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November 2020

A special publication of the Lewiston Tribune and Moscow-Pullman Daily News

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WWII veteran recalls constructing airstrips for MacArthur's forces

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By Joel Mills of the Tribune

allace Rugg always felt better with a shing rod in his hands than a rie slung over his shoul-

der.

But even though he wasn’t the prototypical warrior, the self-confessed country boy answered the call of duty when it arrived early in World War II, leaving his family’s 200-acre cattle and hog ranch near Peck at the age of 19 for a three-year hitch with the U.S. Army. The last two were in the Southwest Pacic theater, running communications and building airelds that were crucial to Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s islandhopping campaign to end Imperial Japanese aggression.

“I’d never been away from home like that,” Rugg said of the bout of homesickness that sunk in shortly after he left his beloved Idaho home. “But I nally got over it.”

Getting into the military was a bit more

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tricky than one might imagine during a multinational global conict, however. He was one of the three Rugg children (there were seven total) who were born in Canada when his family lived in Saskatchewan for a time, and the U.S. Navy rejected him over his natural-born Canadian citizenship.

Then the Marine Corps gave him a thumbs down over his weight, which he said was about 110 pounds.

He was eventually inducted into the Army, a development that sent him on his long journey across the country, then halfway around the world. Rugg recalled hopping a train to Fort Douglas in Utah, and then on to basic training in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he learned the skills of a radio communications specialist. The war awaitAUGUST FRANK/LEWISTON TRIBUNE ed, and Rugg ended up with the 1874th EngiWorld War II veteran Wallace Rugg sits for a portrait last week outside Wedgewood Terrace in Lewiston. neering Aviation Battalion.

His unit boarded a troop transport that submarines. The trip was literally no picnic. by soldiers like Rugg played a crucial role in took a month to cross the Pacic Ocean, “The chow was pretty bad,” Rugg recalled MacArthur’s success. zig-zagging along the way to avoid Japanese of the dehydrated eggs and potatoes that “Allied victory depended on seizing lightpassed for food during the arduous 31-day ly defended enemy territory and neutralvoyage. izing enemy strongpoints from Australia to The battalion’s rst stop was the island the Philippines through the following patof Noemfoor, part of what was Dutch New tern: conduct air and naval bombardment, Guinea at the time. The soldiers' work most- land the assault forces, defeat any Japanese ly involved the construction, fortication units in the area, and construct airelds and expansion of airstrips that MacArthur’s and base facilities,” Pearson wrote. forces used to launch attacks against the Her research demonstrated that the airJapanese. Rugg also ran radio communica- bases built by the units provided the nections, and sometimes had the privilege of essary facilities for land-based aircraft so driving a command car or a jeep to deliver carrier-based aircraft could focus on promessages in person. tecting the Navy’s eet.

“It kept me pretty close to camp most of Near the end of the war, Rugg and his felthe time,” he said. “Thank the Lord, I didn’t low soldiers were gripped with the fear that have to go out. I had a rie with me all the they would have to shift from their engitime, but it was the smaller carbine.” neering duties to assist in what promised Rugg spent two years in the theater of op- to be a bloody invasion of Japan. They even erations, including time on three different stepped on Japanese soil when they landed Philippine islands. The work wasn’t usually at one of the country’s southern islands that dangerous, save for the occasional night- was under Allied control. time Japanese bombing runs targeting the But the sudden onset of nuclear warfare fuel dumps at the bases. quickly put an end to those fears.

He said the drill was simple when the “It’s a good thing we dropped the bombs alarm sounded. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” he said. “We “Get your butt out of bed and get down thanked the Lord. That’s what saved us. I in a foxhole if you got one,” he said. “It got wouldn’t be here talking to you.” pretty close to us, but I just lucked out.”

The atomic bombs brought a quick end to In her 2005 report “Engineer Aviation the war, and the soldiers were able to celUnits in the Southwest Pacic Theater Dur- ebrate in style thanks to a special delivery ing World War II,” U.S. Army Maj. Natalie M. MACARTHUR Pearson wrote that the service performed

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Veterans History Project archives stories, photos and official documents

of his best friends in combat, was later archived as part of the Veterans History Project. n an op-ed piece written several years Since Congress authorized the project in ago, Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo recalled an interview he conducted with Lynn Rich- 2000, Crapo said, “the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center has been working mond, a World War II artillery captain. to collect veterans' oral histories, to preThe interview, which included Richserve and make them available to the public mond's reections about the loss of one

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so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.' ” According to the program's website, www.loc.gov/vets, the archive contains information from more than 104,000 individuals. The material ranges from photos and diaries to personal letters and ofcial documents, as well as oral history interviews.

