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Plaque for Kenneth W. Hunter, Jr.
Kenneth W. Hunter, Jr.
Oral History of Terry W. Wheeler
Tags: 11th ACR; 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment; 18th Airborne Corps; 2nd ACR; 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Battalion; 2nd Lieutenant; 69th Armor Regiment; Achievement Medal; ACR; advanced training; Airborne Corps; Armor Officer; Armor Regiment; Armored Cavalry Regiment; basic training; Bavaria, Germany; Berlin Wall; Blachorse Regiment; cavalry; COEA; cold war; combat simulations; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commander; cost and operational effectiveness analysis; CVHP; deployments; East Germany; Eighteenth Airborne Corps; Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment; enlistment; Executive Officer; Federal Republic of Germany; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Lee, Virginia; Free State of Bavaria; freedom birds; FRG; German Democratic Republic; Germans; Germany; Infantry Branch; information technology; inner German border; IT; lieutenants; Maintenance Officer; military training; Operations Research/Systems Analysis; ORSA; rapid deployment force; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; ROTC; Schweinfurt, Germany; scouts; SDES; Second ACR; Second Armored Cavalry Regiment; Second Battalion; Second Lieutenant; simulation training; Sixty-Ninth Armor Regiument; Student Development and Enrollment Services; Tank Company Commander; Taylor Johnson; Terry W. Wheeler; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Infrantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia; UCF; UCF SDES; UCF Student Development and Enrollment Services; veterans; weapon systems; West Germany; XVIII Airborne Corps
Oral History of Ray Sturm
Tags: 210th Field Artillery Brigade; 34th Infantry Division; accountants; Advanced Individual Training; advanced training; AIT; alcohol; alcoholic beverages; alerts; AR-15; Army Special Forces; basic training; beers; budget cuts; cold war; colleges; Columbia, South Carolina; Community Veterans History Project; comradery; CVHP; David Lee Roth; defense; defense budgets; Desert Storm; desert training; E-3; E-4; education; Enlisted Rank 3; Enlisted Rank 4; enlistment; Federal Republic of Germany; firearms; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Fort Irwin & the National Training Center; Fort Jackson; Fort Stewart; Frankfurt Airport; Frankfurt, Germany; FRG; Georgia; German Air Force; Germans; Germany; Gulf War; Gulf War I; guns; Headquarters and Headquarters Battery; Herzo Base; Herzogenaurach, Germany; HHB; higher education; Iraq; Iraq War; James Earl Carter, Jr.; Jimmy Carter; Katie Hollingsworth; Kuwait; Kuwait War; law enforcement; Luftwaffe; M16 rifles; military training; Mojave Desert; music; musicians; National Training Center; NCO; non-commissioned officers; Nuremberg Trials; Nuremberg, Germany; Operation Desert Storm; orlando; Persian Gulf War; PFC; police; police brutality; polizei; Private First Class; range shooting; rapid deployment forces; Ray Sturm; Republic of Iraq; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; sergeants; shooting; shooting ranges; soldiers; Special Forces; Specialist 4; State of Kuwait; supply; terrorism; terrorists; Thirty-Fourth Infantry Division; training; Two Hundred and Tenth Field Artillery Brigade; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Special Forces; UCF; University of Central Florida; Van Halen; veterans; veterans' benefits; Warrior Thunder; weapons; weather; West Germany; Wilson Jones; Winter Park; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Michael Partain
Tags: airports; Amanda Hill; Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery; ASVAB; atopic dermatitis; Avon Park; Avon Park Air Force Range; basic training; boot camps; breast cancer; captain's mast; Carli Van Zandt; Carolyn Van Zandt; CERCLA; cold war; colleges; Community Veterans History Project; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980; contamination; court-martial; CVHP; dermatitis; DI; disqualifications; Drill Instructor; E-3; education; engineering; engineers; Enlisted Rank 3; enlistment; Enterprise 1701; environmental cleanup; F-16; General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon; gig lines; higher education; Hill, Amanda; hospitals; illness; illnesses; inspections; instructors; Lake Druid; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; MacDill AFB; MacDill Air Force Base; marching; Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune; McCoy AFB; McCoy Air Force