Watertown High School Alumni

Watertown, New York (NY)

Military Alumni

Military High School Alumni

Honoring Our Heroes

This area is dedicated to our alumni that have served or are serving in our armed forces!

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Honored Military Alumni

Alan P Goldstein
Alan P Goldstein
Class of 1964
Navy, 20+ Years

Retired 1994 as Lt. Cmdr.
Deania Lee Walker
Deania Lee Walker
Class of 1964
Army, 20+ Years

Retired 1995 rank Command Sergeant Major
Gary Barber
Gary Barber
Class of 1969
Air Force, 4 Years

USAF missle mechanic OJT instructor
Gary L Robbins
Gary L Robbins
Class of 1968
Navy, 3 Years

I served on several destroyers, involved in gun fire control, including a tour in Viet Nam as part of a naval gunfire forward observation unit
Gary R Tacey
Gary R Tacey
Class of 1964
Air Force, 8 Years

US Air Force Academy '64-Graduate '68 (time not included in above "Years of Service). 2Lt-Capt '68-'76 Personnel Subsystems then Systems Program Management Officer. One of the "Subsystems" worked on was the Full Pressure Suit for the WB-57F Reconnaissance Aircraft System Pictured.
George Dillabough
George Dillabough
Class of 1971
Army, 18 Years

Army Security Agency, Clerk, Chaplain's Assistant, Carpenter, Cook...
James R Taylor
James R Taylor
Class of 1963
Navy, 4 Years

Air Crew on SP5B Seaplane
Jeffery l. Hoistion
Jeffery l. Hoistion
Class of 1979
Marine Corps, 20+ Years

MSGT. Jeffery Hoistion served in the US Marines for a total of 23 years. After his service to his country he now resides in Noblesville, IN. with his family.
Jeffrey M. Comet
Jeffrey M. Comet
Class of 1975
Air Force, 20+ Years

9+ years Active Duty Air Force, 12 years NY Air National Guard. Electrical Power Production and Aircraft Arresting Systems.
Williams AFB, AZ
Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan
Loring AFB, ME
Hancock Field ANGB, Syracuse, NY
Joe Countryman
Joe Countryman
Class of 1974
Air Force, 20+ Years

Tsgt USAF Ret.
martin schneider
martin schneider
Class of 1966
Army, 3 Years

basic training at Fort Dix N.J. A.I.T. at Fort Lee Virginia. One year in VietNam and a year and a half at Fort Bliss Texas
Michael J. Cougler
Michael J. Cougler
Class of 1972
Air Force, 20+ Years

MSgt, USAF, Retired
October 1972-Nov 1993
Joined the USAF with a draft number 33
Navigational Aids Maintenance Technician
Robins AFB, Plattsburgh AFB, Bremerhaven Germany, Richards-Gebaur AFB, Osan AB Korea, MacDill AFB, Grafenwoehr Germany, Eglin AFB FL.
Patrick S. Gilmore
Patrick S. Gilmore
Class of 1950
Air Force, 20+ Years

Enlisted '49, Texas, Basic Military training;
Military Police School (Georgia) '50;
UK, '50-52, Air Policeman;
Florida, '52 - '57, Air Police Investigator; Taiwan, '57-'58, Air Police Supervisor;
Mississippi, '58-'59 electronics student;
Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, Nevada, '
59-'69, Electronic Data Processing Systems Maintenance, various capacities;
Germany, '69-'72 Data Processing Equipment Maintenance Superintendant;
South Carolina, '72 retired.
Richard Primmer
Richard Primmer
Class of 1982
Air Force, 21 Years

Served 9 years (Jet Engine Mech) active AF and 12 years (Helicopter Crew Chief) in the Alaska Air National Guard, retired in 2003 as MSGT.
RichardDavis
RichardDavis
Class of 1970
Navy Reserves, 20+ Years

Served during Vietnam era and the gulf war both on active duty and in the Naval Resrves. Retired after 24 years of service.
Ronald C. Young
Ronald C. Young
Class of 1968
Navy, 6 Years

1969-1970 USS Saratoga (CVA60)
1971-1975 USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN640)
Honorable Discharge as an
MM1(SS) [E6 Submerged Ship]
Rusty Gault
Rusty Gault
Class of 1988
Air Force, 11 Years

Spent eleven years as an Air Force Security Policeman and Law Enforcement Specialist.
RYAN D JONES
RYAN D JONES
Class of 1976
Army, 6 Years

Served at Camp Red Cloud, Korea. Fixed station communications on a classified radar site controlling 4 Hawk Missile sites along the 38th Parallel. Then to Ft. Hood, Texas, Bravo Company, 142nd Signal Battalion, 2nd Armored Division where I finished out my enlistment. I moved to Austin, Texas, and eventually to Bastrop, Texas just outside of Austin, where I started my own business, The R Solution.
Stan Bartlett
Stan Bartlett
Class of 1964
Air Force, 4 Years

Air Traffic Control
Patrick AFB, Cocoa Beach, FL
Korat, Thailand
Stewart AFB, Newburgh, NY
Starlene Hamilton
Starlene Hamilton
Class of 1980
Marine Corps, 20+ Years

United States Marine Corps; Semper Fidelis!
Steven LaLonde
Steven LaLonde
Class of 1975
Marine Corps, 20+ Years

Msgt USMC Ret.
Steven Newman
Steven Newman
Class of 1974
Army, 20+ Years

Retired E-9 (SGM)
William S Couch
William S Couch
Class of 1975
Navy, 20+ Years

Navy Captain (06) Surface Warfare Officer with 30 years service, 10 active and 20 reserves. "Sunset" tour was 14 months in Iraq (2008-2010), 2 sons are currently serving, one Marines and one Navy.

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Eric Harding
Class of '99

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Our Watertown High School military alumni are some of the most outstanding people we know and this page recognizes them and everything they have done! Not everyone gets to come home for the holidays and we want our Watertown High School Military to know that they are loved and appreciated. All of us in Watertown are proud of our military alumni and want to thank them for risking their lives to protect our country!