Congressional ofces, such as Crapo's, help spread the word about the Veterans History Project and often work with local veterans organizations to facilitate the interviews.

“Recording the life stories of Idaho veterans helps ensure their service is honored in a way that enables us to learn from their example,” Crapo said.

World War II veterans account for more than 60 percent of the material in the archive, but the collection spans more than a century of conict, from World War I through the Afghan and Iraq wars.

Each individual record includes the name, home state and highest rank of the veteran, as well as basic information such as their years of service, which unit and military branch they served in, and where they served.

About 40 percent of the entries are fully or partially digitized, so they can be accessed online. The rest are stored at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and are available for public review.

The project website has a basic search function; it can also be browsed by war, military branch, race, last name and home state of the veteran. For example, there are nearly 1,500 records from Washington veterans, and slightly more than 1,500 from Idaho veterans.

On average, 75 to 100 new interviews and collections are submitted to the project each HISTORY

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The History of Veterans Day Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislation that was passed in 1938, November 11 was “dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as ‘Armistice Day.’” As such, this new legal holiday honored World War I veterans.

In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress -- at the urging of the veterans service organizations -- amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word “Armistice” and inserting the word “Veterans.” With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, Nov. 11 Kermit Malcom says goodbye to became a day to honor American one of his daughters, 1945. veterans of all wars.

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Dog tag history: how the tradition & nickname started e all know what dog tags are — those little oval disks on a chain that service members wear to identify themselves in combat. But have you ever wondered how and when that tradition started, and why they're called dog tags?

We did some research to nd the answers.

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CIVIL WAR CONCERNS Unofcially, identication tags came about during the Civil War because soldiers were afraid no one would be able to identify them if they died.

They were terried of being buried in unmarked graves, so they found various ways to prevent that. Some marked their clothing with stencils or pinned-on paper tags. Others used old coins or bits of round lead or copper. According to the Marine Corps, some men carved their names into chunks of wood strung around their necks.

MAKING IT OFFICIAL The rst ofcial request to outt service members with ID tags came in 1899 at the end of the Spanish-American war. Army Chaplain Charles C. Pierce — who was in charge of the Army Morgue and Ofce of Identication in the Philippines — recosmmended the Army outt all soldiers with

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According to the Army Historical Foundation, the term "dog tag" was rst coined by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. In 1936, Hearst wanted to undermine support for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He had heard the newly formed Social Security Administration was considering giving out nameplates for personal identication. According to the SSA, Hearst referred to them as "dog tags" similar to those used in the military.

Other rumored origins of the nickname include World War II draftees calling them dog tags because they claimed they were treated like dogs. Another rumor said it was because the tags looked similar to the metal tag on a dog's collar.

Regardless of where the nickname started, the concept of an identication tag originated long before that.

During World War I, Navy tags were a bit different than Army's. Made of monel — a group of nickel alloys — they had the letters "U.S.N." etched on them using a specic process involving printer's ink, heat and nitric acid. If you were Those who could afford it bought engraved the circular disks to identify those who were seenlisted, the etching included your date of birth metal tags from nongovernment sellers and sut- verely injured or killed in action. and enlistment, while ofcers' included their date lers — vendors who followed the armies during It took a few years, but in December 1906, the of appointment. The biggest difference was the the war. Historical resources show that in 1862, a Army put out a general order requiring alumietched print of each sailor's right index nger on New Yorker named John Kennedy offered to make num disc-shaped ID tags be worn by soldiers. The the back, which was meant to safeguard against thousands of engraved disks for soldiers, but the half-dollar size tags were stamped with a soldier's War Department declined. name, rank, company and regiment or corps, and DOG TAG By the end of the Civil War, more than 40% of they were attached to a cord or chain that went continued on page 23 the Union Army’s dead were unidentied. To around the neck. The tags were worn under the bring that into perspective, consider this: Of the more than 17,000 troops buried in Vicksburg National Cemetery, the largest Union cemetery in the U.S., nearly 13,000 of those graves are marked as unknown.

