"Younger days" sigh... | vfw-post-10483

Some Post members, relatives, & friends in our "Prime".

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

Robert E. McEnroe (1940-1970) Killed on Active Duty in SW Harbor, Maine. USCG, Vietnam, my cousin.	William Eugene Brown (1895-1940) My grand-uncle "Bill" Brown, PFC US Army, WWI, 101st Infantry, 26th Yankee Division, Co. M. He served in Mexico, France and was wounded 3 times and gassed.	Dorothy Gardner US Army, WWII, Dorothy served as a nurse in England. The uniform in this photo was given to the Jacksonville Museum of Military History in Jacksonville, AR. A real Lady!
John Chrismas USA 26th Regiment, 1st Infantry Div. WWII. Landed at Omaha Beach June 6, 1944 D-Day Bronze Star Medal, CIB A true Gentleman.	Roger Witcraft USN Korea, China Service	Russell J. Martin My uncle Russ Martin from Brockton, Mass. US Navy, WWII he served in Europe, Italy and the Pacific.
Joe Moniz USMC Occupation-Japan Vietnam, My Uncle Joe.	Ashley Little US Army, Desert Storm; Department of Arkansas Senior Vice Commander 2016-2017, State Commander 2017-18.	Nap Videan U. S. Navy - Korea
Nap Videan, Jr USN Korea	Elvin Tate US Army Desert Storm 1991 - VFW West Memphis, AR	Tommie "Bum" Benefield US Navy (2nd from left) El Centro, CA 1986
Sir Arlo F. Bartsch US Army Air Corps 379 Bomb Group WWII DFC, AM 6 OLC French Legion of Honor Recipient	Robert G. "Bob" Smith 37th Infantry Division, US Army WWII, Bob is right standing with the cigar. He told me he had to "look like he was in charge", Ha! Bob received the Silver Star Medal for Gallantry in Action and the Purple Heart Medal.	Matthew Hicks US Army; VFW Post 1322 Quartermaster
Michael Ritchey Past Department of Arkansas State Chaplain; US Army, Persian Gulf	"Babe" Brown My grand-uncle. US Army, WWII, Thomas Scotland Brown, Jr.	Joseph H Martin 1969 My brother Joe who was a C-130 crew chief at Little Rock AFB and Germany 1969-1973.
Joseph H Martin Jr USAF My nephew. Jet Engine Aircraft Mechanic. Served 1991-1994 at McGuire AFB, NJ.	Rick Martin ENS, 1980, NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida	Bob McEnroe My cousin Bobby, Killed on Active Duty, USCG, SW Harbor Maine 1970.
Joseph J. Petroni My Uncle Joe, married to my Aunt Lolly. He served in the US Army during WWII in Europe.	Elvin Tate US Army Desert Storm 1991 - VFW West Memphis, AR	Baghdad Airport, Iraq (photo Rick Martin collection)
Doug Beed "Mama's Little Worry" 1st Infantry Div. Vietnam Bronze Star Medal w/OLC and "V" for Valor Air Medal, CIB 1969	Hound, Dark, Pellet, Spike C7F CAOC, Ops Center, Al Udeid AB, Qatar, Tom Brandt, Mark Dold, Pat Connelly, Rick Martin, 2003	My Civil War Ancestors Pvt Norman G. Makepeace (1838-1905), 39th Mass. Inf Co F (Wilderness); Pvt David Flavin/Flavel (1830-1900), 11th Maine Inf. My 3rd great-grandfathers. Great Grand Uncles Pvt Thomas E. Sullivan (1842-1919) & Corporal Patrick H. Sullivan (1844-1902), 11th Mass. Inf. Co. C (At Gettysburg); my 3rd great grand uncle Pvt. James T.F. Smith (1835-1862) KIA Antietam.
Bill Thien Past VFW National Commander-in-Chief; US Navy Vietnam	Arthur Eugene Martin My uncle "Gene" Martin. He served in the US Army, WWII, Central Europe Campaign. VFW Post 1046, Brockton, Mass.	Patrick O. Flenniken Past Department of Arkansas Commander 2015-2016; USAF Vietnam
Robert M. Moniz My uncle Bob Moniz. USMC 1958-1962.	Chuck Noeltner USA; Friend of Post 10483; June 1980 Fort Leonard Missouri	"Gene" Rasure Raymond "Gene" Rasure USA SPC5 Vietnam
Doug Beed "Machine Gunner" Vietnam	Djibouti, Africa 2003 (photo collection of Rick Martin)	Join the Army
Baghdad, Iraq 2003 Green Zone "Saddam" (photo collection of Rick Martin)	Camp Victory, Iraq (photo collection of Rick Martin) 2003	The Benefields LtCol Doug Benefield USAF & B-1 Test pilot and his son CAPT Tommie "Bum" Benefield USN
William E. Brown WWI, PFC 101st Inf. 26th Yankee Div. Croix de Guerre, Purple Heart w/OLC	Scott Fritz & his dog King USAF Persian Gulf	Al Huff US Navy about 1960, my cousin Mary Stinchfield McEnroe's cousin.
