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A PLACE IN THE SUN 19 Legionnaires roll up their sleevesfor Phoenix. 'LESTWE FORGET' The Legion commissions a special issue ofthe Ml Garand. 11 RIBBONS FOR PATRIOTS 1R Reno rallies round theflag and Desert Storm troops. ID LIFETIME OF YESTERDAYS 1R A Georgia Legionfamily remembers a son's patriotism . By Hiram Borst A PHONY OBJECTIVITY 99 The media ignored many ofthe truths ofthe Gulf War. By Michael Novak ROAD TO VICTORY OA A chronologyfrom Kuwait's invasion to liberation. RIDING OUT THE STORM 90 The Legion journeys to the heart ofthe Persian Gulf War. CO THE WEAPON OF FEAR Terrorism looms in the shadow ofthe war in the Mideast. 32 THE OIL END-GAME Why the West must seek a comprehensive energy policy. By Timothy Stanley 34 HIGH-TECH HEROES Our military hardware prevailed on the Sunni side ofthe street. ByAngelo Codevilla 36 THE THRILL OF VICTORY In the end, we must ask whatgood came out ofthe war. By Harry SummersJr. 38 THIS SCUD'S FOR YOU Kilroy wasn't there, but a new GI lingo was. 40 38 HOMECOMING They came, they saw, they conquered and now they're coming home. 42 A PROJECT OF DEVOTION The Family SupportNetwork helps Desert Stormfamilies. 46

WHAT'S DUE TO DESERT STORM GIs A look at the services and benefitsfor our newest war veterans. 48

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BIG ISSUES Should Congress Adopt the Civil Rights Act of1991? 10

VETVOICE 4 VETERANS UPDATE 44 LEGION NEWS 62

COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 8 VETNET 52 PARTING SHOTS 76

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AL Baltic Statement biguously into any other language. the English only movements are the True, they can be translated into a few same as official English. That myth is I disagree strenuously with Timothy languages with only minor problems. unfortunately being spread as a purely W. Stanley's article "NATO's New But such minor problems feed many, rhetorical device to arouse emotional Assignment" (March), in which he many lawyers. rather than reasoned responses. Let's suggests that NATO should give aid to Having English as the nation's offi- all loudly oppose the extremists who the Soviet Union. cial language does not prevent provi- argue for English only, and vigorously The United States, and other Western sion of government services in other support English as the official language democracies, have never recognized the languages, nor use of interpreters in our of the U.S. government. forced and illegal annexation of courts. Even so, there is a problem. Francis Carrier Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the There aren't enough certified legal Pacific Grove, Calif. Soviet Union in 1940. interpreters to serve any one group of The people of these gallant nations non-English speakers. After reading "Should English be the have expressed their desire to regain Be wary of anyone who claims that official language of the U.S.?" (Big their freedom and independence that Issues, March), I must agree with the was stolen from them because of the "yes" column. In Canada we are having infamous Hitler-Stalin deal in August VETVOICE one hell of a controversy between of 1939. English and French. The French Cana- President Bush should explain to the dian Province of Quebec wants to sepa- I N RECENT months, readers of American people why the freedom of rate from Canada because they will not I The American Legion an Arabian oil emir was worth a war, allow bilingualism, like the other nine Magazine have been invited to but the freedom of the Baltic states is Canadian provinces. We are being call their opinions to the Vetvoice being lost with no pressure being invaded by Chinese, Japanese, East opinion lines. Unfortunately, some applied to Moscow. By denying Mikhail Indians, and they are insisting on callers have been unable to get Gorbachev any form of economic speaking their own languages. I and through to use the service. Thanks assistance, we would be giving him a many other Canadians think this is to your calls and letters, the situa- clear signal that he should start wrong. tion has been corrected. negotiating with the leaders of the Frank Helden Baltic nations in restoring their inde- Now, you can call 1-900-28-VOICE Burnaby, British Columbia to record your opinion on any Vet- pendence. Canada voice question or to voice your Edward Baranauskas opinion on any current issue. Schenectady, N. Y. "It's like an electronic letters to Policy, Not Politics the editor," one Legionnaire said As a dedicated college professor in a U.S. English about Vetvoice. "Whenever I want, major university, I cannot let the article I can call the Vetvoice lines and by Charles Sykes (Deadhead 101, Rep. Jose Serrano (Big Issues, know my opinion is heard by other March) pass without a few observa- March) does not actually say that advo- Legionnaires who know their opin- tions. Education in this country is slip- cates of English as the official U.S. ions count, too." ping. Too few college seniors are aware language are either "those who con- of the world. few universities are Recordings left on Vetvoice may A sider themselves superpatriots" or offering courses like the Uni- be published in The American nonsense racists. But he plants the idea, appar- Legion Magazine. Results from versity of Massachusetts's "Ultimate ently purely for emotional effect. Advo- Vetvoice questions are distributed Frisbee." I wouldn't argue that a good cates of official English are neither. deal to newspapers nationwide and to more emphasis needs to be applied Serrano erroneously equates official your congressmen. Calls cost $1 to teaching fundamental subjects like English with the English only move- per minute and proceeds are used history, geography, writing and litera- ments. official English and English The ture. I really protest to support Legion programs. But must Sykes only arc separate issues. I'm against using such obvious shortcomings as a This month, you can make your English only; each citizen must be free basis for a reactionary harangue vote count on these questions: Do to exercise his or her culture and lan- decrying left-wing politics in our you believe peace may now be pos- guage. universities. sible in the Middle East? (see page But that docs not necessitate making His article features the oldest prop- 38) and Do you believe stiffer sen- federal, state, county and municipal aganda techniques in the world. Begin tences would reduce the number legal and governmental processes over- your speeches with frankness. Toss in a of criminals? (see page 76). whelmingly expensive in time, money few facts that are genuine, facts that and anguish for all concerned. 1-900-28-VOICE everyone agrees with, and which can be

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RALLY ROUND THE FLAG AND THOSE WHO DEFENDED IT

NE of the first places want an amendment to protect their returning Desert Storm flag, and that a memorial resolution is a troops touch down on stepping stone in reaching that goal. American soil is at Bangor Opponents of the amendment, a loud International Airport in but vocal few, will be out in full force to Maine. Each time a plane defeat a flag amendment. Many of lands, a crowd is on hand those who wrapped themselves in the

to greet the GIs, welcome flag when it was popular to do so during them home and thank Desert Storm will seek to wrap up the them for what they did, so very far from flag in a nonsensical debate about our

their homes and loved ones. And each "right" to burn and mutilate it as an time the troops pass through the termi- expression of free speech.

nal, up to eight times each day, they see I can assure you that when our troops an honor guard from Maine's Orono carefully waded through minefields in Post 84 proudly presenting the U.S. Kuwait, when they dodged artillery Flag at their arrival. shells in northern Saudi Arabia and By now, many of us have either par- when they charged curtains of bullets in ticipated in, or are busy planning home- Iraq, they weren't led by the desire to coming celebrations for Desert Storm see their national flag turned into a servicemen and women. We applaud smouldering pile of ashes back home. Nat'l Cmdr. Robert S. Turner their swift victory and welcome them Two hundred fifty-three Americans home with parades, yellow ribbons and did not travel half way around the American flags floating in breezes stitutional amendment to protect the world, far from their homes and loved along Main Street and from porches U.S. Flag from physical desecration. ones, so that others would have the from coast to coast. While the flag issue might have been political right to burn the flag that Since donning the red cap of National overshadowed by the events in the draped their caskets when they returned.

Commander, I have traveled tens of Mideast, I can assure you our quest for When I visited Saudi Arabia late last thousands of miles across this land and the amendment is as strong as when it year on the eve of the war, I saw the flag elsewhere and never have I witnessed first began two years ago this month, waving over desert outposts. I talked to

such an outpouring of unabashed patri- when the Supreme Court in Texas v. troops who proudly wore flag patches otism and love of flag. From small Johnson ruled that flag burning was on their uniforms. There was no lack of town courthouse squares such as protected as free speech under the First clarity in how they felt about the red, Carthage, Miss., to buildings in mam- Amendment. white and blue: They loved their flag moth metropolises such as New York and all that it meant to them. City, never has our national banner MANY of you have led the fight in Like Americans who served before been more prominently displayed. And your state legislatures for the them, it was the flag that represented all everywhere I have visited, Americans adoption of memorial resolu- they had pledged to fight for and proudly wear flag lapel pins and but- tions, urging passage of the flag protec- defend. tons with images of Old Glory. tion amendment. It is a legitimate It's only fitting that in June, the History has taught that all too soon, course of action and serves notice to month of Flag Day and the two-year the euphoria of our victory in the Per- Congress what is on the minds of their anniversary of the infamous Supreme sian Gulf War will disappear. CNN will constituents— and voters. The framers Court flag ruling, that we renew our resume normal broadcasting. Parades of the US. Constitution were visionary goal in the quest for a narrowly drawn will come to an end. And sadly, many enough to intend for state legislatures to amendment to outlaw the willful will fold up their American flags and filter to Congress and define national destruction of our U.S. Flag. Enlist put them away, at least until the next concerns. your fellow veterans of Desert Storm to patriotic holiday. While many state legislatures have help. Together, within our communities In my travels, many of you have told ended their sessions, Legionnaires still and circles of power of state govern- mc of your roles in the Legion's con- can meet with their lawmakers and ment, we'll tell Congress that we have tinuing goal to gain passage of a con- explain why a majority of Americans America on our minds.

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SHOULD CONGRESS ADOPT THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1991?

Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah Over the past several ^ The proposed Civil Rights months, American men |WfJ Act of 1991 should be and women of all races YES ^ judged by its contents, not and religions have fought and died in by its title. The legislation would actually the Persian Gulf for the values on which rewrite the traditional, current legal this great nation was founded. The Iraqi standard of equal opportunity, overturn rockets, missiles, mines and artillery fire at least 20 Supreme Court decisions, and did not ask the color of their skin, their overhaul two federal civil rights statutes. gender or the faith in which they were There is unanimous support in Con- raised. These brave Americans deserve no less than fair gress for the basic principle of equal employment opportu- treatment by their employers when they return to civilian nity for all Americans without regard to race, ethnicity, life. No factor other than a person's qualifications should religion or gender, as required by Title VII of the 1964 Civil play a role in employment decisions. No person should have Rights Act. The promise of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to experience spurious tests or bogus criteria for employment however, is equal outcomes for groups— quotas— not equal or promotions. That is what the Civil Rights Act of 199 1 is all opportunity for individuals. about. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1991, hiring the most qual- This bill will reverse a series of damaging Supreme Court ified person for a job no longer will be a defense to a charge and lower court decisions that would turn back the clock on of discrimination. Employers will be exposed to massive progress we have made in achieving equality in the work- back pay liability if their jobs do not reflect statistical place. It simply requires that employers prove the business balance, i.e. quotas, based on race, gender and religion. necessity of employment criteria which appear to be neutral, Under this bill a plaintiff need not identify an employer's but which effectively exclude women and minorities. It specific practice, such as screening tests, which allegedly requires that women be permitted to challenge discrimina- cause discrimination. Instead, a plaintiff need merely point tory seniority systems when they are harmed by those sys- to such an imbalance in a job and allege that all the employ- tems, rather than have to suffer because an unreasonable er's hiring or promotion practices cause the discrimination. statute of limitations forecloses rightful challenges. With the rules of bringing a discrimination case stacked The bill permits blacks and other racial minorities to against an employer, how will an employer ever be able to challenge discrimination during all phases of an employment avoid massive liability? The answer is by never being sued in contract, not only at its initiation. It also restricts challenges the first place. Employers will hire and promote persons on to court-ordered affirmative action plans by persons who had the basis of race, sex and national origin quotas to avoid an opportunity to participate in the original case. And it being sued. The bill denies some Americans an equal oppor- forbids discrimination in employment decisions, even if the tunity to their day in court. The problem arises when there is employer can explain it. a lawsuit claiming employment discrimination which is

In addition, H.R. 1 overrules cases that make it harder for settled in court and the settlement contains numerical hiring women and minorities to obtain legal counsel to challenge or promotion provisions favoring a particular group. As a discriminatory practices. And, in order to eliminate unfair- result, people who were not parties in the lawsuit are barred ness in the law, it also provides the same remedies for white from being hired or promoted because of their race or gender. women as would be available for racial minorities who suffer Currently, these people have the right to challenge this discrimination in the work place. H.R. 1 should not be held discrimination after the court settlement takes effect. Under hostage to cynical political manipulation by those whose the bill, however, they are denied the right to challenge the false and misleading arguments against the bill destroy consent decree when it actually may operate to exclude any hope of continuing someone from being hired progress lor women and or promoted. Shutting peo- VETVOICE 1-900-776-5432 minorities. This bill stands ple out of court who wish To voice your thoughts on anything in The American Legion Magazine, call for fairness and progress. It to assert equal protection is VETVOICE 1-900-776-5432. You can vote on current issues, receive a tally deserves your support, no that includes your vote, record your opinion, and hear opinions of others. no way to protect civil less than our troops do as Calls cost $1 per minute and proceeds support Legion programs. rights. Congress can do they keep the peace. D much better than this.

10 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE It takes more than muscle to build a prize fighter.

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Like the F-15E, each member ofthe McDonnell Douglas the most efficient and advanced wide-body in the air. team performs a dual role: realist and visionary. One side Any company can bend steel into airplanes. But only a

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HE signature of America's The "Freedom Fest" convention events are scheduled Mon- Southwest is written across day, and Legionnaires and their families the panoramic desert and will highlight a can take this opportunity to partake in mountains near Phoenix, the breathtaking scenery surrounding Ariz., landscaped with week of activities Phoenix, such as Superstition Moun- rock formations and the at the 73rd National tains and the Sonora Desert. Conven- skyline of the nation's tioneers can also sample the Southwest eighth largest city. And Convention in Phoenix. American cuisine in local restaurants, Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, Legion- >••••••••• including rattlesnake and mesquite- naires will gather there to write another grilled steak. chapter in the history of the The general session of the 73rd organization and the nation. National Convention will begin The 73rd National Convention Tuesday, Sept. 3, and continue will be different from previous through Thursday, Sept. 5. Most

Legion conventions because it meetings will be in the Civic has been tailored to the conven- Plaza Convention Center, and tion site, Phoenix, Ariz., in the shuttle service will be available "Valley of the Sun." Although from hotels to the convention there will not be a parade, ele- site. ments of past conventions will be Nationally prominent speakers combined into one extravaganza, will address Legionnaires, and the "Freedom Fest— Celebrating thousands of veterans from Oper- 50 Years of American Spirit." ation Desert Storm will also be This three-hour celebration com- present so Legionnaires can give bines activities from parades, them a firsthand welcome home. festivals and memorial services "I proudly anticipate the 73rd to commemorate the 50th National Convention in Phoenix," anniversary of World War II and said National Commander welcome home U.S. troops from Robert S. Turner. "We've accom- Operation Desert Storm. plished much this year. We've The Freedom Fest begins 3 also seen a new era of wartime p.m., Sunday, Sept. 1, and the veterans created, and we've seen star-spangled celebration lasts the strength of our resolutions until 6 p.m., featuring a memo- help U.S. and allied forces win a rial service and top-name enter- resounding victory in the Persian SUN-SATIONAL— Phoenix has a variety of attrac tainers in the air-conditioned Hons for Legionnaires and families. Gulf. There's much business to Veterans Memorial Coliseum. be considered at the convention, "Legionnaires will be pleased but Legionnaires and their with the results in Phoenix," said color guard criteria, while the com- families should enjoy the fellowship National Convention Commission petitors in the larger division, or the and beautiful surroundings." Chairman James J. Charleston. "While "open" division, will be judged on less To honor the rich, Native American planning this year's convention, we also formal criteria. "This change will allow history of the Phoenix area, this year's considered Arizona's high temperatures the smaller units to compete against convention decanter depicts a Hopi and the safety of convention-goers." similar units, and Legionnaires will still Kachina doll. The Hopi handcarved the Charleston said other convention get quite a show from the color guard dolls from cottonwood roots to give to changes have improved the festivities, this year," Charleston said. children, not as toys but to teach the including creating two divisions of The band and color guard competi- roles of various spirits. The Kachinas color guard judging: one division com- tion will be on Saturday, and the win- were believed to be powerful spirits that posed of color guard units with seven ners will be asked to perform in the could bestow gifts such as rain, abun- members or less, and the other with up Freedom Fest Sunday. dant harvests or entertainment. A lim- to 17 members. The smaller division Commission and committees will ited number of decanters will be avail- entries will be judged solely on military meet Saturday and Sunday. No formal able at the National Convention.

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military specifications, the .30-06 familiar to GIs of every stripe from the WWII era. The Garand is the "finest battle instrument ever devised," Lt. Gen. George S. Patton once said of the weapon. The museum-quality rifle proudly carries the emblem of The American Legion, U.S. Flag and the inscription, "American Legion WWII M-1 Garand." It truly captures the patriotic spirit of

those Americans who carried it into battle 50 years ago. Also available next month will be a 20 '/2-inch bayonet for the M-1, The American Legion Bayonet of Honor. This is the rare, desirable lengthy model (later versions were shortened), and its grip is fitted with a medallion depicting the Legion emblem.

Also available soon is one weapon that most veterans will recognize at first glance — the .45-caliber automatic pistol or M-1911A1. Known by many as the "old workhorse," the pistol is known for its powerful punch and recoil, not to mention its deafening roar. As a proper memorial to the Legion and America's participation in World War II, patriotic inscriptions are etched on the weapon's slide. A full color cloisonne medallion with the Legion emblem will be inset in the specially finished walnut grip. Selected TRIGGER MEN— Gen. Patton called the M-1 Garand the "finest battle instrument components also are plated with 24- ever devised, " and millions of GIs would agree. carat gold. Whether in Legionnaires' homes or offices, the Legion M- 191 1A1 symbolizes their pride in T'S FITTING and proper Legion to support its many programs having served. that we commemorate our and services. Investing in one or more It's truly important to display these nation's military and of these weapons will serve to create a memorials and possessing one will memorials. Yet, it's not lasting memorial vital in preserving our rekindle the memories of the millions of only the responsibility of personal military history. Americans who fought against enemies local, state and nation- At this time in our nation's history, in Europe, North Africa, the Pacific al governments to create while we commemorate the 50th and other points around the globe. memorials — it's up to anniversary of America's entry into "These mementos keep alive cherished veterans and their fami- World War II and welcome our troops remembrances of youthful comrade- lies. These are memorials that are most home from their victory in the Persian ship, devotion to duty, sacrifice and precious to anyone who ever has Gulf War, The American Historical glory," said National Commander answered the nation's call to duty. Foundation has been selected by the Robert S. Turner. There is no greater gift or better way Legion to create these mementos. A "Many veterans of World War II will to honor your memories or the service private organization established to tell you the reason they're here today is of a loved one, and that's why The "keep alive the deeds of those who have because of the M-1 Garand," Turner American Legion has commissioned a faced the ultimate challenge of war," said. "It was a piece of workmanship limited number of extraordinary the foundation has extensive experience that no doubt played a large role in "memorials" to be designed and pro- in a variety of memorial projects. helping America lead the charge duced with the organization's guid- The first commission is The Amer- to victory."

ance. ican Legion World War II Commemora- Models of these weapons will be on

Over the next several months, tive M- 1 Garand — the most trusted and display at the 73rd National Convention Legionnaires will have the chance to battle-tested rifle of the war. Even if it's at Phoenix. Over the next several purchase replicas of the weapons our been years since Legionnaires shoul- months. Legionnaires will have the

servicemen used in World War II. A dered their M-ls, the memories of it opportunity to order the Garand, pistol generous percentage of the proceeds linger. and bayonet through mail-order ads from all sales will be returned to the The rifle is authentic and made to printed in the magazine.

14 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Presenting the American legion mi garand The first American Legion commemorative firearm. An important museum-quality Ml Garand to preserve your military heritage.

The optional Display Case allows you to safely display your limited edition. The acrylic-glass lid and three brass locks protect against dust and unauthorized handling. The case is easily wall mounted or displayed flat on a table. 49"xl2"x4"

or the first time gold-gilt infilled across the mirror |~ in history, The polished and deeply blued oper- American Le- d gion has authorized a S™ sp«d»uy serially n™.. The First American Legion limited edition of a Commemorative Firearm special museum-qual- t1"r--AL°- ity Ml Garand to mark can Legion. in History the 50th Anniversary • The Gl-pattern sling is deluxe of World War II. The American Legion World leather, and two, eight-round War II Commemorative Ml Garand is alive enbloc clips are provided, along with the spirit of Legionnaires and their family with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity. members who served our flag and our country In keeping with its authenticity, this fires the RESERVATION in the world's biggest war. famous .30-06 ammunition. Anyone who can To: The American Historical Foundation 1142 West Grace Street, Dept. T110 Called by General Patton "... the greatest own a standard hunting rifle can reserve this Richmond, Virginia 23220 instrument ever devised," the Ml Garand was commemorative. Delivery through your local , Telephone: (804)353-1812 ^S^if^ the main battle rifle of World War II. licensed firearms dealer will be coordinated TOLL FREE: (800)368-8080 ^S^^ after your reservation is received here. Yes, I wish to reserve The American Legion WWII Ml Garand with 24-Karat Gold plating. I understand that An Enduring Tribute A generous percentage of the proceeds from delivery will be made within 60-90 days after my payment all sales will be returned to The American Le- This special, firing limited edition is brought in full is received gion to support its programs and services. Place My deposit* (or credit card authorization) of $259 per to museum-quality standards under the super- rifle is enclosed. Please charge or invoice the your reservation by calling toll free, or using the vision of The American Historical Foundation. balance due prior to delivery . . . Each rifle is a genuine Ml Garand made prior in four monthly payments of $259. in full. My payment in full of $1295 is enclosed. to the end of World War II. Shoulder this Ml Please also send the optional Display Case, at $149 for Garand it the of and put through manual arms, each Rifle reserved. and sense what you, a friend or family member •/// cancel my reservation prior to delivery, 1 will be refunded all monies paid less a processing fee of $259. Virginia residents add 4.5% tax. experienced in World War II. [ 07311853 Please engrave on the complimentary plaque the infor- • Inset into the hand-rubbed American Wal- mation attached. (Two lines; 15 characters per line) nut stock, a 24-Karat Gold and cloisonne Name medallion of The Legion emblem distin- Address guishes this custom presentation piece. Engravedbrass plaque features your name and • 24-Karat Gold gleams across 11 individual personal/military information.

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Chris Kay and recorded a song he'd written titled "Don't Burn Old Glory." Younger contacted a Pennsylvania manufacturer of ribbons, and the company Ribbons for donated 25 miles of yellow ribbon to the station for promotional use. DuPree's song was being played on the air and the prominent mention of the Legion's battle to protect the flag was contained in the lyrics. Pozzi, Sal- PATRIOTS men, DuPree, Younger and Nevada Department Adjutant Jack Hoxie put Nevada Legionnaires rallied round the their heads together and developed a promotion that would fulfill a number U.S. Flag and tied a yellow ribbon around of ambitions.

