Recognizing Our Veterans
JDS & Associates is proud to recognize our veterans who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
JDS & Associates is proud to recognize our veterans who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
United States Coast Guard
Service: July 17, 1963 - July 10, 1967
Rank: E-5, Yeoman Second Class
Stationed: Groton, Connecticut; Norfolk, Virginia
Discharge: Honorable Discharge
Served on the Search and Rescue Coast Guard Cutter Cherokee. Also small boat duty and inner harbor search and rescue patrol for the Norfolk/Portsmouth area. Completed career as the Coast Guard Group Norfolk base Captain's Yeoman.
United States Air Force
Service: May 22, 1961 - May 21, 1965
Stationed: Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas; Norfolk, Virginia; Brooks AFB, San Antonio, Texas; Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, Alabama; Foreign Service TDY Korat AFB, Thailand
Discharge: Honorable Discharge
Served as a Aero-med specialist in San Antonio and as a Flight Surgeon Assistant and Air Rescue in Montgomery, Alabama. Completed service as a Air Rescue Medic in Thailand.
United States Air Force
Service: December 1967 - December 1970
Rank: Sergeant
Stationed: March AFB, Riverside, California; Saigon, Vietnam; Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, Louisiana
Discharge: Honorable Discharge
Served as an Air Intelligence, Photo Interpreter Specialist.
United States Army
Rank: Specialist 4th Class
Stationed: Vietnam
Discharge: Honorable Discharge
Served in Vietnam in various locations during the Vietnam war.
United States Marine Corps Reserves
Service: March 19, 1989 – March 19, 1997
Rank: Sergeant, E-5
Stationed: Waukegan, Illinois
Discharge: Honorable Discharge
Served in the infantry, Weapons Company, 2nd Batallion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division. Deployed to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in 1990 for the Persian Gulf War, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
United States Army
Service: October 1968 - October 1971
Rank: 1st Lieutenant
Stationed: Ft Dix New Jersey; Ft Benning, Georgia; Republic of Vietnam; Ft Polk, Louisiana
Discharge: Honorable Discharge
Served in Vietnam as a team leader, Mobile Advisory Team II-85, MACV II Corps, Binh Dinh Province. Received the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
United States Navy Reserves
Service: June 20, 1988 - August 1, 2016
Rank: Commander, O-5
Stationed: Naval Air Station Willow Grove, Pennsylvania and Ft. Dix, New Jersey
Retired: Honorably
Served as an Intelligence Officer with Office of Naval Intelligence and various Active Duty Commands, Squadron Intelligence Officer with Maritime Patrol Squadron VP-66 and assigned to Coast Guard Stations New York and Philadelphia following the 9/11 attacks. Active duties at sea and in Japan/Okinawa, Panama/Colombia/SOUTHCOM counter-narcotics operations.
United States Army
Service: 1989 - 1993
Years of Service: 4 years
United States Coast Guard
Service: 1995 - 1999
Years of Service: 4 years