Gulf War Records
Gulf War Records
Stephen A. Clark (Air Force) Video | Documents
Major General Stephen A Clark was born into a military family at Fort Hood. His father was a colonel and a UTK alum who served two tours in Vietnam and later lived as a defense contractor. Clark bounced around in his early years as an Army brat, and he graduated high school in 1982 at Frankfurt American High School. He attended University of Tennessee through the ROTC program until his graduation in 1986. His enlistment began the same month of his wedding to fellow UTK alum Cynthia Mays Clark, with whom he shares two daughters. His career as a command pilot in the Air Force includes over 3300 hours in 13 aircraft, and he saw combat in Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan, and Iraq. During his Air Force career he attended graduate programs at Troy State, the Naval War College, and the Air War College. He served as the CEO of Summit Technology Laboratories and as faculty for the Institute for Advanced Network Security. Clark reached the rank of Major General and served as Director of Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Requirements at the Pentagon. He earned such awards as the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and a Bronze Star during his career. He currently resides in Herndon, VA.
Carter Myers Dean (Navy SEALS) Documents
Carter Myers Dean was born on January 18, 1968, to Mr. and Mrs. Scott Wynn Dean in Knoxville, Tennessee, and graduated from Bearden High School in 1986. On April 16, 1990, Dean enlisted in the United States Navy and completed basic training at NTC Orlando, Florida, in June 1990. Upon completion of basic training, Dean attended Gunner’s Mate training at NTC Great Lakes, Illinois, from July 1990 to February 1991. Dean then attended Basic Underwater Demolition training, or BUD/S, and SEAL qualification at NAB Coronado, California, from March 1991 to April 1992. Following graduation from SEAL qualification, Dean would arrive at Fort Benning, Georgia, in April and May 1992 for Basic Airborne training, before attending SEAL Delivery Vehicle training until July 1992. His first assignment as a SEAL was as a SEAL Delivery Vehicle Operator and Navigator with SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team TWO at NAB Little Creek, Virginia, from August 1992 until his death on February 3, 1994, in a diving accident during a routine training exercise.
Kim DiDomenico (Marine Corps, Army National Guard, Air Guard) Video | Transcript | Photos
Raised Illinois, DiDomenico served in the United States Army from 1987 to 1991. She did her basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina as one of the first female platoons trained there. She did advance training at Fort Lee, Virginia, specializing as an Equipment Records and Parts Specialist. She was stationed at Seneca Army Depot in New York, handling millions of dollars worth of equipment, and experiencing the mobilization of the Army during the Gulf War. She now lives in Louisville, Tennessee.
Daniel Eugene Graybeal (Army) HVHS Fallen Warriors Military Memorial
Captain Daniel “Danny” Eugene Graybeal was born on November 13, 1965, in Johnson City, Tennessee. He was a Happy Valley High School graduate and an East Tennessee State University alum, the latter from which he graduated as a Distinguished Military Graduate. He served as an Air Ambulance operator for the 507th Medical Company. He was killed in a helicopter crash on February 27, 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, when he was 25 years old. Graybeal was awarded a Purple Heart, Army Service Ribbon, and an Air Assault Badge. There is also a scholarship at East Tennessee State University available for ROTC students that was created in his honor and memory- the Captain Daniel E. Graybeal Memorial Scholarship. He is laid to rest at the Mountain Home National Cemetery in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Logan Hickman (Army) Video | Transcript
Waymon Logan Hickman, Jr. served twenty-two years in the U.S. Army. He deployed to Grenada, the Sinai Peninsula, and Iraq. After graduating from the UTK Army ROTC program, he earned qualifications such as Ranger, Master Parachutist, and Air Assault. He served as platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division, and he was Professor of Military Science in the Army ROTC programs at UTK and Mississippi State. Some of his awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and Meritorious Service Medal. After retiring in 2002, he served as Executive Vice President of Peoples Bank of the South in LaFollette, Tennessee. He also served as the first President of the UTK Army ROTC Alumni Council.
James “Rain Man” Hoffman (Air Force) Video | Transcript
James Hoffman was born in Châteauroux, France, the son of a career Air Force aviation maintenance NCO, and grew up a “military brat” who attended four high schools before graduating from Texas Christian University with a mathematics degree in 1989. Commissioned as a second lieutenant, he taught high school math in Fort Worth during an 18-month wait for a pilot slot, then earned his wings at Williams AFB, Arizona (UPT class 9106), flying KC-135s at Carswell AFB and later Mountain Home AFB’s 366th composite wing, where he also logged over 100 hours in the F-16D. In 1996, he was selected as one of the first Air Force RQ-1 Predator pilots, training with the Army at Fort Huachuca and flying missions over Bosnia from Nellis and Indian Springs. Assigned to Air Combat Command staff in 1998, he worked directly under General John Jumper on the effort that armed the Predator — a project that earned him promotion to major and, initially, considerable hostility from the manned-aircraft community. He later taught air power at Air Command and Staff College, served as chief of ISR for Operation Iraqi Freedom at Shaw AFB while embedded with Italian Special Operations Forces, and closed his career at AFSOC headquarters leading a small-UAV branch before retiring in 2010 after 20 years. He went on to earn a PhD, stand up an air operations center in Riyadh, and write NATO curriculum in Belgium before settling in Tennessee in 2019.
John B. Stephens (Army) Document
John Stephens was born in Salem County, New Jersey, on March 8, 1965. He was the son of William John Stephens and Charlotte Stephens. He had one brother, Brent Stephens. John’s father died when he was a small child, and the family relocated to Morristown, Tennessee. He enlisted in the Army on July 7, 1983, and attended basic training and advanced individual training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. After basic training, from November 1983 through January 1986, he was an ammo handler in Garlstedt, West Germany, with the 4th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Armored Division (Forward). He served as a transport driver with the 418th Quartermaster Battalion at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, a twenty-member water distribution unit. His unit was activated in December 1990 to participate in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. While participating in Operation Desert Storm, SPC John B. Stephens was killed on March 27, 1991, when the five-ton truck he was in rolled over as the vehicle made a right turn.