"It was Lynn Younger' s idea encir- the 'biggest little city in the world." to cle the cities of Sparks and Reno with this yellow ribbon," said DuPree. "It's a little over 23 miles around the two cities, and we planned to have 23 teams each stringing ribbon for a mile, meeting in Reno where the two ends would be tied together." The event was planned for Dec. 16, and that's when glitches appeared. Pozzi and Salmen were busy organizing Posts across the state to circulate petitions to present to the state legislature when they convened in late January. The yellow-ribbon-around-Reno event seemed a perfect vehicle to garner a large number of signatures all at once. Members of fraternities, sororities and other student organizations at the Uni- versity of Nevada were going to consti- tute the 23 teams needed to string the ribbon. But Dec. 16 was the beginning

TRIBUTE— Legionnaires Salmen (I) and Archie Pozzi Jr. (r) push for flag legislation. of Christmas vacation on campus. They also helped Medal of Honor winner Richard Sorenson in paying tribute to Dupree and Younger had planned a Desert Storm troops from Nevada. fly-over from nearby Fallon Naval Air Station and for the ascent of a number of hot air balloons during the celebra- ^mmmmmmmm HAT Nevada lacks in anapolis with NECman Pozzi after the tion. However, the conflict with Christ- I I I population is more 1990 National Convention, both were mas break was forcing the station to fill than made up for in determined to make Nevada one of the look for a new date for the promotion. I I I I I patriotic spirit," said first states to legislate a memorial res- The first available date was Jan. 27, I I I H Archie Pozzi Jr., olution calling for a constitutional Super Bowl Sunday. J Ill H National Executive amendment to protect the U.S. Flag. Meanwhile, the state legislature had B I Committeeman and At the same time, Operation Desert adjourned in October 1990 without I M H Past National Vice Shield was making news and a wave addressing the flag bill Pozzi, Salmen W^^mJ/M Commander. He was of concern was building throughout and other Legion officials were prepar- speaking of the chain of events that took the country. ing. Pozzi made a passionate appeal place beginning in December 1990, before the legislative committee, and and culminated in February 1991 SALMEN and Pozzi joined with on Jan. 23, Res. 5 from the Senate was It all started with two projects— one ASother Nevada leaders to plan the referred to the Committee on Govern- of The American Legion, the other flag campaign, radio personality ment Affairs. from radio station KICK in Reno. What Lynn Younger and news director How- Jan. 27 dawned bright and cool. took place in about a three-month ard DuPree of Reno radio KICK were Operation Desert Shield had become period could have been, under normal trying to figure out what they could do Desert Storm less than two weeks circumstances, a total disaster. Instead, to show their concern, pride and sup- before and the previous day protesters thanks to Nevadans who care about port for those involved in the Persian had marched through the streets of

America, it became a success. Gulf conflict. DuPree's son was one of Reno. "We warned the students to avoid When Department Commander Dale the first to go to the Middle East. DuP- any protesters they met en route," said R. " Tiny" Salmen returned from Indi- ree worked with professional musician Please turn to page 69

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follow, parents will go to where this flag

is kept. They will look at it and they will think. They will lay their hand on its neat folds, and they will remember 1FETIME OF yesterday. And they will cry. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Timbers of Georgia found a similar comfort in their son's burial flag. Several weeks ago, the Tim- bers decided to fly this flag. On the very day our troops were sent to Saudi Arabia, that proud banner was once again called to duty. As a veteran, Ed Timbers knows the importance of showing support for our troops. The Timbers also have two other sons, both serving in the military. In an unsurpassed act of devotion and patriotism, the flag of remembrance unfurled to become the flag of freedom and strength. One can only imagine the private thoughts and prayers of the parents as they looked upon the flag gently floating in the wind, caught up in the pride and prayers of today while remembering with bittersweet tears the lost son of yesterday. There came a morning not long ago, when the Timbers awoke to find just a few shreds of their flag left hanging on the pole. During the night, someone had ripped the flag down from its place of lighted honor and left the tattered remnants behind. Mr. Timbers called the Department of Georgia American Legion headquarters and explained what had happened. He said he had IN REMEMBRANCE— Ida and Ed Timbers of Dallas, Ga., decided to fly their son's called authorities and other organiza- burial flag on the very day U.S. troops were sent to Saudi Arabia. tions, including the Atlanta newspapers. In essence, nobody seemed to care. After a brief conversation punctuated themselves in times war and to with clearing Borst of peace throats and cracking By Hiram follow this proud banner; they gave voices, we said goodbye. their youth, and all too often, their I immediately telephoned James E DO not have to lives. That proud and mighty flag seems McAdams, Fifth District Commander.

think back very far to to act as a protective shield while it After a few arrangements, Mr. and Mrs. envision flag-draped covers our loved ones on their final Timbers were honored guests at Amer-

coffins being un- journey. The flag protects these patriots ican Legion Post 1 1 1 in Dallas, Ga. loaded or stored, to the very end and then surrenders where they were presented with a new under guard, at some them to the Almighty. When the earthly flag. lonely airport. Amer- remains are committed to God, only Although we cannot fully appreciate ica's tragedies have then is the flag carefully lifted and their sorrow over the loss of that most been many in this folded. meaningful flag, we do share the pain century, along with her triumphs. But of this foul and terrible flag desecra- the flag is always there, covering these HAS been said since time began tion. Vile acts such as this would cer- last remains of America's sons and ITthat the worst possible thing that can tainly decrease with a clear and concise daughters. happen to parents is to bury one of punishment for those who would defile It is poetic justice that those who their children. Countless times in our nation's banner. have defended our flag in battle, and countless cemeteries, neatly folded This is one more reason The Amer- those who stood at the ready while flags have been handed to mothers and ican Legion, and millions of other serving in our Armed Forces, are enti- fathers whose sons or daughters have Americans, continue to support a con- tled to this last honor. They gave of preceded them. Somehow they find stitutional amendment protecting Old comfort in that folded flag; they clutch Glory— the flag that led Americans and

Hiram Borst is Adjutant ofThe American it tightly as they walk slowly from the their allies to victory in the Mideast last Legion Department ofGeorgia. graveyard. In the days and years that February.

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-got Send Application to: Sprint/The American Legion P.O. Box 15944, Shawnee Mission, Kansas 66215-9959 The gulf war dan, they didn't even make a lot of By Michael Novak noise. proved that a few After every card that Saddam Hus- HEREVER I went sein could play had failed, the press press pundits during the third and were willingly became his last best weapon. fourth weeks of the all too willing to Saddam had said before the war that the Gulf war, people U.S. public couldn't stand 10,000 U.S. were angry at the play by different casualties, after 30 days of war, there media, particularly at rules than most were only 15. So he set out to see cnn and Peter Arnett. whether we could stand 10,000 Iraqi We members of that mainstream media. casualties. He permitted Western jour- privileged commu- nalists in Baghdad to film nothing but nity, the media, like to call ourselves ••••••••• civilian casualties. They complied with the "adversary press." We mean that we a credulity they never show U.S. are independent, feisty, not in any- of cat from his predecessors. In World authorities. body's pocket. Maybe so, but what War II, journalists knew which side An Iraqi woman televised raising her antagonizes people so is that many they were on, understood the stakes, fist against Americans turned out to be correspondents talk as if they were and were afraid as hell that we might an Iraqi ambassador; some "patients" "above" being Americans. They make lose. You bet they led the cheers. They in hospitals turned out to be impostors; themselves superior to the subjects of also led the grief when devastation hit, "spontaneous crowds" in poor areas their stories, whether soldiers, generals the sadness when mistakes were made. included a surprising number of edu- or the President of the U.S. And they They showed what the rest of us were cated English-speakers with precise pretend even in wartime that they are feeling, the ups, the downs, the highs, anti-American propaganda. The press neutral, above the fray, on Mount the lows. They were with us, not neutral did not pursue these falsehoods; other Olympus. Their ignorance of military between us and the Axis powers. agencies did. matters is now becoming legendary. The American media should have left An intelligent and articulate friend of modern journalist isn't like Baghdad, rather than become a willing mine says that any American correspon- THEthat. He keeps himself apart. His tool of psychological warfare directed dent who wants to remain "neutral" reference group is not the hoi polloi against their own people. Instead, Peter about a war in which the U.S. is but the professors in the universities, Arnett and others are acting like hos- engaged should hand in his passport. In the moviemakers, the prize givers. The tages, under nearly total control. They its place he should get a passport from modern journalist plays by different have filmed one story and one story Unesco. rules from the rest of us. He goes only— civilian casualties. They have By way of rebuttal, today's journalist expense account. never once remarked on the proportion is bound to reply: "We're not cheerlead- The panjandrums of the press don't of military to civilian damages. ers here. Our job is to report what we yet understand how isolated they have Nor have Arnett and others treated see. To be objective. To tell the unvar- become from the rest of us. They have Saddam Hussein with sufficient irony. nished truth." Journalists as Diogenes, been wrong about every major story in That ghoul who boasted he would turn holding lamps aloft looking for a single this war because they listen too much to all of Israel into a crematorium now honest man on earth. one another. They depart like sparrows, cries "war crimes" when by accident But this is phony. In their proud all together, from one line to another. Iraqis are hit. As of Feb. 15 his own boast, "We tell the truth to power," they First they said (while Saddam Hus- figures showed 1,100 civilian casual- have forgotten something. The freedom sein was digging his forces deeper into ties in Iraq after 70,000 allied air sor- to tell the truth depends on who is in place) that President Bush probably ties, or 1 per every 64 sorties. power. Their freedom, as it did in World wouldn't go to war. But right after the When they wake up every morning, War II, rests on a victory for our side. expiration of the deadline, Bush said, foreign correspondents ought to tell What do they think? That Unesco "Go!" Then they said that Americans themselves: "My liberty to report the would fight for their right to be impar- would be badly divided by the war. truth comes from the American repub- tial? After Jan. 16, Americans united. Then lic—and from American military

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his wife, and force another out of his car," Alsafadi said. "They took them ROAD TO away with guns to their heads." The road to Kuwait's liberation and its Persian-Gulf-port capital didn't come overnight, unlike the events that unfolded in the early morning hours of VICTORY Aug. 2, 1990, when thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks smashed across the border into neighboring Kuwait. Within a few hours, Iraqi soldiers had In the woke of iroq's blistering total control of the oil-rich emirate. conquest of Kuwoit, the world Looting, rape and torture became com- monplace—as did executions. The last wotched ond woited forAmerico broadcast of the state-owned radio and television stations at Kuwait's Ministry to fight for liberotion. leod the of Information sent a message heard around the world: "Hurry to our aid," a voice said. UWAITCITY - Khal- sein's face, which smiled at onlookers. Then the signal was silenced. doum Alsafadi slaloms his "The Iraqis were animals," said It became clear that Hussein's ambi- Volvo down the street, Alsafadi, 31, who was in this war- tions were not limited to Kuwait. avoiding chunks of ce- ravaged city for the duration of Iraq's Within a few days of Kuwait's con- ment, glass shards and seven-month occupation. "They did quest, Saudi Arabian King Fahd was burned-out automobiles. unspeakable things to people. Tears will convinced his kingdom would soon be

He points to a building not go away, I think, for many, many forced to square off against the Iraqi facade where, up until the years." He said that even on the eve of dictator's army and tank divisions. day before, a large, smil- the city's liberation, Iraqi soldiers were After several discussions with Presi- ing picture of Saddam Hussein hung. In carrying out a last-ditch reign of terror. dent George Bush and top military Arabic, someone wrote "public toilet" "I was at the mosque and saw them advisers, the king asked the United and drew an arrow pointing to Hus- (troops) take a Kuwait man away from States and other nations to send troops.

24 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE TANK KILLS -Iraq's tank divisions were destroyed by the highly mobile A-10 "Wart Hogs.

"This is the Super Bowl," said Gen. Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a meeting with the President and other advisers at Camp David. Bush immediately committed elements of the 101st and 82nd Air- borne Divisions for immediate deployment to Saudi Arabia, the first of an American troop buildup that ultimately would top 500,000. In less than 70 days, more U.S. military hardware and supplies had been off-loaded in Saudi Arabia than in any single year during the Vietnam War. It was the largest air and sealift of its kind since D-Day, according to military pundits. U.S. Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf was given the awesome task of overseeing Operation Desert Shield and heading the Joint Central Command forces in Saudi Arabia. The burly, four-star general wasted no time before planning a strategy with commanders of coalition nations. By October 1990, about 240,000 U.S. troops were poised in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Schwarzkopf requested an additional 200,000. Meanwhile, worldwide condemna- MOTHER OF ALL SURRENDERS — Tens of thousands of Iraqi troops surrendered tion of Iraq's invasion was swift. Sev- to coalition forces once the ground war began. Please turn page

JUNE 1991 25 VICTORY-Kuwa/'t/ troops celebrated in Kuwait City after their homeland was freed by the U.S.-led coalition. eral United Nations Security Council resolutions were passed, including Res. 660, demanding Iraq's immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait. Other resolutions imposed economic sanctions and froze Iraq's overseas assets. Diplomatic overtures and missions to Baghdad failed time after time, as Hussein continued to insist that Kuwait was a legitimate province of Iraq. On Nov. 30, the U.N. Security Council adopted a critical resolution authoriz- ing the use of military force to eject Iraq from Kuwait. A Jan. 15, 1.991, deadline was set. The clock was ticking closer to the showdown. The silence from Baghdad was beginning to roar. Hussein intended to call the "bluff of the coalition forces while he hid behind a screen of diplomatic maneuvers. In the early morning hours of Jan. 17, the skies over Riyadh and Dharhan in Saudi Arabia were stacked with fighter jets, AWACS and every con- ceivable aircraft as they streaked north toward Baghdad. Operation Desert smashed through defenses in southern standing fast against the United States Shield was over; Desert Storm had Iraq and Kuwait. Blind to earlier place- and the other 27 members of the coali- begun. ment of forces in northern Saudi tion. Before the announcement, the "I have seen in your eyes a fire of Arabia, Iraq's generals expected the allies had knocked out 26 Iraqi Army determination to get this war job done main assault would be an amphibious divisions as Iraqi troops streamed quickly. My confidence in you is total, landing near Kuwait City. toward their homeland. our cause is just. Now you must be the Speaking at a news conference in The "mother of all battles" had thunder and lightning of Desert Riyadh two days after the ground war become the granddaddy of all retreats. Storm," Schwarzkopf told his troops, was launched, Schwarzkopf said, Hussein began what was described shortly before the allied offensive was "When we took out Hussein's air force, by Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal in launched. By war's end, more than we took out his ability to see what we Riyadh as a "scorched-earth policy." 100,000 allied sorties would be flown, were doing down here in Saudi Arabia. More than 200 oil wells were set ablaze, obliterating Iraq's air force, key com- Once we had taken out his eyes, we did desalinization plants were wrecked, mand and control centers, and destroy- what could best be described as the and troops began to commit gross ing Hussein's tank divisions. 'Hail Mary' play in football." atrocities against those residents who Hussein responded by ordering firing had remained in Kuwait City after the of Soviet-made Scud missiles at Riyadh EANWHILE, back in Baghdad, occupation. Iraqi troops executed and Dharhan. Missiles also were Hussein broadcasted a message numerous Kuwaiti nationals and other directed at Tel Aviv in an obvious to his nation and troops, urging residents; mass graves were dug to hide attempt to draw Israel into the war and that they rally to destroy the coalition in the corpses of men, women and chil- possibly dismantle the fragile Arab- the "mother of all battles." Tired of the dren who had suffered indescribable Western alliance. constant bombardments from artillery torture. With allied forces owning the skies and 37 days of air strikes, many of Hus- Although allied casualties were over Iraq and Kuwait, thus began the sein's forces laid down their weapons light, tragedy struck as the ground war imminent ground war. Fighting and surrendered to Allied forces. By approached a speedy end. A Scud mis- between coalition and Iraqi troops had Feb. 28, it was reported that more than sile fired from a mobile launcher in started, most notably an artillery and 100,000 Iraqi soldiers had either sur- southern Iraq crashed into a building infantry slugfest between U.S. Marines rendered or had been captured by allied near Dharhan, killing 28 American and Iraqi soldiers in the northern Saudi forces. soldiers and wounding several others. town of Khafji. Guns pounded soldiers By the third day of the ground war, the Fierce fighting continued in eastern hunkered down in Kuwait. multinational force had gained control Iraq, as U.S. and Republican Guard In the pre-dawn darkness of Feb. 27, of Kuwait City. Hussein had ordered his tanks clashed near Basra. When the coalition troops, tanks and artillery troops to withdraw, claiming victory in smoke cleared, more Iraqis surrendered

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE DEAD END— This convoy of Iraq's mili- In the ruins of Kuwait City, the thrill disappeared or been executed since tary vehicles escaping Kuwait was of victory would not be denied. A Aug. 2, 1990. Still, the signs of hope caught and destroyed by allied forces. parade of cars, trucks, and armored are heard in Kuwaitis' voices and can vehicles formed near the Persian Gulf be seen in their eyes. to advancing troops. On Feb. 28, a beachfront International Hotel. Many A little Arab girl carries tiny Amer- mere five days after the ground war displayed American flags and home- ican and Kuwaiti flags in her hand as started, Kuwait was liberated. made signs thanking the U.S. and coali- she approaches a Marine, who is Saddam Hussein's icy, brutal grip tion forces. Women and men kissed watching the parade. She taps his knee over Kuwait had been thawed after 210 American GIs and asked them for and he squats to see what she wants. days. The lightning precision of Amer- addresses. She hands him the red, white and blue ican-led air power and the thunder of "I ain't never been kissed so much in banner and hugs his neck. artillery, armor and infantry had made my life," said one sheepish Marine mili- The storm clouds have passed.— By Operation Desert Storm a stunning suc- tary policeman. "I just wish that some Joe Stuteville CH cess. of them hadn't been men." The road leading into Kuwait City is For Kuwaitis and resi- littered with abandoned and gutted dents such as Syrian Khal- military vehicles. The morning sky, doum Alsafadi, the ordeal stretching from the city to hundreds of is anything but over. kilometers to the south into Saudi Alsafadi, once a successful Arabia, is black from the burning oil tailor, must now find wells. another place to begin his Kuwait City is a bomb-cratered trade because Iraqi soldiers moonscape of shattered buildings and destroyed his business. streets. The closer the approach to the Tens of thousands of center of the city, the more obvious the returning Kuwaitis do not destruction becomes. Despite the mas- have homes to return to. sive damage, the Kuwait flag— red, And it's likely many of green, white and black— hangs from their relatives are among windows and buildings. Kuwaitis and the thousands who have other residents who endured the hellish seven-month ordeal immediately took FIRST MD-lraqi soldiers to the streets to celebrate their libera- received medical care from tion. coalition combat medics.

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RIDING OUT THE STORM

HE nightmare for millions country and at home. ofresidents in Kuwait began THE LEGION The following are but a few of many early on Aug., 2, 1990, when vignettes about those who served in Opera- thousands of Iraqi troops JOURNEYED TO THE tion Desert Storm. Dozens of GIs were and tank divisions rumbled interviewed at various sites around Saudi across the border ofthe emi- Arabia and Kuwait by the Legion jour- rate. In victory, President MIDEAST WAR ZONE nalists during their two-week journey into Saddam Hussein declared the eye of Operation Desert Storm. T Kuwait a province of Iraq. TO CHRONICLE Five months later, a U.S. -led multi- RIYADH AIR BASE -Napoleon once national military force began the arduous THE EXPERIENCES said that an Army moves on its task offorcing Iraq out ofKuwait and into stomach. But Air Force Capt. Susan compliance with the conditions of with- OF AMERICAN CIs "Awesome" Aungst believes that mail drawal spelled out in United Nations' from home is what motivates troops to resolutions. The coalition forces entered go the extra mile in a combat zone. Kuwait City on Feb. 27, and liberated its IN OPERATION "Mail call makes the difference," citizens from a reign of terror. said Aungst. "Your day goes remark- "From the beginning, The American DESERT STORM. ably well if you get word from home. Legion stood firm behind the decision to It's the ultimate high. But when you commit our troops to the Persian Gulf, don't, it's the ultimate downer." said National Commander Robert S. to what had been reported, that troops Since her arrival in Saudi Arabia in Turner. "Gangsters such as Saddam Hus- were well-motivated, understood their December, Aungst has received mail sein must not be allowed to dominate and mission, were highly professional, and regularly from her family and friends in threaten the stability ofother nations. were ready for combat. The group also Gulf Breeze, Fla., her hometown. Legionnaires at the 72nd National Con- found that some equipment was dated, but She's also managed to keep up her cor-

vention in Indianapolis adopted Res. 603 still serviceable. "We were confident, how- respondence with one brother, who (Foreign Relations), which condemned ever, that our service men and women were serves aboard the USS Saratoga in the " Iraq 's aggression in Kuwait and supported quite capable of getting the job done, Persian Gulf, and another who works at the deployment of troops and materiel to Turner said. Marin-Marrietta Corp., and helped the gulf to thwart further hostility. Legion leaders also recognized that develop the Patriot missile system. In the weeks that followed the buildup, there were needs on the homefront. But those aren't the only cards and the Legion became concerned about Families of Operation Desert Shield GIs, letters received by Aungst and her reports of low troop morale, faulty equip- especially those ofthe National Guard, Air fellow troops of the 61st Combat Com- ment and the lack ofmilitary preparedness. Guard and Reserves, often were leftfinan- munications Squadron. They have Turner wanted to see firsthand if such cially strapped because ofafederal callup. received numerous sacks of mail from reports were accurate, so in mid-October, Late lastfall, The American Legion Family Americans who wrote letters addressed he, National Adjutant Robert W. Spanogle Support Network was created to assist to "Any Service Member." and Pennsylvania Legionnaire Dominic D. families (See related article, page 46). Last fall, American Legion National Di Francesco, former Chairman of the After the air war began, the Legion Commander Robert S. Turner visited National Legislative Commission, traveled formed plans to send journalists from troops in Saudi Arabia. Upon his return to Saudi Arabia and met with troops and National Headquarters to the Middle East to the United States, he encouraged their commanders. The Legion trip was to record the experiences of our troops. Legionnaires everywhere to send let- sanctioned by the White House and State "We felt the need to chronicle how this ters and "care" packages of articles Department— the only official trip by any newest generation of American war vet- ranging from talcum powder to paper- veterans' organization — and President erans was coping with the rigors of com- back books to GIs participating in then- Bush asked Turner to report his findings bat, " Spanogle said. "We wanted to hear Operation Desert Shield.

upon his return. what they thought about their role in the Mail means a lot to the troops, and it The Legion delegation found, contrary war and what their concerns were, both in- provides a type of news that CNN can-

2e AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE RUINS— Jeweler Mohammad Carsym stands near his destroyed shop.

not. "It's the only way many of us can One of the favorite pieces of mail At 250 mph and orbiting at 10,000 hear about what's happening on the received by airmen here arrived at feet over enemy territory, every other side of the world," said Capt. Christmas. Students at Kent State Uni- refueling must be a textbook operation, Andy Pears, who corresponds fre- versity sent a card that simply said, and members of the 1703rd Refueling quently with his wife and two boys. "Kick Saddam's Ass for Kent State Wing (Provisional) have done just that. Frequently, letters are written by Students." The Ohio university was the Since the Joint Services Command in Vietnam veterans who offer encourage- site of a confrontation between the Riyadh launched the massive coalition ment and tips on how Desert Storm National Guard and students protesting air war against Iraq, the 1703rd has troops can deal with their tour of duty. the Vietnam War more than two decades worked round the clock. ago. Five students were killed when "Our crews flew more in the first rioting broke out among the protesters. three weeks of the war than during a "I'm touched to see how many year of normal operations at home," people in the states have taken the time said Col. David E. Carmack, com- to write and let us know how much they mander of the 1703rd. "We've flown support us," Aungst said. "It's inspiring closer to actual combat areas more to know that the country is behind us often than we ever did in Vietnam." The and appreciates what we're doing 1703rd has refueled every type of air- here." craft from Stealth fighters to B-52 bombers, and has also pumped gas SOMEWHERE OVER THE SAUDI- into the tanks of allied forces' craft. of its safety its IRAQ BORDER-An A- 10 jet dropped Because record and dependability as a workhorse, the KC- into the wake of the Air Force KC- 1 35 refueling tanker. Slowly, the smaller 1 35 crafts often are older than the crews fly said David Floyd, craft nosed toward the tail of the larger who them, Maj. plane. the wing's operations officer. Belly-down, Staff Sgt. Erick Turner Indeed, tankers may be the real worked the controls of his refueling unsung heroes of the Persian Gulf air station, as he concentrated on the war. "We're not the glamour boys, but we consider our mission just as vital to advancing jet. A lever is pulled and he lowered the flying boom into the the effort," said Col. Rich Salsbury, refueling port at the front of the A- 10. commander of the 1 700th Air Refueling MAIL CALL — Air Force Capt. Susan "Piece of cake," said Turner, grinning Squadron (Provisional) in Riyadh. Aungst at Riyadh Air Base takes time and flashing the thumbs-up sign. "That Today's five-hour mission is to pump out to read mail from home. pilot made a textbook approach." Please turn page

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gas into the bellies of Air Force A- 10s, which are primarily "tank killers." The A- 10s are taking on armored brigades of Saddam Hussein's so-called "elite" Republican Guard in eastern Iraq. "Must be one heckuva battle down there today," said pilot Capt. Wayne Howe over the plane's internal radio. "They must be engaging the Guard heavy." Howe, Turner, and other members of the crew, navigator 1st Lt. Mike Young- son and co-pilot 1st Lt. Todd Hoppe, are from Plattsburgh Air Force Base in upper New York state. One by one and at different altitudes,

the A- 10s move into position and each ARMED TO THETEETH —America 's air power, including this A-10 tank killer, was receives an average of 3,000 pounds of the decisive tool in the offensive against Iraq. fuel. It takes about three minutes to pump fuel for each plane. The tank killers are fierce, hellish-looking situations such as this (Desert Storm), answer under the hood of the Humvee.

beasts, armed to the teeth with Side- and it makes you feel good to know that "Just put the entree on the radiator, winder and Maverick missiles, and 30 you're doing the best job you can do for close the hood and drive around for mm cannons, which rain 7-inch, armor- your country," said Airman 1st Class awhile," he said. "Pretty soon you'll get piercing bullets through tanks and Michael Kiszer. "It makes our jobs a hot meal." armored carriers. easier knowing that most of the country Still, such ingenuity doesn't stack up As the last plane moves in to take on supports us." to what's 10,000 miles away. The men fuel, Turner lowers the boom and makes Fortunately, the SPs have not of Team 14 miss their families and the connection. The pit stop is over and encountered any direct terrorist friends and the way of life they left Turner raises the nozzle. The pilot assaults. One of the constant threats at behind several months ago. And they waves goodbye, peels into a steep right the base has been Scud missile attacks miss the ordinary things that most of us bank and heads back to the task of from Iraq. take for granted. turning Soviet-made T-72 tanks into Staff Sgt. Scott Christensen, Staff They miss being able to hop into their smoldering heaps of twisted metal. Sgt. Dan Schaeffer and Airman 1st cars and take a drive. They miss cold "That's all there is today, guys. Let's Class John Motts have worked together beer, NCAA basketball, rodeos, their head for home," Howe said, as he throt- on Echo 14 since arriving in-country. favorite television shows, country tled the craft's four engines and turned The SPs are on roaming patrols within music and movie theaters. They miss to the south. Mission 37 is history. the vast desert expanse of the air base looking out their windows at home and "Tankers have the best job in the Air and work side-by-side with Saudi seeing snow. They miss bowling, Nin- Force," Turner said. "Fighter pilots troops at checkpoints. tendo, grass and flowers.

can't do their jobs unless we do ours. "Obviously, all of us would rather be "And I really miss Taco Bell," said

That kind of teamwork is what wins at home with our families, but what Schaeffer. "D'ya know how hard it is to wars." we're doing here is important," said SP get a good taco in Saudi Arabia?" Capt. Terry Morgan, who has been on "We've stood fast and strong," said NORTH-CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA— duty here since the conflict began in SP supervisor Capt. Jay Chambers.

