60 Yes Yes US Army 1966-1987 Major Armored Cavalry. Germany, Vietnam, Korea, USA. In Germany Armored Cavalry Troop Commander inVietnam (1st Sqdn, 4th Cavalry Qtr. Cav), 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One), Awarded Silver Star, BronzeStar with V (twice), 2 meritorious Service Medals, several unit citations, etc.Steven Rodis Rodis '60 Yes Yes USN 1970-79 CMDRBrooks Brown Brown '61 Yes Yes US Navy Medical 1973-76 Captain Chief of Ophthalmology, U,S. Naval Hospital Annapolis, Maryland and U.S. Naval AcademyCorpRidge Grant Grant '61 Yes Yes USN July 17, 1965 -August 18, 1970LtI served in Newport, R.I. and Athens, Georgia. After that I served a year's tour of duty at the NATO base atKeflavik, 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 AtomicSupport 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 StarEd Sears Sears '61 Yes Yes U.S.ARMY 1965-1971 E-5RESERVEHarrison Brand Brand '62 Yes Yes USMC 1966-72 Captain Helicopter Pilot VietnamSamuel 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- destroyersReserveRandolph T. Poore Poore '62 Yes No Army Information Brigadier GeneralNeededPierce Smith Smith '62 Yes Yes US Coast Guard 9/66 - 1/70 LieutenantThree extended trips aboard a polar icebreaker includng one to Antartica and around the world(active) and 1/70 -9/72 (reserve)Bill Vance Vance '62 Yes Yes USN 1963-65 E-4William 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-5Jeffrey 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, andtwo years back in Newport as an instructor at OCS. I left with the rank of Lieutenant (LT). I spent twoyears, thereafter in the naval reserve.William Triplett, Jr. Triplett '63 Yes Yes USN and SC,USNR-R1965-1995 Information Needed Bill Triplett enlisted in the Navy Reserves 1965 while at the University of Maryland. Bill received hiscommission 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 theUSS Mullinnix, DD944 and at CB Center Gulfport, MS until 1979. Bill then joined the Naval Reserve CargoHandling 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.pdfKerbey 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 - USArmySpecial Weapons Command, Pirmasens Germany - Captain; Aug 71 - Feb 72 - USArmy Vietnam - Phu Baiand DaNang; honorably dischargedWilliam Bennett Bennett '64 Army 1968 - 1971Active; 1972 -1992 ReservesLt. Colonel USAFR – JAG, U. S. Army: 1968 – 1971; commissioned through Officer Candidate School; served inVietnam 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 AdvocateGeneral’s Corps after receiving law degree in 1974; performed reserve duty as an attorney; retired in 1992as Lt. Colonel, USAFR – JAG.