Base; medical hold company; memorials; MET; Michael Partain; military code; military education; Military Entrance Processioning Center; Military Entrance Processioning Center Tampa; Military Entrance Test; military justice; military training; monuments; NAS Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Station Mayport; Naval Training Center Orlando; NS Mayport; NTC Orlando; nuclear engineering; nuclear power; nuclear propulsion; Nuclear Propulsion School; orlando; Petty Officer; Polk County; recruit training; Recruit Training Command; recruits; ring banner; Seaman; special training; Superfund; Tetrachloroethylene; toxic chemicals; toxic cleanups; U.S. Air Force; UCMJ; Uniform Code of Military Justice; universities; university; veterans; Warren B. Partain, Jr.; Warren B. Partain, Sr.; water contamination; Winter Haven; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Chad Etchison
Tags: advanced training; Anderson, Indiana; Baldwin Park; basic training; Bill Clinton; Blythe, William Jefferson III; boot camp; boot camps; Central Florida Navy League; Chad Eric Joyner; Chad Etchison; Colonial Plaza; Command Master Chief; Command Senior Chief; Community Veterans History Project; Conner; contraband; CVHP; cycling; Dam Neck, Virginia; Des Moines, Iowa; Electronics Technician School; electronics technicians; enlistment; ET; Fleet Combat Training Center; Global War on Terror; graduation; GWOT; Jacksonville; Joint Service Commendation Medal; Jonesboro, Georgia; Lake Baldwin; Lana Etchison; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Manatees; marching; Mark Etchison; Mayport; McDonald's; memorials; military training; NACC; Naval Expeditionary Combat Command Operations Force Center; Naval Station Mayport; Naval Training Center Orlando; Naval Training Center San Diego; Navy Achievement Medal; Navy Commendation Medal; Navy League; Navy Operational Support Center; Navy Operations Force Center; Navy Senior Enlisted Academy; NECC; NOSC; NS Mayport; NTC Orlando; NTC San Diego; Operation Active Endeavor; orlando; Presidential Service Badge; rain parties; Recruit Training Center Orlando; recruits; RTC Orlando; sailors; San Diego, California; Secret Service; Senior Chief; Senior Chief Petty Officer; Senior Enlisted Advisor; The Grinder; Tim Slewroo; Tom Johnson; U.S. Navy; U.S. Secret Service; United Service Organization; USO; USS Blue Jacket; USS John A. Moore; USS Simpson; USS Wadsworth; USSS; veterans; volleyball; WHCA; White House Communications Agency; William Jefferson Blythe III; William Jefferson Clinton
Oral History of Curt Sawyer
Tags: 45th Parallel North; 75th Ranger Regiment; Air Assault Badge; Air Assault School; Airborne School; aircraft; airplanes; alcohol; alcoholic beverages; Army Air Assault School; Army Airborne School; Army Ranger; balaclava; bugle notes; C-130; C-141; C-160; Community Veterans History Project; Connie Mack; Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy II; Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III; Corsica, France; cows; Curt Sawyer; CVHP; Demilitarized Zone; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; Department of Veterans Affairs; deployments; DMZ; Dojuan Sawyer; DPRK; DZ; Ed Hoyt; Edison Community College; education; Eglin AFB; Eglin Air Force Base; enlistment; fast strobing; firstie; Florida SouthWestern State College; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Myers, Florida; Forty-Fifth Parallel North; French Foreign Legion; GI Bill; Guard Post Ouellette; Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea; Iver; Jeep; Joint Readiness Training Center; JRTC; Jump School; Korean War; Land Rovers; line platoons; Lisa Dojuan; Lockheed C-130 Hercules; Lockheed C-141 Starlifter; military benefits; military education; military training; North Korea; Officer Basic Corps; parachutes; planes; plebe years; plebes; R&R; Ranger; Ranger Regiment; Ranger School; RB-15; Republic of Korea; rest and recuperation; Robin Dunn; ROK; Sabalauski Air Assault School; San Francisco, California; Savannah, Georgia; scout platoon; scout platoons; Seoul, South Korea; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; Seventy-Fifth Ranger Regiment; soju; soldiers; South Korea; Special Operations Command; Tennessee; training; Transall C-160; TSAAS; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Special Operations Command; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; United States Military Academy at West Point; USASOC; USMA; VA; veterans; Veterans Affairs; watch caps; West Point; yearly; Zodiac
Oral History of Gordon Pierce and Trina Cothrin
Tags: A School; A-4; Afghanistan; aircraft carriers; airplanes; Arctic Ocean; aviation maintenance administrators; aviation metalsmiths; aviation structural mechanics; Baldwin Park; basic training; boot camps; Bruce Pierce; Buffalo, New York; CENTCOM; Chief Yeoman; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commander; Correctional and Instructional Standards Division Officer; CVHP; Douglas A-4 Skyhawk; education; Enduring Freedom; enlistment; F-14; facsimile; fax; Fighter Squadron 124; firefighting; Firefighting School; fires; Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 58; Florida State Road 436; Global War on Terror; Gordon Pierce; graduations; Great Lakes, Illinois; Grinder; Grumman F-14 Tomcat; GWOT; instructors; Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; Jacksonville; James Pierce; Key West; liquid oxygen; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; MacDill AFB; MacDill Air Force Base; Master Chief Petty Officer; memorials; Memphis, Tennessee; Meridian, Mississippi; military education; military training; Miramar, San Diego, California; NAS Jacksonville; NAS Key West; NAS Meridian; NAS Miramar; NAS Sanford; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Key West; Naval Air Station Meridian; Naval Air Station Miramar; Naval Air Station Sanford; Naval Nuclear Power Training Command; Naval Station Great Lakes; Naval Training Center Orlando; NAVSTA Great Lakes; Navy Achievement Medal; Navy Commendation Medal; NS Great Lakes; NTC Orlando; Nuclear Power School; OEF; Olongapo, Philippines; Operation Enduring Freedom; orlando; Pensacola; Philippines; planes; Qatar; QWIP Technologies; recruit training; Recruit Training Center Orlando; Recruit Training Command; recruits; Republic of the Philippines; Roger Jordan Sims; RTC Orlando; sailors; Sanford; Sims, Roger Jordan; Skyhawk; SR-436; State of Qatar; swimming; Tampa; terrorism; terrorists; Tomcat; Tommy Foreman; Trina Cothrin; Trina Pierce; U.S. Army; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; United States Central Command; USCENTCOM; USS Blue Jacket; USS Coral Sea; USS Forrestal; USS Franklin D. Roosevelt; USS John F. Kennedy; USS Wasp; VA-72; VC-7 Tallyhoers; veterans; VF-11 Thunderbolt; VF-124; VF-171; Vietnam War; VR-58; War in Afghanistan; War on Terror
Oral History of Robert Matthews
Tags: A-7; Attack Squadron 174; aviation electronics technicians; Baldwin Park; Base Realignment and Closure Commission; basic training; Bill Nelson; boot camps; BRAC; BUILDCON; Central Florida Navy League; Central Florida Research Park; Clarence William Nelson II; co-educational; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; CVHP; demolitions; E-1; education; Enlisted Rank 1; enlistment; Expeditionary Medal; gender segregation; graduations; Grinder; Jacksonville; Lake Wales High School; Lake Wales Junior High School; Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II; Lockheed P-3 Orion; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Maintenance Technician; marching; Mark Miller; Master Training Specialist; memorials; Memphis, Tennessee; Mike Philips; military education; military instructors; military leave; military training; Millington, Tennessee; NAMTRADET; NAS Jacksonville; NAS Memphis; Naval Air Maintenance Training Detachment; Naval Air Station Cecil Field; Naval Air Station Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Memphis; Naval Air Systems Command, the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Reserve; Navy League; NAWCTSD; orlando; P-3; POW; prisoner-of-war; Recruit Training Center Orlando; Research Park; Rob Matthews; Robert Matthews; RTC Orlando; sailors; Science Drive; segregation; simulations; simulators; Soaper; Spook Hill Elementary School; training; training systems; U.S. Naval Reserves; U.S. Representatives; U.S. Senators; University Boulevard; USS Blue Jacket; VA-174; VA-87; veterans; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Alan R. Holtz
Tags: 1st Gulf War; 1st Iraq War; 9/11; aircraft carrier; aircraft carriers; Alan R. Holtz; basic training; boot camp; boot camps; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; CVHP; Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; drafts; E-6; education; Enlisted Rank 6; enlistment; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Gulf War; Hancock; instructors; Iraq War; Jared Grossi; Kuwait War; liberties; liberty; military education; military training; naval instructors; North Vietnam; Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Persian Gulf War; Philippines; Republic of the Philippines; Republic of Vietnam; San Diego, California; selective service; September 11th; Socialist Republic of Vietnam; South Vietnam; TAR; terrorism; terrorists; training; Training and Administration of the Reserve; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; USS Hancock; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; watch; watches
Oral History of Marc Ennis
Tags: Afghanistan; Air Crew School; Anti-Submarine Warfare; Arthur Fonzaerlli; ASW; Australia; Australian Special Forces; Aviation Systems Operator; Aviation Warfare Sensor Operator; AW; Ayase, Japan; Cannes International Film Festival; Cannes, France; co-ed; co-educational; Community Veterans History Project; Competition Week; Corry Station Naval Technical Training Center; Corry Station NTTC; CVHP; desk-top simulators; dogs; education; Electronic Warfare; enlistment; Equator; EW; fleet replacement squadron aircrews; Fonzie; Gibson; Glass, Jonathan; Global War on Terror; graduations; Gulf Breeze; GWOT; Harold Lavine; Helicopter Squadron 1; Helicopter Squadron 14; Helicopter Squadron 5; helicopters; Henry Franklin Winkler; Henry Winkler; HS-1; HS-14; HS-5; humanitarian aid; inspections; instructors; Jonathan Glass; Jones, John Paul; Kendra Hazen; Little Creek, Virginia; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Marc Ennis; marching; memorials; Millington, Tennessee; Mount Fuji; NAS Atsugi; Naval Air Facility Atsugi; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; naval training; NAWCTSD; Operation Enduring Freedom; orlando; Pensacola; Philippines; pools; Port Hueneme, California; radars; recruit training; Recruit Training Center Orlando; rescue swimmers; RTC Orland; SAR; Search and Rescuer; shellback ceremonies; shellback ceremony; Sikorsky SH-60/MH-60 Seahawk; simulations; Starboard Delta; swimming; terrorism; The Fonz; The Grinder; The Guardian; training; typhoon reliefs; U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Navy; USS Blue Jacket; USS Gunston Hall; USS John C. Stennis; veterans; War in Afghanistan; WAVES; woman; women; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; Yamato, Japan
Oral History of Connie Reuter
Tags: Abingdon, Virginia; active duty; Airman Apprenticeship Training School; Baldwin Park; basic training; Beechcraft T-34 Mentor; birth control glasses; boot camps; chapels; chow halls; church; churches; cold war; Community Veterans History Project; Connie Reuter; Corpus Christi, Texas; CVHP; Delayed Entry Program; DEP; drill teams; education; educators; enlistment; eyeglasses; females; firearms; Fleet Week; G.I. glasses; gas chambers; gig lines; glasses; graduations; Ground Zero; guns; Hines; inactive duty; Ingelside, Texas; instructors; Leanne Wiggins; Liberty Call; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; Martha Reuter; memorials; MEP; Merritt; military education; Military Entrance Processing; military training; NAS Corpus Christi; Naval Air Station Corpus Christi; Naval Air Station Ingelside; Naval Air Warfare Center Training System Division; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy Buddy Enlistment Program; NAWCTSD; New York City, New York; NS Ingelside; NTC Orlando; orlando; peanut butter; Petty Officer, Second Class; photographer's mates; photographers; photography; Recruit Training Center; Recruit Training Center Orlando; recruits; RTC Orlando; sailors; ships; suicides; T-34; teachers; The Grinder; training; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; USN; USNR; USS Blue Jacket; veterans; weather; woman; women; World Trade Center; WTC
Oral History of Lawrence Paul Levine
Tags: accounting; advanced training; Airframe Repair School; airframe repair specialists; airframe repairman; airframe repairmen; airplanes; Amarill, Texas; Amarillo AFB; Amarillo Air Force Base; anti-war movement; basic training; Boeing 707; Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker; Brown University; BU; Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; Burlington County, New Jersey; C-141 Galaxy; colorblindness; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; Custom Service; CVHP; Detachment 51; draft board; draft lottery; drafts; education; enlistment; Europe; F-101; F-105; F-4; fast food restaurants; fiber glassing; fiberglass; firearms; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; G.I. Bill; Germany; Good Conduct Medal; gun ranges; guns; instructors; Ishihara Color Test; jet; jet fighter; jets; KC-135; Lackland AFB; Lackland Air Force Base; Larry Levine; Lawrence Paul Levin; marching; marriages; Mary Hughes Young; McDonald's; McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II; McDonnell F-101 Voodoo; Mcguire AFB; Mcguire Air Force Base; metal; military draft; military education; military training; pacifism; pacifists; peace movement; phantom jets; planes; protests; Providence, Rhode Island; pylon; Republic F-105 Thunderchief; Rhein-Main AB; Rhein-Main Air Base; RIT; riveting; Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, New York; San Antonio, Texas; Selective Service System; Sergeant; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; sharpshooters; sharpshooting; Shaw AFB; Shaw Air Force Base; sheet metal; Staff Sergeant; Sumter, South Carolina; TDY; temporary duty; The Platters; TI; training; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Air Force in Europe; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Air Corps; U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; U.S. Customs Service; United Service Organization; USAFE; USO; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Dr. William "Bill" Blank
Tags: 1972 Summer Olympics; 9/11 Attacks; Adolf Hitler; all-volunteer military; An Uncaged Eagle: True Freedom; anti-war protest; anti-war protests; Arab-Israeli War of 1973; Bad Tölz, Germany; basic training; Bastogne, Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Bavaria, Germany; Berlin Wall; Bill Blank; Black September Organization; BSO; buddy system; carpet bombing; carpet bombs; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Christmas; civilian; civilians; cognitive dissonance; cold war; college; colleges; conscription; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; diversity; draft lotteries; draft lottery; draft notices; drafting; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Dwight David Eisenhower; Eagle's Nest; educator; educators; Egypt; enlistment; Europe; Francis E. Warren AFB; Francis E. Warren Air Force Base; French Revolution; Gabrielle Hanke; Games of the XX Olympiad; gender segregation; Germans; Germany; GI Bill; Global War on Terror; guidance counseling; GWOT; Hall of Mirrors; Halloween Massacre; homecoming; Ike Eisenhower; international students; Iraq; Iraq War; Iron Curtain; Israel; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Kehlsteinhaus; Kent State Massacre; Kent State Shooting; Kent State University; KSU; Kuwait; Mannheim, Germany; Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen; Marie Antoinette; Marine Corps Base Quantico; Mark Spitz; Martin Bormann; May 4 Massacre; MCB Quantico; mentors; Middle East; military; military assignments; military drafts; military training; Munich Massacre; Munich, Germany; National Guard; National Socialist German Workers' Party; National Veterans Awareness Week; nationalism; Nazi Germany; Nazi Party; Nazis; Nixon, Richard, Milhous; North Central Wisconsin; NSDAP; October War; Ohio National Guard; Olympic Village; Olympics; Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Wrath of God; Palestine; Persian Gulf War; police actions; protesters; Ramadan; Ramadan War; razorbacks; Red Tails; Republic of Vietnam; Richard Milhous Nixon; Richard Nixon; Richard Toliver; riot squads; riots; Russia; segregation; September 11 Attacks; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; South Vietnam; student protests; Summer Olympics; Syria; tanks; teachers; terrorism; terrorists; Third Reich; Three Day War; Treaty of Friendship, co-operation, and Mutual Assistance; Tuskegee Airmen; U.S. Army; UCF; universities; university; University of Central Florida; veterans; Veterans' Day; Vietnam; Vietnam War; volunteer military; volunteers; war protests; WarPac; Warren AFB; Warren Air Force Base; Warsaw Pact; Watergate; Watergate Scandal; wild boars; William Blank; Wisconsin; woman; women; World Trade Center; World War II; WWII; Yom Kippur; Yom Kippur War
Oral History of Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright
Tags: African American; Atlanta University; Atlanta, Georgia; AU; Boca Raton; CHS; college; color barrier; Crooms High School; Cuban; Daytona; Daytona State College; desegregation; Downtown Sanford; DSC; education; elementary school; enlistment; FAU; Florida Atlantic University; Georgetown; Gibbs College; Goldsboro; Goldsboro Elementary School; high school; higher education; Hispanic; Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Indiana, Pennsylvania; integration; IUP; J. R. White; Lakeland; Miami; NAS; NAS Sanford; Naval Air Station; Naval Air Station Sanford; prejudice; race; racism; Sanford; school; segregation; skin color; St. Petersburg; St. Petersburg College; university; VCCC; Vietnam War; Volusia County Community College; Wright, Stephen Caldwell