The "Humvee," successor to yester- August. "But I look at it this way: It's "I'm proud to work with these people." year's military jeep, dashes through better that we're making a stand now craters and across ravines like an angry against nuts like Hussein rather than CENTRAL SAUDI ARABIA—The sign

cockroach. It kicks up a sandy rooster risk facing them five years down the in front of the tent where Army Sgt.

tail before it slides to a stop on a rise road— or having our children deal with William H. Clemons Jr. lives jokes overlooking rows of AWACs, tankers them." about the deadly game he and other and Saudi aircraft. Like GIs in America's other wars, members of his unit have played often Four heavily armed American troops Echo 14 has learned to adapt to situa- since the Persian Gulf War exploded. emerge from the vehicle. Back "in the tions in the field and engineer many of "For all you do, this Scud's for you ..." world," they patrol streets and runways their own solutions to problems. Con- Clemons and other members of Delta at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. sider the MRE (Meal, Ready-To-Eat) Company, 11th Brigade, 43rd Air and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in field ration, better known to troops as Defense Artillery, Fort Bliss, Texas, Ohio as security police officers (SPs). "Meals Rejected By Everybody." have worked hard to ensure the city of In Saudi Arabia, they protect aircraft, Finding a way to heat the entree, Riyadh and surrounding area— dubbed

military evacuation hospitals and a whether it be steak and gravy or that "Scud Valley" by some— are protected Patriot missile battery. gastronomic riddle known to GIs against Iraq's infamous missiles. To

Fire Team Echo 14 is one of several everywhere as "S.O.S.," was a neces- thwart the threat, the company is ground base defense teams who keep sity, especially for those on duty during responsible for firing Patriot missiles, constant vigilance. "You train hard for cold, desert nights. Team 14 found the which destroy incoming Scuds.

'if j AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "We were real scared and nervous the first time we had to intercept Scuds," said Clemons, who helps oversee prepa- rations of Patriot launches. "The more we shot them out of the sky, the more confident we got." Each Patriot station contains four missiles and a trailer housing radar. After a Scud is launched, a radar beam locates its incoming trek. Missile antennas pick up reflections and relay tracking information to the ground; commands from the ground then guide the missile toward the Scud and explodes it in mid-air. Since the war began in mid-January, there have been scores of Scud missile attacks on the Arabian capital of Riyadh, Dharhan and other key areas in the eastern province and in Israel. Thanks. to the accuracy of the Patriots, there have been few deaths caused by Scuds, with the exception of the 28 TRIGGER MEN — Air Force security police teams such as this one at Riyadh American troops killed near Dharhan. guarded against terrorism and attacks on U.S. war planes. Like many of the other 80 members of Delta Company, Specialist Tyrone

Hill has been at this sandy, desolate site escape their high-tech sharpshooting you drink it, you wear it and you sleep since October. "It's been tough out here skills. "It kind of weighs on your with it. I'll be glad to leave it." a lot of times, but we've always pulled mind," Hill said. "There are a whole lot But the troops feel they have a pur- together to make things work. Most of of people who depend on us to do what pose here. "I volunteered to join this us just want to get the job done, win this we do. We don't intend to let them unit because I felt I had a responsibility war and get home to our families," said down." to serve with these people," said Staff Hill, whose wife and three children live But it's not only Scuds that irritate Sgt. Georgie Bignault. The Atlanta in El Paso near Fort Bliss. GIs. native was helping train women recruits The biggest fear of most of these "There's nothing you can do about when Operation Desert Shield began, troops is that a Scud will somehow the sand," said one troop. "You eat it, and her training as a nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist won her the assignment. One of the overriding lessons Opera- tion Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm has taught many skeptics is that women are a vital part of the military in war and peace, said Bignault. "It's time we drop the myth that women can't perform in combat," she said. It's been said that war is made up of endless weeks of sheer boredom and waiting— interspersed by rare minutes of stark terror." But those minutes are what the men and women of Delta Company have trained for, and countless Saudi Arabians and others owe their lives to these patriots behind the Patriots.

RIYADH—Hassan Farhan El-Shammari celebrates every time a coalition forces' bomb drops on his small hometown in northern Kuwait. "Soon, we will be in our homes to start

PATRIOTIC— Army Sgt. William Clemons, a member of a Patriot missile team from our lives again," Shammari said. "It Ft. Bliss, Texas, welcomes visitors to his desert home. seems so long ago since the invasion." Please turn to page 66

JUNE 1991 31 INTERVIEW THE WEAPON OF

The conventional war against Iraqi aggression may be over, but the unconventional war waged by Mideast radicals may explode again and threaten Americans at home and abroad.

he battlefield isn't combat's only arena, not United States. They see us as the root of their problems, but | according to former Green Beret captain and also as the solution, if only we alter our policies toward leading terrorism expert Brian Jenkins, who labels Israel. Both ideas are exaggerations, but many Middle terrorism "a mode of armed conflict that coexists Easterners believe them and, therefore, haven't wanted to with conventional and guerilla warfare. " As for provoke us with a direct attack. Whether that attitude prevails forecasting future levels of terrorism, Jenkins says: post-Desert Storm remains an open question. "It's an open question but, post-Desert Storm, the threat is rising." Q. Who are the. primary terrorist organizations today? Jenkins, who served with U.S. Special I Army A The major threats remain from groups emanating from Forces in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam, currently is the Middle East. They are the sources of the most senior managing director of Kroll Associates, an international serious incidents— the explosion of Pan Am 103 over Locker- investigative firm. Former chairman of the Rand Corporation's bie, the hijacking of TWA 847 to Beirut, the kidnapping of Political Science Department, and author of International Americans in Beirut. As for the specific perpetrators, there's Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict, Jenkins is editor q/TVI a constellation of groups, among them: radical Palestinian Report, a journal on terrorism, violence and insurgency. organizations such as Abu Nidal and PFLP-General Com- mand; and radical Shiite groups such as Islamic Jihad and the The American Legion Magazine: With Desert Storm Revolutionary Justice Organization— really voices on tele- won, is the war over? phones rather than organized groups — and Hezbollah's extremist fringe. Brian Jenkins: A real concern is postwar terrorism and, certainly, Desert Storm has raised the terrorism threat higher Q. What exactly is terrorism? among governmental priorities. As for predicting precise A Terrorism is the use of violence calculated to create fear impacts, nobody can say. However, contributing to terrorism and alarm. A hallmark is separation between the was the defeat of the Arab armies in 1967's Six Day War, victim — the physical target— and the audience upon whom which demonstrated to the Palestinians that they weren't psychological impacts are intended. In fact, it is often very going to recover their homeland militarily; they consequently difficult to see how this particular kidnapping or bombing turned to terrorism. We also know that Iraq ranks high on the relates to a specific strategic objective. Why does a terrorist list of states sponsoring terrorists, but, then again, so does put a bomb on Pan Am flight 103? Are the 271 passengers Syria, a member of the allied coalition. Historically, Middle who die your enemy? No, the identities of the victims are Eastern terrorist groups have not operated in the United irrelevant. The impact of the violence is aimed at the people States. Americans abroad have been targets, yes, but there watching. appears to have been a red line against mounting actions on U.S. soil. Operational and logistical issues contribute, but Q. Is there more terrorism now, or are we simply more another factor is Middle Eastern ambivalence about the aware of it?

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE "The identities of the victims are irrelevant. The impact of the

violence is aimed at the people watching."

Brian Jenkins

B Terrorism goes back centuries, but in the late 1960s a can oblige governments and corporations to divert vast new style of international terrorism emerged, and that's resources to protecting against attacks. Occasionally they a reflection of four crucial technological developments. First, can win concessions. Nonetheless, thus far, none of these the communications revolution— satellites beaming global tactical victories have translated into strategic success. radio and TV signals— made it possible for terrorists to reach a worldwide audience. Look at the '72 Munich Olympics, Qa Is there a point beyond which we cannot defend where millions of people saw those murders. If terrorism is against terrorism? violence aimed at the people watching, then, obviously, A International terrorism has favorite targets— diplomats global communications enhances the effectiveness of ter- and diplomatic facilities, commercial aviation, and, rorist tactics. lastly, corporations because an IBM or Coca-Cola sym- Second, modern jet air travel provides worldwide mobility, bolizes the United States. Over time, we have seen that when meaning there no longer was a purely local conflict— for embassies are transformed into fortresses and diplomats are instance, Japanese terrorists, trained in the Middle East, encased in armor plate, there has been a decline in attacks on could hop a plane to Israel's Lod Airport and machine gun them. Passenger screening and increased airport security passengers, most of whom are Puerto Rican pilgrims. have reduced attacks on aviation. At the same time, however, Third, there's increased availability of weapons— sub- attacks on corporate targets have increased as have indis- machine guns and plastic explosives. criminate attacks in public places. The conclusion? Increased

Fourth, there's been an elevated dependency of our security does not lower the volume of terrorism; it shoves it society on fragile, vulnerable technologies like 747 jets, an elsewhere. Terrorists can attack anything, anywhere, any engineering masterpiece, but to a terrorist it's a tin can filled time, and we cannot protect everything, everywhere, all the with 400 passengers. time. Put those technological developments together and that's When we impose security measures, we encourage ter- paved the way for the emergence of contemporary interna- rorists to shift to "softer" targets, until ultimately we arrive at tional terrorism. Has that increased? Dramatically so, what I call pure terrorism—just killing people to make a through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s. Around 1986, it point, like Pan Am 103. Perhaps the most alarming trend is hit a plateau— a very high plateau— where it's remained. that as the number of terrorist incidents have escalated, they have also become bloodier. There are more large-scale, Q> Can terrorists win? violent attacks as terrorists detonate car bombs on city A Recent history proves that small but violent groups can streets, in airports, aboard planes, in stores, in discos— all attract worldwide publicity. They can create fear. They Pleast turn to page 70

JUNE 1991 33 The West must seek an energy policy that encourages con-

5 servation, ex- ploits new oil reserves, and uses its influence to maintain stable prices.

By Timothy W. Stanley

HE media has pictured billowing smoke from Kuwaiti oil wells ignited | by Iraq and reported the war protesters favorite chant: "No blood for oil." Economists charted the path of the U.S. economy and the recession in terms of crude oil prices. And diplomats now struggling to organize a post-Saddam Middle East must take account of petroleum as the region's primary economic asset. So where are we with respect to oil now that the fighting is over and the coalition has won? A little history is in order. Once the Arabs unsheathed their "oil weapon" after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, prices escalated from about $3 a barrel to $12,

plunging the world into its worst recession since the Great Depression. No sooner had recovery gotten under way than the Iraq-Iran war tripled oil prices again to $36 a barrel. This set off secon- dary explosions we still feel: inflation ivJ plus another recession; lowering Amer- ican productivity and competitiveness.

The bright side of this 1 ,200 percent

cost increase in the world industry's life blood was forced conservation and the development of new petroleum and other energy sources. That combination eventually broke the OPEC cartel's monopoly and forced prices back to the $!6-to-$22-per-barrel range of the past eight years. Unfortunately as America's

PRAYER — A Kuwaiti oilfield worker kneels for prayers near a well set on fire by retreating Iraqis.

-A AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE series of energy "strategies" show, we seem unwilling to pay the cost of revers- ing our growing dependence (now more than one half) on oil imports; and many economists regard the latest Bush administration plan as long on production incentives and very short on conservation and other measures. U.S. oil imports of 9 million barrels per day (mbd) translate into 3.3 billion barrels a year; and at $20 per barrel, oil costs us $65 billion a year; or about the cost of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In any case, after Saddam's rape of Kuwait, nervous traders, mindful of this history, bid oil prices to nearly $40 — only to have them fall again to half that level as soon as the ground war punctured the balloon of uncertainty. In fact, there never was any shortage of crude oil during the gulf crisis, beyond some brief dislocation of refined ENVIRO-TERRORISTS-\raq\ troops flooded the Persian Gulf with crude oil products after the sanctions started. released from a Kuwait refinery. The entire price movement was because of panic and greed, rather than the fun- damentals of supply and demand. Oil prices react crude once swapped for weapons. From Saudi Arabia moved swiftly to increase a peak of 12.5 mbd in 1988, Soviet its own production from 5.3 mbd to 8.5 more to public production may now be as little as 10 mbd. Together with other producers, mbd. If they have to enter world markets this production compensated for the expectations than for the difference, that could tighten loss of the 3.5 mbd formerly exported pro- to real life supplies before Iraq and Kuwait by Iraq and Kuwait. Iraq never had the duction is fully available. The resulting military capacity to disrupt oil supplies supplies. scarcity may produce another price from outside its own country and Kuwait. surge, perhaps to $30 a barrel, because What happens next to world oil prices oil prices react more to expectations may, ironically, depend less on develop- and anticipation than to real supplies. ments in the gulf than on the outlook for ity, this stance has often brought conflict And, of course, a short recession could petroleum production in the Soviet with other producers, such as Iran, increase demand. Union. But let's look at the former first. which has more urgent needs for higher All of this suggests a three-pronged As Kuwaiti fires are capped and pro- prices and immediate revenue. Except energy strategy for the West: duction slowly resumes during the next for some temporary new "emergency" Seek domestic energy policy from couple of years, and as Iraq (with more quotas, OPEC seems unlikely to agree a conservation and oil alternatives internal turmoil and less outside help) on any long-term plan, meaning that viewpoint. desperately seeks oil exports to rebuild prices should fluctuate around $20 a Give high priority to assisting the its economy, Saudi Arabia can be barrel for the next few years. Such sta- recovery and expansion of Soviet pro- expected to cut back to pre-war levels, bility, coupled with an end to war jitters, duction. thus accommodating whatever produc- should bode well for an early end to the Utilize the enhanced postwar West- tion the other two can muster without U.S. recession. ern power to influence Saudi Arabia oil

major price consequences— assuming But it may be a new ball game, given production to-balance the Iraq and no major surprises in other countries. the possible transformation of the Kuwait increases and prospective Soviet Burning Kuwait's wells was aimed as Soviet Union (the world's largest pro- cuts, thus maintaining market equilib- much at crippling Iraq's neighboring ducer) from a significant oil exporter, rium with stable prices. rival producer for postwar purposes as especially to Eastern Europe, to a In the long term, environmental con-

it was earth-scorching for its own sake. potential net importer. Three factors are cerns will force limitations on fossil As the "swing" producer, the Saudis at work here: Oil is not immune from fuel energy everywhere. It is in the have always sought prices low enough the political and economic turmoil world's interest that oil producers and to undercut alternative energy sources wracking the Soviet Union as a whole; consumers collaborate to make this elsewhere. But given their small popu- the Soviets have not had the technology painful transition as smooth as possi- lation and large oil reserves and capac- nor capital to exploit new reserves; and ble. Despite the overwhelming allied existing pumping capacity is strained military victory in the crucial oil-pro- Timothy W. Stanley is president of the by obsolescent and worn equipment and ducing region, there may still be a International Economic Studies Institute in poor recovery techniques. Also, the bumpy oil road ahead for some time to Washington, D.C. Soviets can no longer export the Iraqi come.

JUNE 1991 35 c TEC

command centers were and were able to Angelo Codevilla By THE PERSIAN deny them the use of telecommunica- tions. For some days, Saddam commanded UPERIOR technology is GULF WAR SHOWED but only part of the reason the through a buried fiber-optic cable, we found it and bombed it. We were Persian Gulf War of 1991 BATTLE- HOW WELL inventory Iraqi was something between a able to make an of the military and pick targets that, once rout and a live-fire exercise. FIELD destroyed, would dismember it. Much of the credit belongs TECHNOLOGY to Saddam Hussein. He Our intelligence worked as well as it very first had no military strategy. WORKED. BUT IT did because from the day no Had he attacked as U.S. Iraqi aircraft overflew American forces, and we jammed Iraqi electronic inter- forces were first deploying, he might ALSO POINTED TO cept equipment. Also, Iraq never was have done serious harm. He blew his able to threaten our intelligence air- political strategy. AREAS WHERE WE'RE craft, less our satellites. Of Had he withdrawn before Feb. 23, much course against a more serious oppo- when the ground war began, his politi- nent, would have to spend a great cal gains might have outweighed his LACKING. we deal of effort guarding our own intelli- material losses. Instead he forced his gence assets. The free ride we got in the troops, bereft of air cover, to serve as gulf war should not teach us the wrong targets for a superior force. In better AWACs sees both enemy and friendly hands, the equipment arrayed against aircraft, allows the friendlies to know lessons. Our strategic intelligence, however, us would have made a better showing, where the enemy is, and directs them to left to be desired. Despite con- despite the excellent showing made by the most effective fighting positions. much centrating effort on a small American military technology. J-STARS, flying in a converted Boeing enormous were not able to locate all Let us see how three categories of 707, does a similar job for tanks, artil- country, we for mobile mis- equipment performed: intelligence, lery and other ground combat equip- of Saddam's launchers siles, and had only the roughest esti- precision weapons, and the star of the ment, regardless of weather or smoke. of he had. This should show, missile defense. The most impor- Its computer directed individual U.S. mates how many aircraft and teach us how hopeless a task it is to tant question we can ask is: How well artillery, close-support search the Soviet vastness for mobile would they serve against a more serious missiles to individual enemy targets. enemy? missiles, either to verify treaties or to the first time in the history of war, target them in war. Intelligence FORsoldiers did not have to worry about Most worrisome, none of our equip- The closer to the battlefield, the bet- the most basic intelligence of all: ment told us anything about the most ter intelligence performed. Two radar "Where are we?" Thanks to signals from important questions of the war: What aircraft, Airborne Warning And Control the Global Positioning System (GPS) are the enemy's plans; what is his (AWACs) and the Joint Surveillance satellites, every American unit knew. strategy? Against a major league Target Attack Radar System (J-STARS), Iraqi forces were photographed in the enemy, ignorance on such matters can were most responsible for turning the visible and infrared spectrum from the be fatal. The United States was unpleas- battle in the skies and on the ground air and from space. The earth around antly surprised by the strong Soviet into something like a video game. them was probed by long wave radar for diplomatic intervention beginning in buried cables or mines, and every elec- mid-February. The nature of Soviet-

Angelo Codevilla is a defense system tronic transmission was recorded, iden- Iraqi cooperation was never clear. We analyst and is associated with the Hoover tified and traced to its origin. American do not know why Saddam chose to Institution, Stanford University, Calif. planners knew precisely where Iraqi reject President Bush's ultimatum of

AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE CRUISIN'— Long-range cruise missiles from Navy ships traveled 700 miles to hit targets in Iraq.

Friday, Feb. 22, but we are very lucky that he did.

Precision weapons

Ever since people started throwing rocks, they have dreamed of hitting their targets every time. In the gulf war, American technology brought that dream close to reality with three categories of weapons. First, the cruise missile: This is a small, pilotless aircraft with sensors and a memory. The missile first flies a preset course with the aid of inertial

guidance. Then it looks down at the

ground, matches what it sees to a picture in its memory, and adjusts its course.

