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Military honors and enlistees tied to West Texas families
Sgt. Jessie R. Mitchell of Albuquerque unit earns Aerospace Defense Command award for high operational effectiveness. Five new Army recruits from Amarillo and Lubbock areas head to Fort Bliss for basic training with next steps at Dallas Fort Worth ARADCOM units, OCS, or technical schools. Two Marines from Amarillo processing to San Diego recruit depot, and Col Willis H. Bledsoe to Wiesbaden as chief of international at USAFE, after roles from Vietnam to Ruyslip.
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Jessie ‘R. Mitchell
A. R. Mitchell
Denver City
Aerospace Defense
Sgt. Mitchell
687Th. Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Albuquerque, N. M
Doris Cooper
Carlsbad
Ft. Bliss
Amarillo
Lubbock
Rudolpho Ochoa
Emma Mendoza Ochoa
Levelland
Francisco L. Ochoa
Ulyssé's
Kan
Tommy Nell Greenhill
Texas Tech
Joe E. Greenhill
Pecos
Charles Lee. Duncan
Hale Center
Vicente
Vince) Cisneros
Erasmo Cisneros
Rt. 2
Jimmy Joe Hogan
Hill H. Hogan
Ochoa
Greenhill
Army Air Force Defense Command
Aradcom
Dallas - Fort Worth
Duncan
Cisneros
Hogan
Marine Corps
San Diego
Armed Forces Examination Station
Joe Pena
Ortiz
Francisco Ortiz Jr
Itasca. St
Nicky Arlea Hopkins
Marjorie Marie Hopkins
Slaton
Willis H. Bledsoe
W. H. Bledsoe
Broadway
Wiesbaden
Germany
International
U.S. Air Force
Europe
Bledsoe
Ruyslip Afb
London
England
William. C
Westmoreland
Saigon
Vietnam