Notes from the June 2012 Gathering Colorado Springs, CO 3

The
RED DRAGON REPORT

2013 Red Dragon Gathering 2

Videos 7

Some Things Never Change 7

NBCRV Stryker Model Kits 7

Financial Report 8

Web Links to Check Out 8

TAPS 8

A Trophy of War Returns 10

Red Dragon Histories available 10

Red Dragon Prayer 11

Red Dragons Past and Present 13

Speaking of Foxes and Strykers… 15

Red Dragon Roster – Southwest Asia 16

Red Dragon Roster World War II 20

Red Dragon Roster Korean War 22

Red Dragon Roster - Associates 37

HONOR ROLL 41

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2014 Red Dragon Gathering

This year we will have TWO gatherings! One will be October 22-26 at Fort Bragg, the other November 12-16 at Fort Hood. Everybody is welcome to attend either, or both.

Our original plan for September at Fort Bragg fell apart for a number of reasons. In figuring out what to do, I found we have a number of people in the east who can't travel as far west as Fort Hood, and a number of people in the West who can't travel as far as Fort Bragg. I decided I just didn't want to deprive either half our folks of the opportunity.

Fort Bragg Oct 22-26 / Fort Hood Nov 12-16
Quality Inn & Suites
2910 Sigman Street
Fayetteville, NC 28303
(910) 485-0635
Room Rate $75/night + fees/taxes (Red Dragons group rate)
You Need to Do This By October 1
MAKE your room reservations
SEND $60 per person to
Walt Eldredge
12124 North Oak Hills Pkwy
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
or pay by PayPal to / Hilton Garden Inn
2704 O.W. Curry Drive, Killeen, Texas, 76542
(254)-554-3900
Room Rate $85/night + fees/taxes (Red Dragons group rate)
You Need to Do This By October 22
MAKE your room reservations
SEND $60 per person to
Walt Eldredge
12124 North Oak Hills Pkwy
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
or pay by PayPal to
At both gatherings we will visit active duty Red Dragons on the post and see their equipment, have them visit us at the hotel to get to know each other, and have the Memorial Banquest on Saturday night.

New Status for the Association

The Red Dragons Association will soon be recognized by the IRS as 501 C 3 (charitable) organization. Ths has some advantages over applying as a 501 C 19 (veterans) organization. I will go over the reasons for this at t.he gatherings

See more more on our website at www.red-dragons.org

Financial Report

Beginning Balance YE 2011 / $1,288.96
Donations / $525.00
Newsletter / ($632.29)
Reunion expenses / ($984.34)
Reunion revenues / $680.00
Raffle / $170.00
Ending Balance 6/30/14 / $1047.33

Web Links to Check Out

We continue to add photos and documents to the website for the Red Dragons Veterans Association at www.red-dragons.org. We are looking for more, especially experiences from Afghanistan and Iraq. You can even use PayPal to donate to the Association, and get a receipt for tax purposes.

Walt Eldredge's website for his books is www.dragonscribe.com.

Our Facebook group 2nd Chemical Battalion Red Dragons Second to None for the battalion is up to 311 members. The members range form widows and other family of deceased WW II veterans to newly enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood.

Bruce Elliott’s website at www.4point2.org. remains the most comprehensive source of information anywhere about 4.2-inch mortar and the chemical mortar battalions that used it.

TAPS

There are more names than usual in TAPS because I have been trying to locate people with whom we have lost contact. In this process I have found deaths as early as 1979. Almost all of this comes through the internet, which has information today that was unavailable just a few years ago.

Name / Service / Date of Death
Ervin F. Behnke / A:1/53-11/53 / 7/4/2012
Ronald J.Biermeier / A:1/49-10/51 / 11/30/2006
John E. Boyle / H: WW II / 20/19/2012
Melville S. Boynton / C: Korea / 10/15/1979
August Brunsen Jr / A: Korea / 6/22/2011
Ernest L. Buschjost / A:1/52-2/53 / 5/16/2011
Daniel D. Doran / B: Korea / 7/9/1998
Albert H. Fetting / A: WW II / 1/17/2012
Sam J. Folcarelli / A: WW II / 1/5/2005
Gilbert M. Hanan / H:WW II / 4/10/2011
Ellwood Hebda / H:2/49-11/51 / 12/1/2009
William E. Henry Jr / A: 42-45 / 1/28/2012
Gerald E. Johnson / B:9/51-7/52 / 11/24/2012
William R. Kirklin / C:12/42-7/45 / 3/11/2011
Weber Lashley / B: WW II / 3/23/2002
Leo H. Letondress / B:49-51 / 3/11/2011
William P. McGowan / C:1/52-10/52 / 1/27/2012
Leon V. Richie / BD: 42-45 / 1/26/2006
John Robuck / WW II / 10/14/2007
Charles E. Smith Jr / CD: WW II / 5/16/2011
Leo Uliczny / BH: WW II / 11/1/2012
Richard W. Williams / H:9/51-9/52 / 9/30/2012
Jesse D. Woodward / C:1/53-9/53 / 2/2320/12