When it gets close to the target, it looks

directly at it and matches what it sees

with its memory, and flies straight in. Cruise missiles were seen zipping down the streets of Baghdad and hitting precisely the parts of buildings they wanted to hit. Other weapons include the smart bombs. These laser-guided bombs would be dropped in the general direc-

tion of a target. Then the airplane, as it flew away, would continue to shine a laser beam onto the target. The bomb would home in on the reflected beam, steered by computer-adjusted fins. Other bombs have small video cameras in the nose, similar to cruise missiles. The fire control on tanks and artillery that allowed a very high percentage of hits also is based on a combination of DEFENDERS— Each Patriot launcher has four missiles to protect ground sites from sensors and computers. Laser range- aircraft and missiles such as the Soviet-built Scud. Please turn to page 68

37 JUNE 1991 T T The Thrill Of VICTORY

ington for economic aid was evidence By Harry G. SummersJr. In the woke of that the "winner" of that war is not as Desert Storm, we certain as it once appeared. T an electrifying Tf^^f1 WAS As far as the Gulf War is concerned, I feat of arms. The 100- must osk ourselves until the complete answer becomes I hour allied ground war the most cruciol available, the reason that war was blitzkrieg I that crushed the waged and the manner in which it was I Iraqi army and brought question of oil: conducted provide some preliminary I Saddam Hussein to his Whot good come indications. "No one starts a war— or I knees was the culmination rather, no one in his senses ought to do I of the preceding 40-day out of it? so— without first being clear in his Wmmmm air and naval campaign mind what he intends to achieve by that ••••••••••••••«« that prepared the way for that allied war and how he intends to conduct it," onslaught. "'Twas a famous warned Clausewitz. "The victory," as the grandfather former is its political pur- said in describing an earlier pose; the latter its opera- war to little Peterkin in tional objective." Robert Southey's 19th What was America's Century poem about the political purpose in the Per- battle of Blenheim. sian Gulf War? Many who

But there's more to it opposed the war believed than that. The reason the old Marxist-Leninist Southey's poem has en- "imperialism-is-the-high- dured is not because of est-form-of-capitalism" Marlborough's victory at argument that the war was Blenheim in 1704 during waged solely because of the War of the Spanish Suc- oil. While protection of cession, but because of energy sources certainly little Peterkin's question: was a factor, more impor-

"But what good came of it tant was the need to show at last?" that naked aggression That is the central ques- would not pay in the post- CHALK TALK — Desert Storm commander Gen. Norman tion to be asked of all wars, Cold world. That, not Schwarzkopf explained strategy after the ground war began. War including the most recent oil, was the reason for the war in the Persian Gulf. As unprecedented interna-

always, it will take years for the final war, writing more than 150 years ago. tional support for the war, including answer to reveal itself. "Even the ulti- "The defeated state often considers the backing by the United Nations Security mate outcome of a war is not always to outcome merely as a transitory evil, for Council and military support from the be regarded as final," noted Carl von which a remedy may still be found in Arab coalition, including such oil-pro- Clausewitz, the famed philosopher of political conditions at some later date." ducing states as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, That was certainly true of Germany the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Harry G. Summers Jr., a retired Army and Japan after World War II. Today's Bahrain.

colonel, is Distinguished Fellow of the teen-agers must find it hard to believe Further evidence of the higher politi- Army War College and is a combat infantry we fought a war against what are today cal stakes involved in the war was the veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. our primary economic rivals, much less crucial role played by the Soviet Union, He also served as a military analyst for that we won. And the spectacle last year America's erstwhile Cold War adver-

CNN and NBC News. ofVietnamese officials begging Wash- sary. Not only did it not cast its veto in

-in AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE a

LOAD 'EM UP— Sidewinder missiles are prepared for loading onto Navy fighters for strikes into Iraq.

Critical Analysis ofthe Vietnam War, most Army officers blamed neither themselves nor the American public for the loss of the war. They blamed Gen. William C. Westmoreland. It was ter- ribly unfair of them to do so — a case can be made that Westmoreland actually won his war against the Viet Cong guerrillas— but, as a result, neither a "stab-in-the-back" syndrome nor a "Vietnam syndrome" ever developed in the military.

INSTEAD, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Creighton Abrams and his successor, Gen. Fred C. Weyand, both of whom served as senior U.S. commander in Vietnam, turned the Army's attention away from the failures ofVietnam to the successes of NATO Europe, where deterrence had held the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact at bay for one-quarter century. A Training and Doctrine Command was formed under the leadership of Gen. William DePuy, a distinguished World War II and Vietnam War combat veteran, and emphasis within the military shifted away from counterin- surgency and the jungles of Vietnam to conventional warfighting on the plains of Central Europe. The Air Force's "Project Warrior," the Navy's "Mari- time Strategy" and the Marine Corps' focus on manuever doctrine were steps in a similar direction. There is a scene in the movie Patton Please turn to page 64 the U.N. Security Council to block from the 2nd Armored and 3rd Infantry VETVOICE allied action as it had so many times in divisions, and its 2nd Armored Cavalry the past, the Soviet Union actually Regiment, which provided the armored allied itself with the United States and columns for Operation Desert Storm's WHAT'S YOUR OPINION? voted in favor of U.N. sanctions against main ground attack against the Iraqi Do you believe peace may Republican Iraq. That vote was especially impor- Guard. now be possible in the Middle tant, for it Hussein off "It's a proud day for cut Saddam from Americans and East? Call your opinion to 1-900- his supplier from the by God, we've kicked the Vietnam syn- primary arms and 28-VOICE. You can vote, receive source of spare parts for the air- drome once and for all," said President MiG a tally that includes your vote, craft, as the to a halt. T-72 tanks and other Soviet- Bush war came But listen to opinions of others and supplied weapons already on hand. what Saddam Hussein had not seen, record your opinion. Calls cost with its allow mili- and what And, U.N. vote to many American military $1 per minute, and proceeds are Iraq, "experts" not tary force to be used against the had seen as well, was used to support Legion programs. tacit approval that a Soviet Union gave for the "Vietnam syndrome" had Results are sent to newspapers United States to move its VII Corps— never developed within the American nationwide and your congress- corps which for decades had been sta- military. men. tioned in Germany to protect against a Those who fought the Vietnam War Soviet onslaught— from Europe to the knew they had done everything asked of 1-900-28-VOICE gulf. It was this corps, with its 1st and them and more. As I noted in my 1981 (1-900-288-6423) 3rd Armored divisions, its brigades Army War College work, On Strategy: A

JUNE 1991 39 THIS SCUD'S FOR YOU'

HE English language is Each new group have bastardized the title HMFIC to an being "boloed" here, with obscene version of "head military common usages going of war veterans figure in charge," with the second and "Tango Uniform" while a lingo of third words unprintable. "high-speed, low-drag" has a "Rotor heads" are helicopter pilots vocabulary evolves that its own. Desert and "tread heads" are tankers. "Tree the soldiers must know to eaters" are Special Forces soldiers, espe- be "good to go." Storm troops cially when they are viewed by some as T The argot of Desert warriors perpetually in training and came up with Storm is in flux, but already a Scud is a therefore superfluous to the real war. "Spud" and a reporter or officer sitting one, too. Frontline soldiers view themselves as out the war in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, at once heavily put-upon and at the same

is a "jib rat." Frontline soldiers drink time the only real component of a war "nuclear coffee" and take "Johnny theater top-heavy with "REMFs" — Weissmuller showers" — so "rear-echelon [expletivejs." cold they inspire Tarzan yells. Thus, soldiers and journal- The military has always ists watching the war in hotels marched to a spoken cadence in Dhahran on "Scud-a-vis- baffling to civilians. It is a ion," the grunt term for CNN, form of speech heavily salted are derisively referred to as with acronyms and always "jib rats" by cold, wet soldiers spiced with crude sexual and huddled around small short- scatological humor. wave radios in tents near the There is an ethnic edge to border. some of the terms here that The soldiers up front have some might find offensive. had to coin new terms to For example, some soldiers describe new phenomena. call Arabs, whether Saudi or "Nuclear coffee" is prepared Iraqi, "Abdul." Saudi women, by pouring into a canteen cup heavily veiled in the tradi- half full of water the instant tional abeyahs, are called cocoa, coffee, creamer and "BMOs," black moving sugar contained in the acces- objects. And many women sory package of MRE (Meals would be disgusted with the Ready to Eat also known as common term used for female "Meals Rejected by Everyone"). Marines — "BAMs," which refers to Marines broader in "Ain't nothing back than their male counter- parts. like a cup As always, some slang reflects the disregard for of nuclear authority figures and the coffee after glamorous warrior image that soldiers like lo affect. Soldiers boloing Sammy's spuds." Reprinted with permission of The Washington Times

40 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Some words just sound good. a chair and punctuating their work with "Boloed" has a much more mellifluous doughnuts and then arrived wanting to ring than "destroyed." Soldiers, there- go to the front were considered not AMERICAN GIs fore, will say, "I couldn't believe we hit "good'to go." Even soldiers "good to quickly tagged new a camel and boloed our truck." go" often express a desire to go home. And it is better to say a new tank like To them, Saudi Arabia is not Disney- nicknames on every- the M1A1 Abrams is "high-speed, low- land but the "Tragic Kingdom." And drag" than "state-of-the-art." they wait for the war to be "cranked," or thing from Scuds Some verbs grow naturally out of canceled. to the apparel of military acronyms. To be "mopped" is —Elisabeth Hickey and Michael Hedges to go to one of the four stages of "misin Saudi Arabia Saudi women. sion-oriented protective posture" ordered when "Sammy's" (Saddam Hussein's) missiles approach. Mopp 4 means decked out in full SNAFUS, Gl SHOES AND COOTIES anti-NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) regalia: rubber gloves and boots WARTIME soldiers and sailors tionate name for the four-wheel-drive and charcoal-lined pants and jacket have always had pet names and all-purpose vehicle, was derived along with gas mask. phrases for the irritating world from an odd-looking creature in the If you do not get in time, mopped you around them, terms that are usually comic strip "Thimble Theater," star- could "go sludding." Slud is one of the derisive and frequently obscene. ring Popeye the Sailor Man. nightmarish terms It is more to emerge. The real flood of inventive vul- "GI," the name for ordinary sol- what happens to a person who bears the garities, however, appears to have diers, came from the Army custom brunt of a chemical attack and, accord- begun with World War I and to have of calling government-issue articles ing to military terminology, "salivates, peaked in World War II. such as shoes "GI shoes." lachrymates [cries], urinates and Those wars, says Robert L. Chap- The appellation was relatively defecates." man, author of The Dictionary of complimentary; the infantry mem- American Slang, "probably gave us bers regularly referred to themselves progenitors of the language, the more general slang than any other as "dogfaces" and to their Navy THEBritish, have compiled a rich body events in history." equivalents as "swab jockies" and to of new words here, too. "Ponts" are World War I provided, to stick to Marines as "jar heads." "people of no tactical significance" — the printable, "shavetail" for a sec- Sailors, on the other hand, called that is, officers without important ond lieutenant, "doughboy" for the Marines "seagoing bellhops," though duties, or journalists. private in the trenches and "acting usually not to their faces. Low-rank- "Scud" is a verb to British soldiers. Jack" for a temporary sergeant. The ing officers were called "90-day To "scud someone" is to give him a good British used the term "Mighty" to wonders," most of them having been bashing. A depressed soldier is an "un- describe a wound severe enough to converted from civilians to second happy teddy." If you are "minging" or get a furlough home but not perma- lieutenants or ensigns in officer can- "gopping" (dirty), you may want to nently damaging. "Over there" didate schools in three months. In "clean your fizzog" (wash your face). meant Europe (France in particu- general, the higher ranks were called Soldiers sleep in "dossbags." A soldier's lar), and "cooties" meant head lice. "brass" (Army) or "gold braid" weapons are his "bondook," his laundry By World War II, much of what (Navy), terms that indicated neither is the "dhobi" and his undergarments had been unprintable had been trans- approval nor dislike. are his "shreddies." The good soldier, lated into easily decipherable euphe- The Navy, perhaps because of the or "switched-on cookie," never "gonks" misms that could be used by editorial general lack of distractions at sea, (sleeps) on "stag" (sentry duty) but writers. The most famous was the was perhaps the more inventive: stays "mellow" (calm and cool) even if generic "snafu," politely rerendered Food was referred to by metaphors he has been "Spammed" or "jiffed" as an acronym for "situation normal that were always vulgar and usually (given an unpleasant or bad task). all fouled up," with spin-offs such obscene. Britain's allies are regarded with as "fubar"— "fouled up beyond all Engine-room sailors were called affectionate contempt. Americans are recognition." "snipes," eccentric sailors were "septic Yanks." The word "fouled" was practically termed "Asiatic" on the theory that One can trace the etymology of some never spoken aloud by members of prolonged duty in the Far East drove terms with a little persistence. At first, the Armed Forces, but its not very people crazy. "Tango Uniform" (out of action) was a deeply hidden equivalent became an All sailors of Polish descent were puzzle. But "Tango" is military radio essential vocabulary ingredient for called "Ski," the entire North Ameri- code for the letter T, as "Uniform" is for many. can continent was called "the beach,"

U. "TU" means that a soldier is literally The ultimate example of vocabu- and loudmouthed sailors of striking unable to perform. lary limitation was achieved by a incompetence were called "sea gulls" Quite the opposite of "Tango Uni- mythical Army sergeant who —the point being that they did his form" is "good to go," which means announced the demise of jeep by nothing but eat and squawk and were saying the equivalent "this fouling protected the someone who is fit, competent and of from harm by govern- ready to perform. Journalists who had fouler's fouled." "Jeep," the affec- ment. —Tom Kelly spent one too many seasons straddling

JUNE 1991 41 HOMECOMING

HE pitch of the aircraft's GIs are returning what the homecoming was like then. engines changes as it Would it really be different this time? begins its final approach to more than just A wave of raw sound erupts from the to the field. Nervous GIs crowd gathered across the apron from take a last minute look at flag waving and yel- the disembarking GIs. It washes over photos they've carried low ribbons. Their them, engulfs them, welcomes them. with them through the People surge forward, some wearing desert for months. The reception is one the blue hats of The American Legion. T pictures are worn from Suddenly, one or two distinct faces of love, honor handling, and the desert has added its come into focus. Arms reach out, own sandy touches. and respect. gather in, embrace and cling. Tears In the rear of the plane, two soldiers flow unabashedly, mingling with swap tales, then, as the aircraft banks •••••••••••••••• kisses, hugs and slaps on the back. and begins to descend, all Welcome home, heroes! conversation dies away. Over and over again, this Now it's just the sound of scene is repeated at Air the engines and each GI's Force bases, Naval stations, small, internal voice, ask- Marine barracks and Army

ing what it will be like to bases across the country. set foot in the "real world" "There is a wave of patri- once more. Will they be otism in America," said welcomed home? Does Chuck Yunker, Depart- anyone really care about ment of Kansas Adjutant. what they've done; the "In Topeka, we welcomed risks they've taken; the the return of the 190th Air duty they've discharged? Refueling Group of the The plane banks steeply, Kansas National Guard.

beginning its glide toward The unit has 265 men and the runway. Through the women. There were over tiny porthole windows, 10,000 people on hand to eager eyes stare at the welcome them home." ground. The airfield heaves Yunker's Department into sight, and far below, a had allocated funds to pur- involved in cele- sea of yellow ribbons gleams HONOR GUARD— Kansas Legionnaires were chase three huge garrison brating the return of the 190th Air Refueling Group of the in the sun, and thousands flags to present to the Kansas Air National Guard late last spring. of eager hands wave Amer- returning Kansas units ican flags, giving the scene engaged in Operation on the ground the appearance of a living They wait impatiently as the aircraft Desert Storm. As the first of the giant sea of red, white and blue. slows, then begins the long taxi to the aircraft circled the field, more than 100

There is a breathless silence, broken disembarking area. Finally, it rolls to a Legionnaires lined the runway and

only by the thump of the landing gear stop and the engines' whine dies. The unfurled the vivid colors, displaying it locking into place. The aircraft begins door opens and for just an instant, flat so the returning service people

to vibrate as the wind beats against the there's a bit of reluctance to step out- could see it from the air as they landing gears. The nose comes up and side. Everyone had heard the folks back approached the airfield. Later, at wel-

hovers for an instant, then the wheels home were cheering them on. Was it coming ceremonies, the backdrop of touch down with a gentle thud, fol- just smoke to keep their spirits up? A the stage was the same flag, a symbol of lowed by the scream of engines being glance around the inside of the aircraft all the Legion stands for; an icon and thrust into reverse. Suddenly, the pas- reveals a mixture of youth and experi- monument to the men and women who

senger compartment fills with cheering ence; reservists from the Vietnam era risked all as they answered their coun- and laughter. who'd been called up. They remember try's call.

42 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE WELCOME ARMS— Troops of the 101st Airborne were reunited with their loved ones at Ft. Campbell, Ky.

Kansas 's welcome home may have been typical. All across the nation, from Ft. Campbell, Ky. 's welcome for the 101st Airborne Division — the "Screaming Eagles"— to the tremendous turnout to honor our returning POWs, America has rediscovered patriotism. It's a heady, infectious feeling. From the thunderous applause when Whitney Houston belted out her stirring rendi- tion of the Star Spangled Banner to the heart-rending moment as litter bearers paused long enough to allow a returning prisoner of war to salute Old Glory from his stretcher. On March 6, President Bush announced plans for a formal homecoming salute to take place July 4. It promises to be the biggest bash since the World War II veterans marched beneath the ticker tape in New York. "Patriotism was never dead," said National Commander Robert S. Turner. "Even the Persian Gulf War had its share of protesters. But this time, America raised its voices in unison. This time we will be there to HAPPY RETURNS— This former POWArmy paratrooper's first stop was Andrews Air welcome our sons and daughters Force Base in Maryland, before making his trek home. home. " — By Ken Sclmrnberg Li

JUNE 1991 43 .

Veterans update

Do yOU Or your family have copies of letters that the lender did not go to court during the foreclosure process were sent home by you while you were stationed in Korea • VA paid the defaulted loan guarantee to the lender and during the war? If you do, your thoughts might be the established a debt against the veteran inspiration for a mural at the proposed Korean War Memorial. • Veteran paid money or was subject to an involuntary "The graphic artist who has been hired to develop the offset such as a reduction in VA benefits payments to VA on mural for the memorial wants to read these letters to give him or after June 4, 198 1 , because of the loan default. a better understanding about the war and those Americans If VA obtained a final judgment against the veteran before who fought in it," said John P. "Jake" Comer, Past National June 4, 1987, the veteran is not eligible for a refund. If the Commander and member of the Korean War Veterans Memo- veteran repaid in full VA's loss on the loan, had the loan rial Advisory Board. "These letters are, of course, very entitlement restored and obtained a new VA-backed loan personal and would be treated confidentially by the artist and using the restored entitlement, the veteran also may not be returned to the sender in due course." eligible for a refund. Louis Nelson, a New York City visual artist, has been hired To file a refund claim, veterans should contact their by the board to develop the mural. nearest VA regional office and obtain form Number 20-0 1 54. If you have letters to share, please send them to: Attn: Bob Veterans also may write: Chief, Finance Division (242W), Hansen, Korean War Veterans Memorial, 18th and C Sts., Department of Veterans Affairs, 915 Second Ave., Seattle, NW, Room 7023, Washington, DC 20240. WA 98174. Claims must be in writing and must be post-

marked no later than Dec. 31 , 1991

Interest earned during the 1991 tax year on govern- while American troops in the Mideast still life insurance Service ment dividends— National Life Insur- were maintaining the ceasefire and others were returning to ance (NSLI) and U.S. Government Life Insurance (USGLI) jubilant homecomings, the Family Support Network of The programs will not federally taxed. only— be American Legion continued to assist thousands of families. "After with the interest coordination IRS, VA considers "The network will stay active for as long as family mem- earned on these dividends to be a benefit and therefore not bers need help," said National Commander Robert S. Turner. taxable," said John Hanson, director of the National Veterans "In the first five months of the toll-free help line's operation, Affairs and Rehabilitation Division in Washington, D.C., more than 26,000 calls were placed. The toll-free number is adding that IRS 1099 will no longer sent to Form be 1 (800) 786-0901 (see related article, page 46). policyholders or to the IRS. In the wake of the ceasefire, about 1 ,000 calls each week decision at a The comes time when many NSLI and were being made to the network, Turner said. Many families policyholders, have dividend plans and who USGLI who still face problems related to their loved ones' activation for have allowed their annual dividends to be held by VA and Desert Storm — problems such as reduced incomes and credit accrue under or deposit options, earn significant paperwork mistakes related to pay. interest income on relatively large dividend accrual balances. Some families may qualify for the Legion's Temporary Interest rates currently paid by VA on dividend balances Financial Assistance (TFA) program. While TFA requires are 7 percent for prefix policies), percent USGLI ("K" 9.25 minor children to be in the home of the veteran, the TFA for prefix NSLI and"RS" policies, and 9.75 percent for NSLI supplemental fund may be used to help any family affected "J" prefix policies. by the Desert Storm mobilization. Application forms for such assistance are available from any American Legion Department Headquarters, said Lee Hardy, national coordinator of the Family Support Network. in Washington State who made "Legionnaires across America have aided untold thousands who found themselves in need," Hardy said. Lpayments of VA home loan debt in that state may be entitled more will need assistance in one form or another to a refund, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. "Many before a permanent peace is realized in the Mideast, and TFA The U.S. District Court of the Western District of will go a long way to meeting those needs." Washington ruled that VA could not establish a debt against veterans whose VA-backed loans were foreclosed without the lender going to court. The court also ordered VA to refund money collected after June4, 1981 , on loan debts established because of the non judicial foreclosures. The Labor Department has established a toll- The ruling was the result of a class-action suit filed against free telephone line to provide information on employment VA on behalf of veterans. and re-employment rights for returning Reservists and To receive a refund, each case must meet the criteria: National Guard members called up for the Persian Gulf War. • Veteran obtained or assumed VA-guarantced loan for Desert Storm veterans with questions about their rights property in Washington State under the Veterans' Re-employment Rights Act or who need

• Loan was foreclosed or terminated for nonpayment and job assistance should call / (800) 442-2838.

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After the war started in the Persian Gulf Legionnaires rallied again to help families of troops mo- bilized for service abroad and at home.

INCE late last year, The American Legion Family Support Network has helped families of troops activated for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in a variety ofways. Earlier this year, staff members from The American Legion Maga- zine and the National Public Relations Division traveled around the country to meet with these families and chronicle the assistance they have received. The following is the final installment of a two-part story.

