JIM BEGGERLY | 2X SILVER STAR PILOT | VIETNAM

2022

He opened a newspaper and saw a photo of an A-1 Skyraider and said, “I want to fly that.” Little did he know the legendary future that awaited him at the controls of that airplane. Jim Beggerly served 21 years in the US Air Force and was awarded 2 Silver […]

JASON GALUSHA | MILITARY POLICE | IRAQ

2022

Following his fathers footsteps, Jason Galusha joined the Army as an MP in 1997. On the morning of Tuesday, sept 11, 2001, while he was training with his SWAT team, they heard the news and immediately received orders to secure the Pentagon. In his words, “We knew nothing would ever […]

JERRY KAPING | US COAST GUARD VET | PASTOR

2022

Born on the “wrong side of the tracks”, Jerry Kaping was the youngest of 5 with a single mother. At age 16, a youth pastor fostered him into a relationship with Christ. That relationship helped carry him through his time in the United States Coast Guard where he endured harrowing […]

DANE PREVATT | USMC GULF WAR | HONOR FLIGHT

2022

Dane Prevatt grew up in the small town of Grants Pass, Oregon but he found his place within the United States Marine Corps. At 18 years old he completed boot camp and in 1991 found himself on the shores of Kuwait wondering what would come next. He spent a couple […]

Regan Hawthorne | 82nd Airborne Paratrooper

2022

Inspired by his father who had served in the 82nd Airborne during the Korean War and two uncles who had served as paratroopers in Vietnam, Regan made the decision to follow their example of duty and service and likewise become a paratrooper. Nearly a year after joining, he was surprised […]

NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER | HAROLD SCHNEIDER

2022

He would fall victim to the drafts of the late 1960s, but Harold Schneider thought he’d get ahead of the inevitable. His parents signed his early enlistment forms when he was just 17, and he enlisted in the Navy hoping that would keep him out of Vietnam. But after photography […]