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DENNIS M. CORRIGAN

• Haymarket

• Age: 69 • Branch: Navy • Highest rank achieved: Captain • Years of Service: 24 • Honors received: Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service, Navy Commendation Awards. • Details of service: Corrigan was the first pilot to fire a Harpoon missile from a P-3B aircraft. He was on a surveillance mission flying out of Naval Air Station Agana (Guam) when his crew spotted shipwrecked South Pacific islanders marooned on a deserted island. They were able to vector a commercial ship to make the rescue. He was a Naval aviator (P-3 pilot/mission commander), a task group commander of an anti-submarine warfare operations center in Kadena, Japan, a squadron commanding officer VP-22 in Hawaii, an admiral’s aide at the Pentagon, and a chief of staff to a Navy admiral for Icelandic Defense Force and Naval Operations in the North Sea, and he served in a multitude of sea and shore duties related to Cold War operations. He participated in Middle East exercises and flew missions in the Persian Gulf in support of Desert Shield. He and the family had overseas tours in Hawaii, Okinawa, Japan, and Keflavik, Iceland. He made several six-month deployments, including to the Philippines, Diego Garcia, Alaska and Guam. In his final tours he worked in Washington and Patuxent River (Md.) advancing the efforts to train future pilots, flight officers, aircrew and maintenance personnel using advanced distributed learning and simulation approaches. He has a bachelor of electrical engineering and a master’s degree in resourcing-information technology. Today he is an officer and active member of the Haymarket American Legion Post 1799, the treasurer of the Heritage Hunt Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America, a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and he is a member of the Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree, the Patriotic Face of the Knights. My husband is the son of a career Navy man who attended college on a NROTC scholarship and went on to be a Naval aviator. He served with distinction and his love of the Service and the mission to protect our nation’s interest has never waivered. Even after retiring, he continued to serve the Department of Defense leading engineers, instructional designers, graphic artists and a multitude of other experts to ensure young officers and enlisted personnel learned to do their jobs safely and effectively.

BOYD ELLIOTT

• Dumfries

• Age: 72 • Branch: Air Force • Years of Service: 4 • Details of service: My dad is currently battling stage 4 terminal head/throat cancer. He served his country in Vietnam, and I am serving him by caring for him during his final days.

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• Age: 37 • Branch: Army • Highest rank achieved: Staff Sergeant • Years of Service: 8 • Honors received: Army Commendation Medal • Details of service: Maxwell deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005 and served as an instructor in the Army ensuring new troops were up to date. He has continued to show dedication to duty after 8½ years of military service by protecting his community as a firefighter on Fort Belvoir. He exhibits a contagious, positive attitude and truly embodies the meaning of teamwork. His sacrifices and bravery are very much admired by his coworkers and family, and his selfless actions have contributed to the freedoms that we enjoy today.

BRAV • Woodbridge • Age: 90 • Branch: Air Force • Highest rank achieved: PrivateE VETE • Years of Service: 3 • Honors received: Congressional Gold Medal for Chinese-American veterans of World War II. • Details of service: As a private during World War II, Lee was a member of the Flying Tigers (14th Air Force) and served in the China-Burma-India theater. He served for about two years. He worked on the ground crew RANS for the flights, supporting the pilots who flew dangerous missions over the Himalayas,

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• Age: 87 • Branch: Navy • Highest rank achieved: Senior Petty Officer • Years of Service: 33 • Details of service: Roderick Morgan’s

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