• Donald M. Mandelbaum, MD (deceased), '57 - Army.  Served during the Vietnam War. Awarded the National Defense Service Medal.
   
• David T. Armitage (deceased), '57 - Army.  Retired as a colonel in 1995 with a long career as a medical officer prior to becoming a senior medical adviser to the Army's Physical Disability Agency.  Tours of duty in Hawaii, Walter Reed, Georgia, and Germany.  Associate Director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, co-director of Walter Reed's Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, and associate chairman for forensic sciences and litigation support at the Dept. of Legal Medicine.  Co-author of Principles and Practice of Military Forensic Psychiatry (1997).

1958: 

• Francis Connery Jr (deceased), '58 - Navy.  Served in Vietnam.

1960: 

• Dale L. Wagar (deceased), '65 - Army.  Served during the Vietnam War.  
   
• Moe Vitolins, '65 - Army.  Served during the Vietnam War.

1966:

• Al Blakeborough, '66 - Army.  Served from 1967 to 1970. (Pictured below) Vietnam service dates 5th SFGSF:  Sept. 1968 - June 1969:  B-22 Qui Nhon/A-222 Don Tre July 1969 - Sept. 1969:  B-11 Chu Lai.
   
• Harry Khachadourian, '66 - Army.  Served for 8 years in the 82nd Airborne with a tour of Vietnam from 1971 - 1972.
   
• Karl Boff (deceased), '66 - Marines. Earned the Bronze Star and 4 Purple Hearts.
   
• Alfred Beausey, '66 - Air Force.  

1967:

• Bruce Flagler, '67 - Army.  Served from 2/68 to 10/70.  Did 2 tours in Vietnam and received 2 Army Commendation Medals for Meritorious Achievement and for Meritorious Service.  See pictures below.

1968:

• Frank Anselment (deceased), '68 - Air Force. Served over 20 years, including Operation Desert Storm.
   
• Dawn Cipperly, '68 - Navy.  Served from 1972 to 1974.
   
• Thomas Compo, '68 - Navy.  Served in Vietnam.
   
• John Delbarian (deceased), '68 - Navy.
   
• Ray Kasmier, '68 - Navy Reserve.
   
• Ray Lagace, '68 - Army.
   
• Jim Mihalko, '68 - Air Force.  Served in Iceland.
   
• Jim Peer, '68 - Air Force and NY Air National Guard.
   
• Paul Stierer, '68 - Army.  Served from 1969 to 1971.
   
• Dave Terpening, '68 - Army Intelligence.
   
• Kevin Terry (deceased), '68 - Army.  Died by suicide as the result of post traumatic stress disorder after serving in Vietnam.
   
• Bob Thomas, '68 - Navy.  Served from 1969 to 1975.  He was stationed in Panama for two years.  He was a Communications Technician with a top secret security clearance during his Navy career.
   
• Peter Wood (deceased), '68 - Navy.  Served for 21 years and completed 2 tours of duty in Vietnam.  His obituary states, "He was one of the most decorated Navy Veterans in New York State".  

1969:

• David Passino, '69 - Army.  Served from 1971 - 1973.
   
• Richard T. Kelley, '69 - Marines.  Served from 1969-1971. 

1970:

• Charles M. Gilman (deceased), '70 - Chuck served in the U.S. Army as a Green Beret from 1971 to 1974 and then served in the National Guard until 1978. 
   
• James Hoin, '70 - Career Army and Navy.  Served 1972-1979 USA Army, active duty with the 82nd Abn. Div and 10th Special forces group at Ft Devans. I then finished my tour with the 18th Abn Corps at Ft Bragg, NC.  I got out of service, and went to Duke University PA school, and got my BHS. I also got my MPAS from the University of Nebraska in emergency medicine.  I went back into the service when the first gulf war started. I served tours with the USN as an officer at the USNA. I came back into the Army and served many medical tours to include Infantry and Mechanized Infantry.  I retired as a Major from the US Army 12/2000 after 25 years of service.  I have become active in veterans affairs and for the disabled veteran.
   
• Robert D. Smith, '70 - Army.  Served from 1971-1973.

