EXTENSIONS of REMARKS August 2, 1990 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS

22090 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 2, 1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Mr. Speaker, it is both an honor and a the House of Representatives and his seven pleasure to salute Rob Bryant today. His cour Congressional colleagues to the Military Ar TRIBUTE TO DYNCORP AND mistice Commission building in the joint se ROB BRYANT age in meeting life's challenges is an inspira tion to all of us. I also want to applaud Dyn curity area at Panmunjom, Korea, for the formal ceremony, which concluded with the HON. ROY DYSON Corp, its officials and employees, for their will turnover, to the custody of the United ingness to become personally involved in this States of America, of the remains of five OF MARYLAND important cause. DynCorp stands as a shining heretofore Missing in Action from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES example to other businesses for its support of Korean War. One was Air Force, and four Thursday, August 2, 1990 Rob Bryant, and their ability to look beyond an United States Army-two tentatively identi individuals handicap. fied but all subject to ultimate corrobora Mr. DYSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tion by the forensic laboratory in Hawaii. pay tribute to DynCorp, a company located in The significance of this very emotional day my district, and one of its outstanding employ ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGIN was that not since early 1954 have any re ees, Mr. Rob Bryant. I am sure that all my col NING OF THE KOREAN WAR mains of our war dead-United Nations, leagues will find Mr. Bryant's accomplish across the board, or Americans exclusively been returned to our custody. ments to be as inspiring as I have. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE I do not know whether this is a harbinger Rob Bryant has been a paraplegic since OF ILLINOIS of things to come, whether there will be a 1982 when he fell 55 feet from an oil rig. De IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES much larger return of some portion of the spite this handicap, Rob has just completed a Thursday, August 2, 1990 8,000 plus that we still carry as Missing in courageous, 3,500 mile "Row Across Amer Action. It is hard to begin to predict the ica". Beginning April 2, in Los Angeles, Rob Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, last June 25 thought processes of an Asian Communist began his 4-month tour of America with stops marked the 40th anniversary of the beginning as extreme as Kim II-Sung. One thing we do _in 1O DynCorp locations, including Williams Air of the Korean war. Before that brutal war know is that this event and the resultant ended 3 years later, on July 27, 1953, 54,246 public consciousness of the very large Force Base in Arizona, White Sands Test number of soliders of all the twenty-one na Range and Holloman Air Force Base in New American troops were dead, and 103,284 were wounded. During the war, 8, 177 Ameri tionalities still carried as Missing in Action, Mexico, Columbus Air Force Base in Missis will have some impact on the posture of the sippi, DynCorp in Virginia, and the Naval Air cans were listed as missing or prisoners of United States-as indeed, over the years, Test Center, Patuxent River, MD. At each war. We still have not accounted for 329 pris the much more vocal community, for hu DynCorp location, Rob was greeted by sup oners of war. manitarian reasons, has had with respect to portive coworkers who hosted community re All in all, over 5, 700,000 American service Viet Nam. ceptions and fundraisers in his honor. men and women were invol'-.(ed in the war, In any event, I went there because it either directly or indirectly. Many of them had seemed . appropriate that, given my modest By rowing his specially designed three responsibilities for the Korean War Memo wheeled rowing machine across country, Rob just survived the rigors of World War II, and still others went on to serve in Vietnam. rial, I should do so. I am no stranger to has raised money for the Kent Waldrep Na Korea. Like many in this room, I am a vet tional Paralysis Foundation to further paralysis However, most of the veterans of the "for eran of the Korean War. I saw it from three research. During the course of Rob's trip he gotten war" simply returned home to resume different vantage points, from the 25th of spoke to over 100 groups to heighten the Na their lives, and were never really recoynized June 1950 to the 27th of July 1953. Interest tion's awareness of the need for more funding for their contribution to the freedom we now ingly enough, late on the 25th of June 1950 for research as well as explaining the needs enjoy. <the 26th, of course, in Korea) the head of Now the time has come to acknowledge the the CIA, Admiral Hillenkoetter said, "Stil and abilities of the disabled. He is also hoping well, what can you do to assist what is obvi to get his name into Guiness Book of World service and the sacrifice of these veterans. Congress has appropriated $1 million in seed ously gonna be a major effort?" I said, "at Records as the first person to ever rowcycle this point, sir, nothing." cross-country. money for the construction of a Korean War Over the next two years in my capacity as Rob has been supported and encouraged Memorial here in Washington. The other $1 O head of the Far East operations division we along the way by a loving family. His wife, million needed to construct and maintain the tried with scant success to stimulate resist Wanice first gave him the idea to buy the memorial must, however, come from private ance activity behind North Korean and Chi rowing machine, and was completely support contributions. Many organizations throughout nese Communist lines. We started from the Nation are working at raising funds for the scratch, we were amateurs, we nibbled a bit ive of his goal to row cross-country. His two but, we had no appreciable impact on the sons, Jason and Jonathan, ages 9 and 7, memorial. One such group, the National Capital war effort from the agents that we infiltrat helped him train for a year and a half in prep ed by sea , by land and by air. It was a real aration for his trip. While the help and support Friends of the Korean War Veterans Memori challenge. Those activities gave me a fair of his family was paramount to Rob's success, al, was organized for the sole purpose of rais picture of what was happening on the bat he could not have accomplished this incredi ing funds. Not too long ago, that group was tlefield that I then joined, later on, as regi ble feat without the generosity of his employ addressed by retired Army general, Richard mental commander of the 15th Infantry as er, DynCorp. Stilwell, who is the chairman of the Memorial's signed to the 3rd Infantry Division-not the Advisory Board. famous 3rd Marine Division that' is so When Rob approached DynCorp manage prominently represented here today by the ment to request time off for training, and to I insert the text of General Stilwell's splen did address before the group in the RECORD officers of that Association. make his cross-country trip, his idea was im And then, finally, I saw the War from a mediately welcomed with the complete sup at this point: totally different perspective when General port of company officials and employees. Al ADDRESS BY GEN. RICHARD G . STILWELL Max Taylor, to my chagrin, hauled me out though, Rob is a valuable employee, DynCorp Given the importance of this luncheon of my command to make me the senior ad granted him leave from his job as a writer of and the patriotism and support that is evi viser for a Korean Army Corps. He said it technical manuals for the military. DynCorp denced by your participation therein, I was a mark of confidence in my potential abruptly left Congressman Sonny Mont and ability, but I tell you-as many in the gave him 2 days a week off to train, and once gomery in Seoul at 5:00 p.m . on Monday, room who have commanded troops, particu he was ready to begin his cross-country jour the 28th of May, to be here this morning. I larly in battle, will confirm-moving away ney DynCorp gave Rob 6 months off with pay had the honor of accompanying the Chair from one's unit, whether a platoon or divi and full benefits. man of the Veterans Affairs Committee of sion or anything intermediate, is tough and e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. August 2, .1990 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22091 particularly <Brigadier General Ayken, can men and women who rallied to the indians and orientals. And three of the 26 please note> because my 4th Battalion was colors; who crossed the wide ocean to defend Army troops will have Korean faces repre- . the Greek expeditionary force second only a people that they never met, in a land that sentative of the Korean augmentation of to the Turkish Brigade in terms of motiva they knew not: who endured the harhest of our ranks throughout the conflict.

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