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For the previous two years Tom led the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, supporting the living Recipients of the Medal of Honor. Prior to that,

In 1962 I was an immature techy nerd HS senior and the son of an Air Force pilot with four kids to educate. So, I applied for and received a full ride to a Cornell EE degree on the Holloway NROTC program.

Born
July 12, 1943 (age 73)
Baltimore, Maryland

Allegiance
 United States of America

Service/branch
United States Marine Corps

Years of service
1960-1967 (USN)
1967-2002 (USMC)

Rank
 General

Commands held
HMT-301
MAG-26
2nd FSSG
Joint Task Force 160
Marine Corps Systems Command
Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

Awards
Defense Superior Service Medal (2)
Legion of Merit (2)
Bronze Star

I was born and raised in Baltimore,

From an email:

I was wounded near Hill 950, north of Khe Sanh, in August 1968. Medevac’d to Japan, and then to Bethesda.

My father was a career Marine enlisting in 1941 after Pearl Harbor, commissioned in 1944 as an Infantry 2nd Lieutenant, and retiring as a Lt.

I joined the Marines during my junior year at St. John’s University in Queens, New York City. I was a member of the Platoon Leaders Class and went to OCS the summer preceding my senior year.

Since I ended up in the Wing I didn’t get to Nam until most of you were back here in the States. I was a 46 driver with HMM 263 out of Marble Mountain 69/70 and was send back to Pensacola as a flight instructor/maintenance inspection pilot/line div officer.

As many of you know I stayed in the Corps for twenty. I did two tours in Vietnam, first on the DMZ with 1/12 and later shipboard with 33rd MAU and 1/9.