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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • Stewart Van Deusen

    Corporal (Ret.) Stewart Van Deusen enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 at 19 years old.  A few months after he graduated basic training in Florida, Van Deusen found himself aboard the Queen Mary II, headed for war in Europe and his first duty station at Bodney Airfield, England, with the 486th

  • John Udy

    Colonel (Ret.) John Udy was born March 20, 1921, in Plymouth, Utah.  At 21 years old, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Udy enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving as a B-17 bomber pilot during World War II.  He flew 35 missions over Germany while on active duty.  Udy and his crew embarked

  • Herb Trimpe

    Senior Airman (Sep.) Herb Trimpe enlisted in the Air Force in 1962 as a weather observer.  After graduating from his technical training, he was assigned to Fort Benning, Ga.  In 1965, he deployed in support of U.S. operations in Vietnam.  Trimpe would provide valuable weather data, which helped U.S.

  • Sabre Taylor

    Senior Airman (Sep.) Sabre Taylor is a seven-year Air Force veteran who served as a combat videographer from 1993 to 2001.  During this time, she was part of the original 1st Combat Camera Squadron as the unit changed from detachments to one squadron.  Taylor described the defining moment of her Air

  • Robert Smouse

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Robert Smouse began his military career as a visual signalman in the U.S. Navy during World War II.  His amphibious assault craft suffered no casualties during the initial invasion of Sicily in 1943, and would later deliver troops to the shores of Utah Beach on D-Day.  “I was

  • Larry Smith

    Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) Larry Smith enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1977.  His assignments include Rhien-Main Air Base, Germany; Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii; Pope AFB, N.C.; and Langley AFB, Va.  Smith is proud of the years he served in the Air Force: “The day I sewed on chief is something

  • Jeremy Severn

    Senior Airman (Sep.) Jeremy Severn is a six-year Air Force veteran who served as an electronic environmental systems specialist on the C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft from 2007 to 2013.  During this time, he prepared C-17s for airlifts, cargo and personnel drops in support of Operations ENDURING

  • Jerry Ross

    Many say the sky is the limit when it comes to how far one can dream, but retired Col. (Ret.) Jerry L. Ross set his sights past the great blue yonder. Ross is a 28-year Air Force veteran and former NASA astronaut. He began his Air Force career as a ROTC cadet at Purdue University and received his

  • Louis Salinas

    Technical Sergeant (Ret.) Louis Salinas began his military career as a B-29 Superfortress tail gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.  During the first combat sortie of his 52 combat missions in the Pacific, the aircraft he was on took substantial damage, causing it to crash into the

  • James Ruffer

    Colonel (Ret.) James Ruffer was getting ready to attend medical school when the Vietnam War began.  He went to a Marine Corps recruiter with the intent of becoming an officer and, shortly after commissioning, attended flight school.  He was immediately thrown into the “fire” in Vietnam, providing

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