The outcome of the war showed that concerns about identication were valid, and the practice of making identication disks caught on.

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eld uniform.

The order was modied in July 1916, when a second disc was required to be suspended from the rst by a short string or chain. The rst tag was to remain with the body, while the second was for burial service record keeping. The tags were given to enlisted men, but ofcers had to buy them.

The Navy didn't require ID tags until May 1917.

By then, all U.S. combat troops were required to wear them. Exact size specications were put in place, and the tags also included each man's Army-issued serial number. Toward the end of World War I, American Expeditionary Forces in Europe added religious symbols to the tags — C for Catholic, H for Hebrew and P for Protestant — but those markings didn't remain after the war.

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Navy hospital ships have history of answering nation’s call he Navy hospital ships USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are deploying to New York and Los Angeles to serve as referral centers for non-COVID-19 patients during the global pandemic.

As the longest-serving hospital ships in continuous operation in U.S. history, the Mercy and the Comfort have long captured the public’s imagination due to their vast medical capabilities as oating hospitals.

But in the storied history of the Navy’s hospital ships, stateside deployments during global pandemics remain uncharted waters.

Hospital ships have played pivotal roles in naval operations since

the early days of the republic. During the Barbary Wars, Commodore Edward Preble ordered that the USS Intrepid be used as a hospital ship. The reconguration of this former bomb-ketch — a type of wooden ship that carried mortars as its primary armament — in 1803 marks the standard for almost all hospital ships used thereafter. To date, only the USS Relief was built from the keel up to serve as a hospital ship. All other ships — including the Mercy and the Comfort — were converted from other uses, whether as super tankers, troop transports or passenger liners.

Whether it was the USS Red Rover transporting patients up the Mississippi to Mound Island, Missouri, during the Civil War or the USS Solace taking wounded

Marines from Iwo Jima to a Guam hospital, ships have long served in the capacity of ambulance ships.

During the great inuenza pandemic of 1918, the Comfort and the Mercy were each briey stationed in New York, where they took care of overow patients from the 3rd Naval District before returning to the eet and sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. Along with the USS Solace, these ships ferried thousands of wounded and sick — including some with virulent cases of the u — back to stateside facilities.

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, a host of Navy ships was sent around the country to serve as “station hospitals” for burgeoning naval bases.

From the 1850s until the early

1860s, the supply ships USS Warren and USS Independence operated at Mare Island, California, until shore facilities were constructed.

Decades later, the Navy employed the former gunboat USS Nipsic at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, to serve as a predecessor to Naval Hospital Bremerton (Puget Sound). And from 1953 until 1957, the hospital ship USS Haven served as a station hospital at Long Beach, California, supporting medical activities in the 11th Naval District.

Humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations have long been the clarion call for hospital ships. In March 1933 — following the devastating earthquake that hit Long Beach — the USS Relief sent teams of physicians and hospital corpsmen ashore to

help treat casualties. Following the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989, the USNS Mercy — then moored in Oakland, California — provided food and shelter for hundreds of disaster victims.

Since 2001, USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy have taken part in some 19 humanitarian assistance and disaster response missions — such as U.S. Southern Command’s Continuing Promise medical exercise series and Operation Unied Assistance, the military response to a 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean — and treated more than 550,000 patients. But of these missions, only two were stateside deployments.

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time. Gold Star families have borne the losses, and Defense Department ofcials want Americans – especially those serving in the department – to understand what the Gold Star lapel pin and Next of Kin lapel pins mean.

The pins were created ''to recognize

Service members know what the Gold Star represents, and, unfortunately, in a time of conict, many service members have lost friends. Still, the force has a large turnover of personnel, Skillman noted, and there may be some who do not understand the Gold Star program and what it represents. The eTutorial is for them, she said.

The education effort is in response to input from family members who, because of a general lack of knowledge, sometimes get ''unintentionally insensitive questions about the Gold Star lapel button and Next of Kin lapel button,'' Skillman said.

the sacrices of so many,'' said Deborah Skillman, the program director at the Military Community and Family Policy Ofce in the Pentagon. Skillman's ofce has created and posted an ''eTutorial'' on Military OneSource to educate people about the program.

