Flashcards: Military personnel of the Vietnam War

William Pettus “Bill” Hobby Jr.

Daniel James "Dan" White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

James Craig Adamson (born March 3, 1946) is a former NASA astronaut and retired Colonel of the United States Army.

Leonard Thomas Lake (October 29, 1945 – June 6, 1985) was an American serial killer who often used the alias Leonard Hill.

Colin Luther Powell (/ˈkoʊlᵻn/; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army.

Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (/ˈtʃʌk ˈheɪɡəl/ CHUK HAY-gəl; born October 4, 1946) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009 and as the 24th United States Secretary of Defense from 2013 to 2015 in the Obama administration.

James Logan Jones, I (born December 19, 1943) is a retired United States Marine Corps general and the former United States National Security Advisor.

Peter M. Holt (born July 26, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American businessman.

William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996) was an American serial killer and twice-paroled sex offender, also known as the Freeway Killer, who committed the rape, torture and murder of a minimum of 21 boys and young men in a series of killings in 1979 and 1980 in southern California.

Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.

David Henry Dewhurst (born August 18, 1945) is an American politician who was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Texas, serving from 2003 to 2015.

Major General Philip Michael Jeffery AC, CVO, MC (born 12 December 1937) is a retired senior Australian Army officer who was the 24th Governor-General of Australia, serving from 2003 to 2008, and the 30th Governor of Western Australia, serving from 1993 to 2000.

Frederick Carlton Weyand (September 15, 1916 – February 10, 2010) was a United States Army general.

William Laws Calley Jr.

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American diplomat and Democratic Party politician who is the 68th and current United States Secretary of State.

Jay Montgomery Garner (born James Garner; born April 15, 1938) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was appointed in 2003 as Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq but was soon replaced by Ambassador Paul Bremer and the ambassador's successor organization to ORHA, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).

Robert John Carmody (September 4, 1938 – October 27, 1967) was an American boxer whose career, which had included a bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as part of the flyweight division, was cut short when he was killed in action serving with the United States Army in the Vietnam War.

James George Janos (born July 15, 1951), better known by his stage name Jesse Ventura, is an American former professional wrestler, actor, political commentator, author, naval veteran, and politician who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.

Indradyumna Swami is an ISKCON Guru and a sannyasi for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as ISKCON or the Hare Krishnas).

Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr.

James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr.

Winston Francis Groom, Jr.

Michael Dwayne Weaver (born June 13, 1951) is an American former professional boxer.

Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008) was an American serial killer, also known as the Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York.

Hoàng Ấu Phương, pen name Bảo Ninh (Nghệ An, 18 October 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and writer of short stories, best known for his first novel, published in English as The Sorrow of War.

Raymond Francis Newman (born June 20, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and the Milwaukee Brewers in 1972-1973.

Theodore Henry Ford (born February 7, 1947 in Vineland, New Jersey) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers from 1970 to 1973.

A Vietnam veteran is someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.

Francisco Ciutat de Miguel (1909 – November 30, 1986) (known as Angelito) was a Spanish communist Lieutenant of infantry and Commander.

Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident.

Ahn Junghyo (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean novelist and literary translator.

Yi Seok (born 3 August 1941) is a prince of the House of Yi, the Korean royal family.

The forward air controller (FAC) played a significant part in the Vietnam War from the very start.

Giáp Văn Cương (1921-1990) was an Admiral of the Vietnam People's Navy.

George Eugene Mitterwald (born June 7, 1945) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager.

Frank Herman Akers, Jr.

Phillip Winston "Phil" Hennigan (April 10, 1946 – June 17, 2016) was a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1969 to 1973 with the Cleveland Indians and New York Mets.

H. Melvin "Mel" Ming (born as Hilton Austin Melvin Ming) is a Bermudian-American broadcast executive who was the president and CEO of Sesame Workshop from 2011 until his retirement in 2014.

Campo Elías Delgado (14 May 1934 – 4 December 1986) was a Colombian Vietnam War veteran who killed 29 people, and wounded 12 more, most of them at a luxurious Bogotá restaurant called Pozzetto, before apparently being shot dead by police.

John Junior "Champ" Summers (June 15, 1946 – October 11, 2012) was a Major League Baseball player who played primarily as an outfielder and designated hitter for six teams during his eleven-year career that spanned from 1974 to 1984.

Eduardo Figueroa Padilla (born October 14, 1948) is a former Major League Baseball player.

Jeff Stein (born February 13, 1944) is a columnist at Newsweek and covers spy agencies and national policy topics.

Jerry Wayne Terrell (born July 13, 1946) is an American former professional baseball player.