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Mel Doebler

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Carrie Hudenko

Carrie Hudenko was born in 1963 and grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She enlisted in the Army straight out of high school in 1982. She took military police training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and was then stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. There she immediately encountered sexual harassment and found that the Army was not yet ready to accommodate female personnel in specializations previously reserved for men. Conditions were even worse when she was sent to Europe for Reforger operations, in which US and NATO forces trained together. She eventually took an assignment to Inchon, Korea, for a year, where she had duties ranging from arresting soldiers in off-limits areas off base to manning outposts on the Demilitarized Zone. She later returned to Fort Dix, and completed her enlistment with a Michigan National Guard unit in 1988.

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37:19

Jerry Kloostra

Переглядів 45814 днів тому

Jerry Kloostra was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1940, and enlisted in the Navy in 1958. His brother was already in, and serving on the aircraft carrier USS Randolph as a quartermaster, which enabled Jerry to get assigned to the same ship in the same capacity, even though his brother's tour ended before he arrived. His ship had been recently converted to a submarine chaser, and spent its t...

53:24

Mel Doebler

Переглядів 4132 місяці тому

Mel Doebler was born in Detroit in 1925. He enlisted in the Army in March 1944 and was assigned to the 68th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 14th Armored Division, which landed in Marseille, France in October 1944. After dealing with some Germans in the Maritime Alps, they moved north into Alsace. In his interview, he talks about fighting during the Battle of the Bulge, but his division was no...

2:24:55

Warren Gohl

Переглядів 2,3 тис.2 місяці тому

Warren Gohl enlisted in the Army when he graduated from high school in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1959. He trained in signals, and served at Ft. Meade, Maryland and at Camp Drake in Japan before being discharged in June, 1962. He re-enlisted in September of that year and served as a signal supply specialist in Korea and Hawaii. While with the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, which was preparing...

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Herbert Davis

Переглядів 3772 місяці тому

Herb Davis was born in Jersey County, Illinois, in 1930 and grew up on the family farm. He was drafted in January 1952 and sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to train for the artillery. He was shipped to Korea after training, and joined an artillery battalion, probably the 555th Field Artillery, which was attached to the 5th Regimental Combat Team, near the DMZ. Once he joined the unit in the summer ...

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Joseph Seiler

Переглядів 1862 місяці тому

Joseph Seiler was born in Devil's Lake, North Dakota in 1978 and enlisted in the Navy in 1997. He trained as an aircraft mechanic and later worked as a recruiter and as a counselor. He served on the USS Essex, Belleau Wood, Carl Vinson and John C. Stennis. While on the Stennis, aircraft from the ship supported American operations in Afghanistan. He retired in 2021 as a Chief Petty Officer.

46:27

Dan Bechtold

Переглядів 1,5 тис.2 місяці тому

Daniel Bechtold was born in Alton, Illinois in 1951 and was drafted into the Army in January, 1971. He trained as a truck driver and was sent to Vietnam, where he served with the 577th Engineer Battalion in the 1st Cavalry Division. After a stint mixing asphalt for a road building project, he later drove trucks in convoys, operating out of his division's main base at Bien Hoa, outside of Saigon.

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Brittney Weber

Переглядів 1422 місяці тому

Brittney Weber serves as Board Secretary for the National Memorial of Military Ascent, and is one of the key people involved in moving the project forward. She also serves with the American Legion Auxiliary in Grafton, Illinois and works for the City of Grafton.

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Russell Roy

Переглядів 9712 місяці тому

Russell Roy was born in Highland, Illinois in 1951. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970. After training as an aviation mechanic, he served with the 1st and 3rd Marine Air Wings, including assignments in Okinawa and Thailand during the Vietnam War, and then in Yuma, Arizona before his discharge in 1974. He currently serves as an alderman in Grafton, Illinois, and is actively involved with th...

58:58

Marv Nagelkerke

Переглядів 5643 місяці тому

Stephen Marvin Nagelkerke, better known as Marv, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1928. Just before his eighteenth birthday, he received a draft notice, and on the advice of his brother, who had just returned home from long service in the Army, he enlisted in the Navy. After a very short training period at Camp Perry, Virginia, he was sent to California and shipped out on a freighter fill...

1:49:07

Michael Morrow

Переглядів 2,4 тис.3 місяці тому

Michael Morrow was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1951. He enlisted in the Army in 1971, training as an engineer. Because of the drawdowns in Vietnam, he initially served in the States, including as a platoon sergeant in the 25th and 9th Infantry Divisions before going to officer candidate school in 1977. From there, he served at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and a company commander and a general's...

1:58:32

Albert Burckard

Переглядів 2,7 тис.4 місяці тому

Albert Burckard Jr. was born in Norfolk Virginia in 1945. He attended the Virginia Military Institute and received his commission as an Army officer in 1967. After an initial assignment in Germany, he went to Vietnam in 1969, starting as a staff officer with the 101st Airborne Division, then serving as commander of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment during the early stages of the...

1:19:12

Dan Pfeiffer

Переглядів 1,5 тис.4 місяці тому

Dan Pfeiffer served in the US Army between 1952 and 1954. He served in an infantry unit in Korea during the last months of the Korean War in 1953. He provides detailed descriptions of combat patrols and fighting in the trench lines against the North Koreans and Chinese. Later on, he was assigned to be the chauffeur for a general.

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John Wells

Переглядів 7064 місяці тому

John Wells was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1930 and his family moved to Michigan in 1931, graduating from high school in 1949 in Grand Rapids. He then attended Grand Rapids Community College and served in the Michigan Army National Guard. After hearing rumors that his National Guard unit would be deployed to fight in the Korean War he decided to transfer to the Air Force in February 1951. He rec...

2:30:37

John Roblin

Переглядів 8804 місяці тому

John Roblin joined the Army on July 5th, 1944 and was part of the first convoy to go directly to France during World War II. While in the service, John served as an officer with an infantry unit and experienced a good deal of combat and eventually injured his leg. He spent a long time in a hospital learning to walk again. After John had recovered he was moved all over Europe within different re...