Tom Urrutia Korea 1963	Jack Barmettler Friend of Post 10483 Vung Tau, Vietnam 1966	Master Chief Dale Dixon USN about 1981, Friend of Post 10483; a top notch "Shipmate" and NCO! One of the best.
US Marine	MA Chief Robert Shane Smith MAC "Shane" Smith, USN is a "Shipmate" of mine from NABSU 0170 (1999-2001) and he is a relative of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, USN. One of the best, Chester & Shane!	Chief Keith Karnes US Navy, Iraq; A "Shipmate" from C7F Det. 111.
"Gene" Rasure Raymond "Gene" Rasure USA Vietnam	Senior Chief Sherry Philyaw USN	HA1 Russell J. Brown My Uncle Russ. WWII
Navy at the CAOC Navy personnel at the CAOC, Al Udeid, AB Qatar 2003	Islamabad, Pakistan Flying from Qatar to Pakistan 2003 in a C-130 aircraft (photo Rick Martin collection)	My Patriot Ancestors William Makepeace, Simeon Wilbur, Joseph Presbrey, William Wetherell, Levi Drew, James Smith, James Field, Joseph Wilbor, George Ulmer, Simeon Tyler, Moses Downing, Job Bryant, Asa Soule, Daniel Keen, Gideon Soule, Reuben Freeman, John Ulmer, Wm Smith
Islamabad, Pakistan 2003 Rick Martin, Mark Dold, Tim Wilkinson (RAF), Ken Flowers, Mike Brennan (photo Rick Martin collection) Lunch at the US Embassy	Rick Martin T-28 Primary Flight, 1980 NAS Corpus Christi, Texas	Colin Powell Qatar 2003 (photo Rick Martin collection)
Rick Martin with T-2C NAS Chase Field, Beeville, TX 1981	Elvin Tate US Army Desert Storm 1991 - VFW West Memphis, AR	Victor Silvester
President Bush Doha, Qatar 2003 (photo Rick Martin collection)	Camp Victory, Iraq Pat Connelly & Rick Martin 2003 (photo Rick Martin collection)	Camp Victory, Iraq 2003 SSgt USAF napping (photo Rick Martin collection)
Rick Martin Baghdad, Iraq 2003 (photo Rick Martin collection)	Djibouti, Africa 2003 The Morale, Welfare, & Recreation Tent (photo Rick Martin collection)	Donald M. Buchwald USA COL West Point Class of 1955 Vietnam
Baghdad Airport 2003 Pat Connelly & Rick Martin (photo Rick Martin collection)	John E. Brown 1987	Master Chief Dave Turner USN Persian Gulf
Al Udeid AB, Qatar Gen. Peter Pace at the Officer's Club 2003 (photo Rick Martin collection)	John E. Brown Sgt. (Ret.) US Army	Doug Beed Doug, Lonnie Gaston, Bill Gentry - 1st Infantry Div. Vietnam
Baghdad, Iraq 2003 "Saddam's Dream" (photo Rick Martin collection)	Baghdad, Iraq 2003 (photo Rick Martin collection)	Jim Pierce USAF Vietnam
Sheppard AFB Jan. 1972 Rick Martin (front row 2nd from left) Aircraft Maint. Tech School	Richard Scoles	Richard G. Martin CAPT USNR Ft Worth, TX Aug 2002
CAPT Joe Gautille USN, Persian Gulf (right)	Tom Urrutia USA (Tom on the right) Dong Ba Thin, Vietnam Feb. 1966	CDR Pat "Pellet" Connelly C-130 flight on the way to Baghdad, Iraq 2003
CH-47 Chinook Helicopter Vietnam photo by Gene Rasure	Carlton A. Weiss Sgt., WWII Army Air Forces/Corps Australia; New Guinea; Philippines	Steve Metzler USA Iraq (1st LT, 1975)
U. S. Air Force	"Gene" Rasure Raymond "Gene" Rasure with his M-16 USA Vietnam	Spike Martin Rick "Spike" Martin at Al Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Iraq, July 2003
"Gene" Rasure Raymond "Gene" Rasure USA Vietnam	Henry Koonce US Army Korea Purple Heart Medal	Fred Emery Burt (1876-1930) US Army, War with Spain 1898. My 3rd great-uncle.
Alan Wellesley US Naval Academy (Al on the far left) 3rd from left is Oliver Rutledge Edwards from SC and my shipmate/flight school buddy.	Rick Martin Baghdad, Iraq 2003 (photo Rick Martin collection)	Mike Anderson USA Vietnam
USS Gato (SSN-615) Taken by Rick Martin's crew, Aug 1983	Don Wooten USA Korea	S-3A catapults off the Forrestal VS-28 S-3A Viking launched from the USS Forrestal (CV-59) - 1985
Al Udeid AB, Qatar - 2003 Medal of Honor recipient Al Rascon (Vietnam) visits the Officer's Club to pump up morale. (photo courtesy of Rick Martin)	C. L. "Jack" Dobbs US Army Air Corps 315th Bomb Wing WWII Air Medal (back row center) (C.L. "Jack" Dobbs collection)	Jacob Carl Christopherson US Navy, WWII Jake participated in 6 Invasion landings in the Pacific Theater; Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian, Okinawa.
Alan Wellesley LT USN USNA 1980 Navy Expeditionary	John E. Brown Soldiers returning home 2003 OIF Chicago O'Hare	Bob Whipple USN Korea
CDR Rick Martin Aug. 1999 in port Pusan, Korea, USS Blue Ridge	Rick Martin Baghdad, Iraq in the Green Zone talking to the troops going on patrol.	Orpens Orphans 315th Bomb Wing Northern Field, Guam WWII 1945 (C.L. "Jack" Dobbs collection)
Starduster 315th Bomb Wing Northern Field, Guam WWII 1945 (C.L. "Jack" Dobbs collection)	Tipsy Gypsy 315th Bomb Wing Northern Field, Guam WWII 1945 (C.L. "Jack" Dobbs collection)	Star Wagon Jack Dobbs 315th Bomb Wing Northern Field, Guam WWII 1945 (Jack's aircraft) (C.L. "Jack" Dobbs collection)
Jeff Nelson LT USN VS-28 Gamblers 1983-87 (Rick Martin's brother-in-law & right seater) Grenada, Lebanon	Rick Martin LT USN VS-28 Gamblers 1983-86 Lebanon	U. S. Navy
On the ball Rick Martin lands aboard the USS Independence (CV-62) circa 1983	SAM damage to an A-7E USS Independence (CV-62) VA-15 aircraft after the Dec. 3rd raid on Syrian positions in Lebanon - 1983	VA-15 A-7E On alert for a strike in Lebanon - 1983 (photo by Rick Martin)
Ron Fritz and Scott Fritz Sea Cadets Ron USMC Scott USAF	Keith Petersdorf USN	Scott Fritz & King
C. L. "Jack" Dobbs (far right) US Army Air Corps 315th Bomb Wing WWII, Northern Field, Guam Last bombing mission over Japan 1945 Air Medal (C.L. "Jack" Dobbs collection)	Ron Fritz USMC Da Nang, Vietnam Battle of Khe Sanh 1968	Don Van Scotter USA Korea
USO Bob Hope Show 1983 Aboard the USS Independence (CV-62) Haifa, Israel	Rick Martin LTJG, USN, NAS Chase Field VT-26, 1981	Noel W. Sweeten My father-in-law, Lt.Col Noel W. Sweeten, USAF (1937-2008) though not a member of our post (My fault I should have signed him up!) served in Vietnam. He was a B-52 Nav/Bomb. and received 2 DFC's and 14 Air Medals. So proud of you Noel. - Rick Martin
Don Japalucci USAF USN, CDR Persian Gulf (LAFB 1972 USAF)	Donald Japalucci Father of member Don Japalucci, he served in the US Navy during WWII aboard the USS Endicott DD-495 from Jeannette, PA.	Charlie Fey USN WWII
Layne & Denise Wagoner	Don Japalucci Don Japalucci, Clark AB, Philippines 1974 (Rick Martin's BEQ room) 405th FMS	William J. Carson U.S. Army infantryman, 1944-45 at the Battle of the Bulge WWII
Jim Grant USA CPT	Don Wooten USA/USAF Korea CIB	Rich Croson USMC CPL Taiwan Straits 1958 Armed Forces Expeditionary
Tom Urrutia USA Vietnam	USO Show USS Independence 1983 In Haifa, Israel Harbor the Bob Hope show took place aboard the USS Independence (CV-62) Hangar Bay. Ann Jillian sang "Silent Night" to end the show.	Dale Auten USAF MAJ Vietnam
Vietnamese Boat People 1979 In search of Freedom; Taken from USS Horne CG-30 approx. 100 miles off the coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea during my Midshipman Cruise 4 Jun 1979; They were told the US Navy would pick them up - we didn't - heartbreaking; Rick Martin	Vietnamese Boat People 1979 In search of Freedom; Taken from USS Horne CG-30 approx. 100 miles off the coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea during my Midshipman Cruise 4 Jun 1979; They were told the US Navy would pick them up - we didn't - heartbreaking; Rick Martin	Waiting to launch off the ship Standing by to launch aircraft aboard the USS Independence (CV-62) off the coast of Lebanon in 1983. (photo taken by Rick Martin)
Dave Yard USMC Vietnam Battle of Hue 1968 Purple Heart Medal	July 1981 Boat Class NAS Chase Field, Beeville, TX VT-26 (Rick Martin front left) USS Independence CV-62, NAS Key West, FL	USS New Jersey BB-62 Off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon 1984
Dick Gunderson USAF Taiwan Straits 1958	Rick Martin USAF 1971 Airman Basic, Lackland AFB, TX	Emile Plaisance USAF WWII
Ron Fritz and Scott Fritz Father & Son members of VFW 10483 Ron - Vietnam; Scott - Persian Gulf	Uncle Sam USA	Rick Martin Rick Martin (right) T-28 training, Class 43, NAS Corpus Christi, TX 1980
Bill Mulcahy USN CAPT Vietnam	Rich Croson USMC CPL Taiwan Straits 1958	Bill Mulcahy USN CAPT Vietnam Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal
Dave Yard USMC Vietnam	Rick Martin USN CAPT BIAP Iraq RAF CDR Wigston, Maj Rhino Evans USAF, 3rd from the left Rick Martin USN, CDR Pat Connelly USN, USAF JAG, CDR Ajax Pharmakis USN.	Jim Grant USA Vietnam DFC, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Air Medal
Rick Martin USN CAPT Iraqi Freedom Enduring Freedom	Joe Moniz USMC MSGT Occupation-Japan Vietnam	Alan Wellesley US Navy USS Flasher Wardroom
Layne Wagoner - 1983 USAF SMSGT Persian Gulf	Jim Grant USA Vietnam DFC Air Medal	CAPT Richard G. "Spike" Martin USN (Ret.) Memorial Day 2015 at Hot Springs Village, AR. VFW Post 10483 Commander.
Howard Morrow USN WWII, Korea A real Gentleman.	Dale Auten USAF MAJ Vietnam Bronze Star Medal	Burl Evans USN WWII, Korea, Vietnam
Rick Martin Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory Nov. 1984	John Chrismas USA WWII D-Day Invasion Omaha Beach, 6 Jun 1944	Indy sails thru the Dardanelles The USS Independence (CV-62) on its way to a liberty call in Istanbul, Turkey - 1984. After 12 hours Indy was recalled back to Lebanon. (photo by Rick Martin)
Rick Martin at CCK AB USAF SGT 405th Fighter Wing (405th FMS R&R Shop) Taiwan & Philippines 1973-1974	Bill Mulcahy USN Vietnam Bronze Star	Maj. Scott Hornbruch, USAF USAF MAJ (Ret.) Persian Gulf
Jim Grant USA Vietnam DFC BS AM	Dave Yard USMC Vietnam	Dale Auten USAF Vietnam A great sense of humor!
Roger Witcraft (right) USN Korea, China Service	Dave Yard USMC Vietnam Purple Heart	Bill Mulcahy (2nd from right) USN Vietnam
Rick "Spike" Martin USN VT-25 NAS Chase Field, Beeville, TX LTJG Wilhelm & LTJG Rick Martin 12 Mar 1982, Last training flight - Winged!	John Chrismas USA WWII (right)	Don Wooten (right) USA Korea
Scott Hornbruch & son USAF MAJ	USS Flasher (SSN-613) Alan Wellesley, USN off San Nicolas Island, 1985	Howard Morrow USN WWII, Korea
Rick Martin USN CAPT Iraq 2003 GWOT Expeditionary	Tom Johnson USA LTC Vietnam	Jim Grant USA CPT Vietnam
Roger Witcraft USN GMM3 Korea, China Service	Dale Auten USAF MAJ Vietnam	Karen Johnson USA Panama & Korea Defense
Rick Martin Baghdad, Iraq July 2003 USNR CAPT	Dave Yard USMC Vietnam Purple Heart Medal	Howard Morrow USN WWII, Korea
Rick Martin USN ENS Lebanon 1983-84, Persian Gulf 1999, Operations Iraqi Freedom & Enduring Freedom 2003, Korea Defense Service 1990's-2000's USAF 1971-1975 Texas/Philippines/Taiwan ROC	Don Wooten USA/USAF Korea CIB	Rich Croson USMC CPL Taiwan Straits
Joe Moniz USMC MSGT Vietnam Occupation - Japan	Bob Whipple USN Korea	Rick Martin USN ENS NAS Corpus Christi 1980
Alan Wellesley USN LT Navy Expeditionary USS Flasher JO's