Philip McMath, Captain, U.S. Marine Corps, active duty from 1967-1970. He was a tank platoon commander and company commander with 1st. Tank Bn, 1st Marine Division in Vietnam. He was a tank platoon commander and Assistant S-3 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Tank Bn at Camp LeJeune, NC. James McMenis, Major (Ret.), U.S. Army, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, active duty with JAG 1973 to 1993.
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Lee Muldrow, Captain, U.S. Air Force, 1968-1973. Edward Nelson, First Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force, 1974-1978, stationed at Little Rock AFB with 308th Strategic Missile Wing serving as a Missile Combat Crew Commander for Titan II missiles in Arkansas. Frank B. Newell, U.S. Army Reserve, 431st Civil Affairs, 1969-1975, enlisted.
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Richard C. Ourand, Jr., Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Air Force; served 28 years in the Air Force (1979-2007). He is currently a government attorney in Indianapolis, Indiana, with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) handling military/civilian/ retired pay issues and claims. Hugh Overholt, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Major General and U.S. Army JAG Major General and Judge Advocate General. His military education includes the JAGC Basic and Advanced Courses, Airborne School, Command and General Staff College and the National Defense University. General Overholt has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), Legion of Merit, Department of Defense Meritorious Service Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), and the Army Commendation Medal (Two Oak Leaf Clusters). William L. Owen was commissioned in the U.S. Army Reserves on 5 June 1965. Active service and reserve duty. Transferred to the Retired Reserve as a Major, JAGC. Ellis Lamar Pettus, Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve; served as Repair Officer and Damage Control Officer on board the USS Oklahoma City, CLG 5 and as Engineer Officer on board the USS Hammerberg, DE 1015 during his active duty career from 1968-1971. He was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal, the Navy
Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal with Device and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Korea). After leaving active duty, he continued his service for the next 17 years by remaining active in the U.S. Navy Reserve. In addition to serving his annual active duty obligation, Pettus also attended the Navy War College for reservists. Toward the end of his career, he moved from surface warfare to the Judge Advocate General’s Corp. In 1988, CDR Pettus retired as a Commander, U.S. Navy Reserve (JAG). George E. Pike, Jr., U.S. Army National Guard, 1955-1961. George Plastiras, U.S. Army, 1955-1956. David M. Powell, U.S. Army, active duty in military intelligence, 1970-1971, with service in Vietnam. Brian D. Rabel, U.S. Air Force, 1994- 2000. T. Scott Randall, Major, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, assistant professor at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, VA (the third University of Arkansas graduate in a row to serve in that position). He has been in the Army since 2003. Prior to that (19932001), he was a mortarman in the Marine Reserve serving with 3/23 India Company, 4th Marine Division at Camp Robinson, AR. Gordon S. Rather, Jr., Lieutenant, U.S. Navy. Active duty from 1961-1965 and Navy reserve from 1965-1968. Served as Operations Officer on a Destroyer based in Mayport, Florida. Ship made three six-month deployments as part of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Richard A. Reid, Captain, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Byron Cole Rhodes, Lieutenant Commander (Ret.), U.S. Navy, 1978-1994. George Ritter, U.S. Naval Academy, 1961. Allen P. Roberts, Private (E-1), U.S. Marine Corps, 1959-60, U.S.M.C. Reserves, 1960-1965. William S. Robinson, Major (Ret.), U.S. Army National Guard.