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With the China Marines SMHS Graduate Currently Serving with Battalion Activated Over 100 Years Ago with Storied History The Saratoga Sun November 6, 2019, Page 13 Veterans, we thank you and honor you for serving our country and protecting our freedom! “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the hightest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” -John F. Kennedy Photo by Dana Davis Happy Veterans Day! Page 14, November 6, 2019 The Saratoga Sun Take time to honor those who have served - UNITED STATES MArINES Thank a veteran The Outhouse Gift Shop 201 E Bridge Ave., Saratoga 307-326-3884 We appreciate your service. Licensed and Insured local quality catering Scott & Michelle McIlvaine, owners PO Box 1228, Saratoga, WY 82331 307-326-5456 • [email protected] The Saratoga Sun proudly salutes all of America’s veterans! Photo by Joshua Wood Rae Richter served with the United States Marine Corps for a total of four years before returning to civilian life. She now works for a local ranch. CARBON COUNTY’S OUTDOOR HEADQUARTERS From engineering THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! to ranching Tues-Sat 9am-5:30pm • Sat 9 am-3pm Available 24/7 during hunting season 307-326-5551 Veteran Rae Richter goes from airfield engineer to helping out 102 East Bridge Avenue, Saratoga, WY 82331 on local ranch, still speaks with ‘brothers and sisters’ in USMC By Joshua Wood code (MOS) being combat the Marines, in 2013, that Rae Richter has lived in engineer. That, however, her unit was deployed to the Valley for nearly three wouldn’t work out like she Afghanistan. years and currently works had hoped. After she left the Marines, for Kip Kerbs, helping him “Right before I shipped Richter moved to Laramie on his ranch outside Sarato- they told me it was no longer and lived there for four years. ga. Richter is originally from available,” said Richter. She spent a short time in Masonville, Colorado and Fortunately for Richter, Bozeman, Montana before served in the United States she had done well on the spending two years in Col- Marine Corps (USMC) for Armed Services Vocational orado and then, eventually, four years. Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) moving to Saratoga. “I had a lot of friends that test and was able to secure a “I used to work for BMW were going to college and all spot in another engineering in Colorado and that was that kind of stuff and I just MOS. well paying, but I didn’t wasn’t ready for college,” said “I built airfields. The Navy enjoy it. Now, I’m working Richter. “I had another friend has seabees, we were like for Kip Kerbs on the ranch,” that was in the Marine Corps the Marine Corps version of said Richter. “Much more my and he told me I should give them. We maintained, built lifestyle.” it a go.” the airfields, did all the light- Richter advises anyone Taking her friends advice, ing and any tailhook aircraft who is looking to enlist to en- she enlisted in the USMC that came in, we would catch sure that the MOS they are with the intention of her them,” Richter said. “My wanting to have is actually military occupation service MOS was expeditionary air- available. She admits that field technician. They were she was lucky as she had to all expeditionary. They could go open contract following be permanent, but just a the news that combat engi- bunch of aluminium matting neer was no longer available. that goes together like the She continues to keep in pergo floors.” contact with the members of While Richter served for her unit, who she calls her HOTEL four years, she never de- brothers and sisters. ployed. In 2012, she suffered “Still very close, still talk a spinal cord injury that cut to all of them,” Richter said. her time in the USMC short. “Lost many friends, but that’s WOLF It wasn’t long after she exited what happens in war time.” Sincere thanks and gratitude to our veterans! 