A Trophy of War Returns

I got an email from someone in Spain who had purchased a Nazi banner at a flea market. It was marked “2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion in Germany 1945.” The letters are faded so I enhanced the inset below. There were several recognizable signatures on it, including Lt. Gene Holzworth and Sgt Leon Crooks. I emailed it to Leon’s son Richard and 30 minutes after it left Spain, Leon was looking at photos of it in Parsons, KS. Don’t you Love living in the information age?

Red Dragon Histories available

You can order your books about the battalion history from my Website, www.dragonscribe.com You can pay through PayPal with an account or a credit card.

Red Dragon Prayer

Presented here is the Red Dragon Prayer which became an official part of battalion history in 2012. The story of its origin is on the following page.

Origin of the Red Dragon Prayer

LTC Chris Cox was a strong supporter of the Veterans Association during his tenure as battalion commander, and gave high priority to informing the soldiers in the unit about their history and tradition. He decided to take the lead in adding to that history with something that we have never had before – an official Red Dragon prayer. Captain Mark Musser, battalion chaplain, was tasked with the writing. “The commander and CSM Kraus and I met every week for three months to work on it,” the captain told me. “We went line by line through the books on unit history and said ‘Is that reflected in the wording?’ Then we turned it around and went through every line in the prayer, and said “How does that wording express what’s in the history? We even asked the Brigade CO and CSM to look at it.” The first official use of the prayer was to open the Battalion Birthday Ball in April, 2012. We are indebted to LTC Cox for his leadership, and to all three of these Red Dragons for their painstaking efforts to make this prayer a true reflection of and addition to the battalion’s tradition.

Red Dragons Past and Present

Speaking of Foxes and Strykers…

I found some internet links with detailed pictures of the two primary vehicles used by 2nd Chemical Battalion for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance. Some of you see these scenes in your sleep, for others they may be new.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m93a1-pics.htm

http://www.primeportal.net/apc/dieter_krause/m93a1_nbcrc_fox/

http://www.primeportal.net/apc/don_busack/nbc_stryker/

http://www.primeportal.net/apc/hans-hermann_buhling/stryker_nbcrv/

Red Dragon Roster – Southwest Asia

Agyarko, Jeffery: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Aubelle, Kristen: 2501 Bacon Ranch Road #815 , Killeen TX 76542; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Baird, Chesley: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Baker, Chad: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Blackburn, Micah: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Brady, Jodi: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Briones, Chantelle: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Brookshire, Laurie: ; Desert Storm/Shield

Brown, Michael: ; Desert Storm/Shield

Conrad, Jonathon: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Cooper, Jessica: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Cox, Chris: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

De La Rosa, Ivan: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Deyak, David: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Dinovo, Marie: marie.r.dinovo; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Dixon, Damian: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Doughty, Robert: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Edsall, Habe: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Edwards, Clifford: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Edwards, Cliff: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Eisenhauer, Adam: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Ferraras, Blanca: 520 W 102nd St , New York NY 10032; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Feyer, Harry: 5401 Siltstone Loop , Killeen TX; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Flores, Venera: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Froom, Mark: ,.mil; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Garcia, Roel: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Graham, Kenneth: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Gray, Jeremy: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Guerrero, Jaciel: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hamm, Cody: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hammerquist, Ginger: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Harrigan, Pamela: P. O. Box 5188 , Kingshill, STX U.S.V.I. 00851-5188; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Harrington, Taylor: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Harwell, James: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hastings, Odonna: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hawkins, Quinshawn: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hegenbuch, Kyle: 5263 Yeakel St. Unit 2 , Fort Hood TX 76544; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hodgkins, Henney: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hoffman, Christopher W.: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Huffman, Ronnie: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Hunt, Spencer: 6612 Todd St. , Fort Hood TX 76544; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Jasper, Jazz: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Kay, Dustin: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Keenan, Collin: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Kelly, Matthew: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

King, William E.: 1 Armitage Dr. , Dugway UT 84022; Desert Storm/Shield

King, Llewingtina: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Kolker, Dean: ; Desert Storm/Shield

Kraus, Kenneth: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Krivensky, Matthew: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Lee, Mark: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

LNU, Justin: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Madere, Timothy: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Martinez, Jaime C: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Matzinger, John: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

