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Service News highlights local service members and duties
Navy Hospital Corpsman Joseph Pleasnick returns to Long Beach aboard USS Hornet after seven months in the South China Sea with the Seventh Fleet where he earned the Vietnam Service Medal. Army Pvt. Stanley Edler serves in a four week field exercise with the 3d Armored Division near Kirch Gens, while Pvt. Leonard Gasek fires expert with M 14 at Fort Hood. Coast Guard Cadet Curtis Stoldt begins second semester at the Coast Guard Academy in New London after appointment in 1965.
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Joseph M. Pleasnick
USN
Stephen E. Pleasnick
Benedict Ave
Norwalk
Long Beach
Calif
Hornet
South China Sea
Vietnam
Seventh Fleet
Iwo Jima
Sydney
Australia
Army
Stanley R. Edler
Don A. Edler
Route 2
New London
3D Armored Division
Edler
33D
Kirch Gens
Fort Knox
New London High School
Leonard R. Gasek
Leonard W. Gasek
Route 1
Huron
Fort Hood
Tex
Berlin
Berlin Heights
Coast Guard
Curtis W. Stoldt
William D. Stoldt
Parsons St
Coast Guard Academy