EPKE, NOEL, SSgt

Air Traffic Control/Enlisted Air Crew
 
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Life Member
 
 Service Photo 
 Service Details
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Current Service Status
USMC Veteran
Current/Last Rank
Staff Sergeant
Current/Last Primary MOS
7324-Radar Approach Controller
Current/Last MOSGroup
Air Traffic Control/Enlisted Air Crew
Previously Held MOS
0341-Mortar Man
7311-Air Traffic Controller-Trainee
7312-Air Traffic Controller-Tower
Primary Unit
1987-1992, 7324, Air Traffic Control Det(s), MACG-38
Service Years
1975 - 1992
Other Languages
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Tagalog
Official/Unofficial USMC Certificates
Cold War Certificate
Desert Rat
Plank Owner Certificate
Persian Excursion
Water Survival Basic (WSB)
Marine Combat Water Survival 4th Class (CWS-4)
Marine Combat Water Survival Qualified (WSQ)
Meritorious Mast
Enlisted Collar Insignia
Staff Sergeant
Four Hash Marks

 Official Badges 

PMI Pith Helmet US Marines Corps Honorable Discharge


 Unofficial Badges 

Cold War Medal Shellback Persian Excursion Cold War


 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
Non Commissioned Officers Association (NCOA)Marine Corps Association and Foundation (MCA&F)Post 56Post 8154, George R. Baxmann
Disabled American Veterans (DAV)Marine Corps Heritage FoundationMarine Air Traffic Control Association (MATCA)National Rifle Association (NRA)
United Services Automobile Association (USAA)3rd Marine Division Association2nd Marine Division AssociationWounded Warrior Project2
  1978, Non Commissioned Officers Association (NCOA)
  1987, Marine Corps Association and Foundation (MCA&F)
  1997, American Legion, Post 56 (Honor Guard) (Yuma, Arizona)
  2005, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Post 8154, George R. Baxmann (Member At Large) (United States)
  2006, Disabled American Veterans (DAV)
  2008, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation
  2009, Marine Air Traffic Control Association (MATCA)
  2009, National Rifle Association (NRA)
  2010, United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
  2010, 3rd Marine Division Association
  2010, 2nd Marine Division Association
  2013, Wounded Warrior Project2


 Additional Information
What are you doing now:

60.5 years old and am now "officially" retired from work, just waiting until 2018 for social security. man it's good to have everything paid off and getting a check from uncle sugar.

   

 Remembrance Profiles - 2 Marines Remembered


Training Exercise - Team Spirit '81
From Month/Year
January / 1981
To Month/Year
December / 1981

Description
Team Spirit was a joint military training exercise of United States Forces Korea and the Military of South Korea held between 1976 and 1993. The exercise was scheduled from 1994 to 1996 but cancelled in each year as part of diplomacy to encourage the Government of North Korea to disable the North Korean nuclear weapons program. The North Korea regime abandoned talks following the January 1986 Team Spirit exercises, and in late 1992, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the South-North High-Level Talks on the pretext of the 1993 Team Spirit exercise.

Until 2007 the exercise had been called "Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration of Forces" (RSOI). As of March 2008, it is called Key Resolve. North Korea has denounced the joint military exercise as a "war game aimed at a northward invasion."
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
January / 1981
To Month/Year
December / 1981
 
Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
Personal Memories

People You Remember
Dave Machcko and Bill Depond.


Memories
MATCS-38 Taegue K-2
We had the best of times living in a GP tent two SSgt's and me in the air force compound across the road from the control tower. The Lilly Club at night throwing darts and eating dry squid and drinking way too much OB.

   
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
No Available Photos

  144 Also There at This Battle:
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  • Bailey, Joseph, GySgt, (1973-1993)
  • Beck, Michael, GySgt, (1970-1990)
  • Beckering, David, Cpl, (1978-1982)
  • Bowen, George, MSgt, (1979-1998)
  • Bradley, John, Sgt, (1980-1988)
  • Burt, Jake Walter, CWO2, (1973-1987)
  • Cannon, John, Cpl, (1976-1982)
  • CHILDERS, AARON, Sgt, (1979-1988)
  • Clawson, Mike, SSgt, (1975-1986)
  • Cutright, Kenneth, SSgt, (1978-1990)
  • Darland, Lt. Don, 1stLt, (1977-1981)
  • Dearman, Lonnie, Sgt, (1979-1983)
  • Dix, James A, Cpl, (1980-1985)
  • Eisner, Jim, Cpl, (1980-1992)
  • Engel, Richard, GySgt, (1976-1997)
  • Farley, James, MSgt, (1978-2002)
  • Finnerty, Keith, Cpl, (1980-1983)
  • Fitzsimons, Jerome, Cpl, (1980-1984)
  • Foreman, Kim, SSgt, (1973-1981)
  • Foster, Bill, Cpl, (1980-1984)
  • Gantt, Roger, MSgt, (1977-2005)
  • Gasper, Robert, GySgt, (1967-1983)
  • Gilligan, Kevin, Cpl, (1977-1981)
  • Hamm, Russell, Cpl, (1979-1985)
  • Hanna, Craig, Cpl, (1978-1982)
  • Hanson, David, MSgt, (1978-2008)
  • Hart, Tom, MSgt, (1968-1990)
  • Helms, Samuel, GySgt, (1975-1996)
  • Hendrix, John, Sgt, (1977-1986)
  • Hochheimer, Craig, Cpl, (1979-1986)
  • Holden, Danny, Cpl, (1978-1982)
  • Johnson, Arlan, Sgt, (1979-1982)
  • Johnson, Brady, LCpl, (1979-1983)
  • Jones, Curtis, GySgt, (1977-1998)
  • Kahly, Jeff, LCpl, (1978-1985)
  • Kennedy, Kelly, Sgt, (1974-1981)
  • Knecht, John, Sgt, (1980-1984)
  • Kolen, Tom, LCpl, (1979-1983)
  • Kraker, Terry, SgtMaj, (1977-2007)
  • Lane, David, Sgt, (1979-1983)
  • Lord, David, Cpl, (1979-1983)
  • Losoya, Jose, SSgt, (1979-1999)
  • Lowe, David, Cpl, (1979-1983)
  • Lunday II, William, MSgt, (1979-2002)
  • Lunn, James, MSgt, (1974-1996)
  • MacDonald, Joel, Sgt, (1979-1990)
  • Mack, Donald, SSgt, (1976-1983)
  • Matthews, Michael, Sgt, (1979-1983)
  • Melendez, Ramon, GySgt, (1980-2000)
  • Miller, Norman "Norton", Maj, (1977-1989)
  • Mulroy, Michael, Sgt, (1979-1986)
  • Newman, David, GySgt, (1978-1998)
  • Nunes, Mark, Sgt, (1979-1985)
  • Phillips, Ralph, Sgt, (1980-1989)
  • Polly, Wade, Cpl, (1980-1984)
  • Postic, Stanley, GySgt, (1979-1996)
  • Provencio, Robert, Cpl, (1979-1985)
  • Ray, Ken, Cpl, (1979-1983)
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