McDougal, Darryl: 2601 Lazy Ridge Dr. , Killeen TX 76543; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

McGee, Keith: , Woodbridge VA; Desert Storm/Shield

Menafernandez, Vanesa: , 254-285-5610; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Molina Nunez, David: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Moreno, Vilma: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Musser, Mark: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Nielsen, Heidi: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Obrien, Patrick: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Olson, Jennie: 5205 Whiterock Dr. , Killeen TX 76549; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Palmer, Scott: 13th Chemical Co. , Fort Hood TX 76544; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Parker, Alex: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Pate, Stephanie: ; Desert Storm/Shield

Phillips, Jon: @; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Quitagua, Ray: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Rawls, Antonio: 6204 Sulfur Spring Drive , Killeen TX 76542, 573-586-8905; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Reano, Max: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Richardson, Sheidan: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Rone, Grace: PS

Scott, Angela: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Sepulveda, Alex: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Snelgrove, Jason: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Steffener, Mark: mark.a.steffener; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Stinebaugh, John: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Thomas, Anthony: 875 Arrow Drive , Copperas Cove TX 76522; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Torres, Carlos: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Twiss, Donald: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Urbina, Reinerio: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Vestal, Jessica: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Visser, Vance: ; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Walker, Micah: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

White, Greg: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Wilcox, David L.: , w254-287-2919; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Witherspoon, Marsheik: marsheik.l.witherspoon; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Young, Vince: ; Desert Storm/Shield

Young, Cydnia: ; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Zumwalt, Maria: 48th Chemical Brigade Buiding 14010 , Fort Hood TX 76544, 254-288-6922; Desert Storm/Shield; Opn Iraqi Freedom

Red Dragon Roster
World War II

Aydelott Jr, Frederick: 209 Big Pine Rd , Dayton OH 45431-1840, 937-256-8497 A:

Ball, George W.: PO Box 236 , Dighton MA 02715 A:

Caplan, Sidney D.: 3 Michaud Dr , Framingham MA 01701-4824, 508-879-2664 Med:

Ciborowski, Mitchell: 110 Hillendale Rd , Bel Air MD 21014-5188, 410-838-7103 A:

Cramer, Frank L.: 16024 Cutters Ct , Fort Myers FL 33908-3088 A:

Crooks, Leon M.: 3102 30th Dr , Parsons KS 67357, 620-421-2823 B:

Cuttitta, Victor F.: 43 Bluebell Ct , Paramus NJ 07652-4238, 201-265-4110 AD:

Davis, Robert W.: 4116 Shelby Rd , Youngstown OH 44511-3534, 330-788-3919 D:

Dodge, Harry W.: 850 Del Mar Downs Rd Apt 326 , Solana Beach CA 92075-2722, 805-963-2193 A:

Dreher, Frank H.: 9 Buttonwood Dr , Simsbury CT 06070-1728 H:

Fafard, Edmond E.: 10 Crestlan Cir , Worcester MA 01604-1402 B:

Faust, Kenneth E.: 2193 N St Rte 741 , Franklin OH 45005-9744, 513-398-0216 A:

Fontenot, Percy J.: 3108 Common St , Lake Charles LA 70601-8539, 318-439-9256 A:

Gonder, Andrew: 643 Kimberly Ave , Masury OH 44438, 330-448-4903 B

Guerin, Thomas J.: 24 Rheimes St , Berlin NH 03570, 603-752-7757 C:

Harris, Franklin: 374 Luther Bailey Rd , Senoia GA 30276, 770-599-3287

Hedrick, Elmer S.: 8320 Suffolk Way , Gainesville VA 20155-1778 B:

Horne, Gordon U.: Box 33 Old Pine Hill Rd , Berwick ME 03901, 207-698-1746 C:

Jefferies, Clarence E.: 519 W Main , Hummelstown PA 17036-1319, 717-534-1448 C:

Keller, William B.: 367 College Ave , Clemson SC 29631, 803-654-5361 C:

Klumbis, Anthony J.: 994 West St , Attleboro MA 02703-3341, 401-831-4386 H:

Kokoszka, Stanley C.: 40 Provencher St , Manchester NH 03102, 603-622-7177 Med:

Lantz, Richard J.: 312 W Morris Hills Rd , Covington VA 24426, 540-962-5547

Lonobile, Frank M.: 1199 Britton Rd , Rochester NY 14616 B:

McGillivray, James R.: 722 Riverview Ave , Orange CA 92865, 714-637-8333 H:

Midlam, Charles E.: 2008 Hadrain Ct , Sun City Center FL 33573-7346, 813-634-1540 HB:

Moran, Raymond S.: 130 Chandler Dr , West Chester PA 19380-6804, 610-918-9557 A: