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ADM Joseph Paul Reason

Naval officer Admiral J. Paul Reason was born on March 22, 1941 in Washington, D.C. to Bernice Chism Reason and Dr. Joseph Henry Reason. Reason graduated from McKinley Technical High School in 1958 and attended several universities before transferring to the U.S....

CW3 Shawn Pylinski

A 23-year veteran of the U.S. Army, Shawn Pylinski is honored by Aaron Pylinski. Chief Shawn Pylinski—known to most as “Pistol,” after the famed basketball player “Pistol” Pete Maravich—dedicated his service in the U.S. Army to being an...

MAJ Stephen V. Long

Specialist [at that time] Stephen Long, Alpha Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion survived nearly dying in a combat air assault on the island of Grenada that saw three of eight helicopters in the first wave crash. Major Stephen Long was one of the one hundred and...

Brig Gen Charles “Chuck” Elwood Yeager

Chuck Yeager, byname of Charles Elwood Yeager, (born February 13, 1923, Myra, West Virginia, U.S.), American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight. Yeager enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 1941, shortly...

Col Katherine Amelia Towle

Colonel Katherine Amelia Towle (April 30, 1898 – March 1, 1986) was the second Director of the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve (USMCWR) and the first Director of Women Marines. Towle was born in Towle, California on April 30, 1898. (The town was named...