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November 7, 2015 • VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE • Siuslaw News • 7 D ONALD R. C ONANT E UGENE C OCKERAM Seaman First Class, U.S. Navy 1945-1946 Tours of Duty: Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif. B RIAN C OLE RM2 (Radioman), 2nd Class Petty Officer, U.S. Navy 1968-1972 Tours of Duty: Western Pacific Vietnam He was aboard U.S.S. Neches when it collid- ed at sea with U.S.S. Orlicka. Escorted Tricia Nixon to Worlds Fair in Sasebo, Japan. W ILLET “S LIM ” C OLWELL U.S. Army 1945 Tours of Duty: Guam N ANCY B. C OUGHLAN Quartermaster, E-5, U.S. Navy 1966-1969 Tours of Duty: Vietnam; re-fueler S TEPHANIE C ONANT E-5, U.S. Navy 1983-1995 Tours of Duty: Middle East E-4, U.S. Army 1957-1960 Tours of Duty: Korea Captain, U.S. Air Force 1974-1994 Tours of Duty: Travis AFB, South Pacific and Alaska; flight nurse T OM C RAIG J OHN C ONNALLY U.S. Navy 1967-1970 Tours of Duty: Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan, and then the 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force where he became a Corpsman (combat medic) with Echo Company 2nd Battalion 5th Marine Regiment conducting search and destroy operations out of the fire base at An Hoa in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. Sgt. E-S, U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, 1958-1964 Tours of Duty: Fort Bragg, N.C.; Fort Richardson, Alaska. Advanced Airborne Medical Specialist E MILY “D EA ” C UTTING Petty Officer, 2nd Class (Sonarman), U.S.N.R. 1942-1945 Tours of Duty: Asiatic- Pacific Area. 2-Camp- aigns, U.S.S. Charles R. Greer, D.E. 23, 2-Task Forces, convoy duty R ICHARD P. C UTTING P AUL C ULY S EAN R. C ONNOR T ERI C OLT R AYMOND C URRY PH3, U.S. Navy 1958-1961 Tours of Duty: Naval Photograph Center, Washington, D.C. U.S. Coast Guard 1986-1991 E-6, U.S. Army 2003-2005; 2009-2010 Tours of Duty: USCG: Alaska and Florence; Army infantry: Baghdad and Al Asad, Iraq Sgt., U.S. Marine Corps 1951 Tours of Duty: Traveled across country from Oakland to Parris Island, stationed at Cherry Point, N.C.; Norfolk, Va.; San Francisco & San Diego We Are Proud of our Veterans at Spruce Point Assisted Living & Expressions Care. ★ Bruce Harrell- US Army ★ ★ Richard Gray- US Navy ★ ★ Jake Castor- US Army ★ ★ Max Harry- US Army ★ ★Bill Carmical- US Air Force ★ ★ Charles Cassey- US Army ★ ★ Donald Butchart- US Navy ★ ★ Gerald Smith- US Navy ★ ★ Robert Dale Lister- US Army ★ ★ Don Martin- US Navy ★ ★ John Almerico- US Army ★ ★ Cliff Morrison- US Army ★ ★ Robert Payne- Army Corps of Engineers ★ ★ Harry Baker- US Navy ★ ★ Bill Conley- Army/ Air Corps ★ ★ Frank Attleberger- Navy Air Corps ★ ★ Frank Zeller-Navy Air Corps ★ ★ Ralph Wheeler-US Navay Reserves/ Air Force ★ ★ Elisabeth Plooy-Royal Dutch Army ★ ★ Don Ferguson-US Navy ★ ★ Wayne MCDaniel-US Air Force ★ ★ Everett Butler-US Navy/ Air Force ★ ★ Richard Long- US Army ★ ★ Richard Gordon- US Navy ★ ★ Al Goodwater- US Navy ★ 375 9th Street • Florence, Oregon 97439 541-997-6111 Lance Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps 2008-present Tour of Duty: Hawaii as a computer specialist
