Sunday, July 26, 2009
VETERANS
Reservists reunion
VIENNA — A first reunion is planned Aug. 15 for all Navy reservists who have trained at the former Naval Reserve Training facility on East LaClede Avenue in Youngstown and at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Naval Reserve Center’s move to the Vienna location and the 63rd year of the naval reserves being in the Youngstown area.
Capt. Richard Rumbaugh, reunion coordinator, said the reunion will begin at the airbase in Vienna at 11:30 a.m. with a luncheon, followed by programming about benefits available to reserves and retired personnel. There also will be a program covering the 63-year history of the reserves in Youngstown, including their original use of a high school until they moved into the East LaClede Avenue facility. A presentation by drilling reservists will explain what they do now for active forces. Some 6,000 reservists have drilled at the Vienna center in the past 20 years.
Reservations are required and must be made by Saturday. Contact Andy Ragan at (330) 549-2376 or Rumbaugh at (330) 627-2918.
PROMOTIONS
Air Force major
Air Force Maj. David C. Thompson II was promoted to his current rank while assigned as a joint-operations information-security chief with the Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
Thompson, son of David C. Thompson Sr. of Greenville, Pa., and the late Mary E. Thompson, graduated in 1986 from Kennedy Christian High School,
Hermitage, Pa., and received a bachelor’s degree in 1994 from Slippery Rock University, Pa. He earned a master’s degree in 2000 from Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas.
DEPLOYED
Iraqi Freedom
Army Sgt. John D. Yuhasz, son of Pat and Toni Yuhasz of Berlin Center, is a member of the Kentucky National Guard 301st Chemical Co., which was recently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. This is the second deployment to Iraq for Yuhasz, who began his military career with the Ohio Army Reserves in 1995 shortly after graduating from Austintown Fitch High School.
BASIC TRAINING GRADS
Air Force: Reserve Airman 1st Class Bonnie G. Besze, basic training honor graduate (Hubbard High School, ’07), daughter of Charles Ruth of Hubbard and granddaughter of Ina Miller of Wheatland, Pa.
Navy: Seaman John J. Prejsnar (New Castle High School, New Castle, Pa., ’01, and Hiram College, Hiram, ’06), son of Deborah A. and John J. Prejsnar of New Castle; Seaman Apprentice Matthew D. Bush (Joseph Badger High School, Kinsman, ’07), son of Debra L. Armer of Greenville, Pa., and Perry D. Bush of Kinsman.
910TH AIRLIFT WING
Arrived for duty
VIENNA — Air Force Reserve Staff Sgt. Raymond A. Boso has arrived for duty at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station, where he is a traffic-management sergeant assigned to the 910th airlift Wing’s Aerial Port Squadron.
Boso, son of Raymond G. Boso and Pamela Kessler, both of East Liverpool, graduated in 1997 from Beaver Local High School, Lisbon, and received a bachelor’s degree in 2006 from Youngstown State University.
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