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Thank You Veterans! to All Who Have Served Or Are Serving This Nation: Thank You for Defending America’S Freedom! Paving, Inc 4D — DAILY COURIER, Grants Pass, Oregon • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2020 SALUTE TO VETERANS Ed Stafsholt Mark A. McMillan Brittney Slack Ronald Lee McCoy Sr. Jay E. Hays Joseph Borras II U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Army U.S. Air Force U.S. Navy U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Private 1st Class 1st Lieutenant Staff Sergeant Seaman Private 1st Class Sergeant Years of service: 1968-1969 Years of service: 1983-1986 Years of service: 2006-2012 Years of service: 1956-1959, Years of service: 1943-1946 Years of service: 1952-1956 Where served: Vietnam Where served: Georgia, Where served: Qatar, plus two years in the reserves Where served: World War II Where served: Korea Germany, South Carolina Kyrgyzstan, Nevada Where served: Illinois, European theater, Washington, California, USS Henrico Mississippi, Kentucky, New York Charles L. Hanscom Joanne (Lehm) Fredericks U.S. Army Gerald W. McMillan Alfred Panacy U.S. Navy Highest rank achieved: U.S. Air Force U.S. Army Donald L. Reedy Robert Eugene Stribling Highest rank achieved: Private 1st Class Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: U.S. Air Force U.S. Army Seaman Years of service: 1958-1960 Senior Master Sergeant Staff Sergeant Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Years of service: 1958-1960 Where served: Kansas, Years of service: 1953-1979 Years of service: 1941-1943 Sergeant Technical Sergeant Where served: Virginia Germany Where served: Colorado, Where served: South Pacific Years of service: 1951-1955 Years of service: 1944-1946 Florida, various U.S. bases campaign, Missouri Where served: Texas, Illinois, Where served: Saipan, California, Japan Okinawa, Japan Albert C. Krugh Eileen Blakely U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy WAVES Fred Keip Steve Willard Siebert Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Merchant Marine, Daniel R. Kirkman Elmer L. Hayman Master Gunnery Sergeant Chief Yeoman Highest rank achieved: U.S. Army U.S. Navy U.S. Army Years of service: 1952-1983 Years of service: 1944-1946, Corporal Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Where served: Korea, 1951-1953 Years of service: 1952-1954 Technical Sergeant Data Processing Technician 3rd Specialist 1st Class Vietnam, Japan, California Where served: Washington, Where served: Korea, Years of service: 1945, 1950-1952 Class Years of service: 1956-1958, D.C. California, Florida Where served: SS Raymond Years of service: 1975-1978 plus four years in the reserves Van Brogan, Pacific theater, Where served: USS Where served: Germany Germany, Oklahoma Independence, Mediterranean David Hahn U.S. Army Lee O. Webb John O. Hill Highest rank achieved: U.S. Air Force U.S. Navy Gail R. Curnow Sergeant Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Mark Wilhelm Jan Burns Women’s Army Corps Years of service: 1966-1969 Sergeant Chief Petty Officer U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Army Highest rank achieved: Where served: Kentucky, Years of service: 1964-1968 Years of service: 1940-1960 Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Specialist E-4 Vietnam, Germany Where served: Oklahoma, Where served: Pearl Harbor, Major Specialist 5 Years of service: 1959-1962 various remote weather USS Sumner, Pacific theater, Years of service: 1976-1998 Years of service: 1966-1968 Where served: Alabama, observation sites Korea, California, Where served: Various U.S. Where served: Oklahoma, South Carolina Mediterranean, Minnesota and overseas locations North Carolina, Vietnam David A. Gaunt U.S. Navy Highest rank achieved: Gill W. Jacobson Muriel Hall Sollender Electronics Technician U.S. Army Ron Breedlove Roger Bills Robert F. Cornett U.S. Marine Corps 1st Class, Submarines Highest rank achieved: U.S. Army U.S. Navy U.S. Navy Highest rank achieved: Years of service: 1961-1968 Specialist 5 Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Corporal Where served: USS Segundo, Years of service: Unknown Specialist 4 Aviation Storekeeper 3rd Class Aviation Ordnanceman Chief Years of service: 1943-1945 USS Gudgeon, USS Toro Where served: Texas, Alaska Years of service: 1966-1968, Years of service: 1950-1954 Years of service: 1945-1965 Where served: plus four years in reserves Where served: Maryland, Where served: USS Lexington, Washington, D.C. Where served: Korea, Morocco, Algeria USS Bennington, Korean War, Washington, Arizona, Texas patrol squadrons William N. Jensen Jr. Regis Cleo Fitzgerald U.S. Army U.S. Army Todd Clinton Pietsch Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Gene Kettwig U.S. Army Private 1st Class Private 1st Class Jerry Stoner U.S. Air Force Leiland R. ‘Bud’ Moon Highest rank achieved: Years of service: 1969-1970 Years of service: 1953-1955 U.S. Army Highest rank achieved: U.S. Army Private Where served: Vietnam, killed Where served: Missouri, Highest rank achieved: Airman 1st Class Highest rank achieved: Years of service: 1985-1987 in action Texas, California Corporal Years of service: 1950-1954 Corporal Where served: North Carolina Years of service: 1950-1952 Where served: Guam, Pacific Years of service: 1950-1953 Where served: Korea Where served: Korea Robert Allen Sandgren Walter ‘Bud’ Hopson David S. Trump U.S. Navy U.S. Navy Glenn C. Bortis U.S. Air Force Highest rank achieved: Highest rank achieved: Joe Steiner U.S. Air Force Bruce Fallon Highest rank achieved: Petty Officer 3rd Class Electronics Technician 1st Class U.S. Air Force Highest rank achieved: U.S. Air Force Major General Years of service: 1962-1966 Years of service: 1965-1972 Highest rank achieved: Lieutenant Colonel Highest rank achieved: Years of service: 1967-1991 Where served: USS Savage, Where served: Various U.S. Sergeant Years of service: 1949-1971 Sergeant Where served: Arizona, Texas, Vietnam sites, USS Long Beach, Vietnam Years of service: 1966-1970 Where served: Korean and Years of service: 1961-1966 Washington, D.C. Where served: Japan, Nevada Vietnam wars Where served: Japan, U.S. Thank You Veterans! To all who have served or are serving this nation: Thank you for defending America’s freedom! Paving, Inc. 650 Redwood Hwy. 541-479-2424 www.moserpaving.com RRedwoodedwood TTee r rraceace AAssistedssisted LLivingiving Serving So. Or. 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