1973:

• Dana Cardany, '73 - Navy.  Served from 1973-1977 on a destroyer based out of Newport, RI.

1974:

• Kathaleen (Kathy) Schuck Loeffler,'74 - Army.  Served from 4/1977 to 7/1983.

1978:

• Marybeth Reardon, '78 - Army Reserve.  Served from 1984 to 2004.

1979:

• Bill McGuirk, '79 - Marines.  Served from 1979 - 1985.
   
• Peter Stein, '79 - Navy.  Served from 1979 - 1983.
   
• Gregory Hoin, '79 - Navy.
   
• Margaret "Peggy" VonFricken Kownack, '79 - Army.  Army Quartermaster Corps from 1979 - 1982.

1980:

•  Bill Mangione, '80 - Navy.

 1981:

• Mark Mangione, '81 - Marines.
   
• William J. Simmons, '81 - Navy, 1981-1984. 
  Beirut, Lebanon and US Army, NHNG Iraqi freedom 2004-2005.

1982: 

• George Slyer, '82 - Marines.  Served in Iraq.    

1983:

• Jude Brearton Mulvey, '83 - Major, NYARNG, Iraq.
   
• Chad Cuomo, '83 - Active Army, currently in Iraq.
   
• Rodney Livolsi, '83 - SFC, NYARNG, Iraq.  
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• John J. Le'Que - US Army Combat Infantry - 2004-2005 Baghdad, Iraq
  
   

1985:

• Elizabeth Colantonio Burke, '85 - Air Force.  Served from 1985 until her retirement in 2005.    

1986:

• Robert J. Tippins, '86 - Navy.  Served from 1986 - 1990.    

1988:

• James E. "Paco" McCarthy Jr., '88 - Marines.  Served from 1988 - 1992.
   
• Chris Reardon, '88 - Marines.  Served from 1988 to 1994.  Served in Desert Storm. 

1989:

• SFC Darcy A. Teal, '89 - Army.  Darcy has been on active duty in the US Army since 1989 and still serves at the present time.

1990:

• Reverend TJ Conwell, '90 - Air Force.  Service from September 1990 until October 2010 as a Technical Sergeant.

1993:

•  ITCS (SW/AW) David H. Berrien (Luce), '93 - Navy.  Service from 1993 through the present time.

1994:

• Jeremy Booard, '94 - Navy.  Began his service in 1995 and is presently stationed with the Navy in Albany, NY.
   
• Sgt. Jason D. Oliver, '94 - Army.  Served in Iraq in 2005 during Operation Iraqi Freedom III.  He is presently in the Inactive Ready Reserves.       

GRADUATION YEAR AT THS UNKNOWN:
 

• Charles M. Jacobs - Marines.  Service during World War II.  Recipient of a Purple Heart after being wounded at Guadalcanal.  
   
• Michael J. Peters, Sr. (deceased December, 2012) - Army.  Crane operator in the US Army with the 82nd Airborne.

 WHAT IS A VETERAN?

What is a veteran?  Just look around.
Right where you're standing,
He fought for that ground.
A vet is a person who answered the call,
Who went into war, and gave it his all.

He defined a way of life that we all love,
but much preferred peace, like the way of a dove.
He asked not the reason, as he stood in the trench.
He faltered not once in the muck and the stench.
As soldiers in legions, they stood side by side.
They knew some would fall, as many more died.
They whispered their prayers in a helmet of sweat.
Shells bursting above wouldn't let them forget.

Tears in their eyes as their friends lay so still
One hour ago, he was king of the hill.
Many more wounded, spilling of life.
When will it end, the battle of strife?

For many the battles never will end,
Now they are civilians, and find they can't blend.
Some are disabled, and some are disturbed.
After coming home from hell
They find they've been curbed.
A veteran is special, to be not denied.
He put it up front, he need never hide.

Now it is time to honor out vets.
Remember their pain, don't ever forget.
Remember them now, and give them their due.
Stand by their side, 'cause they did it for you.

--Author Unknown 
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Personal Military Service Pictures From THS Alumni Bruce Flagler, '67