WICONISCO, Pa. -The winter wind snaps around the jagged hills of this tiny coal mining town like an icy whip. It whistles through the cracks around the windows and door of Lisa Daley's mod- est clapboard home. Daley and her two sons, Michael, 7, and Brett, 4, have been on their own

since Nov. 1 1 , 1990, when her hus- wrote down the toll-free telephone Mrs. Daley said. "When the checks did band, Army National Guard Sgt. James number and made the call. come, they were for different amounts

Lee Daley, was put on active duty and After receiving Mrs. Daley's call, and made it difficult to plan a budget. sent to Saudi Arabia. Since that day, the Department of Pennsylvania Legion My husband used to handle all the family has been beset with a number of officials were notified about her prob- money and bills. Now I have to do it." financial problems caused by the lems. Legionnaires at Posts near Pennsylvania Department officials deployment. Wiconisco were notified, and they ear- helped the Daley family by convincing "It was a pretty lonely Thanksgiving," marked money to help the young mother a creditor not to take Mrs. Daley to said Mrs. Daley. "Then the bills started pay her fuel bills, which average more court over a past due medical bill. They to come in after James left, and I just than $200 a month. They also helped directed her to a number of other agen- didn't have the money to pay for the her buy groceries. cies who can meet the family's financial basic things we needed. I got behind on "One of the major problems faced by and social needs. Legionnaires also the bills and I was scared because I the family was the uncertainty of when have helped in special ways, especially didn't know what would happen." the allotment checks from the Army during the holidays, when it appeared Daley heard about a possible solution would arrive," said Pennsylvania there would be little under the Christ- to some of her problems one evening Department Commander Ray Lenz. mas tree for the Daley boys. while listening to WQIN, a local radio "That has been a big problem state- "We weren't about to let that happen," station. She learned about The Ameri- wide." said Stan Reinhard, Department activi- can Legion Family Support Network in "It was a long time before I got any- ties director and assistant coordinator a public service announcement. She thing after James was sent overseas," of the network in Pennsylvania. "We

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together. But their new-found friend- there to help take the edge off that lone-

ship might never have begun had it not liness for a time. been for The American Legion Family Support Network. WEST COVINA, Calif. -The middle- Kennedy's son, Pfc. Richard K. Ken- aged woman wept as she explained how

nedy Jr. , was sent with his transporta- she lost her husband in the Vietnam tion unit in the Army's 82nd Airborne War. Now she has two sons, one in the Division to Saudi Arabia. Thompson's Marines and the other in the Air Force, son, Pfc. Raymond Thompson, is a in the Persian Gulf War. combat engineer in the same division. A few days ago, thieves took the two Like all others who had relatives in the U.S. Flags she flew in front of her home Persian Gulf, there was little communi- in honor of her sons. "I had them out to

cation except for occasional letters. show everyone how proud I was of my boys," she said, dabbing at her eyes. A WHEN the shooting started in Janu- Legion Auxiliary member put her arms ary, I just started crying," Mrs. around the woman and held her close. Kennedy recalled. "My fears kept That was just one of the several emo- getting worse as each day passed. I just tion-packed moments at a meeting of wanted somebody to talk to." Desert Storm families at West Covina Mrs. Kennedy said she contacted a Post 790 in suburban Los Angeles. The local military group and was given the meeting was arranged by Post 790 number of the Legion network. Later Legionnaire Joe Chilelli after he was that same day, she was contacted by contacted for assistance through The Alabama Department Adjutant Ray American Legion Family Support Andrews, who put her in touch with Network. Mrs. Thompson, who earlier had called "There are a lot of families out there the network with a similar concern. hurting and need someone to talk to," "By the grace of God I made that call Chilelli said. "We're also finding out and talked to her," Kennedy said. "She that many of these families don't know knew exactly what I was going through." about programs and services available Mrs. Thompson heard about the net- to them." work through local television announce- The nationwide Legion network helps ments. "It made me feel good to know families whenever and wherever assist-

HUMAN TOUCH -Families meeting at the Legion was there for me if I need ance is needed. And requests received California's West Covina Post 790 found their help," said Mrs. Thompson, who at Post 790 have been constant, Chilelli comfort in one another. also has another son in the Navy and an said. Post and Unit members have filled 8 year old at home. in as babysitters, they've mowed lawns, wanted the boys to have a normal The two women agreed to meet and fixed appliances and automobiles, to Christmas like other children." So help support and encourage one another name but a few of the many ways Legionnaires traded in their blue caps during their sons' deployment to Saudi they've helped. At the height of Opera- for red hats and played Santa Claus. Arabia. During their first conversation, tion Desert Storm, Chilelli received The Daley family is one of the many they discovered they had more in com- about 40 telephone calls each day that have discovered a helping hand mon than they thought. Both of their through the network, which were sent through The American Legion Family sons had struck up a friendship while to him by Department Adjutant Charles Support Network. "Legionnaires made serving with the 82nd at Fort Bragg, Alleman. me feel like they really care about me N.C. "They never mentioned it to their After the network was launched, Post and the boys," Mrs. Daley said. "Their mothers," Mrs. Thompson said with a 790 also compiled a list of volunteers help has given me confidence in myself, laugh. "It's a small world." with special skills, most of whom were too." Indeed, it's a small world, and in the Legionnaires. The list included car-

shadow of Operation Desert Storm, it penters, electricians and mechanics. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -It took a war was a lonely world for mothers such as Chilelli, a past Post Commander, also 10,000 miles away from home to bring Mary Kennedy and Donna Thompson. lent his skills as a plumber. Mary Kennedy and Donna Thompson But the Family Support Network was Please turn to page 63

JUNE 1991 47 entitlements. These are earned benefits, and all Desert Storm veterans should take advantage of them. WHAT'S DUE TO Legislation already has been enacted for increased benefits for active duty. Reserve and National Guard members who served during the gulf crisis, including P.L. 102-25, the Persian Gulf War Veterans Assistance Act of 1991. But while many on Capitol Hill were quick to celebrate this measure and other proposals, The American Legion believes much of the assistance falls Veterans of the Persian Gulf War are short of meeting the needs of the nation's newest eligible for generation of war programs including med- veterans. ical rehabilitation, education "The Persian Gulf veterans bill is a good start, but it doesn't go far assistance and home loans. enough," said National Commander Robert S. Turner. "The provisions of this bill are not comparable with those extended to veterans of other war eras." At press time, Legion leaders were preparing draft legislation for a more comprehensive package of benefits and services for Persian Gulf War veterans. "We plan to have this legislation introduced in Congress as soon as possible," Turner said. "It's paramount that lawmakers recognize the long-term needs of these veterans." Of particular concern to the Legion of P.L. 102-25 is an increase of edu- cational assistance under the Mont- gomery G.I. Bill. Benefits for full- time study would increase to $350 from $300 per month for those serving on active duty for three years or more; to $275 from $250 for those HOME TURF— Returning GIs will find that Congress is considering several bills that will extend certain benefits such as counseling services. serving two years; and to $170 from $140 for Reservists and National Guard members. "The increased assistance, especially ETERANS returning tection from high interest rates on for full-time study, is well below the home from the Persian mortgages and consumer debts, and average monthly expenses and college Gulf War are being wel- they have been shielded from landlords costs, which is about $775," Stellar comed back to their who might attempt to raise rents. said. communities with a It is perfectly understandable that Other provisions of P.L. 102-25: great deal of pomp and these men and women are going to want extends readjustment counseling, medi- ceremony. Few veterans to get back to the lives they left behind, cation for homebound veterans and since World War II have but they should be aware that their home loan benefits to those who served V been treated so warmly. future rights and benefits as wartime in the Persian Gulf War for 90 days or Once the glow has dimmed, though, veterans might be jeopardized or at more; requires employers to make these men and women will face many of least complicated if they fail to take accommodations for disabled veterans the same obstacles that confronted vet- certain steps. "When people leave returning to their previous jobs and to erans of earlier wars. the military, they often ignore small provide retraining if possible; and The all-volunteer force that served in problems which can become large ones reduces to 90 days from 180 days the the gulf consisted of active duty and later on," said Chester F. Stellar, chair- minimum active-duty service required Reserve and National Guard compo- man of the Legion's Veterans Affairs to qualify for certain dental benefits. nents. Those who left their regular jobs and Rehabilitation (VA&R) Commis- The bill also increases payments for will expect to return to them. sion. combat, family separation and death While they have been away from The accompanying summary pro- benefits for survivors. home, they have been eligible lor provides guidelines for basic veterans' Please turn page

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Together notice only one time each VETNET LAUNCHES NEW ERA year. All we could offer is a few lines of type, providing the barest information. With VetNet, reunion coordinators can update reunion plans as often as they want and provide detailed, up-to-the- minute information around the clock. VetNet will also eliminate the nui- sance of having to write for reunion slogan "reach out Family Support Network and the forms and include SASEs every time AT&T'sand touch someone" takes magazine's successful VetVoice polling you want to announce your reunion. on new meaning this month service." VetNet provides group coordinators a with The American VetNet callers do not have to be mem- voice bulletin board which can be Legion Magazine's bers of The American Legion. VetNet is updated as often as once a day. This launch of a telephone information available to all veterans, their families feature allows coordinators to speak system to help veterans keep in touch. and friends. The users of VetNet pay directly to all their members when The new veterans telephone network— reasonable fees for the service, all of plans change or new information is VetNet™ -operates on 1-900-773-VETS which are used for Legion projects, available. (1-900-773-8387). VetNet is an excellent way for non- "Getting information to everyone, National Commander Robert S. members to help support our programs. especially at the last minute, has always Turner hailed VetNet as another Our old method of announcing outfit been the toughest job a reunion planner example of how the Legion uses reunions was severely hampered by our faces," said Douglas Foote, a World modern technology to serve veterans magazine printing schedule, which War II veteran of the 6th Air Force. and their families. required five months advance submis- "Some of us miss out. I'm sure it takes a "VetNet uses combinations of tele- sion of notices. Many times your lot of postage and personal efforts when phones and computers to create a reunion plans were not finalized and plans change quickly. Now one phone nationwide information service for notices were late in being submitted. call can do the job!" anyone to use, 24 hours a day," Turner Because of the heavy volume of notices VetNet is built on an outfit reunion said. "VetNet is a logical expansion of and space limitations, we also could format so callers can always hear the our excellent experiences with the publish your reunion or Let's Get most current reunion information. For groups with no reunion plans, VetNet can be used to plan a get together. With MailCall, a second VetNet feature, vet- WHAT IS VETNET? erans can share messages with each other on a daily basis. VETNET is a telecommunica- VetNet will tell you the price of The VetNet concept has received rave tions service for veterans, their the call and other basic instructions. reviews from selected individuals and families and friends. The system After the greeting you will be asked test groups.

provides a fast, simple and economic to enter the 5-digit VetNet group "If VetNet had been around, it might

way to help military groups get number. You may also elect to hear a not have been 43 years before I met the

together . . . and stay in touch. VetNet demonstration message. fellow who helped save my life at VetNet is the product of Softguard After entering the 5-digit number, Omaha Beach," said Harry Gentry, a Systems, Inc., the company that you will hear a message from the 56th Field Artillery Battalion veteran. helped develop the very successful reunion coordinator of the group "I could have left a message on VetNet

Family Support Network of The you selected. When this message is that I was looking for this unknown guy, American Legion that was estab- completed, you will be asked if you instead of meeting him by chance at our

lished to help Desert Storm families. want to use the group's MailCall last reunion. He said it was his first

You can call the VetNet number feature or return to the main menu to reunion and didn't know for sure who I from most touch-tone telephones. select another group. was either ... or that I'd been looking You will need the VetNet number of VetNet guides you through the for him at every reunion." the group you want to reach. These entire process. You may hang up at To reach VetNet, callers dial 1-900- five-digit numbers are published in anytime. In MailCall, you can skip 773-VETS from a touch-tone phone and The American Legion Magazine, over messages, record and edit your when asked, enter the VetNet number of are provided by group coordinators own message or simply listen to the group about which they want infor- and are also available from VetNet news from other callers. NOTE: mation. Each outfit has a different 5- Directory Assistance by calling toll VetNet cannot be reached from some digit VetNet number. This issue of the free touch-tone phones because local magazine lists nearly 600 outfits and phone companies do not have the their special VetNet number. Calls cost 1-800-348-VETS necessary switching equipment. We $ 1 per minute and are included on local

are working with the phone com- phone bills. The system begins June 1 To find out information on a par- panies to correct this situation. Also Former Marine Harry Todd reviewed ticular group, dial be aware that pay phones and some VetNet plans in January and liked what 1-900-773-VETS company switchboards will not he saw. "I would certainly spend a few VetNet calls. ( | -900-773-8387). process dollars a month to keep in touch with my former outfit and hear some current

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9th FA Bn. (Sept-Owatona, MN) Raymond Hall, 1319 news from some of old buddies." my Bigelow, Owatona, MN 55060. 10067 The Legion has identified nearly UNIT NUMBER 9th Signal Co. (Aug-Reading, PA) William Miller, 507 Eskridge Dr., Wilmington, DE 19809. 10194 10,000 groups to enroll in VetNet, and N THIS month's Outfit Reunion 11th Inf. Rgt. Assn. (Sept-lndiapapolis) L.E. Torres, enrollment packets are being sent out. 8000 Sargent Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46256. 10331 I and Let's Get Together notices, 11th Rgt., 5th Inf. Div., Co. G (WWII) (Sept-Waukesha, It will take several months to enroll you will see a five-digit number Wl) John Murphy, W305 S7651 Applewood La., all groups, but we want to hear from Mukwonago, Wl 53149. 10211 following the ZIP code of the con- Div. (Oct-San Antonio) Miller Hanly, group coordinators who have not 13th Arm'd 3702 Pennsylvania Ave., Charleston, WV 25302. 10409 tact person's address. This number received a VetNet enrollment packet. 15th AAA AW Btry. (SP) (Korea/1950-51) (Sept-Reno,

is the permanent, exclusive number NV) Paul Barrett, HC 84, Hilger, MT 59451 . 10184 For best results, coordinators are asked 15th/17th Cav. Recon. Grp. (Sept-Fort Knox, KY) for that particular unit and will be to write VetNet at P.O. Box 1055, Indi- Joseph Suosso, 417 Newkirk Ave., Trenton, NJ 08610. used to access information about 10117 anapolis, IN 46206. Please do not call, 16th Arm'd Div. Assn. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Don that unit when you call since we'll already be handling Milleman, 506 Casa Granada, Louisville, KY40220. thousands of calls a day for those 10170 16th Evac. Hospital (WWII) (Aug-Rochester, NY) Mrs. groups that are already enrolled. The 1-900-773-VETS Harold Church, 52 Leitch Ave., Skaneateles, NY 13152. 10359 Legion hopes to have every group iden- (1-900-773-8387) 17th Signal Oper. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Springfield, MO) tified by July 4, and enrolled by Labor Freeman Miller, 1 1 09 Home Ave., Waynesville, MO Day. This month is the first step in 65583. 10395 18th Combat Engrs. Rgt., D Co. (Sept-Colorado Enrollment is free, but must be done converting Veterans Alert into Vet- Springs) Dover Cornett, 2175 Roxbury Rd., Avon Park, 33825. 10273 on special VetNet forms. There are no Net. When the conversion is com- FL 19th Medical General Lab (Sept-Atlanta) Lawrence all that will annual fees and no need to re-enroll pleted, be normally Parr, 3417 Paulding Rd., Ft. Wayne, IN 46816. 10074 20th FA Bn. Assn., 4th Inf. Div. (Sept-Clarksville, TN) each year. VetNet groups are required to listed in the magazine will be the Dewey Augenstein, 9281 Ellen Ct., Thornton, CO provide information about the group names of the groups and their five- 80229. 10179 coordinator when a new individual digit codes. 21st Avn Engrs. (Aug-Carlisle, PA) Calvin Eckert, 305 Meadow Trl., Dillsburg, PA 17019. 10399 assumes the role. 21st Inf., 24th Div., HQ Co. (WWII) (Sept-Spokane, WA) Dale Ackerman, 3235 Alderwood Ave., Bellingham, VetNet operates a directory assis- WA 98225. 10174 tance service to help callers find the 27th AIB, 9th Arm'd Div., A Co. (WWII) (Sept-Beloit, KS)

Almon Parsons Jr., HCR61 , Box 85, Hunter, KS 67452. correct VetNet group number to use in OUTFIT REUNIONS 10478 the system. The VetNet directory call is 27th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Levittown, PA) William Outfit Reunion notices should be submitted on official Simon, Paso Doble Ballroom, 4501 New Falls Rd., toll free at 1-800-348-VETS. VetNet forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped Levittown, PA 19056. 10006 numbers have been assigned to all envelope to: O.R. Form, The American Legion 28th Inf. Div. Vets (Sept-Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA) 28th groups whose reunion notices have Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Div. Heritage Assn., 14th & CalderSts., Harrisburg, PA Because of printing schedules, notices should be 17103. 10355 appeared in 1991 issues of the received at least five months before reunions are held. 32nd Vets Assn. (Aug-Grand Rapids, Ml) Theron Rose, magazine. Notices are published only one time per unit per year. No 1025 Merritt St. S.E., Grand Rapids, Ml 49507. 10719 notices are published in November, the Convention 34th AAA Grp. Assn. (Oct-Evansville, IN) Mel Maidlow, About 95 percent of the nation's issue. 118 Seventh Ave., Bangor, ME 04401. 10281 36th Cav. Recon., Troop C (Sept-Birmingham, AL) phones can call VetNet, but to use the Ausbon Jinright, 31 10 7th St. E., Tuscaloosa, AL system requires a touch-tone phone. Army 35404. 10126 37th Ord. Co. (WWII) (Oct-Morgantown, PA) Tony When local phone companies upgrade Gailes, 481 Dawson Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15202. their switching equipment, VetNet will 1st Bn., 303rd Inf., 97th Div., HQ Co. (Sept-Summerhill, 10029 PA) Mark Hettich, 1854W. Ottawa Ave., Dousman, Wl 37th THTD (Oct-Mammoth Cave, KY) Gene Augustyne, available to callers every- become 53118. 10285 Box 258, Shelby, IN 46377. 10100 1st Engr. Combat Bn. (Sept-Kerhonkson, NY) Oscar where. For those who cannot reach 38th Signal Const. Bn. (Sept-Kiamesha Lake, NY) Bill Fellman, 31 1 Sycamore St., Weldon, NC 27890. 10444 Foiles, Box 5567, Columbia, SC 29250. 10198 VetNet, the magazine will continue to 2nd Arm'd Signal Bn. (Oct-Oklahoma City, OK) Thomas 39th Rgt., 9th Inf. Div., F Co. (Sept-Oklahoma City, OK) print the name and address of the group Hutchison, 2805 Kent Dr., Oklahoma City, OK 73120. Poncho Rosales, 62085 South McKinley, Oklahoma 10054 City, OK 731 39. 10291 coordinator. 2nd Bn., 304th Ord. Rgt. (B) (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) 40th Combat Engr. Assn. (WWII) (Aug-Chicago) Don Oliver Lee, 1404 Raven Run Dr., Mechanicsville, VA "There's one guy in my old outfit I Williams, 5530 Henderson St., Chicago, IL 60641 23111. 10090 10402 tried to find recently," said former 2nd Bn., 37th Inf. Rgt. (Aug-Cincinnati) E.B. Conliff, 44th Tank Bn. (Aug-Troy, Ml) David Scobie, 502 Bar- Army pilot James T. Jones. "We were in 2682 La Feuille Cir., Cincinnati, OH 4521 1 . 10096 rington Rd., Grosse Pointe, Ml 48230. 10386 2nd Div. (WW1/WWII/Korea) (July-Omaha, NE) 2nd Div. 50th Gen. Hospital (WWII) (Aug-Burlington, NC) James as flight school together. As soon our Assn., Box 460, Buda.TX 78610. 10372 Mundy, Box 642, Graham, NC 27253. 10468 squadron enrolls, I'm calling VetNet 2nd Military Railway Service, HQ Co. (Oct-Oklahoma 54th Signal Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Monterey, CA) Bud City, OK) Lee Olson, 1604 S. Reno, El Reno, OK Anderson, 41 Bartelomea Way, Monterey, CA 93940. with a message for him." 73036. 10073 10318 While personal messages are encour- 3rd Bn., 343rd Inf., 86th Div. (Oct-Chicago) James 60th Inf., 9th Div., M Co. (WWII) (Sept-Clarksville, IN) Johnston, 2947 S. Wallace St., Chicago, IL 60616. Robert Bovanizer, 14 Sabre Park, Niagara Falls, NY aged, no unauthorized commercial 10131 14304. 10125 messages are allowed on VetNet. Pro- 3rd General Hospital (WWII) (Aug-Louisville, KY) 60th Signal Rad. lntl./60 Sig. Svc. Co. (Oct-Scottsdale, Harold Hammon, 61 1 2 Harwood Rd., Louisville, KY AZ) Donald Woods, N.E. 263Tahuya River Dr., Tahuya, fanity and other inappropriate commen- 40222. 10111 WA 98588. 10452 4th Engr. (C) Bn., 4th Inf. Div., Co. (June-Memphis, tary is prohibited. MailCall messages A 62nd Arm'd FA Bn. (Oct-Fairborn, OH) Jerry Eades, TN) Earl Boyd, 2099 N. 58 Ave., Pensacola, FL 32506. 2312 Skylark St., Arlington, TX 76010. 10191 remain on the system for approximately 10412 63rd Engr. (C), 44th Div., A Co. (Sept-Canton, OH) one month before being removed. 5th Airborne Tng. Ctr. (Africa/Sicily/Italy) (Sept- William Conner, 1219 E. High St., Louisville, OH Dayton, OH) M.W. Johnson, 23775 Yellowstone Trail, 44641. 10052 The VetNet system is easy to operate, Shorewood, MN 55331 .10190 63rd Inf. Div. Assn. (Aug-Nashville, TN) Barney Forrest, and people are invited to call 1-900- 5th Arm'd Div., Midwest (Sept-Columbus, NE) James 360E.9thAve.,Collegeville, PA 19426. 10335 Burrell, 9245 N.W. Rochester Rd.,Topeka, KS 66617. 65th Signal Bn. (Aug-Owensboro, KY) James Alstatt, 773-VETS and listen to a demonstra- 10289 Box 4441 Evansville, 1 . , IN 4771 10392 tion of how a typical group uses VetNet 7th Convalescent Hospital (WWII) (Oct-Jacksonville, 78th AFA Bn., 2nd Arm'd Div., C Btry. (June-Westfield, FL) A. A. Eason, 285 Colonial Way, Jesup, GA 31545. MA) Gene Kennedy, 5 Kabeyun Rd., Converse Pt., to communicate. They'll hear about 10390 Marion, MA 02738. 10307 reunions, hospitalizations, buddy 7th FA Assn. (Oct-Myrtle Beach, SC) Stanley Stan- 78th CA, C Btry. (WWII) (Sept-Wichita, KS) Floyd kiewicz, 112 Bremer St., Fayetteville, NC 28303. Schwartz, 605 Frost Dr., Bay City, Ml 48706. 10250 searches, travel plans and parties . . . and 10368 81st Ind. Div., 81 st QM Co. (WWII) (Sept-Durango, CO) hopefully get some interesting ideas of 8th FA, 25th Div. Korea/1950-53 (Oct-Hawaii) Allen S.F. Slaugh, 188 S. 1350 W., Vernal, UT 84078. 10166 Smith, 3338 Dupont Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55412. 86th Engr. H.P. Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) all the things VetNet can do. 10354

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Philip Wax, 2306 4th St., Easton, PA 18042. 10471 Elliott, 2316W. 104 Terr., Leawood, KS 66206. 10138 Clarence Ledbetter, Rt. 3, Box 265, Cleveland, OK 90th Inf. Div. Assn. (Sept-San Antonio) Carl Manuel, 166th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (July-Warwick, Rl) Vincent 74020. 10406

1 01 7 N. 40th St., Fort Smith, AR 72904. 10319 Ricci, 89 Marlow St., Cranston, Rl 02920. 10187 400th AA AW Bn., C Btry. (WWII) (Aug-Grand Island, 92nd Signal Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Nashville, TN) Larry 179th Inf. Rgt. Assn. (Aug-Edmond, OK) Robert Bryan, NE) Walter Anson, 642 N. Broadwell, Grand Island, NE Orechia, 2654 Arcade Rd., Norwalk, OH 44857. 10333 3020 Dogwood Dr., Edmond, OK 73013. 10052 68803. 10389 94th Med. Gas Treatment Bn. (Sept-Indianapolis) 182nd Station Hospital (Aug-Nashville, TN) Walter 409th Inf., 103rd Div., D Co. (Sept-Fond du Lac, Wl) Les James Anderson, 552 Conner Creek Dr., Fishers, IN Aldrich,388 Dover Glen Dr., Antioch.TN 37013. 10310 Klie, 17928 Arizona Ct., Orland Park, IL60462. 10269 46038. 10480 1 83rd Signal Repair Co. (Retired) (Sept-Dearborn, Ml) 417th Inf., 76th Div., G Co. (Sept-Pittsburgh) Leonard 95th Med. Gas Treat. Bn. (Aug-Asheville, NC) Walter John Jones, 21384 Birchwood, Farmington, Ml 48336. McNamara, 3432 Robinwood Spur, Hopkins, MN Gantz, 829 Palm St., Scranton, PA 18505. 10472 10162 55343.10428 97th Inf. Div., 322nd Med. Bn. (Oct-Las Vegas) Tom 188th Engr. (C) Bn. (Sept-Chicopee, MA) Olive Tiano, 423rd Med. Coll. Co. (WWII) (Aug-Cobb. Wl) Arnold Smiley, 2038 Palm St., #88, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Box 883, Derby, CT 06418. 10065 Volenec, Box 133, Cobb, Wl 53526. 10263 10160 196th LIB Assn. (July-Chicago) Ron Davis. Box 269, 426th FA Bn. (Aug-Winston- Salem, NC) Robert Holder, 98th Signal Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Charleston, SC) Harry Fountain City, IN 47341. 10153 2102 Welch Rd., Mt. Airy, NC 27030. 10195 Coates, Rt. 1, Box 28, Callaway, VA 24067. 10303 199th Engr. (C) Bn. (Aug-Tomah, Wl) Charles Lindberg, 432nd AAA AW Bn. (SP), C Btry. (WWII) (Oct-Tulsa, OK) 103rd Engr. (C) Bn., 28th Div. (June-King of Prussia, 12621 Old Hwy. 169, Hibbing, MN 55746. 10113 Gene Ball, 424 W. Choctaw St., Holdenville, OK PA) Tom Morrow, 104 Meadowbrook Ave., Hatboro, PA 202nd Coastal Arty AA Rgt. (Sept-Chicago) Roger 74848. 10266 19040. 10396 McCabe, 7400 Edgemere Blvd., El Paso, TX 79925. 440th AAA AW Bn. Assn. (Sept-Wood Dale, IL) Russell 105th/203rd General Hospital (WWII) (Sept-Salt Lake 10401 Hage, 17660 Woodbridge Dr., Spring Lake, Ml 49456. City, UT) Joe Porter, 3348 W. 700 S., Syracuse, UT 204th FA Bn. (June-Williamsburg, VA) Nick Vanderhave, 10095 84075. 10098 1333 Littleton Rd., Morris Plains, NJ 07950. 10277 440th Signal Heavy Const. Bn. (Oct-San Antonio) 1 06th Engr. (C) Bn., 31 st Div., A Co. (Oct-Jackson, MS) 205th Hospital Ship complement (USS Comfort) Grover Smith, 627 St. Louis St., Lewisburg, PA 17837. Mrs. H. Weisinger, 120 N. Sunset Terr., Jackson, MS (Sept-San Francisco) Peter Leonardich, 44 Madonna 10154 39212. 10180 Dr., Salinas, CA93906. 10164 465th FA Bn., A/B, Hvy. Arty. (WWII) (Sept-Niagara 107th AAA, B Btry. (Aug-Clinton, SC) Boyd Holtzclaw, 21 4th CA (AA) GA NG (Aug-Gainesville, GA) Asa Autry, Falls, NY) Roy Johnson, Box 142, Southwick, MA 41 1 N. Broad St., Clinton, SC 29325. 10306 16Cherrywood Dr., Gainesville, GA 30504. 10421 01077. 10447

