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Update from Jon Feltner 20 June 2024:

I found this photo (left) from my  trip to Vietnam in 2010. It shows me and my Vietcong counterpart in the village of Mai Xa Chanh,Quang Tri Province (about 3 to 5 miles south of the DMZ).

Pat was commissioned as a United States Marine Corps officer through the NROTC program at the University of Notre Dame. In 1969 he was designated a Naval Flight Officer (Honor Graduate).

-Designated Mayor Emeritus, City of Pensacola January 12, 2009
-Mayor City of Pensacola, July 29, 1994 to January 12, 2009
-Charter Member, Board of Directors,

After TBS I went to Ft Sill, Oklahoma for artillery training and then to Vietnam. After Vietnam, I was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone.

Growing up near the ocean in New Jersey and spending summers in Conn., I spent lots of time boating, sailing, and fishing. The NROTC program was a natural for me.

After Basic School, I went to Flight School in Pensacola and then on the jets at Meridian, MS. Honestly, I felt that flying a jet was not fun.

A native of Belleville, Illinois, Colonel Fuchs graduated from Southern Illinois University and was commissioned through the Platoon Leaders Class in 1967. His first assignment after completion of The Basic School in November 1967 was as the Executive Officer of Guard Company,