Dale Potts
Dale G. Potts has organized and MC’d Tualatin’s Memorial Day observation for the past 16 years. He is a Navy Vietnam vet, serving as the Public Affairs Officer of the Aircraft Carrier USS Yorktown. After active duty, he remained in the reserves, retiring as a Navy Captain (same rank as an Army Colonel). His civilian career was primarily as the Oregon Public Affairs Officer for IRS. Contact Dale at vet.dale@gmail.com.
Dave Dehart retires from Army with 20 years military service at age 37, Now using intelligence service experience to write novels for third career
Dave Dehart next begins a sixteen-month tour in Vietnam working undercover with Espionage Agents in plain sight
Dehart’s duties include photographing anti-war activist Mario Savio in Berkeley then returns to Europe where he helps break up an espionage spy ring in Italy
Dehart returns to South Korean, now in counter-intelligence role, helping capture North Korean Intelligence spies trying to infiltrate
David Dehart spent three years in Turkey as a language interpreter before moving into the third phase in his Army career, as a Special Agent in Counter-Intelligence
Former City Council Member Ed Truax’s family receive closure for his uncle who went Missing in Action in 1950 in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir with remains identified, then military funeral at Willamette National Cemetery
David Dehart had a fascinating 20-year career in the Army, starting as a GI, then moving up from a language interpreter to a counter-intelligence Spook
Tualatin Man used Broadcasting skills learned in Oregon during one-year Army Vietnam Tour, Joining over 2.7 million American military who also served in that war over a ten year period
Severely damaged, the B-17’s aircraft nose cone destroyed by direct hit by German 88 anti-aircraft shell, miraculously made it back to England; Tualatin man’s father received Distinguished Flying Cross as Navigator
Retired Tualatin Businessman Ed Casey’s Family ran shipyard - Commercial Iron Works in Portland, Built 206 WWII Navy ships