107th Engr. Bn. (Aug-Kingsford, Ml) Donald Niemi, 401 217th FA Bn., 44th Div., HQ Btry. (Oct-Ft. Myers, FL) 467th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-St. Louis) Al Uzzetta, 1 424

S. Carpenter Ave., Kingsford, Ml 49801 . 10192 Don Rjehl, 57 KanoCt., Ft. Myers, FL 33912. 10483 Gravois Rd., High Ridge, MO 63049. 10432 109th Inf. Rgt. (Oct-Colorado Springs) Richard Leach, 222nd FA Bn., 40th Div. (WWII) (Sept-Lake George, NY) 471 st AAA AW Bn, (Sept-Park City, KY) Orville Avery,

1 1020 Hwy. 83, Colorado Springs, CO 80921 . 10455 John Gorman, 16Carleton Ct., Glens Falls, NY 12801. Box 187, Forney, TX 75126. 10071 110th Inf., 28th Div. (WWII) (Sept-Washington, PA) 10049 473rd Inf. Rgt., 435th Bn. (Aug-Washington, DC) Morris John Chernitsky, 18 Country Club Blvd., Uniontown, 240th FA Bn. (Sept-New Harmony, IN) Charles Hirsch, Clements, Rt. 2, Box 54B, Spring Grove, VA 23881 PA 15401. 10301 Box 160, 131 N. CaleSt., Poseyville, IN 47633. 10064 10346 112th Evac. Hospital (WWII) (Oct-Chicago) George 247th Combat Engr. Bn. (Aug-Dayton, OH) Lawrence 487th TTC, Fort Knox (1951-52) (Sept-Belgium, Wl) Braski, 412 Drake Cir. Schaumburg, IL 601 93. 10411 Brown, 221 N. Walnut St., Ladoga, IN 47954. 10177 Clemens Bichler, 918 North St., , Belgium, Wl 53004. 112th Sta. Hosp., 263rd Gen. Hosp. (Calcutta) (Sept- 248th FA Bn., B Btry. (Aug-Marion, SC) William Corbin, 10070 Branson, MO) Keith Straight, 1521 S. 29th St., 2140Hwy. 76W, Adams, TN 37010. 10094 489th Port Bn. (Sept-Gilbertsville, KY) Alexander Hand, 1 57 LaCrosse, Wl 54601 . 1 0479 249th Engr. (C) Bn. (Sept-Olean, NY) James Gantner, 5037 Spring, Kansas City, MO 64133. 10133 122nd Signal Radio Intell. Co. (Sept-Denver) Ed E. Pearl St., Wellsville, NY 1 4895. 1 01 88 492nd Port Bn. (Sept-Holland, Ml) Frank Danicki, 1060 Villa, Murphy, 42 W. 5th St., New Castle, DE 19720. 10381 252nd Ord. MM Co. (Oct-Somerset, PA) Stanley Plaza Dr., Amherst, OH 44001 . 10313 126th AAA Bn., D Btry. (WWII) (Aug-Mystic, CT) Fred Box 94, Jerome, PA 15937. 10320 497th AA Gun Bn., D Btry. (WWII) (Oct-Anaheim, CA) Toothaker, 17W. Knoll Rd., Andover, MA01810. 10121 252nd QM Remount (Aug-Jefferson City, MO) Lewis Edward Davis Jr., 1 148 Western Ave., #A, Glendale, 128th Inf., 32nd Div., C Co. & 135th Med. Rgt. Band Jenkins, Rt. 1, Box 42, Versailles, MO 65084. 10103 CA 91 201. 10445 (Aug-Marshfield, Wl) VA. Biechler, 1218 E. 6th St., 260th AA Arty. Assn. (DCNG) (Oct-Andrews AFB, MD) 507th Parachute Inf. Rgt. Assn. (Sept-Killeen, TX) Marshfield, Wl 54449. 10252 Joseph Trammell, 6819 Benjamin St., McLean, VA Clarence Hughart, 9151 W. 66th Ave., Arvada, CO 132nd Gen. Hospital Assn. (Sept-Rosemont, IL) John 22101. 10312 80004. 10294 Schoeph, 915 Keystone Ave., River Forest, IL 60305. 268th/940th FA Bns. (Sept-Nashville, TN) James 524th MP Bn. (Aug-West Bend, Wl) Carl Heimerh, 3322 10460 Young, 117 Cooper Cir., Oak Ridge, TN 37831. 10092 Hwy. P, Jackson, Wl 53037. 10437 132nd Inf. Rgt. (Aug-Oak Brook, IL) Dan Nissen, 5348 276th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Rogersville, AL) 526th QM Railhead Co. (Sept-Kingsport, TN) Howard

S. Oak Park Ave., Chicago, IL60638. 10296 Charles Black, Box 1 1 69, Athens, AL 3561 1 . 10169 Hamblen, 385 Stedman Rd., Blountville, TN 37617. 135th Rgt., 34th Div., H Co./3rd Pit. A.T. (Sept-Minot, 279th Inf. Rgt., 45th Div., H Co. (Aug-Sapulpa, OK) 10201 ND) Odin Hanson, Box 545 Minot, ND 58702. 10186 Raymond Kelley, 717 N. Main, Sand Springs, OK 532nd EB & SR, E Co. (WWII) (Aug-Park Rapids, MN) 137th Ord. Maint. Bn., 16th Arm'd Div. (Aug-Cleveland, 74063. 10326 Chester Walsh, Rt. 2, Box 62, Park Rapids, MN 56470. TN) Louis Fischer, 117 Barry Dr., Madison, TN 37115. 285th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Oct-Williamsburg, VA) 10152 10244 Walter Maxwell, 309 Brock Rd., Springfield, PA 19064. 533rd AAA Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Traverse City, Ml) Samuel 138th Engr. (C) Bn. (Oct-Williamsburg, VA) James 10302 Gall Jr., 7943 Hoiles Dr. N.W., Williamsburg, Ml 49690. Cutillo, 100 11th St. S., Brigantine, NJ 08203. 10347 292nd JASCO (Oct-Louisville, KY) William Keatting, 10105 138th/198th/452nd F.A. Bns. Assn. (Aug-Louisville, 8507 Old Shepherdsville Rd., Louisville, KY 4021 9. 534th AAA Bn., B Btry. (Oct-Branson, MO) Albert KY) James Bates, 6512 Upper Hunters Trace Rd., 10036 Fischer, 2440 Allen Dr., Florissant, MO 63033. 10363 Louisville, KY 40216. 10370 293rd Combat Engrs., C Co. (Aug) Tammy Marshall, 555th Ord. Co. HM (Tk) (Sept-Perrysburg, OH) Dale

142nd Arm'd Signal Co., 2nd Arm'd Div. (Sept- HC1 , Box 820, Tannersville, PA 18372. 10234 Johnson, 2285 E. Twp. Rd. 122, Tiffin, OH 44883. Springfield, MO) Russ Lamison, 316 Bridge St., Spring 304th Station Hospital (Sept-Meriden, CT) Frank 10265

City, PA 19475. 10185 Hordich, 1241 Pinchot PI., Bronx, NY 10461 . 10175 565th AAA AW Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Atlanta) George 144th Inf., D Co. (Aug-Garrison. TX) Alfred Hudgins, Rt. 308th Signal Co. Wing (WWII) (Sept-Branson, MO) Harber, 2781 Pierce Dr. N., Macon, GA31204. 10183 1, Box 126B, Daincerfield.TX 75638. 10159 Fray House, 2230 S. King, Springfield, MO 65807. 575th AAA AW Bn. (SP) (Sept-Angola, IN) Roger 147th Engr. (C) Bn. (Oct-Atlantic City) James Moore, 6 10212 Rhoads, 4004 Cambridge, Des Moines, IA 50313. Delancey PI., Dowington, PA 19335. 10423 320th Abn. FA Bn. Assn. (Sept-Clarksville, TN) Rodger 10014 148th Arm'd Signal Co. (Sept-Atlantic City) Tom Jacobson, Box 14, Hazel Green, Wl 53811. 10108 591st Engr. Boat Rgt. (July-Miami) Everett Mills, Box Materazzo, 28 Halifax St., Boston, MA02130. 10299 320th Engrs. Assn. (Aug-Milwaukee) Jerome Gasper 71, Sublette, KS 67877. 10292

148th General Hospital (Hawail/Salpan) (Oct-San Sr., 4931 N. 1 25th St., Butler, Wl 53007.10193 593rd EB&SR, A Co. (Oct-Hampton, VA) Bob Kerr, 6470 Antonio) John Crossman, 5400 Middleton Dr., Green- 321st Inf., 81st Div., Anti-Tank Co. (Sept-Niagara Falls, Bensch Rd., Alger, Ml 48610. 10128 dale, Wl 53129. 10079 NY) Merle Niethe, 8 Remick Parkway, Lockport, NY 595th MP (EG) Co. (Sept-Romulus, Ml) Ralph Welsh, 148th Int., 37th Div., A Co. (Oct-Antwerp. OH) Robert 14094. 10403 38689 Golfview W., Mt. Clemens, Ml 48044. 10024 Greek, Box 107, Montpelier, OH 43543. 10229 322nd Signal Bn., A Co. (Sept-Washington, DC) R. 602nd AAA Gun Bn., B Btry. (Aug-Rome, NY) Leo 148th Inf., 37th Div., HQ & K Cos. (Sept-St. Marys, OH) Riker, 261-05 Hillside Ave., Glen Oaks, NY 11004. Mather, 746 Camp St., Rome, NY 13440. 10203 Don Elking, 600 Butler St., Coldwater, OH 45828. 10454 605th Tank Destroyer Assn. (Sept-Findlay, OH) 10448 328th Inf. Combat Team (WWII) (Oct-Chicopee, MA) Charles Faul, 6502 Duet Lane., Cincinnati, OH 45239.

1 51 st Inf., 38th Inf. Div., L Co. (Aug-Terre Haute, IN) Bob Clapp, 208 Aspinwall Ave., Brookline, MA 02146. 10118 James Truitt, 3507 College Ave., Terre Haute, IN 10254 609th TD Bn. (Sept-Lancaster, PA) George Funke, 3260 47803 10224 337th Inf. Rgt., 85th Div. (Including attached units) Oakford Rd .Trevose, PA 19053. 10287 152nd Inf., 38th Div., 2nd Bn. HQ (Sept-Anderson, IN) (Sept-Cincinnati) Stanley McCabe, 4556 Eldywood 611th OBAM Bn. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) John Wright,

James Brenner, 3101 E. Kendall Ln., Muncie, IN Lane, Batavia, OH 45103. 10425 8329 Atlee Sta. Rd., Mechanicsville, VA 231 1 1 . 10257 47303 10134 340th Engrs. (Oct-San Diego) H.J. McGara, Box 1113, 627th QM Refrlg. Co. (WWII) (Sept-Richmond, IN) Ed

1 59th Engr. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Lancaster, PA) William Rancho Mirage, CA 92270. 10422 Held, 1212 Linwood Ave., Columbus, OH 43206. Marco, 311 N. 10th St., Lebanon, PA 17042. 10330 341st Inf., 86th Inf. Div., D Co. (Aug-lndianapolis) G.K. 10008

159th Inf. Rgt., F Co. (WWII) (Sept-Omaha, NE) Willard Hodson, 1 12S. Main St., Newcastle, IN 47362. 10116 664th Topo. Engrs. (Sept-Washington, PA) Rudolph Neumann, 9020 Primrose Ln., Hickory Hills, IL 60457. 343rd Signal Co. Wing (WWII) (Sept-Branson, MO) T.M. Malik, 104 Cramer Ave., Bentleyville, PA 15314. 10217 10350 Genes, 1212 Heather Ln., Charlotte, NC 28209. 10207 684th Engr. Light Equip. Co. (Luzon) (Sept-St. Louis) 160th Int., 40th Div., E Co. (WWII) (Sept-Des Moines, 351st Inf. Rgt., HQ & HQ Co. (Sept-Branson, MO) Eugene Holford, 1315 S. 21st St., Quincy, IL 62301. IA) Woodrow Geery, 902 E. Marion St., Knoxville, IA Bernie Schulte, Box 289, Henley, MO 65040. 10191 10075 50138 10107 358th AAA S/L Bn., A Btry. (WWII) (Sept-LaGrange, IL) 708th/715th/773rd Amphlb. TK Bns. (Sept-Dallas) 160th Inf., A Co. (Sept-Tucson, A2) Franklin Kempf, Marvin Drake, Box 293, Plainwell, Ml 49080. 10259 Henry Fitzhugh, 545 Willow Wood Ln., Lancaster, TX 6083 Hwy. 60 E Hartford, Wl 53027. 10427 379th AAA Bn. (Sept-Louisville, KY) Floyd Prince, 491 75134. 10473 , 161st Inf., E Co. (Sept-Sacramento, CA) Luverne Oak St., Louisville, KY40258. 10465 711th Tank Bn., C Co. (Aug-Port Allen, LA) Darrell Dressier, 5901 Shovelers Lane, Citrus Hts., CA 95621 382nd AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Oshkosh, Wl) Robert Bump, Clement, 625Azalea, Port Allen, LA 70767. 10264 10278 Rt. 3, Box 92A, Fontana, Wl 53125. 10374 713th MP Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Utica, NY) William Fegley, 163rd Signal Photo Co. & others (Oct-Las Vegas) Art 387th Inf., 97th Div., K Co. (Sept-Nashville, TN) 104 Underdid Ct., Ridgewood, NJ 07450. 10020

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720th MP Bn. (Aug-Salinas, CA) Joseph Selovich, 1 909 Mockingbird Ln., Dayton, OH 45430. 10443 USS Blue DD-387/744 (Sept-Lexington, KY) John 35th St., Kenosha, Wl 53140. 10481 29th Div. Ex-POWS (June-Covington, KY) George Prewitt, 316 N. Maysville St., Mt. Sterling, KY 40353. 730th Rwy. Oper. Bn. (Including 711th/791st) (Sept- Smith, 2412Griswold Ct., New Port Richey, FL 34655. 10458

Indianapolis) D.D. Crum, Box 1 16, Stilesville, IN 10235 USS Blye DD-387/744 (Sept-Lexington, KY) John 46180. 10171 84th Seabee Bn. (Sept-Corapolis, PA) Harry Wujcik, Prewitt, 316 N. Maysville St., Mt. Sterling, KY 40353. 735th Ord., 35th Div. (WWII) (Sept-Grand Island, NE) 6710 Ellenton Gillette Rd. #84, Palmetto, FL 34221. 10181 J.R. Shurtleff, 729 7th St., Humboldt, NE 68376. 10384 USS Bridge AF-1 (Sept-Pidgeon Forge, TN) Oliver 10085 87th NCB (Nov-Clearwater, FL) Willliam Armstrong, 124 Nash, 5218 Las Campanas, San Antonio, TX 78233.

739th Engr. Bn. (Sept-Gatlinburg, TN) Larry Eckard, MapleTerr., Pittsburgh, PA 1521 1 . 10196 10391 Box 5145, Hickory, NC 28603. 10205 118th NCB (Sept-Portland, ME) Art Keene, 1225 USS Canberra CA-70/CAG-2 (Oct-Norfolk, VA) Paul

748th MP Bn. (Sept-Las Vegas) Louis Duthoo, Box Colonial Rd., McLean, VA22101 . 10228 McManuels, 317 Somerset Dr., Shiremanstown, PA 1 937, Fritch, TX 79036. 1 0058 137th/139th/3rd Spec. Seabees (Sept-Nashville, TN) 17011. 10038 751 st Tank Bn. (Sept-Asheville, NC) Edwin Bridges, Robert Light, 604 S. 16th St., Coshocton, OH 43812. USS Canopus AS-9 (Sept-Eureka Springs, AR) Andrew 3226 Beliare Rd., Mooresboro, NC 281 14. 10304 10248 Henry, Box 637, Thousand Palms, CA 92276. 10383 753rd Tank Bn. (Sept-Des Moines, IA) N.W. Linhart, Amphibious units attached to USS Charles Carroll USS Champlin DD-601 (Oct-Baton Rouge, LA) Carl

13375 Easton St., Alliance, OH 44601 . 10457 (Sept-San Diego) Frank Zito, 38083 Calle Quedo, Olson, 4520-1 8 Ave., Rock Island, IL 61 201 . 10449 762nd MP Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Mauston, Wl) Jim Crandall, Murrieta Hot Springs, CA 92362. 10080 USS Charles Lawrence DE-53/APD-37 (Oct-Nashville, 24 Dockstader St., Maustin, Wl 53948. 1 041 ARGUS Unit 18 (Aug-Spokane, WA) Lloyd Madison, TN) H.B. Cranford, 14547 Pebblewood Dr., North 780th FA Bn. (Korea) (Sept-Beckley, WV) Mathias Hoff, 71 1 7 Mahr Ct., Spokane, WA 99208. 1 0200 Potomac, MD 20878. 10408 (July-Hartford, V.J. Scaretta, Antonio) Floyd Clark, 204 Allen Ave., Beckley, WV 25801 . 10349 Base Hospital 18 CT) 118 USS Chickasaw ATF-83 (Oct-San 786th Engr. Petroleum Dlst. Co. (Sept-Cape Cod, MA) Forest St., E. Hartford, CT061 18. 10091 Box 360, Silsbee, TX 77656. 10324 John Norton, 374 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 021 39. Bora Bora Bobcat Seabees (Oct-Williamsburg, VA) USS Clamagore SS-343 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Jim 10424 Albert Traugott, 274 Lysander Dr., Rochester, NY Storms, 3029 Thrush Dr., Melbourne, FL 32935. 10398 789th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Dayton, OH) Anthony 14623. 10220 USS Cleveland CL-55 (Including Marines) (Oct- Rauscher, 139 Lakeview Dr., Haines City, FL 33844. Byrd Station, Antarctica (1966 Winter-over crew) Daytona Beach, FL) Robert Hemming, 5625 Finley Dr., 10019 (June-Palo Alto, CA) Larry Spitz, 821 S. Hampton Dr., Port Orange, FL 32127. 10450 795th AAA AW Bn. (Sept-Charleston, SC) C. David Palo Alto, C A 94303. 10023 USS Coghlan DD-606 (Sept-Nashville, TN) Pat Tan- Burns, 103 Center, Maquoketa, IA 52060. 10426 CBMU-545 (WWII) (Oct-Punta Gorda, FL) G.O. Frazier, quary, 147N. Fiji Cir., Englewood, FL 34223. 10282 806th TD Bn. (Sept-Williamsburg, VA) Charles Rich, 924 Brookhills Dr., Cantonment, FL 32533. 10334 USS Columbus CA-74/CG-12 (1944-76) (Sept-Las 1704 N. Mohawk, Chicago, IL 60614. 10004 Columbia Unlv.-Pralrie State Midshipmen's School Vegas) John Thomas, 163 N. Hill Ave., Deland, FL 808th Chemical Co. (June-Anniston, AL) Les Price, 809 (1940-45) (Oct-New Orleans) Wayne Miller, 6023 E. 32724. 10268 Churchill Ave., Pittsburgh PAI5235. 10314 52nd PI., Indianapolis, IN 46226. 10336 USS Comfort (Sept-San Francisco) Kenneth 811th TD Bn. (Oct-Sandusky, OH) Thomas Burke, 213 Comm. Unit 4/Marlne 2nd Sep. Wire Pltn. (Rendova- Kjeldgaard, Rt. 2, Box 141, Fairfield Bay, AR 72088. Benedict Ave., Norwalk, OH 44857. 10010 Munda/1943-44) (Oct-Seattle) Edward Emanuel, 10189 841 st Engr. Avn. Bn. (Oct-New Port Richey, FL) James 12629 54th Ave. N.E., Marysville, WA 98270. 10256 USS Cone DD-866 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Roy Dozier,

Rudge Jr., 431 1 22nd Way E., New Port Richey, FL Gamewardens of Vietnam Assn. (June-San Diego) 1118 Madison St., Clarksville, TN 37040. 10051 34655. 10288 Robert Korn, 1307 Stoney Gate PI., San Diego, CA USS Daniel A. Joy DE-585 (Sept-Virginia Beach, VA) 916th Med. Amb. Co. (Oct-Middlesboro, KY) Thomas 92128. 10260 Robert Somerville, 12842 Forest View Rd., Palos Hts., Massengill, Box 952, Middlesboro, KY 40965. 10293 Hurricane Hunters, Inc. (Sept-Asheville, NC) Hur- IL 60463. 10073

935th Signal Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Branson, MO) T.M. ricane Hunters, Inc., 2818 Cedarcrest Dr., Orange USS Dauphin APA-97 (Sept-Detroit) Donald Fox, Rt. 1 Genes, 1 21 2 Heather Ln., Charlotte, NC 28209. 10190 Park, FL 32073. 10209 Box 76, Enon Valley, PA 16120. 10238 942nd FA Bn. (Sept-Chippewa Falls, Wl) Francis Denny, Lion Four/Navy 3205 (Sept-Portland, OR) Hal Wenick, USS Davis DD-395 (Oct-Norfolk, VA) W.P. Crewe, 961 Westhaven Ests., 3762 W. Old Rd. 30, Lot 88E, Rt. 3, Box 1 96, Florence, AZ 85232. 1 0007 Atlanta Cir., Seaford, DE 19973. 10344 Warsaw, IN 46580. 10251 NAMRU-2 (WWII) (Oct-Hot Springs, AR) Chuck Davi- USS Dawson APA-79 (Sept-Wichita, KS) Harold 945th FA Bn. (Oct-Lawton, OK) George Buck, 726 50th son, 1122 Holmes Place, DeKalb, IL 601 1 5. 10338 Prochaska, Rt. 3, Box 132, Dunlap, KS 66848. 10188