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After the war, Gold Star mothers banded together.

The group incorporated in

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1928. This year’s Gold Star Mothers Day is Sept. 27.

There are still Gold Star families from World War I, and many thousands from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Other requirements and details about the project can be found at the www.loc. week. The oral history interviews must be gov/vets website.

“Time with Capt. Richmond, like time at least 30 minutes in length, and any subspent with other Idaho veterans I get the mitted photographs or written material must be the originals. They also need to privilege of meeting, is deeply enriching,” be accompanied by biographical data and Crapo said. “Their life stories are illustrarelease forms, which can be downloaded tive of the patriotism and service-focused principles they embody.” from the website. continued from page 4

Although the collection is available for public view, the material is copyrighted by the participants and can't be used for publication without their permission.

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Diving Deep: 65-Plus Years of Nuclear-Powered Subs

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n Jan. 21, 1954, the Navy’s rst nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, was launched out of Groton, Connecticut. While the U.S. had been using submersibles since the Revolutionary War — going from hand-cranked wooden rigs to treasured diesel-powered assets during World War II — this ship truly revolutionized the game.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower stands next to his wife who is breaking a champagne bottle on a submarine.

The creation of the nuclear-powered sub ushered in an era in which tactics used up to that point by and against submarines were instantly obsolete. In their place came advanced repower, higher speeds, survivability and endurance.

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There Are Three Different Types of Subs: • Fleet ballistic missile subs There are 14 of these Ohio-class subs, and they are our largest and stealthiest. They can launch nuclear warheads.

Sailors stand on and near the conning tower of a submarine near shore.

• Guided missile subs Four Ohio-class submarines play this role. They can launch Tomahawk cruise missiles and deploy Special Forces covertly when needed.

Several sailors stand on top of a submarine oating near shore.

• Attack subs These make up most of the submarine eet and have the same capabilities as the guided missile subs, but they can also engage in mine warfare, as well as seek out and destroy enemy subs and surface ships.

A submarine pushes through the water partially submerged.

Since the launch of the Nautilus, nuclearpowered subs have grown in size yet are signicantly faster, quieter and can perform deeper dives. Their propulsion plants have grown more powerful and safer, and they’ve become easier to operate and maintain.

Simply said, they will be a defensive mainstay for decades to come.

As for the Nautilus itself? While decommissioned decades ago, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982 and is now open for public tours as part of the Naval History and Heritage Command’s Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut.

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The Comfort was sent to New York City following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it deployed to the Gulf Coast, where it treated 1,258 patients at Pascagoula, Mississippi and New Orleans.

Originally envisioned as a oating trauma hospital for the victims of the twin towers’ collapse after the 9/11 attacks, the ship’s mission changed when it became clear there were not the large numbers of injured expected. Vice Adm. (Dr.) Michael Cowan, Navy surgeon general in 2001, recalled that New York’s Emergency Management Ofce stated the city was being overwhelmed by the needs of the displaced and relief workers.

“The island didn’t have facilities to support the remen and rescuers and police digging through the rubble and sleeping on the hood of their engines,” Cowan said.

“They were becoming dirty, going without water as they worked in harsh environments.” The city requested that the Comfort provide humanitarian services while docked close to the site.

From Sept. 14 to Oct. 1, the Comfort provided hot meals, showers, beds and clean clothes to about 1,000 relief workers a day from its temporary home at Pier 92 in Manhattan.

When commissioned on Dec. 28, 1920, the USS Relief could boast the same amenities as the most modern hospitals at the time: large corridors and elevators for transporting patients and fully equipped surgical operating rooms, wards, galleys, pantries, wash rooms, laboratories and dispensaries, as well as a sterilizing/disinfecting room, all with tiled ooring.

The Mercy and the Comfort are no different in this regard and are comparable to some of the largest trauma hospitals in the United States. Each ship has 12 fully equipped operating rooms, a bed capacity of 1,000, and digital radiological services, medical laboratories, full-serve pharmacies, blood banks, medical equipment repair shops, prosthetics and physical therapy.

