Voron Baughan went to Biak Island, New Guinea where he was assigned to the 90th Bomb Group Heavy with the 321st Bomb Squadron.
In 1943, Joseph Galano left his junior year at Fordham College, New York City when he was drafted into the Army during World War II.
Mahdi militia was attempting take over a town, so Luis Almaguer and his unit were working to aid the Governor of Najafn in recovering & rebuilding the town.
Michael Geary served in the Army. He was moved from an airborne unit to an infantry unit and deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in 2002.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Joseph Louis Vazquez. He served during the Gulf War from 1987 to 1991 in support of Operation Desert Storm.
Samuel Tom Holiday went on to join the group of Navajo Code Talkers who used a communication code enemies could not decipher.
Samuel Aprea enlisted in the Navy at the Recruiting Station in Boston, at the age of 17; after his brother-in-law was killed in action in Italy.
Spiro Cappony was sent to Istanbul and partook in several undercover intelligence operations to discover and stop Turkey’s ore shipments to Germany.
Wilfred Anderson served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. He was stationed on the USS Morris in the South Pacific where he earned rank of Radioman Second Class
Before being drafted into the Army Air Corps 1943, James Humbert was a cadet at the Kentucky Military Institute and spent one semester at the Citadel.
Marc Ortiz graduated from West Point in 1999 with a degree in mathematics. He served as a signal corps officer with a special operations unit.
While stationed in Vietnam, George Alexander led jungle teams as a scout dog handler, which gathered intelligence information behind enemy lines.