REUNIONS ARMY 93RD EVAC HOSPITAL Nov. 10–11, Washington, D.C., Contact: Pat McTague, Email: pmctague@cox.net 237TH MEDICAL DETACHMENT, HELICOPTER AMBULANCE, DMZ DUSTOFF Sept. 28–30, Dayton, OH, Contact: Phil Marshall, Ph: 937-371-3643, Email: dmz.dustoff@yahoo.com “B” COMPANY 504TH MILITARY POLICE BATTALION PLEIKU MP ASSOCIATION Oct. 4–7, Branson, MO, Contact: Gene Petrowski, Ph: 443-402-0500 USS SAVANNAH (AOR-4) Oct. 21–26, Myrtle Beach, SC, Contact: Ray Heinrich, Ph: 252-715-3132, Email: aor4ray@yahoo.com AIR FORCE AC-119 GUNSHIP REUNION Oct. 10–14, Tucson, AZ, Contact: Everett Sprous, Ph: 520-979-1130, Web: ac119gunships.com OSAN AIR BASE, KOREA 1968–69 Nov. 9–11, Branson, MO, Contact: Vincent Darcangelo, Ph: 724-981-3429 RED HORSE AND PRIME BEEF ASSOCIATION Oct. 8–12, 2019, Las Vegas, NV, Contact: Dick Aldinger, Ph: 407-859-7436, Email: famdinger@aol.com, Web: rhpba.com MARINES 2ND BATTALION, 9TH MARINES (ALL ERAS) Nov. 8–12, Arlington, VA, Contact: Danny Schuster, Ph: 978-302-4126, Email: ditson35@verizon.net, Web: 2ndbattalion9thmarines.org INQUIRIES • Searching for my long-lost brother, Alan Warren Earley, USMC, DOB 12/24/28 or 12/24/30 and last known to reside in Camp Pendleton, CA 1950. Contact Bob Earley, 3548 Wosley Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76133, Ph: 817-361-7987, Email: earleyhome1@gmail.com. • Searching for the family or anyone who would know of the family or heirs of SSML 3C Milton Gross, a survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy on Aug. 9, 1942, during the Battle of Savo Island at Guadalcanal and subsequently assigned to the USS Santa Fe. Contact Bob Weiner at 516-922-0103, Email: bowe554@yahoo.com. • Searching for MSGT Vernon Brown who served with me in the 17th DSES at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, from 1975 to 1976. Contact TSGT Marla M. Patterson, P.O. Box 31885, Billings, MT 59107, Ph: 406-860-4008. • Searching for Charles Ruldolph, Richmond, Va., or Gilford Gibson Jr., McKenzie, Tenn., who served in “C” Battery, 3rd Battalion, 7th Artillery, Bamberg, Germany, 1966–67 Hawk Missile. Contact Dave VanHoose at 606-265-3499. • Searching for anyone who served with me at Marine Corps barracks duty, Adak, Alaska, in 1974. Contact Gino S. Partee, Email: gspartee55@icloud.com. • Searching for anyone who served in the 3rd Army, “Red Ball Express” in WWII. My husband was a truck driver in this unit: 3383rd Truck Company during the 1940s. Contact Kay Wiseman, 7204 15th Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912. • Searching for anyone who served with me in the 74th Combat Engineer Battalion in Fort Campbell, Ky., and Korea, 1950–51, especially Sgt. Oates, my crane driver in Heavy Equipment H & S Company. Contact A. B. Barnes at 919-688-4775. • Searching for Vietnam veterans who were born in Czechoslovakia or relatives of men killed in Vietnam. I served in Vietnam with Co. D, 2/50 Inf. 101st Airborne Division. Contact Manuel Frank Van Eyck, Email: mfvaneyck@gmail.com. NAVY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHERS REUNION Oct. 10–12, Jacksonville, FL, Contact: Bill Solt, Ph: 321-362-5806, Email: nanpvpres@gmail.com, Web: navyphoto.net NAVY SQUADRON VA-115 Feb. 16–19, San Diego, CA, Contact: Howard Triggs, Ph: 763-516-0331, Email: hwtriggs@gmail.com USS CARTER HALL (LSD-3) Oct. 23–27, Pensacola, FL, Contact: Raylah Holm, Ph: 509-607-9021, Email: raylah@aol.com, Web: ussoakhilllsd7.myevent.com USS HARRY E HUBBARD (DD-748) Oct. 24–28, Newport, RI, Contact: Ron and Patty Petrie, Ph: 401-847-3859, Cell: 401-855-3859 USS LEARY (DD/DDR-879) Oct. 14–18, Portland, ME, Contact: Alfred Redden, Ph: 308-530-1284, Email: alshr@allophone.com USS LSM(R)-404 (ALL LSMR PEOPLE ARE INVITED) Sept. 17–20, Branson, MO, Contact: Warrn Gilmour, Ph: 801-641-6538 USS MANLEY (DD-940) May 1–5, Warwick, RI, Contact: Harold