Each emblazoned with nine red crosses and stretching 894 feet in length — the size of three football elds — the Mercy and Comfort remain powerful symbols of medical care and hope during the darkest times.

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2020 Salute A VETERAN Wallace D (Wally) Rugg Sergeant - Air Force 1943 - 1946 South Pacific Theatre

Tracie Ann Coy Major - Air Force 18 Years of service Maryland

Daniel W. Smith

PO2-E5 - Navy

1969-1975 Mayport, Florida, West Pac 1971, Around The World Cruise. Med Cruise 1972

Timothy J. Heintz SP 4-Medic - Army April 1970 - Dec. 1971 Vietnam

Randy C. Spray Petty Officer 3rd Class - Navy 4 Years of Service USS Gilmore & USS Bainbridge

Salute A Veteran Page 1 James Stenzel

Philip Bruce Asplund

Mark E. Rice

3 Years Of Service DI-AN 65-66; PHV BAI SVN 66-67 Vietnam

3 Years Of Service Sandhofen, Germany

12 Years Of Service 169th Engineer Battalion, Battalion Operations Officer, Fort LeonardWood, MO

Clint Engledow, Jr.

Clint Engledow III

3 years Vietnam

8 years - Asia

SP4 - Army

Clint Engledow, Sr.

Staff Sergeant - Army Air borne 1943-1945 Europe WWII

SP4 - Army

Cpl. 1st Class - USMC

Major - Army

US Navy

Jerome Schrempp Staff Sergean - Army

Wesley F. Izenhower

2 ½ years of service South Pacific, Tokyo, Japan

1968-1970 Central Highlands, Pleiku; Infantry Medic - Vietnam

LaVon Chamers Behler Nurses Cadet Corps

Harold Behler PFC, Machine Gunner, U.S. Army

3 years of service, 1943-1946 Served in Pasco and Lewiston

Sp 5 - Army

3 years of service, 1942 to 1945 Served in Germany, the Battle Of The Bulge

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2020 Salute A VETERAN Robert Barrentine E4 - Air Force

Val Mundell

460th Recon Wing 1964 - 1968 Denver; Tampa; Vietnam; Wichita

SP4- Army 4 Years 1972-1976 Okinawa, Japan and Washington DC

Pete Busch

Lt. CO - USMC 24 Years Jet Fighter Pilot Bases Around The World, Vietnam War

Amy M. Hudon

E4, USAF 8 ½ Years Active, Reserves, National Guard Florida & Maryland

Gordon Lee Dooley Sergeant - Army Aviator; B17-Gunner & Cook 4 Years Of Service Brownsville, Texas, Germany

Salute A Veteran Page 2 Neil Anderson

LEFT: SSgt. - Army 101st Airborne Infantry/Recon - 1968-1970 Vietnam RIGHT: SSgt - Army Reserve - 1973-1991 Active duty Desert Shield & Desert Storm 1990-1991

Kathy Klaus DT3 - Navy

1993-1997 USMCRD San Diego, CA

Dan Smith

E5 Sergeant - Army

1974-1980 Ft. Lewis, Warren Ok., 2 yrs Infantry, 4 yrs Recruiting, GoldBadge

Nels Anderson

Alan T. Anderson

Loren (Ben) Tannahill

Infancty Light Nachine Ganner and Scout, Italy

3 years of service USS Haleakala, Vietnam

3/29/1941—12/21/1945 Central Pacific Campaign; WWII, Iwo Jima

Ken Eldred

Kenneth L. Alexander LT (JG) - Navy

PFC - WWII 1944-1946

Spec. E-5 - Army 1967-1969 Vietnam

BM-3 - US Navy

3 Years Of Service Vietnam

Sergeant - Marines

Eldon J. Lott

Combat Medic - Army 1969-1971 Vietnam

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2020 Salute A VETERAN Eugene Mullikin

A2C USAF Security

1961-1965 (Bulgarian Linguist) Texas; New York; Turkey

David Mullikin M/ Sgt. - USAF Ret. 1952 - 1975 SAC Crew Chief, England; Guam; Okinawa; Thailand

