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Lauriston Taylor, III Taylor '72 Yes Yes Navy 05/24/76- LT - USN,Retired10/01/83 - Active Commander - USNRDuty 10/2/83-06/01/03 USNRCam McKee McKee '73 Yes Yes USN Information Information Needed SurgeonNeededJeff 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 thefirst few months of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Head of Terrorism Preparedness and Response at BethesdaNaval Hospital during anthrax bioterrorism attack downtown. Was honored to care for those who areprotecting 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 InformationNeededInformation NeededAs a Charleston Naval Hospital trained physician, I served with the Marines at Camp Lejeune, deploying toBeirut in 1983 to replace the Sailors and Marines killed in the barracks bombing. After deploying toWestPac for six months with the same unit (Phillipines and Corregidor, Japan and Mount Fuji, andOkinawa), I later got out but stayed in the Reserves. We then deployed to Desert Storm, to a fleet hospitalin the desert in Saudi Arabia ( and Jeff off the coast!). I did resign afterwards as I had done my full time, andmy wife did not want to risk me leaving her and our three kids behind again.William H. Blackburn Blackburn '75 Yes Yes Information Information CaptainNeededNeededDaniel Devers Devers '76 Yes Yes Information Information E-4NeededNeededJames Hodges Hodges '76 Yes Yes Navy April 80-Jun 1987 cdr O-5active Jan 88-Jan 2002ReserveHoward Hill Hill '78 Yes Yes USMC 1982-1987 CaptainNaval aviatorJosh Freeman * Freeman '83 Yes No Army Information Information Needed RangerNeededBill 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 theFirst Gulf War in 1990-1991Calvin Thorpe * Thorpe '83 Yes No Navy Information Information NeededNeededJames Ravenel Ravenel '84 Yes Yes US Navy 1989-2000 LT Commander Health Professions Scholarship 1989-1992; Active Duty 1992-1996; Individual Ready Reserve 1996-2000Tony Fuller Fuller '85 Yes Yes USMC 1989-1993 activeduty; IRR 1993-1998Capt.US, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Norway, Japan. Infantry Officer with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2ndMarine 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 ExerciseBattle Griffin 1993.Evan B. (Brett) McMahon McMahon '85 Yes Yes USAF, MDARNG 1987-1990, 1992- Information Needed1994Robert 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 theU.N. pullout out of Somalia.Don Young Young '85 Yes Yes Army Reserves 6/89-5/90 active, 1st LTTransportation Corps. Ft. Eustis, VA.5 years inreservesMatthew 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 mycommission as a Captain, Aviation Branch. Duty assignments include 3 separate stints at Fort Rucker (2training 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 Assaultcompany in the 2nd Infantry Division.Bernard F. McMahon McMahon '87 Yes Yes Navy Information LieutenantNeededRafe Bennett, III Bennett '88 Yes Yes Army 1993-97 Captain Infantry OfficerBrendan 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.Fred Regan Regan '90 Yes Yes Marines Five years CaptainMark Alter Alter '92 Yes Yes Air Force 1996 - 2002 Captain Travis AFB, CA, Hickam AFB, HI, and Al-Jaber Airbase in KuwaitMac Hooks Hooks '92 Yes Yes Navy Information CDR Navy Reserves active (9/10)NeededGeoff 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 criminaldefense counsel, a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, and Deputy Staff Judge Advocate for Marine Corps AirStation Cherry Point, North Carolina. I also deployed to Iraq as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate for the 2dMarine 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 fromthe Eastman School of Music in 2000.Alexander D'Amico D'Amico '96 Yes Yes USMC June 2000-June First Lieutenant XO of a rifle company in the invasion of Iraq in 20032004(Active Duty);Captain (IRR)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 theHeadquarters 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 Information Information Needed Served in Iraq.NeededChris Just Just '99 Yes Yes Navy 5/17/2003 -5/1/2008Lt. Junior Grade Served aboard USS TORTUGA (LSD 46), USS KAUFFMAN (FFG 59), and Expeditionary TrainingCommand.Landon Banfield Banfield HA Yes No Air Corp Information MajorFounder of schoolNeededTom Dixon Dixon HA/F Yes Yes Infantry, Army 1943 - 1946 Private First Class, With 104th Timberwolf Division, Company I, 45th RegimentRiflemanMac 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 abouta year after that. I was discharged in August, 1946 as a Yeoman 3 rd Class. I joined the Air Force ROTC atTrinity and graduated as a Second Lieutenant in June, 1951. I went on active duty that August and was inKorea by spring of ’52. I was there a year, returning to the US in April or May of ’53. I stayed in the reserveand 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 anIntelligence unit in Bethesda into the 50's.Malcolm Coates Coates HM Yes Yes USN June 43 - June46Information Needed