Biographies
Mr. Ray Mitchell (p/c) was born October 3, 1924, in St. Clairsville, Ohio in Ohio and passed away April 29, 2018, in Port Orange, FL. Mitchell enlisted into the US Army in the spring of 1943 immediately after graduating as a mechanical engineer in June 1942. In pursuing a military career, he followed the steps of his father and grandfather.
Global War on Terror and Afghanistan War veteran Major Matthew Gonzalez, (p/c) United States Marine Corps pilot was born on July 23, 1981, in Naples, FL and is a graduate of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Gonzalez was first deployed on the USS Boxer, a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in the Mediterranean. He participated in the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips who had been kidnapped by Somali pirates when there was an attempted hijacking the Maersk Alabama in 2010.
