E-5 Alan Charles Volat
DOB: 12 March 1945
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.
Inducted: 25 March 1965
Discharged: 1974
United States. Army
United States. National Guard
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, 17th
United States. Army. Airborne Brigade, 173rd
United States. Army. Division, 82nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 508th
Service injury: Yes
26 October 2006
Cambridge, NY
Volat, Alan Charles
Ft. Dix, New Jersey
Panama Canal
Detroit, Michigan
Ft. Bragg
Columbia, S.A.
Panama Canal Zone
Dominican Republic
Columbia, South America
Dominican Republic
Provo, Utah
Detroit riots
Burning poppy fields in Columbia
82nd Airborne
508th Airborne
173rd Airborne, 17th Cavalry
Served in the U.S. Army 1965-68 and the National Guard 1969 - 1974.
Shrapnel wound from mine explosion in 1968.
Served with National Guard in the Detroit Riots and the Attica Riot.
Enlisted to avoid jail (bag man for numbers
runner).
Was sent to Washington (State?) in an attempt to find D.B. Cooper.
Veteran oral history interview published by the New York State Military Museum.
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