This is the official VIC 4 VETS Honor Roll, highlighting our Honored Veterans

SUBMITTED BY:  Barry M. Papke
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Barry M. Papke (Currently Retired)

         US Air Force Regular 4 years (Aug. 1971 to Aug. 1975)

         Member of 218th Engineering Squadron - Missouri Air National Guard (MOANG) 17 1/2 years May 1980 to January 1998

         Total service time 21 1/2 years.

         Retired Rank of Master Sargent MSGT (E-7)

Medals and Awards

          Meritorious Service Medal

          National Defense Service Medal

          Vietnam Medal

          Missouri National Guard Commendation for serving during the Great Midwest Flood of 1993.

           I entered the Air Force and was trained to be a Cartographer. That training landed me a job with the Defense Mapping Agency now known today as NGA (National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency) where I retired from.

I would also like to recognize my deceased father who was an Army World War II vet who was part of General MacArthur Occupation forces in Japan after the nuclear bombing.

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