Robert Gecich Sgt. - Army

Ray E. Tannahill E5 – US Army

1950 - 1952 Combat Infantry Korea

1968-1970; Fort Lewis, WA, Pleiku and Central Highlands

Salute A Veteran Page 3 Staff Sergeant - US Marines

Sergeant - Army/Air Force

Sergeant - Army

Gunner, Radio Operator 3.5 yrs. of service - Mainland US

1946-1947 Korea

Lawrence W Bunch E4 Petty Officer - Navy

J. Patrick O’Kelley

William M. O’Kelley

Molly Wicks Weaver

James Weaver

1951 - 1954 USS Gunston Hall LSD-5 - Japan/Korea

1953-1955 1st Infantry Division, Germany

Richard M Botello LCPL - U.S. MC. Marine

20 years Special Operations Command Pacific Camp HS Smith, Hawaii

28 Years Of Service 8th Theater Sustainment Command Fort Shafter, Hawaii

Hugh W. Tannahill US Army 1943-1945 Philippines

Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class - Navy

Jessica R. Wittman (Cook) 5 yrs. of service - San Diego, CA West PAC, Iraq

Corporal - Army

Marvin J. Wittman

1989-1991 Pursian Gulf

Bill Braun

LTC – Army

4 Years of service Vietnam

LTC – Army

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2020 Salute A VETERAN Tom E. Anderson E4 - Navy

4 Years Of Service USS Midway 1969-1973 Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines

Kenneth Gene Knapp CPO QMC - Navy

20 Years Of Service USS Lexington, SSBN Lewis & Clark

Robert S. Courville First Class - Navy 4 Years Of Service San Pedro, CA

Michael Williams Corporal - Marines

4 Years Camp Pendleton, Camp LeJeune & Iraq

Frank Williams E6 Staff Sergeant - U.S. Army 1967-1969 Vietnam

Salute A Veteran Page 4

Retired members, 148th Field Artillery Battalion, Idaho Army National Guard mobilized for Korean Conflict May 1, 1951-April 30 1953

Seated: Left to Right: SGT James H. Evans, Lewiston, Idaho SSG Daryl Estlund, Clarkston Washington

Standing: Left to Right: MSG Bob Albright, Lewiston, Idaho CW4 Vince Fibelstad, Lewiston, Idaho MSG Ray Servatius, Clarkston, Washington CSM Boyd Pedersen, Lewiston, Idaho

Ron Hayhurst

Sargeant - Army 1967 - 1969 Vietnam

Alex Bayless Corporal - U.S. Marines 2014-2018 Twenty Nine Palms, CA

Matthew McPeak PFC - Marines

1 Year Of Service Camp Pendleton, CA

Jay K. McCann E4 A1C - Airforce 4 Years Of Service Texas, N.Y., Maine

John Marks AMS-2 - Navy

6 Years Of Service Vietnam - USS Ranger

Eric S. Timme

Lieutenant - Navy

2002 - Current NASWI, USS Nimitz, NAS Fallon, NAS Patuxent River

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2020 Salute A VETERAN Merlin “Merk” Cannell Sergeant 1st Class - Air Force 4 Years Of Service- 1950-1954 Birkenfelt, Germany

Melville Kimmel GM2C - Navy

Ryan Klamper CDR PXOHSC23 - Navy

4 Years Of Service Ft. Lewis, Colorado, Georgie, Pleiku, Vietnam

Major - USMC

20 Years (Retired)

Russell Sater Staff Sargeant - Army Special Forces

Petty Officer 2nd Class - Navy

Lance Johnson CPO - Navy

Richard E. Johnson

Floyd M. Johnson

Mathew Johnson

1965-1968 Midway Island; Coast of Vietnam

1941-1945 and 1950-1952 Pacific - Pearl Harbor Survivor

1997 -2019 Iraq; Afghanistan

Natasha J Ireland Airman E-2 - Air Force 1 year & 3 months Robins AFB, Georgia

Martin N. Thompson Sergeant Major - US Army Special Forces 1983 - 2003 Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Germany, Alaska

1943-1946 USS Cates DE763 Atlantic, Pacific Oceans

20 Years Of Service Coronado, CA

Salute A Veteran Page 5 Dennis R. Paul

GY Sergeant - Marines 21 years: Oct. 1962 - Oct. 1983

CA; HI, Okinawa; Vietnam, Japan, Cambodia; Embark Chief, LPD-6, LkA-115, Lks-116, CV-43

