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November 7, 2015 • VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE • Siuslaw News • 15 B EYONAVA K ENDALL A NITA L. K IRBY AC1, U.S. Navy Air Traffic Controller F RED K OLBECK T HEODORE W. (B ILL ) K ENNEDY Sgt. Major, U.S. Marine Corps 1954-1984 Tours of Duty: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Marine Division, FMF Camp Pendleton, Camp Lejune, Parris/Island, San Diego; Combat Tours: Korea, Vietnam. Staff Sergeant, U.S. Air Force 1951-1954 Tours of Duty: 604th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, Early Warning Radar Unit, stationed on the Czechoslovakian and Austrian borders; Freising AF station and an Army unit in Regensburg, Germany A RT K ONING K ENNETH D. K ETTELMAN Sgt., U.S. Air Force 1967-1971 Tours of Duty: Comput- er operations; ENT AFB, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 1st Aerospace Control Squadron (ADC); North American Air Defense Command C HARLES K ORANDO TE2, U.S. Navy 1954-1958 Tours of Duty: Naval Air Technical Training Center, Jacksonville, Fla. Cpl., U.S. Marine Corps 1945-1947 Tours of Duty: Camp Pendleton and China. He enlisted at age 17- 1/2 but found out the officers had more edu- cation than him, so he got a GED from Grants Pass HS while in China. He started college on the GI Bill at Vanport, which flooded in May 1948, then went to OSU, graduating in 1950. U.S. Army 1971-1973 Reserves: 1973-1992 Tour of Duty: Vietnam J OHN H. L ANEY SP-4, U.S. Army 1959-1962 Tours of Duty: Europe K EITH K RAFT Sergeant, U.S. Marines USN(R) Submarines 1952-1956 Tour of Duty: VMF(N) 513-K-6 Korea R UDY K RAMER Machine Repairman 3, U.S. Navy 1962-1965 Tours of Duty: Vietnam W ARD A. K RUSE J R . PFC, U.S. Marines 2003-present Tours of Duty: Iraq J ENOUS M. L ANGFORD J R . Master Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps 1959-1979 Tours of Duty: Japan, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Quantico, Philippines Subic Bay Marine, part of opera- tion Shufly; used G.I. bill to become an attorney A NDREW L A T OMME J R . Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Corps 1943-1945 Tours of Duty: Europe, Normandy Crow Chief-C47; dropped paratroopers on D-Day
