Beaufort’s Chuck Knapp, 84, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in Erie, Pa., in 1954. He served <a href="https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Chuck-Knapp-as-PVT.jpg"><img class="wp-image-49249 alignright" src="https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Chuck-Knapp-as-PVT-917x1024.jpg" alt="" width="394" height="440" /></a>several years in Motor Transport before retraining as an Aviation Mechanic. He first saw service in Beaufort in 1960 at MCAS Beaufort. After several deployments he was in Chu-Lai, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, after which he was stationed in Yuma, Cherry Point, Iwakuni and Norfolk before returning to MCAS Beaufort where he retired as a Master Sergeant in 1979. He later worked for Gulfstream in Savannah and again at MCAS before finishing his active working life in 2018 at 81 years old.

– Compiled by John Chubb, American Legion Post 9.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

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