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22 • Siuslaw News • VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE • November 9, 2016 N ADJA W ARREN J OHN R. W EATHERWAX Sergeant, Army Reserves 2008-Present Tours of Duty: Iraq when active in Army Continues to take special schooling through the Army; daughter of Pete Warren P ETE W ARREN Technical Sergeant, U.S. Air Force 1977-1995 Tours of Duty: Germany, Italy, Japan, USA Mostly worked Special Duty assignments up until retiring; father of Nadja Warren J ON W ATKINS Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Army 1967-1970 Tours of Duty: Vietnam Helicopter Pilot D ALE W ATT U.S. Army Counter- Intelligence Corps 1954-1958 Tours of Duty: Served 1954 to 1958 in Korea (16 Months) and later at the Presidio of San Francisco. J OHN F. W EISNER Sgt., U.S. Air Force 1970-1974 Tours of Duty: Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Vietnam; Norton Airbase, Calif. Load mason on C-130 (8th Aerial Port) Lieutenant, U.S. Navy 1956-1961 Tours of Duty: California and Hawaii. He was a Navy fighter pilot. E ARNEST W EITMAN J ACK W. W ILSON Cpl., U.S. Army 1949-1952 Tours of Duty: Korea; Ft. Lewis; Camp Breckinridge, Ky., M.I.A. Feb. 14, 1951, for seven days behind enemy lines; received Purple Heart Fireman, 1st Class, U.S. Coast Guard 1943-1945 Tours of Duty: Kiska, Aleutian Islands; Invasion of Tarawa, and Fort Point Life Boat Station in Presidio B ILL W HITNEY E5, U.S. Army, 1966-1968 Tours of Duty: Vietnam, Dau Tiang, Fort Ord, Calif. Assigned to 25th infantry in Vietnam in Jan. 1968. Honorable discharge, Bronze Star J ASON A. W ILSON LCDR MSC USN (04), U.S. Navy 1957-1979 Tours of Duty: San Diego; Bremerton; Hawaii; Okinawa, Japan, Vietnam; Washington, D.C. Awards: Navy Commendation Medal Service with 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions and with 1st and 3rd Marine Air Wings S HIRLEY W ILSON HA 1st class, U.S. Navy 1945-1946 Cared for returning wounded veterans J OHN W ICKS E4, U.S. Marine Corps 1968-1971 Tours of Duty: Vietnam Sea Duty on the U.S.S. Handcock CVA 19; Combined Action Program 3rd CAG and 2nd CAG G EORGE W ILKINS Sgt., U.S. Marine Corps 1967-1969 Tours of Duty: Trained at MCRD; Vietnam F RANK W ILLIAMS T/5, U.S. Army Tours of Duty: Pacific Theater, starting in Malan Bay, New Guinea Awards: two Bronze Stars for the Asiatic Pacific Campaign and Bronze Star for a battle in the Philippine Islands E LVA W ILLIAMS U.S. Army, WAAC, WAC 1942-1945 B OB W OERNER E-4, U.S. Army 1965-1967 Tours of Duty: Vietnam L AWRENCE D. W OOLEY Cpl., U.S. Marine Corps 1946-1952 Tours of Duty: Fleet Marine Force-Pacific 7th Tank Battalion, Sherman Tank Driver; Drill Instructor, Marine Corps Recruit Depot. 1951 San Diego, Calif. W ILLIAM J. W YLIE U.S. Army Infantry 1943-1945 Tours of Duty: Rhineland Aroenes Airborn Assault Awards: two Bronze Battle Stars, Combat Infantry Badge, Purple Heart D AVID J. Y OUNT T OM W ILSON E-7, Master Sgt., U.S. Air Force 1969-1989 Tours of Duty: South East Asia, Germany, Illinois, California First Sgt., 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale AFB, CA, 1985-1989. R OGER A. W ITHERITE Specialist E-5, U.S. Army, 1964-1966 Tours of Duty: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. R ICHARD W ITTWER U.S. Army 1957 Tour of Duty: France and Germany Honorable discharge U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, 1980-1987 Staff Sergeant Tours of Duty: Air Force duty stations were Dyess Air Force Base in Texas and Ramstein Air base in Germany. He served in Army Reserve in Vancouver, Wash., from 1980 to 1981 then changed service to active duty Air Force in 1981. G REGORY G. Z IEGELE Lance Cpl., U.S. Marine Corps 1963-1967 Tours of Duty: 2nd Batt. 5th Marines, Camp Pendleton; I Corps, Vietnam; Infantry Marine Barracks, Concord Naval Weapons Station as a military policeman; an HOA Province; awarded Purple Heart E DWARD E. Z IMMER U.S. Army, 96th Division 1943-1945 Tours of Duty: South Pacific
