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Honoring Those Who Served
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November 6, 2015
tional Institute in Waymart. He and his wife Michelle live in Mount Cobb with their three children, Mary Anne, Krista and Eva. Veterans’ Day events will take place all “I am proud to serve my country, and I will over our area beginning this weekend (see continue to do so,” Caarachilo said. page 2 for a listing), and many will feature disWilliam J. Griffiths American Legion Post tinguished guest speakers. No. 465, in conjunction with the Jermyn But in Jermyn, the guest speaker is a native Shade Tree Commission and Events Comson. The speaker for this year’s cermittee, will hold the ceremony emony is Lt. Col. Eugene Carachilo. Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. Colonel Carachilo is the son of at the World War I Veterans Paul and Rose Carachilo and grew Park, Bridget Street and Washup nearby in Mayfield. He is a 1987 ington Avenue. graduate of Lakeland High School Jermyn’s Community Chorus, and a 1992 graduate of Community the Lakeland School District Medical Center’s School of Nursing. Band, Chris McGeachie and His military career began in 1986 guest singers will perform. when he enlisted with the 28th InPost No. 465 commander fantry Division of the Pennsylvania Ronald Muir and chaplain RobArmy National Guard. After servert Jones will conduct the miliing six years and receiving an hontary portion of the ceremony orable discharge in 1992, he looked with the Boy and Girl Scouts to the Air Force Reserve, joining forming an Honor Guard for the the 514th Aeromedical Evacuation colors and legion members. Squadron, at McGuire Air Force World War I Park, where the Base, New Jersey, as a flight nurse. ceremony will take place, has He has been deployed seven times been reclaimed by the Jermyn since Sept. 11, 2001, and has visited Shade Tree Commission. It is Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, borderd by 12 silver maples plantthe United Arab Emirates and Kued by the townspeople in 1918 in wait. His latest deployment was to memory of the 12 soldiers who Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. He is gave their lives in World War I. now the aeromedical evacuation “It is quite unusual for a small control team chief and the chief of town such as Jermyn to have 12 training in the 514th Air Mobility young men who lost their lives on Operations Squadron at Joint Base the battlefield in the same war,” McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. said Joseph “Pepper” Krenitsky, Carachilo has worked with who will be honored at the cerwounded soldiers as they are evacuemony for his contributions in ated from the battle field. The medirefurbishing the park. cal crew on the plane consists of A light luncheon will be two nurses and three medical techserved in the rooms of the SS. nicians. Upon arriving at the desJames and George Episcopal tination, the medical team sets up Church, across the street. All are the interior of the plane for the pawelcome to attend. tients. The plane’s bay can handle 70 Thanks to JoAnne Wilson and wounded patients. Mary Perrault, who assisted with Lt. Col. Eugene Carachilo will be the guest speaker at Jermyn’s The plane is equipped with cardiac this report. monitors, IV supplies, oxygen and Veterans’ Day ceremony. by Christopher Cornell ADVANTAGE EDITOR
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medications. They are prepared for emergencies such as cardiac arrest. The main object of the medical team is to get patients loaded safely and get them to a higher level of medical care as soon as possible. When not serving with the reserves, Carachilo is employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Correction at the State Correc-