Air Force Captain Meyer Jr graduates with honors
Captain Herbert F. Meyer Jr. earned honors at the Defense Information School Fort Benjamin Harrison and receives the Association of the United States Army Award before onward assignment to the Air Force Institute of Technology and Texas Tech University. He is a 1959 Hermann High School graduate with a 1963 Missouri State University B.S. in education, commissioned in 1967 after Lackland OTS. His wife Nancy is the Hill of Jonesburg.
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U.S. Air Force
Herbert F. Meyer Jr
Herbert F. Meyer Sr
Hermann Rte. 4
Defense Information School
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Meyer
Association of the United States Army
Air Force Institute of Technology
Texas
Crouch Graduates Radar Repairman Course at Keesler AFB
John A. Crouch, son of Mr and Mrs Walter F Crouch, 521 W Breckenridge St, graduated from the Air Training Command radar repairman course at Keesler AFB Miss He will be assigned to Richmond Ky for duty with a Strategic Air Command unit America's nuclear deterrent force of long range bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles Crouch is a 1971 Mexico High School graduate.
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Walter F. Crouch
W. Breckenridge St
Keesler Afb
Miss
U.S. Air Force
Air Training Command
Richmond
Strategic Air Command
America
Airman
Crouch
Mexico High School
Casualties Hit New High For Year In Vietnam War
Saigon report says U S battlefield deaths rose to 19 last week the heaviest toll in seven months Five other Americans were missing and 28 wounded Most casualties were from aircraft loss or damage Six Americans died of nonhostile causes a drop from the prior week The tally shows 1578 Americans listed as missing or captured The allied totals now list American 45734 killed in action 303045 wounded 10152 nonhostile South Vietnamese 141977 killed and North Vietnamese Viet Cong 628050 killed.
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Saigon
U.S
Navy Officer Candidate Lindell Rutherford Solo Flight
Navy Aviation Officer Candidate Lindell G. Rutherford of Vandalia completed his first solo flight in a Navy aircraft at Pensacola marking a major step toward becoming a Naval Aviator. A 1967 Van-Far High School graduate and 1971 MU Rolla alum, he joined the Navy in October 1971.
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Navy
Lindell G. Rutherford
Ogle W. Rutherford
Vandalia
Pensacola
Van-Far High School
University of Missouri At
Ensign Rutherford Begins Naval Flight Training
Navy Ensign Lindell G. Rutherford, son of Mr and Mrs Ogle W Rutherford of Vandalia Missouri, starts six months of basic flight training with Training Squadron 3 at Whiting Field Florida. He will log over 100 hours in the T 28 Trojan and study instruments formation night flying acrobatics and navigation toward earning the Wings of Gold as a Naval Aviator after more than a year of training. He is a 1971 graduate of the University of Missouri in Rolla.
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Navy
Lindell G. Rutherford
Ogle W. Rutherford
South Elm
Vandalia
Naval Air Station
Whiting Field
Milton
Fla
University of Missouri In
Rolla, Ma
Charles O'Brien Trains In Texas
Technical Sergeant Charles W. O'Brien of the U S Air Force navigational systems repair, from Dyess AFB Texas, participated in the Gallant Hand joint services training at Ft Hood Texas from March 19 to April 1. More than 23,000 personnel from Army Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard joined the largest U S exercise since 1965. O'Brien is the son of Mrs Anne B O'Brien of Centralia Missouri and a 1954 graduate of Centralia High School.
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United States
Vietnam
U. S. Readiness Command
O'Brien
Barbara A. Thorne
Centralia High School
Courtney Assigned to 85th Maintenance Battalion in Germany
Army Specialist 4 Robert W. Courtney, 20, of Auxvasse Missouri, now serves in Spee Germany with the 85th Maintenance Battalion. He joined in April 1971 after basic training at Fort Leonard Wood and prior duty at Fort Monmouth New Jersey. A 1969 North Callaway R-1 High School graduate, he is married to Ida with parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Courtney listed at Route 2.
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Robert L. Courtney
Ida
Auxvasse
Germany
Spee
Courtney
245Th Transportation
Army
Ft. Leonard Wood
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
North Callaway
Ft. Gordon
Welch Completes Air Force Inventory Specialist Course
Airman David E. Welch son of Mr and Mrs Elmer E Welch of Mexico Route 4 has graduated at Lowry AFB Colorado from the Air Training Command supply inventory specialist course. Welch entered the Air Force in January 1972 and is a 1970 graduate of a local high school.
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Denver
David E. Welch
Elmer E. Welch
Mexico
Mike Smith Enlists in Army Security Agency
Mike Wilbur Smith, 19, son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Choate Smith of Laddonia, has enlisted in the Army Security Agency at the St Louis Recruiting main station. He is undergoing basic training at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri before assignment to Fort Devens Massachusetts for advanced training. He graduated from Community A-4 High School and attended Northeast Missouri State College Kirksville prior to enlisting.
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Mike Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Choate Smith
Laddonia
Army Security Agency
St. Louis
Department of the Army
Ft. Leonard Wood Mo
Ft. Devens
Mass
Pvt. Smith
Community A-4
Northeast Missouri State College
Kirksville
Nichols Completes Basic Training at Navy Center
Carl C. Nichols, son of Mr and Mrs Marvin L Nichols of Route 4 Centralia Missouri, graduated from recruit training at the Naval Training Center in Orlando. A 1971 Centralia High School graduate he is to report to Nuclear A School at Great Lakes Tl.
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Navy
Carl C. Nichols
Marvin L. Nichols
Route 4
Centralia
Naval Training Center
Orlando
Great Lakes
Recruit Rod Power joins Navy Hospital Corps
Hospitalman Recruit Rod H Power, son of Mildred Power of 24 Venus St, graduated from recruit training at the Naval Training Center in Orlando. A 1971 Mexico School graduate, he is to report to Hospital Corps A School in San Diego.
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Rod Power
Hospital Corps
Navy
Rod H. Power
Mildred Power
Venus St
Naval Training Center
Orlando
Mexico
San Diego
Army Pfc Duncan Assigned to 3rd Armored Division in Germany
Pfc W L Duncan and Pvt William J Duncan both of 803 S Walnut St recently joined the 3rd Armored Division in Germany. W L is a radio relay operator with Company A of the 144th Signal Battalion stationed at Fort Gordon.
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Army
William J. Duncan
William Duncan
S. Walnut St
3Rd Armored Division
Germany
Duncan
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