Col. Barry Johnson US Army

Retired 29 years Macedonia; Cuba; Iraq; Afghanistan

Patrick D. Kiely Sergeant - Sp5 Army

1978 - 2000 Lebanon; Japan; Persian Gulf

Justin T. Staab

E4 - US Navy

6 Years Of Service Fort Bragg, NC

Chief - US Navy

Jamin D.E. Adams

12 Years of Service - Present San Diego CA, Bremerton WA, Japan, Norfolk VA

Lt. Col. - US Army

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2020 Salute A VETERAN Ken McLaughlin Sgt E5 - Marines VMF(AW)-513

Erik A. Holt Lance Corporal - Marines

James L. Holt Lance Corporal - Marines

Allan McClain AMM2/c - Navy

Anthony K. Pishl Staff Sgt. - National Guard, Army

Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, (California), Naval Air Station Atsugi (Japan), USS Lexington (CV-16) and USS Hancock (CV-19)

Desert Shield, Desert Storm

California

Jacksonville, FL

Germany

10 Years Of Service

4 Years Of Service

3 Years Of Service

4 Years Of Service

1980-84; 1990

Salute A Veteran Page 6 Ira R. Hendren Sergeant - Army Engineers 1943-1948 Germany, France, Japan

Dana C. Beesley Sgt.- US Marine Corps.

2015 -present Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, SC.

Jerome C. Kriegel Specialist 5th Class - U.S. Army Aviation 1966-1969 Vietnam

Rich Grove

Airman 1st Class - Air Force 1959 - 1963 Vietnam; Africa; California; Texas

James J. Hendren E 2-3 - Army Engineers

1969-1972 Bravo Co. (11th Engineers); Korea

Mark A. Lorenz

SMSGT - Air Force

1984 - 2006 Minot AFB, Anderson AFB, Eielson AFB, Hickman AFB, Nellis AFB, Cairo West, Egypt

Robert W. Hendren Specialist 5th Class- Army Engineers 1969-1970 Vietnam

Richard Knigge

Private 1st Class - US Army 1919 - 1919 France, Argonne Forest WIA-Purple Heart

Wesley C, Pishl

FNCL- Navy 1945-1946 PaciďŹ c Theater, USS Terror

Greg Burratto M.D.

LTC - Army Med. Corps.

1965-1974 Omaha, NE; Ft. Lewis-Tacoma; RVN, Fort Ord, CA

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2020 Salute A VETERAN AN Melvin P. Willamson Jr. PFC - Lewiston National Guard 4 Years Of Service Lewiston, ID

Gary Dobbs SP5 E 5 - Army

Jared Snyder MNCS - Navy

2 Years Of Service Fort Benning, Georgia

18 Years Of Service Recruit Division Commander/RTC Great Lakes

Jordan B. Von Tersch Sergeant - Army

David M Bromund Petty Officer- Navy

Salute A Veteran Page 7 John A. Bergen Sr. Fireman 1st Class - Navy 3 Years Of Service South Pacific

Marvin L. Jackson PFC - Army

1950-1952 CA National Guard, Japan, Korea

Al Johnson

Delores Shinall Walk

Anthony Wassmuth Corporal - Army

Bradley Wassmuth Specialist 4 - Army

GMG2 - US Navy S.U.W.

Yeoman 1st Class - Navy Waves

1966-1970 Republic of Vietnam

5 Years Of Service Moffett Field, CA

Henrik D. Juve Jr.

Larry D. Germer E-4- US US Naval Seabee Vietnam

George P. Germer E-4- Army Vietnam

George H. Germer Staff Sargeant - 147th Infantry Army WWII

1944 - 1946 Mokpo, South Korea

WWII 1943-1945; Aviation Cadet; Korea 1950-1952; 1st Lieutenant; US AF Reserve 1952-1984; Lieutenant Colonel

1971 - 1973 Germany

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2020 Salute A VETERAN Randy Martin SMSgt - US Air Force 20 Years of Service

