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Service Graduates and Deployments Highlight Local Veterans
Marine and Navy personnel with local ties are shown in service milestones. Timothy Arnold of Morrison High and Aurora High graduates joins the Marine Corps in 1972 and serves on a Mediterranean deployment with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264. Constant Jenkins II, a Navy Electronics Technician Third Class from Sterling, serves aboard a destroyer with the 7th Fleet in the Western Pacific. Steven Van Oosten of Polo earns Meritorious Mast while stationed in California. Howland Ellis of Rock Falls reports for duty at Great Lakes Marine Barracks after enlisting in December 1972.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy Arnold
Henry van Oosten
Steven L. van Oosten
Buffalo St
Polo
Marine Corps
California
Howland Ellis
Great Lakes
Howland W. Ellis
Vernon A. Ellis
W. 19Th
Rock Falls
Marine Barracks
Naval Training Center
Rock Falls Township
Radio Club
Sterling-Rock Falls
Amateur Radio Society
Gartner Park
Sterling
Bill Peters
Claire Traxler
Jim Ziegler
Gene Leigh
Harold Wright
Gazette