Solomon Reed |
Solomon Reed, 2003 | Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Persian Gulf War, 1990-1995
Navy
USS Concord (AFS 5); USS Yellowstone
Great Lakes Naval Training Center (NTC), Illinois; Jacksonville Naval Air Station (NAS) and Macdill Air Force Base (AFB), Florida; London, England; Miramar NAS, California; Washington, DC
Command Master Chief, E-9
Fort Davis, AL
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His dream as a sharecropper's son was to join the Navy and see the world. What Solomon Reed didn't know as a teenager enlisting in that branch of service was that he would be given an opening to train in technical skills he might not have received in civilian life. He served in intelligence support during the most intense years of the Vietnam War, stationed in England. But he did see the effects of that war up close, on two brothers who served in combat. Reed held fast to his faith in the Navy, in spite of antiwar sentiments back home and racial tensions on board ships.
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