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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • Harry Dalton

    Brigadier General (Ret.) Harry Dalton is a 30-year combat-decorated Air Force veteran and pioneer in military public relations.  He was the first career public affairs officer to earn a star and advance to the rank of brigadier general.  When the Korean War began, he volunteered for active duty and

  • David Coraz

    Technical Sergeant (Sep.) David Coraz served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from June 1941 to November 1945.  During his military service in World War II, he was a radio operator using Morse code on aircraft such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder, A-20 Havoc,

  • Paul K. Carlton Jr.

    Lieutenant General (Ret.) Paul K. Carlton Jr. was the 17th Surgeon General of the Air Force.  As chief of surgery in 1983 at Wiesbaden, Germany, he and his group of surgeons proposed a different method of caring for wounded service members, resulting in the best survival rates in the history of war.

  • Linda Card

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Linda Card is a public affairs officer, equestrian, medical technician and role model for women currently serving in the armed forces.  Card’s 24-year career began when she joined the Women in the Air Force in the early 1970s.  WAF was a program that served to bring women into

  • Eric W. Benken

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force (Ret.) Eric W. Benken had no intention of serving more than his first term of four years.  With his plane ticket and separation paperwork in hand, he was ready to go back to his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, until a chief master sergeant pulled him into his office

  • Dave Mercier

    Staff Sergeant (Sep.) Dave Mercier knew at a young age that he wanted to be in law enforcement. "My father served for four years in the Air Force and I was born while he was still on active duty," said Mercier. "He was extremely proud of his service and I always remembered seeing his retirement

  • Leo Makelky

    Staff Sergeant (Sep.) Leo Makelky was working for Douglas Aircraft in California when he heard about the attacks on Pearl Harbor and instantly knew what he had to do. With the hope it would finally be his chance to get up in an airplane, the World War II veteran enlisted in 1943, one of the most

  • Jeremy Lock

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Jeremy Lock served as an Air Force photojournalist for more than 20 years, traveling to more than 50 countries on six continents and providing the Air Force with mission critical combat imagery. Lock started his career as a film processor. He attended the Department of Defense

  • Suzanne LaForest

    Major (Ret.) Suzanne LaForest was born March 18, 1949, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the second oldest of five siblings. After receiving a degree in nursing from the University of New Hampshire, she moved to Nashua to work as a critical care nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The recruiter at Pease Air

  • Jay Karpin

    Lieutenant (Sep.) Jay Karpin is an Army Air Corps veteran who served between 1944 and 1945. Karpin is a distinguished bombardier who flew more than 35 bombing missions during World War II. He began his career in the B-24 Liberator. After flying 12 missions, he was reassigned by General Jimmy

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