David H. Lyman, like a good number of potential draftees in the 1960s, joined the military reserves in a desire to stay out of Vietnam during the war. Ironically, he ended up in Vietnam as a member of ...

AUGUSTA, Kan. (KSNW) — Ray Brown grew up in tiny Brainerd, Kansas, and later, he lived in Potwin for over 45 years. In between, he joined the Navy at the age of 19 and served as a Seabee during two ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Alfred Perez joined the Navy, but he never stepped foot on a ship. He was never on the ocean, either. However, he was a “busy bee” during two tours to Vietnam in the late 1960s.

Life in the service: Frederick Casavant was part of the U.S, Navy’s versatile Seabees construction battalion, spending eight months outside of Chu Lai, Vietnam, where he worked as a surveyor and ...

Stephen T. Powers, 55, of St. Charles, a self-employed architect and developer who as an officer with the Seabees in Vietnam designed the mobile lookout towers called Powers Towers, died Friday in ...