101 East Bridge Avenue, Saratoga, WY 82331 326-5525 Thank you for your business from www.wolfhotel.com The Campbell Family The Saratoga Sun November 6, 2019, Page 15 Proud to have served UNITED STATES AIr forcE our country. Proud to serve our Wouldn’t change a thing community. Steve Flauding reflects on tour in Vietnam and the details VFW Post #6125 that still remain with him Encampment By Joshua Wood time. The projectionist, “I went to Phu Cat for two always referred to as “Lu- weeks of training and that ther,” would get heckled was kind of exciting because by the audience if the film Saratoga Auto Parts I did something really dumb. reel broke and needed re- I was out at my end of the paired. Beer was always Qui Nhon and it was during in steel cans and it would Thanks you the Tet Offensive and the be squeezed like a tomato bus was five hours out tak- to tell if it was good or not. for your ing us to Phu Cat, whoever “If they didn’t pop back was going that direction. out, they were skunky,” service. Being young and bulletproof, said Flauding. I stuck my thumb out and Another thing that hitchhiked … to Phu Cat.” Flauding remembers, but Steve Flauding has lived he doesn’t see make it into in the Valley for 41 years. films about the Vietnam In that time he has worked War, are the various ways a variety of jobs. He went those serving would mark from being a troubleshooter their short time remaining for Carbon County School in country. District No. 1 to logging to “We had short-timer rib- serving as a deputy for the bons and short-timer sticks Carbon County Sheriff’s De- Photo courtesy Steven Flauding and short-timer calendars. partment for nearly 20 years. A newspaper clipping A short-timer stick is bam- Before all of that, Flauding shows a young Steve boo with a dragon’s head was an 18-year-old who had Flauding. on it and there’s twelve enlisted in the Air Force to sections. I never had the serve in Vietnam. stick, I never had the use “I knew I was going to be seen what those serving in for it, but every time you drafted. In 1969 I was 18 the Army or Marines saw cut a month off you cut a years old. I was prime,” said while in Vietnam, but his section off that bamboo. Flauding. decision to hitchhike 20 miles You ended up putting the At that time, most of the from Qui Nhon to Phu Cat did dragon’s head around your THANK YOU young men who were draft- give him views of the country neck,” Flauding said. ed into service would be ei- as his trip took part in three The short-timer ribbons ther Army or Marines. They separate rides. The first two came from a half-gallon for serving our country and would be the ones that were parts of his travel was with of Seagrams VO whiskey. boots on the ground, moving two different Army jeeps. The person serving who protecting our freedoms! through the jungle in a war “I rode with two Army guys. was on their short-timer that had already been going I thought they were going status would have to drink ~Saratoga Sun for 14 years by the time all the way over there, they the bottle and would then Flauding enlisted. Serving in said, ‘Well, we’re turning off place the yellow and black the Air Force, Flauding did to Camp Granite.’ They let ribbon in their lapel. one tour in Vietnam and his me out in the middle of coun- “I learned a lot from it. military occupational service try. No gun, no nothing. The It’s one of them deals; nev- code (MOS) was refining liq- two other Army guys picked er want to do it again, uid oxygen (LOx). me up with a Jeep and they wouldn’t change a thing,” Thank you First stationed in Tuy Hoa, carried me a little further, said Flauding. Flauding refined LOx for the then they turned off and went With the march of time LOx converters in F-100 jets someway,” said Flauding. moving on from the Viet- Veterans! as well as supplying medical “Then I got picked up by a nam War, fewer of those grade gaseous oxygen for the local in a semi truck.” who served now remain. base hospitals. The plant that When he finally arrived in Two years ago, Flauding (307) 326-5257 Flauding worked on while in Phu Cat, he was asked by went to look up a person 200 N. 1st St., Saratoga Tuy Hoa produced five tons security where he had come he served with. The two of LOx a day. For a two week from. Flauding informed had spoken on the phone a period, Flauding trained in them he had hitchhiked from handful of times and had Phu Cat and eventually was Qui Nhon. planned to meet. relocated to Da Nang. “He said, ‘You’ve got to “Mikey Patruno was his Thanks to all our veterans “Occasionally, I think about be kidding me.’ It was after name, and he’d died. He and all who are serving now this stuff. I get a little teary that I found out that Ho Chi was originally from Buffa- eyed when I see it sometimes. Minh’s birthplace was be- lo. Mike’s one of them guys Not because I was a hero or tween there and Qui Nhon,” helps you get through it,” anything.
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