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