St., Des Moines, IA 5031 2. 1 0351 NATS Ferry Wlng/VRF/VRS 1, ACU (Officers & Pilots/ USS Edmonds DE-406 (Including USS Bismark Sea) 998th HQ & Service Co. (Oct-Menomonic, Wl) Harv 1942-46) (Oct-Virginia Beach, VA) Will Carroll, 10715 (Sept-Sanford, FL) Bob Barrett, 1586 Hilltop Rd., Hinzman, Box 52, Ridgeland, Wl 54763. 10033 HowertonAve., Fairfax, VA 22030. 10373 Casselberry, FL 32707. 10315 1000th Engr. Tdwy. Bridge Co. (Oct-Andover, MA) Naval Mlnewarfare Assn. (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Lee USS Elden DE-264 (Sept-Cedar Rapids, IA) Stanley Goldfarb, 18 Bunker East Louis Feraco, 502 Schoolhouse Ln., Willow Grove, PA Rd., Hanover, NJ 07936. Korenkiewicz, Rt. 1 , Box 482, Shamokin, PA 17872. 19090. 10340 10119 10231 1021st Engr.Treadway Bridge Co. (Sept-Myrtle Beach, NCB-38 (Sept-Great Bend, KS) Edmund Plisek, 377 USS Emmons DD-457/DMS-22 (Oct-Niagara Falls, NY)

SC) August Metkler, 420 North St., Springdale, PA Cherry Lane, Seward, NE 68434. 10034 David Jensen, 87-26 259th St., Floral Park, NY 1 1 001 15144. 10393 PATSU 1-7 (Sept-Las Vegas) Walt Kulhanek, 121 10323

1049th Signal Co. (WWII) (Sept-Ankeny, IA) John Childs Rd. W., Omaha, NE 68147. 10360 USS Enterprise CV-6 (July-Denver) Mel Hofer, 1 371 1 E. Huser, 309 N.W. College Ave., Ankeny, IA 50021 Seabees of America (FL Chapter) (Oct-Springhill, FL) marina Dr., #A, Aurora, CO 8001 4. 10039 10155 Wayne Snow, 1613 Larkin Rd., Springhill, FL 34608. USS Everett F. Larson DD-830 (Oct-Norfolk, VA) Peter

1110th Eng. (C) Grp. (June-Minneapolis) Thomas Ball, 10242 Kope, 5637 Circle Dr. W., Cicero, NY 1 3039. 10470

1 SLCU-18, Boat Pool 14/15 (Emlrau/Manus) (Oct- Box 271 , Westwood, MA 02090. 01 32 (Oct- USS Fanshaw Bay CVE-70 (Including Air Grps.) 1268th Engrs. (C) Bn. (WWII) (Sept-Canton, OH) Lexington, KY) Earl Neagles, 7197 Spring Hill Dr., Pensacola, FL) Duane lossi, 310 Edwards St., Ft. Norbert Miller, 1335 Tipton Ext., Huntington, IN 46750. Spring Hill, FL 34606. 10050 Collins, CO 80524. 10461 10434 U.S. Navy Band (Aug-Washington, DC) Frank Sci- USS Farenholt DD-491 (WWII) (Sept-Cincinnati)

1428th Float Bridge Co. (June-Beckley, WV) Roger monelli, 6508 Elmhurst St., District Hts., MD 20747. Denver Sauls, 1 602 West Oak, Jonesboro, AR 72401 Boisse, 595 Fairfield St., Manchester, NH 03104. 10047 10041 10484 UDT-13/USSBarrAPD-39(WWII)(Nov-Fort Pierce, FL) USS Flusser DD-368 (Sept-Norfolk, VA) E.B. Dennis,

Mobile Special (Oct-Peoria, IL) Marvin Cooper, 14336 Bora Dr., La Mirada, CA 90638. 1 1 3062nd QM Bakery Co. Box 2241 , Jackson, MS 39236. 0055 William Johnson, 1 103 Dodge St., Bedford, IA 50833. 10186 USS Frank Knox DD-742 (1945-47) (Nov-Philadelphia) 10710 Unholy Four/USS Pres. Adams, Jackson & Hayes/ Bob O'Kon, 1945 Stony Garden Rd., Kintnersville, PA 3621st QM Truck Co. (WWII) (Aug-Grove, OK) Tom Crescent City (Aug-New Orleans) Bill Lindner, Box 18930. 10066 Davenport, 1906 Moffet, Joplin, MO 64804. 10161 4006, Virginia Beach, VA 23454. 10280 USS Frederick Funston APA-89 (Oct-Williamsburg, Camp Howze (Sept-Gainesville, TX) Cindy Nichols, USN Armed Guard (Oct-Topeka, KS) Donald Gleason, VA) Ted Thomas, 9745 Via Roma, Burbank, CA 91 504. Gainsville Chamber of Commerce, Box 518, Gaines- 227 North Knox, Topeka, KS 66606. 10286 10339 ville, TX 76240. 10255 USN Armed Guard, Northeast Region (Aug- USS Freestone APA-1 67 (Aug-Chicago) Irvin Parry, 652 CID Agents Assn. (Oct-San Antonio) Bruce Howell, 1 1 Pittsburgh) Hilary Makowski, 202 Wedgewood Ct., Nilsen Road N.E., Cedar Rapids, IA52402. 10015 Carnegie, PA 15106. 10240 N. Cherry St., Olathe, KS 66061 . 10002 USS Gendreau DE-639 (Aug-Las Vegas) W. Price, 2006 HQ V Corps Vets Assn. (WWII) (Sept-Augusta, GA) USNAAB Manadon Field (England/1943-45) (Sept) Winter Haven Dr., Imperial, MO 63052. 10093 N. St., James Jensen, 15 Holly Cir. , North Augusta, SC Thomas Boyce, 150 Beacon Middletown, NY USS George A. Johnson DE-583 (Aug-Buffalo, NY) Joe 29841. 10115 10940. 10078 Harrison, 21 15 Armstrong, Morton, PA 19070. 10236 LZ Brush Run (Vietnam) (Aug-St. Clairsville, OH) USS ABSD-2 (Sept-Hampton Beach, NH) Berniece USS Grayson DD-435 (Oct-Baltimore) Harold Witmyer, Samuel Fox Jr., Box 113, Powhatan PL, OH 43942. Tangney, 3961 Hwy. G, Wisconsin Dells, Wl 53965. 9017 Chesapeake Ave., Baltimore, MD 21219. 10237 10214 10453 USS Helm DD-388 (Sept-Santa Rosa, CA) Richard Society of the Fifth Div. (Sept-Milwaukee) William USS Acree DE-167 (Oct) Norman Richardson, 2704 Steel, 1259 Wanda Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95405. tlpham, 2728 E. Bradford Ave., Milwaukee, Wl 5321 1 Datura St., Sarasota, FL 34239. 10239 10348 10084 USS Albany CA-123/CG-10 (Including Marines) (Oct- USS Henderson DD-785 (Aug-Reno, NV) Dick Sierra, Cocoa Beach, FL) Allan Heide, 3269 Ewing Ave. N., 505 Park Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080. 10193 Robbinsdale, MN 55422. 10176 USS Hoggatt Bay CVE-75 (Including VC-14/88/99) USS Aulick DD-569 (Sept-Portland, OR) James Hays, (Sept-San Diego) D. L. Canady, 5868 Argyle Way, Navy 4621 El Caminito, Shingle Springs, CA 95682. 10189 Riverside, CA 92506. 10377 USS Ballard AVD-10 (Oct-Hot Springs, AR) Clayburn USS Holder DDE-819/DE-401 (Oct-Charleston, SC) M. Wilkinson, Rt. 1, Box 467H, Hot Springs, AR 71913. Rambo, 71 7 Canary Dr., Charleston, SC 2941 4. 10026 10th Spec. Stevadore Const. Bn. (Sept-Evansville, IN) 10385 USS Houston CA-30/CL-81 (Oct-Charleston, SC) John William Baechle, Station B, Box 6184, Evansville, IN USS Begor APD-127 (Sept-Erie, PA) Harold Elson, Skarzenski, 4268 Palm Ave., #128, San Diego, CA 47719. 10140 39623 lolaniCt., Fremont, CA 94538. 10048 92154. 10311 19th NCB (Oct-Kiamesha Lake, NY) Herbert McCallen, USS Bennion DD-662 (Sept-Baton Rouge, LA) William USS Hydrus AKA-28 (Sept-King of Prussia, PA) Wesley

97 Lawrence Park Crescent, Bronxville, NY 10707. Kelley, 35 Horton Place, Milton, MA 021 86. 10089 Campbell, 455 Hillview Rd., King of Prussia, PA 1 9406. 10185 USS Bermingham DE-530 (Oct-Mystic, CT) Marty 10243 26th NCB (Sept-Oakbrook, IL) Harry Friedrich, 3671 Conserva,72WildroseDr., Andover, MA 01 810. 10109 Please turn page

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USS Hyman DD-732 (Jan-Caribbean Cruise) Robert USS Omaha CL-4 (Sept-Las Vegas) Claude Arnold, VF-73 (Aug-North Kingston, Rl) Edward Canisius, 3417 Moldenhauer, 52 S. 20th St., Kenilworth. NJ 07033. Hickory 1333 De Los Arboles, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. St., Sheboygan, Wl 53081 . 10202 10213 10475 VN-11/12/13/14/15 (1941-44) (Oct-Pensacola, FL) USS Intrepid CV/CVS-11 (Pittsburgh chapter) (Nov- USS Otter DE-210 (Aug-Las Vegas) Bill Nielson, 600 Gerald Lahay, 1493 Cladiolus Ave., Orange Park, FL West Mifflin, PA) Walter Kuczma, 149 Skyport Dr., West Greenwood Dr., Jupiter, FL 33458. 10199 23451.10295 Mifflin, PA 15122. 10060 USS Parker DD-604 (July-Honolulu) Russell Fernandes VP-83,VB/VPB-107 (Sept-Norfolk, VA)B.F. Denny, 2704 USS Irwin DD-794 (June-Nashville, TN) Thomas Sr., 1 10 Alvil Rd., Elsmere, Wilmington, DE 19805. Sandy Valley Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23452. 10358 Adams, 183AMeriline Ave., West Patterson, NJ 10415 VPB-111/VP-1 11/21 (Oct-Pensacola, FL) Wally Light- 07424. 10482 USS PC-1130 (Oct-Las Vegas) Paul Emery, 2464 foot, 292 Middlecreek Rd., Otto, NC 28763. 10219 USS John Marshall SSBN-61 1 (June-Norfolk, VA) Pete Clayward Dr., Burton, Ml 48509. 10438 VPB-121 (Aug-Santa Clara, CA) Ron Sathre, 31626 San Gunn, 3 Green Valley Lakes Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371 USS PCE (R) 852 (Sept-Memphis, TN) Ed Stone, 5021 Andreas Dr., Union City, CA 94587. 10221 10172 Martin Rd., Warren, Ml 48092. 10086 VPB-13/15 (Sept-Portland, OR) John Fuller, 16474 S.E. USS Kretchmer (Oct-Omaha, NE) Henry Hyde, 291 3 S. USS Pecos AO-65 (Sept-Cleveland, OH) Walter Socha, 135th, Clackamas, OR 97015. 10316 160th Plaza, Omaha, NE68130. 10433 1 7392 Kinsman Rd., Middlefield, OH 44062. 10249 VPB-208 (1942-45) (Oct-Nashville, TN) Edward Burns, USS Lacerta AKA-29 (Oct-Kinston, NC) David Hum- USS Prince William CVE-31 Assn. (Sept-Oklahoma 143 Jacksonian Dr., Hermitage, TN 37076. 10206

phrey, Rt. 7, Box 528, Kinston, NC 28501 . 10397 City, OK) John Love, 740 N. 165th St., Seattle, WA VPB-34 (Sept-Fairborn, OH) John Passwaters, 4801 USS Langley CV-1/AV-3 (Sept-Nashville. TN) Henryetta 98133. 10366 Holly Ave., Middletown, OH 45044. 10130 Cokor, 11643 County Line Rd., Gates Mills. OH 44040. USS Princeton CVL-23 (WWII) (Sept-Orlando, FL) Sam VRC-50 (Aug-Orlando, FL) Clint Staples, 6910 10011 Minervini, 251 Marlboro Rd., Wood Ridge, NJ 07075. WindstreamTerr., Orlando, FL 32818. 10367 USS LaPorte APA-151 (Sept-Boston) Arthur Nigra, 29 10328 VS-23 (Oct-Las Vegas) Patrick Barney, Box 97, Humbird,

Elmwood St., Revere, MA 02151 . 10262 USS Ranger CV-4 (Aug-Norfolk, VA) Bill Rohlfs, 1300 Wl 54746. 10276 USS Latimer APA-1 52 (Oct-Omaha, NE) T.A. Nisbet Jr., Eastfield Dr., Clearwater, FL 34624. 10380 VT-24 (1945) (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Edward Dwyer, N10836 425 Boulder, Lawrence. KS 66049. 10297 USS Redfin SS-272 (Oct-San Antonio) M.O. Turner, Rainbow Terr., Fox Lake, Wl 53933. 10357 USS LCI (G) 580 (Sept-Greenville. SC) Ken Weber, 241 21 13 Alamo Nat. Bldg., San Antonio, TX 78205. 10009 E. Sunset Lane, Lindenhurst, IL 60046. 10182 USS Reuben James DD-245 (Oct-Washington, DC) USS LSC-60/USNABPD (San Bruno) (Oct-Lancaster, George Giehrl, 5473 Shimerville Rd., Clarence, NY PA) Thomas Lidie, 4990 Flossie Ave., Frederick, MD 14031. 10082 21701. 10102 USS Robert L. Wilson DD/DDE-847 (Sept-Nashville, Air Force USS LSM-103 (Oct-Rockford, IL) Lee Darnell, 8709 TN) Dominic Aliberti, 335 Aura Rd., Clayton, NJ 08312. Glacier Dr.. Byron, IL 61 01 0. 10279 10168 USS LSM-15 (Oct-Kansas City, MO) Darrell Pigman, USS Roe DD-418 (Oct-Mystic Seaport, CT) Len Gordon, 8th Foxhole (S.W. Pacific/WWII) (Oct-LaFayette, LA) 5404 N. Washington Ct., Kansas City, MO 641 18. 241 Newman St., Metuchen, NJ 08840. 10097 John Lemons, 1 01 0 68th St., Des Moines, IA 5031 1 10059 USS Saginaw Bay, CVE-82, VC-78/88 (Sept-San 10025 USS LSM-439 (Sept-Crawfordsville, IN) Eugene Helms, Antonio) Earl Homman, 4220 Old Mill Rd., Lancaster, 21st Weather Sq./40th Mobile Comm. Sq. (WWII) 203Woodlawn PL, Crawfordsville, IN 47933. 10474 OH43130. 10325 (Sept-Charleston, SC) I.V. Kirch, 34 Hoss Rd.. USS LSMRs 1 88 thru 200 (Sept-St. Louis) Fred Clapper, USS Salem CM-11 (Sept-Decatur, IN) Harry Bowers, Rt. Indianapolis, IN 46217. 10272 48 Mason Ave., Webster Groves, MO 631 19. 10120 4, Box 186, Decatur, IN 46733. 10021 22nd Bomb Grp. /2nd, 19th, 33rd, 408th Bomb Sqs., USS LST-1045 (Sept-New Orleans) William Moore, 759 USS Saury SS-189 (WWII) (Oct-San Antonio) Ralph 5th AF (Sept-Hampton, VA) Jack Clark, Box 560967, Scenic Dr., Marion, OH 43302. 10012 Piatek, 151 5 Capri Ct., Rio Rancho, NM 871 24. 10044 Rockledge, FL 32956. 10327 USS LST-1062 (June-Lancaster, PA) Jack Smith, 205 USS Shea DM-30 (WWII) (Sept-Las Vegas) E.F. Kane, 27th Trp. Carrier Sq. (Sept-Charleston, SC) Robert Johnstons Lane, Mercersburg, PA 17236. 10441 910 Blairs Ferry Rd., Marion, IA 52302. 10309 Major, Box 1042, Murphy, NC 28906. 10345 USS LST-138 (Aug-Mt. Pocono, PA) Richard Timmer- USS Shelton DD-790 (Oct-Laughlin, NV) Frank Benson, 43rd Service Sq., 5th AF (Sept-Lompoc, CA) Elvis man, 1403 Juliett Dr., Wall, NJ 07719. 10087 311728th St., San Diego, CA 92104. 10477 Stitch, 300 Amherst Place, Lompoc. CA 93436. 1 021 USS LST-277 (WWII) (Sept-Huntsville, AL) Bill Irwin, USS Sibley APA-206 (Oct-Sibley County, MN) Sharon 63rd Trp. Carrier Sq., 403rd T.C. Grp., 13th AF (Sept- 56044. 10420 Seattle) Tobiska, 5509 Panorama Dr., Huntsville, AL 35801. 10466 Weckwerth, Box 21 , Henderson, MN Aron 31 S. Holland St., Lakewood, DE-223 Vegas) Lawrence USS LST-31 2 (Sept-Canton, OH) John Rees, 61 1 5 Reno USS Spangenberg (Aug-Las CO 80226. 10405 Dente, 25 Renwick Ave., Staten Island, NY 10301 64th TC Grp. (Oct-Tampa, FL) V.F Cotosman, 6591 Dr., Louisville, OH 44641 . 10057 USS LST-542 (WWII) (Sept-New Orleans) Thomas 10253 Hayes St., Hollywood, FL 33024. 10141 Wilson Jr., La Belle Vue Rd., Rt. 3, Vandergrift, PA USS SSN-716 (Sept-Las Vegas) Myron Varland, 458 64th TC Sq. (WWII) (Oct-Tucson, AZ) I.K. Holdener, 15690 10376 ArgosCir.. Watsonville, CA 95076. 10158 1836 La Rienda Ave., Tucson, AZ 85715. 10018 USS LST-55 (Oct-Pittsburgh, PA) Rowland Stebbins, USS Susan B. Anthony AP-72 (Oct-Williamsburg, VA) 82nd Ftr. Grp. Assn. (Aug-Denver) Ralph Embrey, 7865 9945Carrigan Dr., Ellicott City, MD 21043. 10101 Charles Cambre, 500 Azalea Dr., New Iberia, LA E. Mississippi, #1203, Denver, CO 80231. 10275 USS LST-598 (Oct-Durham, NC) Richard Baker, Box 70560. 10394 95th Station Complement (Sept-San Antonio) Judson 11204, Durham, NC 27703. 10129 USS Swasey DE-248 (Oct-Memphis, TN) Ted Sluzas, Wingard, 1367 N. Lake Dr., Lexington, SC 29072. USS LST-619 (Oct-New Orleans) Darwin Ekey, 1306 Box 2466, Okeechobee, FL 34973. 10290 10037 Maryland Ave., Steubenville, OH 43952. 10246 USS Tanner AGS-1 5 (June-Kansas City, MO) Charles 306th Ftr. Cont. Sq. (Sept-Milwaukee) Ray Allen, 480 W. USS LST-683 (June-Falmouth, MA) Robert Lawler, 6 Horn, 506 Frielrich St., Rogers City, Ml 49779. 10261 Briar Lane, Green Bay, Wl 54301. 10451 Jefferson TAPA-30 (Aug-Columbus, OH) Ftr. Allen, Curlew St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. 10353 USS Thomas 312th Cont. Sq. (Sept-Milwaukee) Ray 480 W. Wilber Taylor, 2277 Nayland Rd., Columbus, Briar Lane, Green Bay, Wl 54301. 10225 USS LST-73 (Sept-New Orleans) Les Shanteau, 861 7 W. OH 43220. 10413 316th Ftr. Cont. Sq. (Sept-Milwaukee) Ray Allen, 480W. St., Rt. 163, Oak Harbor, OH 43449. 10442 USS LST-834 (Aug-Wheeling, WV) James Fuchs, 112 USSTorsk SS-423 (Sept-Baltimore) Pete Gunn, 3 Green Briar Lane, Green Bay, Wl 54301. 10104

Valley Laves Rd., Old Lyme, CT06371 . 10173 333rd Ftr. Sq. (Oct-St. Louis) Herman Hazelsood, Rt. 2, Bradley Dr . Coraopolis, PA 15108. 10083 USS Tortuga LSD-26 (Sept-San Diego) Tom Evans, Tamms, IL 62988. 10218 USS LST-958 (Sept-New Orleans) Arthur Wegman, 6547 1049 Darwood Ave., Kalamazoo, Ml 49004. 10436 376th Heavy Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept-Tucson, AZ) Joe N. Pasadena Dr., Oak Harbor, OH 43449. 10446 USS Triton SSN-586 (Aug-Groton, CT) Ralph Kennedy, Lynn, Rt. 1, Box 89. Stonington, IL 62567. 10467 USS LST-968 (Sept-Atlanta) Don Dussliere, 519 9th 89 Laurel Wood Rd.. Groton, CT 06340. 10410 390th Serv. Sq., 74th Serv. Grp., HQ & HQ (Sept- Ave., Silvis. IL 61282 10226 USS Venus AK-135 (Sept-Lake Ozark, MO) Frank Nashville, TN) Cecil Lain, 8230 White's Creek Pk., USS LST-979 (WWII) (Oct-Kansas City, MO) James MaschlerSr., Rt. 1, Box 120M, Louisburg, KS 66053. Juelton.TN 37080. 10416 Tierney, 6507 N. Campbell, Gladstone, Mo 641 18. 10022 454th Bomb Sq., 323rd Bomb Grp. (WWII) (Sept-New 10135 USS Virgo AKA-20/AO-30 (Sept-Gettysburg, PA) Rita Orleans) Joe Havrilla, 1208 Margaret St., Munhall, PA LST-983 (WWII) (Sept-New Orleans) Henry USS Taggart, 214 Amhurst Rd., North Cape May, NJ 08204. 15120. 10308 McHarg, 2600 Denmark Rd., Columbus, OH 43232. 10369 455th Bomb Sq., 323rd Bomb Grp., 9th AF (WWII) 10187 USS Wesson DE-184 (Oct-Greensboro, NC) Charles (Sept-Seattle) Leonard Metzger, 18409 64th N.E., Madison DD-425 (WWII) (Sept-Wildwood Crest, USS Wismer, 96 Milford Square Rd., Quakertown, PA Seattle WA 981 55. 10414 NJ) Arthur Norgard, 2 Dune Lane W., Beach Haven, NJ 18951. 10112 456th Bomb Sq. (M) (Oct-New Orleans) Thomas Curtin, 08008 10356 USS Wheatear AM-390 (June-Cincinnati) Larry Metz- 116-13 103rd Ave., Richmond Hill, NY 11419. 10464 USS Major DE-796 (Oct-Memphis, TN) Bob Young, Box ger, 35 Northwest St., Allentown, PA 18102. 10157 487th Bomb Grp (H) (Sept-Buellton, CA) Pete Riegel, 251.Gardena.CA 90248 10419 USS Wilkes-Barre CL-102 (Oct-St. Louis) Gaylon 409 N. 3rd St., Lompoc, CA 93436. 10463 L. (Sept-Newport, Rl) USS Mannert Abele DD-733 Roy Patterson, 2642 Horshoe Ridge, St. Charles. MO 650th AAF Band of Presque Isle, ME (Sept-Reno. NV) 13 Algonguin Rd., Worcester, Andersen, MA 01609. 63303. 10540 Lloyd Smrstik, 5638 Stratford Cr., #116, Stockton, CA 10204 USS YMS-52 (Oct-Charleston, SC) Hollis Nelson, 1702 95207, 10267 (Sept-Savannah, Allen USS Manning DE-199 GA) 11 St., Moline, IL61265. 10127 801 st/492nd Bomb Grp. (Sept-Houston, TX) Sebastian Ingram, 1 125 Cobb Rd., Savannah, GA21410 10476 USS Zellin APA-3 (Sept-St. Louis) Thomas Hoffman. Carriere, 4939 N. 89th St., Milwaukee, Wl 53225. USS Marblehead CL-12 (Sept-San Antonio) Fred 35444 Ave. H, Yucaipa, CA 92399. 10341 10362 Brown, 12 White Ave,, St. Louis, MO 63135. 10407 V-12 Program (WWII) (Nov-Norfolk, VA) Robert Jones, 871st Airborne Engrs. Bn. (Sept-Boone, IA) Peg USS Marsh DE-699 (Aug-Las Vegas) John Cullinan, Box 12728, Arlington, VA 22209. 10223 Hoagland, 59 Medford-lndian Mills Rd., Vincentown, 2920 Karen Dr., Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732. V-12 Program, Dubuque, IA (Oct-Dubuque, IA) Diane NJ 08088. 10322 10364 Gallagher, 2000 University Ave., Dubuque, IA 52001 926th Signal Bn. (SEP)TAC (Aug-Madison, Wl) H A. USS Milwaukee CL-5 (June- Mountain Home, AR) Albert 10076 Turner, BoxT, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214. 10208 Hensley, 29 Roman Ave., Staten Island, NY 10314. VB-18 (USS Intrepid/WWII) (Sept-Cocoa Beach, FL) 1352nd AAFBU, Search & Rescue (Sept-Marco, FL) 10003 Jim Schneider, 2748 Elm Dr., Palm Bay, FL 32905 Donald Pricer, 1860 Dogwood Dr., Marco, FL 33937. USS Missouri BB-63 (1947-51) (Ocl-Jacksonville. NC) 10167 10365

