Psi U Gamma Tau Veterans

Name	Service:	Status:	Joined:	MOS:	Rank:	Duty Stations and Units:	Combat Tours:	In their own words:
SPC Duncan Brennan	Army	Active Duty	30 Mar 2004	13B (Cannon Crew Member)	SPC	Fort Sill, OK A BTRY 1st BN 40th FA (training) Basic Training and AIT April 2004-August 2004 Fort Campbell, KY B BTRY 4TH BN 320TH FA 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION (Air Assault) August 2004-June 2009 Fort Polk, LA C Co. 4th BN 353rd Regiment (Training) June 2009- present	Operation Iraqi Freedom: November 2005- November 2006 Operation Enduring Freedom: March 2008-March 2009	For those that are interested, my photography from my tour in Iraq can be found at: http://duncanbrennan.smugmug.com/Other/Images-from-OIF-06-07/1515259_wc4kT#89151013_caxYF
Charles Hall	Army	Retired	1971		Captain			I joined the U.S. Army through ROTC – was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in 1971 and went on Active Duty in the fall of 1971All of my service was at Ft. Bliss Texas (El Paso) where I was learning how to be an Air Defense Artillery Officer – By the fall of 1971, the Army had enough officers (a 14,000 officer surplus) since Nixon was winding down Vietnam, so after my training stint at Fort Bliss – I was released to the reserves in 1972 and finally discharged in 1979 with the rank of Captain. When I joined, Vietnam was very much on my mind and like a lot of men in college at the time, I expected to be drafted, if I didn’t volunteer. Had the Army wanted me to stay in, I would have been sent to Korea or Germany, to command men who were expected to shoot down Soviet or North Korean MIGS with a fiberglass missile launching tube called the Redeye. (that we would even try, much less, actually accomplish that mission still leaves me almost speechless – I am glad it never actually had to happen). I am glad I volunteered. I am equally glad I didn’t have to go and get shot at. Because I did join the Army – I have a special feeling for anyone who has ever signed up and served. Our country asks a lot of young men and women and we owe them a lot. By all means, put up a list of veterans on a PUSOG list.
Phillip Wharton	Army	Hon. Discharge	2000	91S Preventive Medicine Specialist	e5 Sergeant	325th Med Det, 792nd Med Det, 988th Med Det	Operation Iraqi Freedom 1 and 3 (2003 and 2005)
John Whitaker	US Army	Active	2007	was an 11c- Indirect Fire Infantryman -(mortar man) now a straight 11b-Infantry man	Specialist	Duty Stations and Units:	OIF VI	Combat Infantry Badge
Ken Crouch	Army	Active	2003	02B (Cornet or Trumpet Player)/42R (Army Bandsperson)		Deployed to Iraq for 15 months
Mike Dasher	US Army		Nov 94 to Jan 00	96R (Ground Surveillance Systems Operator) – it was a Military Intelligence MOS but it’s obsolete now. UAVs do it better and safer.	SGT (E-5)	2d Infantry Division (Korea), 82d Airborne Division (Ft Bragg)
Edward James “Waffle” Rice	US Air Force	Status:	Joined:	Intelligence Officer, Foreign Area Officer (Africa)	Major	Africa		The coolest thing I did was organize a sit-down meeting between the Commander of the US operation to send the first African Union peacekeeping troops into Darfur and his counterparts in Nigeria and Rwanda. I had a tiny plane, limited fuel, and a country without diplomatic relations with the US (they just had a military coup) that I had to land in to make it from Nigeria to Rwanda. Thanks to hotmail and a dedicated former employee of the embassy, I made it happen and the peacekeepers arrived without a hitch.

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