V. Kane, Jr., Ph: 609-409-7737, Email: manleypres940@gmail.com USS OAK HILL (LSD-7) Oct. 23–27, Pensacola, FL, Contact: Raylah Holm, Ph: 509-607-9021, Email: raylah@aol.com, Web: ussoakhilllsd7.myevent.com USS RANGER (CVA/CV-61) Oct. 3–6, Mesa, AZ, Contact: Kevin W. Haegele, Ph: 480-543-0980, Email: khaegele@cox.net USS SARATOGA ASSOCIATION Oct. 10–13, San Antonio, TX, Contact: Chip Hayes, Ph: 845-729-8775, Email: uss_saratoga@yahoo.com, Web: uss-saratoga.com • Searching for anyone who served with me in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st US Army Division in Friedberg, Germany, 1948–1950. Contact Ken Shelton at 850-456-6787. • Searching for anyone who served in Narsarsuaq, Greenland, APO 858 from June 1956 to June 1957. Contact Earl Stout at 870-653-5037. • Searching for former members associated with the AC-119 gunships used from 1967 to 1972 in Southeast Asia. We would like to find aircrew, ground crew, support personnel, friends and families, and anyone whose bacon we saved. Contact Jim Dunn, 1570 W. Webb Road, DeWitt, MI 48820–8333, Ph: 517 669-9216, Email: AC119KJimD@aol.com. • Searching for members of 1/506TH Infantry, 101ST ABN Division, mainly E and D companies, who fought in or know of the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord (July 19–23, 1970); especially Krough, Algis, Lee, Friend, Montiville, Libel, Torres, and Lewinsky; and Clark from Charlie Co., later HHQ. Also searching for members of B Company, 2nd/506th Infantry, 101st ABN Division who were on Ripcord their last few days (July 19–23, 1970). My mortar crew took a direct hit. I ran with you to the chopper at midday (TOC pad) carrying a mortar barrel from pit east of 155 position. Contact Elbert S. Griffin Jr., 624 W Waterway Drive, Belhaven, NC 27810, Ph: 252-943-9943. • Searching for anyone who served with me at 178th personnel Service Company, Aschaffenburg, Germany, especially Johnny R. Santoes, Sergeant First Class. Contact Shirley A. Walls-Segers-Brooks, 2599 Hwy 69 S, Columbus, MS 39702, Ph: 662-243-1575. • Searching for anyone who was stationed with me in Japan (on two bases) in the G.C.A., Raplon and Control Tower at McGuire AFB by Wrightstown, N.J., 1955–58 and 1960–1968, before going to Keesler, Miss., as an A.T.C. instructor. Contact Reinhold A. Gassmann, 164 Wagon Ford Road, Easley, SC 29640-7672, Ph: 864-836-8438. • Searching for anyone who served at Udorn RTAFB or NKP, Thailand, from 1970 to 1972. Contact Robert “Bodie” Spicer at 318-614-4267, Email: bodiespicer1950@gmail.com. • Searching for those who were in Vietnam with my father between 1970 and 1975 with the 1st Calvary 5th Delta, or the family members of those who served. Contact Joel M. Cliett #0711864, 2568 Moore Rouse Road, Hookerton, NC 28538. • Searching for anyone who can confirm toxic exposure to the elements in stack gas, namely nitrous oxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide. I was exposed to these elements as Quartermaster on the bridge of USS Barton DD-722 during Hunter Killer duty in Korea and on USS Robert A. Owens for over 3 1/2 years. Contact Robert Bentivenga at 914-522-0135, Email: Rbentii@aol.com. A taste for service... The Panera Bread store in Winston-Salem, N.C., presented members from the DAV Department of North Carolina with a check for $10,795.20. The Change-It-Up donation will assist North Carolina veterans and their families through the department services program. Pictured from left: Department Adjutant Jeremy Roberts, then-Department Commander Kristofer Knowlton, Marketing Manager Jocelyn Wright from Panera Bread, Winston-Salem National Service Office Assistant Supervisor Kimberlee Aviles, Cloverdale Panera Bread General Manager Brian Witt and Assistant Manager Destry Brannock. 40 DAV MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2018
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