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Greebriar, Columbus, MS 39701. 10106 Salinas AAB (All units) (Sept-Salinas, CA) Harold USS New Bedford PF-71 (Sept-Colorado Springs) McCook AAF Base (Military/civilians) (Sept-McCook, Fairfax Cir. Oberg, 3 , Salinas, CA 93901. 10165 Charles Williams, 1427 Amelia St., Royal Oak, Ml NE) Dale Cotton, McCook AAB Hist. Soc, Box B-29, Tuskegee Airmen Inc., 15th AF (WWII) (Aug-Detroit) 48073.10114 McCook, NE 69001. 10027 Harry Stewart, Box 21908, Detroit, Ml 48221 .10016 USS Pride DE-323 (Sept-Mount Laurel, NJ) Joe Oxley Stalag Luft 1, North 2, Bks. 3, Rm. 6 (June-Rochester, WWII Flight Nurses Assn. (June-Louisville, KY) Mrs. 1005 Arline Ave., Glen Dora, NJ 08029. 10456 MN) Donald Overdorff, 970 Midland Ave., York, PA Anthony Cerasale, 463 Port Royal Blvd., Satellite USS Samuel Chase APA-26 (WWII) (Oct-Louisville, KY) 17403. 10233 Beach, FL 32937. 10317 George Williams, 11319 Amboy St., Spring Hill, FL 34609. 10284 USS Uniontown PF-65 (Oct-St. Louis) Robert Peterson, 1008 Sunset Dr., Pocahontas, IA 50574. 10270 Army Air Forces Marines

1 st T&C Sq., 5th AF (Korea) (Fall) James Bishop, 853 2nd Bn., 2nd Marines, 2nd Div., F Co., 2nd Pltn. Derby Farm Dr., Severn, MD 21144. 10072 (WWII) (Sept-Terre Haute, IN) E.L. Furnas, Rt. 52, Box Miscellaneous 5th Ftr. Sq. (Oct-Orlando, FL) Jim Empey, 2207 Pike Ct., 161,Terre Haute, IN 47805. 10053 Cocoa, FL 32926. 10156 2nd Bn., 5th Rgt., 1st Div., Easy Co. (Korea) (Sept- 8th GASCO, HQ&HQ Sq., 9th AF (Oct-Louisville, KY) Azores, Lajes Field (1940s & '50s) (Sept-Wright New Orleans) Bart Dauberman, 526 N. 2nd St., Bill Swanson, 3914 Elfin Ave., Louisville, KY 40207. Patterson AFB) Robert Watson, 4171 Rondeau Ridge Lykens, PA 17048. 10361 10123 Dr., Kettering, OH 45429. 10072 3rd Bn. 9th Marines, I Co. (WWII) (Oct-St. Louis) 13th Bomb Sq. (Korea) (Aug-St. Paul, MN) Howard Bataan & Corregidor Survivors (Other Far East Ex- Robert Ghsinger, 8580 Harold Dr., Berkley, MO 631 34. Johnson, 4103 S. Sylvia Ln., Shoreview, MN 55126. Village, 10439 POWs) (Aug-Fontana NC) Wayne Carringer,

10387 Box 46, Robbinsville, NC 28771 . 10388 3rd Bn., 1st Marines Assn. (WWII) (Aug-Omaha, NE) 1 5th Tac. Recon. Sq. (WWII) (Sept-El Paso, TX) Norbert Civilian Conservation Corps, Cos. 2735/1797 (Sept- Carl Bennett, Rt. 1 , Box 341 , State Line, MS 39362. Kirkpatrick, HCO 4, Box 469, Marble Falls, TX 78654. Marysville, KS) Donald Cushing, St., 10061 606 Oak Marys- 10375 Ville, KS 66508. 10227 3rd Bn., 5th Marines, G Co. (Korea) (Aug-San Diego) 68th Service Grp., 1151st QM Co. (Sept-Tell City, IN) Civilian Conservation Corps, Co. 1733 (Oct-Ava, MO) Tex Downes, 708 Loma Linda Rd., Austin, TX 78746. Harvey Willis, Livermore, Box 321 , KY 42352. 10215 10031 Glenn Wallen, Rt. 1, No. 17, Good Hope, IL 61438. 74th Ftr. Sq., 23rd FG, 14th AF (China/WWII) (Oct-Fort 10382 5th & 14th Defense Bns. (WWII) (Oct-Hyannis, MA) Walton Beach, FL) Charlie Cook, 6305 N. Ocean Blvd., Korean War Veterans and Era Assn. (Oct-Phoenix) Jim Robert Herbst, 19 Shannon Ridge Rd., Danbury, CT Myrtle Beach, SC 29577. 10247 Bork, 06810.10230 3301 W. Encanto, Phoenix, AZ 85009. 10017 90th Bomb Grp. (H) (Oct-Sacramento, CA) Bill Martin, Korean War Veterans Assn. (IL Convention) (June- 5th MarDlv. Assn. (Sept-San Diego) William Dwyer, 21 5144 RidgevineWay, FairOaks, CA 95628. 10462 Decatur, IL) Billy Smith, 6 MacCory Dr., Decatur, IL Garfield Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406. 10459 94th Bomb Grp. (Oct-Dayton, OH) Wade Wilson, 1941 62522. 10241 5th Med. Bn., 5th MarDlv., B Co. (June-San Diego) Harris Ave., San Jose, CA95124. 10329 Francis Ebenkamp, 1413 Maute St., Jasper, IN 47546. 97th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept-Omaha, NE) Harry 10271 Alsaker, 1308 Jackson St., Missoula, MT 59802. 7th Serv. Rgt., Motor Trans. Co. (Sept-San Diego) Mel 10435 Bochman, 2089 Cirone Way, San Jose, CA 95124. 97th Bomb Wing (1946-59) (Sept-Nashville, TN) L.J. 10163 LET'S GET TOGETHER

Capps, Rt. 1 , Box 369A, Erin, TN 37061 . 1 0077 10th Defense Bn. (Sept-Lancaster, PA) Lester 304th Ftr. Sq. (Pinellas AB/WWII) (Sept-Arlington, VA) This column is for notices of proposed reunions. Auchmoody, Box 6, Mt. Joy, PA 17552. 10371 Charles Aikman, 1415 Nabors Ln., Odessa, TX 79761 Notices should be submitted on official forms that can be 23rd Marines, 4th Div., RW Co. (WWII) (Oct-Bedford, 10400 obtained by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope PA) Paul Policastro, 2722 North Bend Rd., #1, 342nd Serv. Sq. (Sept-Batavia, NY) Charles Brunhoelzl, to Let's Get Together, The American Leqion Magazine, Cincinnati, OH 45239. 10136 204 Cooper St., Courtdale, PA 18704. 10013 P.O. Box-1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices are 23rd Rgt., 4th MarDlv., F Co. (Navy included/WWII) 38l8t Bomb Grp. Assn. (Sept-Nashville, TN) Howard published only one time per unit per year. No notices are (Sept-Nashville, TN) Bob Jeter, 2408 Pafford Dr., Kesley, 5908 Manor Place, Brentwood, TN 37027. published in November, the Convention issue. Nashville, TN 37206. 10300 10245 F-2-5, 1st MarDlv. (Korean War) (Sept-Jacksonville, 388th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Aug-Valley Forge, PA) Edward NC) A.B. Hendrickson, 705 Doris Ave., Jacksonville, Huntzinger, 1925 S.E. 37th St., Cape Coral, FL 33904. NC 28540. 10139 10378 HMM-265 (Vietnam Era) (June-Pensacola, FL) Dave Army 390th Bomb Grp. (WWII) (Oct-Tucson) Bob Waltz, Box Boatwright, Box 448, Chiefland, FL 32626. 1 01 92 15087, Tucson, AZ 85708. 10469 Panama Canal Marines (1941-45) (Sept-Fre- 426th Night Ftr. Sq. (Oct-San Antonio) Rolan Schmidt, 1st/94th Field Arty., C Btry. (Germany/1972-73) Butch dericksburg, VA) John Boyce, 51 1 5 MacNamara Dr., Rt. 4, Box 72, Fredericksburg, TX 78624. 10040 Westfall, 790 Louis St., Beckemeyer, IL 62219. 10544 Fredericksburg, VA 22407. 10342 442nd A. F. Reserve Assn. (June-Richard-Gebaur AFB, 3rd Bn., 17th Inf. Rgt., 7th Inf. Div., K Co. Stanley V-12 Program (WWII) (Nov-Norfolk, VA) John Daven- MO) Joe Blair, 3214 E. 104th St., Kansas City, MO Lawrence, 241 Gunnell Rd., Grants Pass, OR 97526. port, 125 Dillmont Dr., Worthington, OH 43235. 10222 64137. 10418 10561 VMF-211 (Sept-St. Louis) Jim Perin, 3224 Laurel Dr., 444th Ftr. Inter. Sq. (Oct-North Charleston, SC) Wallace 8th Field Hospital & attached units (Nha Trang) Everett, WA 98201. 10028 Mitchell, 535 Mimosa Rd., Sumter, SC 29150. 10045 Delmar Harris, 404 N.E. F St., Stigler, OK 74462. VMF-311 (July-Poughkeepsie, NY) Paul Goldberg, 627 461 8t, 484th Bomb Grps. (Sept-Kansas City, MO) Bud 10577 Wayland Rd,, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. 10088 Markel, 1 1 22 Ysabel St., Redondo Beach, CA 90277. 9th Station Hospital John Funderok, Rt. 1, Box 195C, 10404 Delphi, IN 46923. 10496 598th Engr. Sq., 382nd Service Grp. (Oct-Midland, TX) 13th Station Hospital (WWII) P A. Bernard, 7628 Lee West, 1209 Gem St., Tulare, CA 93274. 10197 Vintage Ct., Indianapolis, IN 46226. 10576 674th S AW Co. (Aug-Canton, OH) Jack Harmer, 4069 Coast Guard 21 st Engrs. (C) (1952-53) M.L. Marcey, Rt. 9, Box 308, Gardner Rd., Metamora, Ml 48455. 10379 Winchester, VA 22601. 10571 679th/703rd/1022nd/1536th/1537th/1 539th Ord. 33rd Inf., H Co. (Panama Canal/1940-41) John Ondrey, Cos., 5th AF (WWII) (Sept-Buffalo, NY) Nate Frankel, USCG LST-770 (Oct-Clearwater Beach, FL) Herbert 541 Pelham Rd., New Rochelle, NY 10805. 10505 1609'AlmaraClr., Louisville, KY 40205. 10274 Bartlett, 2363 Israeli Dr., #59, Clearwater, FL 34623. 63rd Ord. Depot Co. (Germany/1951-53) Richard 756th TC Sq., TAS, MAS (Oct-Dayton, OH) Bert Stewart, 10032 Sheridan, 105Terrace St., Sheffield, AL 35660. 10513 Box 8396, Temple Hills, MD 20757. 10258 USCGC Cobb 181 (Sept-Baltimore) Herbert Baker, 535 67th Signal Bn. (WWII) Victor Slchting, 876 St. John 1503rd AB Grp., Haneda AFB (Aug-Moline, IL) William Magill Ave., W. Colllngswood, NJ 08107, 10030 Rd., Martinsville, IN 46151, 10573 Teichman, 4338 5th St., East Moline, IL 61244. 10321 USCGC/USS Glacier AGB/WAGB-4 (Aug-Salem, OR) 70th QM Truck Co., 5th Army (1943-45) Carlton Guillory 3450thTng. Sq. (Adm) (Sept-Dayton, OH) L.M. Benson, Bruce Brady, Box 14007, 4000 Lancaster Dr. N.E., Sr., Box 76, Highlands, TX 77562. 10518 1000 S. Eastern Ave., Jacksonville, AR 72076. 10005 Salem, OR 97309. 10178 116th FA, 31st Inf. Div. (WWII) Philip Rosete, 3112 3910th Bomb Grp. (England/1950-53) (July-Tampa, USS Belfast PF-35 (Aug- Wadsworth, OH) Jesse Dewey St., Tampa, FL 33607. 10500 FL) Bill Parkhurst, Box 2881, Tulsa, OK 74101. 10110 Vaughn, 7577 Bear Swamp Rd., Wadsworth, OH 140th Tank Bn., 40th Inf. Div., A Co. Charles Fortner, 6147th Tact. Cont. Grp. (Oct-San Antonio) Billy Turner, 44281. 10137 71 6 North Ave. N.W., Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. 10485 8702 Midcrown Dr., San Antonio, TX 78239. 10337 USS Casper PF-12 (Sept-Colorado Springs) Robert 150th Inf. Rgt. Noble Lanham, 1282 Poca River Rd., Air Tech. Service Command, Flight Section, HQ Sq. DeWitt, 4762 E. Harvey, Fresno, CA 93702. 10056 Poca.WV 25159. 10564 (July-Fairborn, OH) Walter Huzzar, 742 Perry St., Van USS Gen. Hugh L. Scott AP-13 (WWII) (Sept-Seattle) 155th Inf. Rgt., 31st Dixie Div. (1953-55) Harvey Wert, OH 45891. 10124 Joe Pantano, 1511 Eagle Ridge Dr., F-2, Renton, WA Thatcher, 135 E. Central Ave., Van Wert, OH 45891. HQ & HQ Sq., 20th AF, 21 st Bomber Command (WWII) 98055. 10099 10534 (Sept-Colorado Springs) John Mollerskov, 1407 USS Harveson DE-316 (Ocl-Nashville, TN) Ed Hollins, 180th Bn., 45th Div., D Co. (WWII) David Hankey, 947 Oakdale Ave Racine, 241 O St., Seaside Park, NJ 08752. 10081 Conneaut Ave, Bowling Green, 43402. 10491 , Wl 53406. 10046 OH HQ & HQ Sq., 2nd AF (WWII/Spokane & Colorado USS Key West PF-17 (Nov-Charleston, S.C.) James 188th Med. Bn., HQ, Det. /618th Med Clr./421st Med

Springs) (Sept-Colorado Springs) Grady King, 2609 Dekas, 1 10 BigelowSt., Brighton, MA 021 35. 10431 Coll. Cos. Claude Humble, 417 W. Silver Meadow, Fenwick Dr., Dallas, TX 75228. 10232 USS Lorain PF-93 (Sept-Colorado Springs) Raymond Midwest City, OK 731 10. 10493

Pilot Class 43- A- 1 (Sept-Seattle) Owen Skau, 41 1 Williams, Box 864, Marmora, NJ 08223. 10430 202nd Ord. Depot Co. (WWII) Clyde Colloms, 920

S.W. 325th St., Federal Way, WA 98023 10194 USS LST-1 68 (Sept-New Orleans) Fred Powelelt, 1 14 S. Georgia Cir., Cleveland, TN 3731 1 . 10502 Pilot Class 43-G, Williams Field (June-Portland, OR) Main St., Lake Mills, Wl 53551. 10298 204th FA Bn. Fred Lingner, 3633 Fox Run, Cibolo, TX

Earvie Cloyd, 4236 N 34th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85018. USS LST-18 (Sept-New Orleans) L.P. Clooney, 1 174 78108. 10533 10035 CurtinLane, Houston, TX 77018. 10352 222nd Ord. HM Co. William Wolfe, 49255 Purinton Ave., Pilots Class 44-H-l-J (Sept-Washington, DC) Norbert USS Machlas PF-53, Escort Div. 33 (Sept-New East Liverpool, OH 43920. 10579 Engle, 10003 Glen Way, Ft, Washington, MD 20744. Orleans) John Jones, 806 Helene St., Wanlagh, NY 270th Engr. Bn., Cos. A/B/C Frank Scandin, 7400 10068 11793. 10122 Please turn page

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the network. Accompanying for your efforts," Maj. Roadway, Teamsters Rally Spanogle were headquarters McGown said. "It's good to staff members and National know that through programs Vice Commanders George like this their families are Sampson of New Jersey; being taken care of." For Support Network James Anderson of Wyom- John Neal, president of ing; Fred Ingellis of Missis- the Indiana Conference of sippi; and Lew Adams of Teamsters and president of Nebraska. Local 135, set the tone for "We have a philosophy the fund-raiser by contributing on behalf of that we call devotion to $500 mutual helpfulness," his organization. "I'm proud to see this is a joint venture Spanogle said at the rally. the union the "We've been through in between and other generations what these company. There's nothing troops are going through better than what we're doing for families," now. That's what the Family these Neal said. Support Network is all about." The Roadway and Team- sters rally highlights what is Echoing those sentiments, possible through teamwork, Maj. Gary L. of McGown the same approach repre- Military Department the of sented by The American Indiana said the Roadway Legion's dedication to the UNITED— At the check presentation by Roadway and union and Teamsters rally is patri- families of Desert Storm per- officials to support the Family Support Network (from the otism in action. sonnel who receive assistance, left) are Dan Barton, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 135; Dan Marsico, Roadway terminal manager; John Neal, "You can't imagine the thanks to The Family Support president of Local 135 and the Indiana Conference of appreciation our troops have Network. Teamsters; and National Adjutant Robert W. Spanogle.

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62 AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE FAMILY SUPPORT VICTOR BORGE VIDEOS Continued from page 47 THE BEST OF BORGE The King of Musical "We also handled calls from husbands whose wives were sent to the Persian Madness Now on Gulf," Chilelli said. "A lot of these fellows were in a bind because they Hilarious Home Video didn't know how to cook or do laundry." One of the calls handled laid the You'll need a seatbelt to groundwork for a meeting of Desert stay in your chair while he Storm families at the Post. "We're performs his outrageous going through some difficult times, and pratfalls, one-liners, piano I believe a support group is necessary," variations, and side-split- said Karen Olson, whose husband was ting musical explanations. sent to Saudi Arabia last August after More popular than ever, Iraq's brutal conquest of Kuwait. She classy Victor Borge, the called the Legion network and suggested beloved "Great Dane", per- the formation of the group. forms his unique brand Several families attended that first of humor, coupled meeting and expressed their concerns, with the most delight- ranging from financial hardships to ful, enchanting piano fears about the safety of their loved solos, before a live ones in the Persian Gulf. Families were audience. In the 45 told about their rights under the Soldiers' minute show soprano and Sailors' Relief Act. Marylyn Mulvey, whose deadpan Some of those attending— often face, coupled with a brilliant voice, choking back tears, told of the frustra- sets Borge up for one of the funniest tions and loneliness they have shouldered routines ever created. for several months. "We are so proud of "The Best of Victor Borge" you," a woman Legionnaire told the Legendary Comic Routines 45 minute show - Act One group. $1995 As the meeting came to a close, an The 90 minute show includes every- ONLY Auxiliary member seemed to sum up thing from the 45 minute show, plus ALSO AVAILABLE: why The American Legion Family Sup- an additional 45 minutes of comedy madness. Just thought "The Best of Victor Borge" port Network was created. "If we can't when you you couldn't laugh any more, Borge teams 90 minute extravaganza - share the tears of these families, we with the very funny Sahan Arzruni in Act One and Act Two shouldn't be here." Borge's piano interpretation of the But the network has shared more than combined four-hand "2nd Rhapsody by Fliszt." tears for the multitude it has helped. It $2995 Even the piano can't stay still. His ONLY has shared The American Legion's "Inflationary Language" brings the never-ending pledge of devotion to the ABOUT THE hilarity to an even higher level, which and their families. ARTIST nation's defenders can only be topped by the one and Victor Borge And it also shares replacement flags for only "Phonetic Punctuation." was hailed as a mothers who fly the red, white and blue "The Best of Borge" videos are gems piano prodigy in honor of their sons. you will enjoy viewing again and again. at age 8 and Warning - you may have difficulty wip- gained fame for ing the smiles off. combining comedy with piano music. He holds the record for the most LIFE MEMBERSHIPS "The Master Funnyman of the Age" one-man shows on Broadway - TIME MAGAZINE (849, in 1953). Harold Arnott, Harold B. Casey, Rush Propper, Joseph Stefix (1980), Raymond L. Parenteay Russell Trembath PUBLISHERS CHOICE©, Box 4174, Dept. HA50-LA (1981) , William Sweeney, G. Publishers

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"In my neighborhood, I saw soldiers should be tried as a war criminal in Both women are nurses who work in shoot women and children for no reason world court— but not only for what he private hospitals in civilian life. other than being Kuwaitis," Shammari did to the people of Kuwait. "He has "Just thank God our people will be said. "They would just point the gun at brought about the needless deaths of his going home alive and healthy and that their heads and pull the trigger. I will own people, too, and that makes him the worst scenario never happened," always remember their screams and the worst kind of criminal." Murphy said. "We were ready if it had, hear their begging for mercy." Shammari cups his hands over his though." Indeed, the atrocities committed ears and smiles as another jet streaks The Med Base America encampment against Kuwaitis in the final days of by. He knows he's one day closer to resembles scenes depicted in the TV Iraqi occupation were stepped up, returning home. series M*A*S*H, but don't look for any according to Marine Brig. Gen. Richard GIs in dresses or MDs boozing it up on Neal, spokesman for the Central Com- NEAR THE SAUDI-KUWAIT BORDER- home-made hooch. The atmosphere mand in Riyadh. Lt. Joyce Murphy and Capt. Linda has eased since the announcement of "They were destroying evidence of Stewart lay back on the sandbags and the ceasefire, and those off-duty are

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it would have been easier to combat. the Pentagon like a torpedo. Earlier, Certainly, the Soviets have provided there had been great reluctance on the Q- How would you grade the U.S. materials, training and funding to ter- military's part to address terrorism, counter-terrorist effort? rorists. But that is far different from a but the Long Commission set new reached a high point in 1986. centrally directed conspiracy, and there priorities. Alt Afterwards, it sank on the agenda is no evidence to support such a conspi- and that's continued with the Bush racy. Qi The military's most direct administration, but that has more to do involvement in counter-terrorism was with profile than programs. All of the 0. In 1983, the U.S. Embassy in the U.S. bombing of Libya in 1986. programs initiated over the years Beirut was attacked with a car bomb What was the net effect on terrorism? remain intact. and 17 Americans died. Six months a mixed report card. It per- Alt's The machinery for collecting and later, the Marines stationed at Leba- suaded Qaddafi to be more cir- sharing intelligence is still in place. The non's airport were attacked with a car cumspect in sponsoring terrorism, but mechanisms to deal with terrorist- bomb, which killed 241. Why didn't it did not end Libyan involvement. Qad- created crises are all still there. What's anything change? dafi continued to supply arms to the changed? The Reagan administration entered into power with terrorism as one of its major issues. The Bush administration didn't. Nor have events obliged the Bush administration to ele-

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