Family military history

Corrections, comments, or additions welcomed.


Looking for more details/photos Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England
48th Fighter Wing

U.S. Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, CO
Class of 2001

2nd Lieutenant Richard Blakewood (photo shown is USAF Academy class photo)
U.S. Air Force
(my cousin, maternal side)
 

 

  Looking for more details/photos

165th Airlift Wing
Savannah, Georgia

The photo here is from the deployment of the GaANG 165th Airlift Wing during 2003, and was published on the front page of the Savannah Morning News on March 7, 2003.
Photo by Scott Bryant, Savannah Morning News

Major Brad Cousar
1990 - Present
Savannah, GA
Georgia Air National Guard
(my cousin-in-law, paternal side)
   

  Army Security Agency
Okinawa (Torii Station) (went to Hong Kong,
Japan,Wake Island, Midway Island, Hawaii)
Fort Bragg, NC
1959-1962

Enlisted January 1959

Basic Training - Fort Jackson, SC
Code School - Fort Devens, MA

Specialist 4th Class Clegg Green
U.S. Army
(my uncle, paternal side)
   

Southeast Asia

Looking for more details/photos!

Jerome Henry (kneeling in center)
U.S. Navy
(my second cousin, maternal side)
(deceased)
 

 
John Henry (far right)
Georgia Air National Guard
(my second cousin, maternal side)
 

  U.S. Military Academy

WWII

Looking for more details/photos

Cadet John Stapleton Howland
U.S. Army
(my second cousin, maternal side)
     

 

  WWII

Looking for more details/photos

Air Cadet William "Bud" Howland
U.S. Army
(my second cousin, maternal side)
   

  Army Medical Corps
Chief of Urology
Bremerhaven, Germany

Looking for additional details and service photo(s)

William Stapleton Howland
U.S. Army
   

 

 

Staff Sergeant James A. McNear
U.S.Marine Corps
(my great-uncle, paternal side)

 

Boot Camp: Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island
Training Dates: 12 April 1944 to 20 June 1944

WWII:
Camp Lejeune NC, Camp Pendleton NC, Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Okinawa, Tientsin China

 
Korea:
10th Infantry Battalion, USMCR
Company D
Savannah, Georgia

(shown here training
at
Camp Lejeune NC)


1st Lieutenant Larry Pharo
U.S. Army
(my uncle, maternal side)
  Basic Training - Fort Leonard Wood, MO - July 1969

AIT - Fire Direction Control Artillery -
Fort Sill, OK - October 1969

Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant - May 1970
Officer Candidate School -
Fort Belvoir, VA

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps

Headquarters 8th Infantry Division Officers Club
Officer in Charge
Bad Kreuznach, West Germany
1970

8th S&T Battalion
Division Supply Office
Bad Kreuznach, West Germany
1971 - 1972



SP2 Frank Stapleton
U.S. Army
(my 2nd cousin, maternal side)
  Entered U.S. Army at Fort Jackson, SC June 30, 1954

Basic Training at Fort Gordon - Augusta, GA

Attended AA Radar and Computer School at Fort Bliss, TX

Attached to a Skysweeper Battery at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth, TX

Discharged at Fort Hood, TX June 29 1956


     
James Joseph Stapleton
U.S. Army
(my great-uncle, maternal side)
 

Georgia Tech S.A.T.C. Unit - Atlanta Ga, Europe?, WWI

Looking for more details/photos


  U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps

France, 1917

Lieutenant John Doyle Stapleton
U.S. Army
(My great-grandfater, maternal side)
   



Sergeant Phillip Eloy Stapleton
U.S. Army
(My great-uncle, maternal side)
  Signal Corps
Germany, 1945

Also Third Army HQ unit?

 

     
Fred Sutton
(my honorary uncle, maternal side)
  - Looking for more details/photos!

  2nd Beach and Terminal Operations Company
Savannah, GA
4th Landing Support Battalion
4th Force Service Support Group
Marine Corps Reserve
1996-present

Platoon 3072, Kilo Company
3rd Recruit Training Battalion,
Marine Corps Reruit Depot Parris Island
Training dates: 27 December 1995 - 15 March 1996

Corporal Michael Taylor
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
(my brother)

 

  National Guard
October 1941? - February 1943?

U.S. Army
1943-?

Australia, WWII

Heyward Brantley Taylor
U.S. Army
(my great uncle)

 

 

 

Corporal Thomas Taylor
U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
(my father)
Corporal, 5th Rifle Company
Savannah, GA
1965-1972

 

Inspection at Parris Island
Platoon 2014, Company I
2nd Recruit Training Battalion,
MCRD Parris Island
Training Dates: 6 November 1965 - 5 January 1966
Also: Camp Geiger, NC

  Master Sergeant
283rd
Combat Communications Squadron

1981 - Present
Savannah, GA and Atlanta, GA
Georgia Air National Guard

 


         

Port Security Specialist 2nd
Class Alan West
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve
(my cousin, maternal side)
  Operation Liberty Shield
March 19, 2003 - present


Operation Noble Eagle
September 17, 2001 - March 17, 2003


Port Safety and Security School,
Yorktown, VA
August 1992 - October 1992

Basic training:
Recruit Company Foxtrot-137
Cape May, NJ
9 July 1991 - 31 August 1991

 
Marine Safety Office, Savannah, GA
Seventh Coast Guard District
1991 - Present


   



Specialist 4 Carlton West
U.S. Army Reserve
(my uncle, maternal side)

Fort Stewart, GA
1961

429th Medical Battalion Headquarters
Savannah, GA
1961 - 1967

Basic Training - Fort Jackson SC
Enlisted 1961


   

Captain James Younts
U.S. Army
(my cousin-in-law, maternal side)

3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized)
Engineer Brigade
11th Engineer Battalion, A Company
Kuwait,
Fort Stewart GA (1997-2001)

  554 Engineer Battalion
1st Brigade
Fort Leonard Wood, MO
(2001-2002)
  82nd Airborne Division (All American)
307th Combat Engineer Battalion (Airborne),
Fort Bragg, NC
Kuwait, Iraq (2003)

Biography   Family
Family Military History Home Latest news
Links Photographs Writings


Last updated: 10/15/2003

Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1