Montana, Alaska, S. Dakota, Texas, England, Arizona, Germany, Kentucky, Florida

Paul Markwalter TSgt - US Air Force 6 Years of Service

Lesley Killgore

First Infantry, Rocket City Vietnam

Holloman, NM; Tyndall, FL; McChord, WA

Ronnie Dean Aiken PFC E3 Vietnnam

Edward Aiken

116th Combat Engineer

Salute A Veteran Page 8 Charles Levie Walter 94th Eng. Batt. Company C., 1961-1964 Germany 1964-1968 Armor Division

David Bruce Aiken E4 Specialist

Charles M Evers Gunnery Sergeant- USMC 20 Years Retired

Andrew J Nuxoll PFC- United States Marine Corps

USA, Japan, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Eastern Europe

July 2020 ~ current/present

Charles Rodney Proctor

USS Frank E. Evans; Three Tours Vietnam

Jesse C. Killgore Staff Sargent - US Army Guard Idaho; 116th Armored Calvary

Warren Horton PFC - Army 16th Infantry

Bu2 (SCW) Turcott- Navy Seebea

1658-1960 Baumholder, Germany

Retired 21 years Combat Engineer Served 1968-1989

Richard L Turcott 7 1/2 years of service Rank ~ E5

Richard Dale Aiken E6 Staff Sergeant Vietnam

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By David Vergun Courtesy of DOD News

obert Tyre (Bobby) Jones Jr. is said to have been the most successful amateur golfer ever to have competed at the national and international levels. The reason he competed as an amateur is because he worked full time as an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia.

He won the U.S. Open in 1923, 1926, 1929 and 1930; the Open Championship in 1926, 1927 and 1930; the U.S. Amateur in 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928 and 1930; and the British Amateur in 1930.

After retiring from competitive golf, he founded the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, in 1933; in 1934, he co-founded the Masters Tournament.

In May 1942, Jones volunteered and

was accepted for military service in the Army ofcer corps, although at 40 years old he was considered borderline too old. In June 1942, he was assigned to the First Fighter Command at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York.

By March 1943, he was promoted to major, and later that year, he was assigned as a military intelligence ofcer for the 84th Fighter Wing of the Ninth Air Force; he then deployed in England.

Just a day after the June 6, 1944, DDay landings on the Normandy coast in France, Jones went ashore.

His unit eventually was assigned to the infantry, and he spent two months interrogating German prisoners of war before being discharged in August 1944 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

During the war, Jones had the honor of dining with Army Gen. n.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the su-preme commander of the Allied d Expeditionary Force in Europe. e.

In 1948, Eisenhower, an avid d golfer, would become a member of Augusta National.

In August 1944, Jones, then a lieutenant colonel, was granted an honorable discharge from the Army.

In 1971, Jones died at age 69.

In 1974, Jones was posthumously inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

In 1981, the U.S. Postal Service issued an 18-cent stamp commemorating Jones.

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After the war, Rugg returned to his beloved Idaho mountains and streams. He married his wife, Louise, and they had three kids; he spent 37 years working at the Clearwater Tribune as a journeyman printer.

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According to the Naval History and Heritage Command, the ID tags weren't used in between World War I and World War II. They were reinstated in May 1941, but by then, the etching process was replaced with mechanical stamping.

Meanwhile, the Marines had been required to wear ID tags since late 1916. Theirs were a mix of the Army and Navy styles.

WORLD WAR II

By World War II, military ID tags were considered an ofcial part of the uniform and had

evolved into the uniform size and shape they are today — a rounded rectangle made of nickel-copper alloy.

Each was mechanically stamped with your name, rank, service number, blood type and religion, if desired. An emergency notication name and address were initially included on these, but they were removed by the end of the war. They also included a "T" for those who had a tetanus vaccination, but by the 1950s that, too, was eliminated.

During World War II, Navy tags no longer included the ngerprint. By the war's end, they also included the second chain that the Army had implemented decades before.

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By 1969, the Army began to transition from serial numbers to Social Security numbers. That lasted about 45 years until 2015, when the Army began removing Social Security numbers from the tags and replacing them with each soldier's Defense Department identication number. The move safeDOG TAGS TODAY Regulations have gone back and forth regarding guarded soldiers' personally identiable informawhether the two tags should stay together or be tion and helped protect against identity theft.

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