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Lieutenant Commander Will Dyuran

United States Navy

 

Upon graduating from Mississippi State University in 1985 with a degree in Petroleum Geology LCDR Dyuran attended Officer Candidate and Surface Warfare School in Newport, RI.  He then served 30 months in the USS Fidelity (MSO 443), which included a trip through the Panama Canal, a trip up the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge, 8 trips from Panama City to Charleston, and multiple underway periods for testing and evaluation of a prototype SONAR for the minesweeping fleet.  Upon Fidelity’s decommissioning in 1989 he attended diving and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) schools and was then assigned to EOD Mobile Unit Three in San Diego, which included one-year as the officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Navy’s MK7 dolphin program; 18 months in the USS Kitty Hawk (which included time in Somalia, over 60 at-sea fly-away EOD drills and 50 dives within the battle group); and 8 months as the OIC of the EOD response detachment for the San Diego area.  The latter included live demolition displays at the Miramar Air Show and ordnance clearing operations on San Clemente Island, while also earning parachute qualifications.  His next tour was as the Executive Officer in the diving and salvage ship USS Beaufort (ATS 2) homeported in Japan, which included numerous tows, salvage exercises in Korea, Philippines, and Thailand.  His was then assigned as Operations Officer at EOD Mobile Unit Five in Guam where he choreographed the movement of 8 detachments throughout the Pacific for deployments, exercises, and body recovery missions from previous wars in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos.  Notably, he was early on the scene of a crashed 747 on Guam where he played a prominent role in the organizing and directing of local military units in the recovery of crash victims.  It was on Guam where LCDR Dyuran earned the qualification of Master EOD Technician.  After Guam he attended the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey where he studied National Security Affairs.  From there he returned to San Diego at EOD Group One working in the operations office and as the Readiness and Training Officer.  In his last tour he performed instructor duties at the Mine Warfare Training Center and an emergency 6-month deployment to Central Command in the Persian Gulf monitoring naval operations.

LCDR Dyuran and his wife Sara have been married for 24 years, and have three children: Laura, Nathan, and Aaron.  His highest award is the Joint Commendation Medal.

 

MASTER CHIEF NAVY COUNSELOR (Submarines/Air Warfare)

ALEXANDER C. “Trip” WILSON, III

 

     Master Chief Wilson was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and graduated High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.  After high school he entered the United States Navy and attended Recruit Training at Great Lakes, Illinois, in December 1967.

 

     His duty assignments in chronological order include:

  • Legal Yeoman – Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas
  • Ship’s Yeoman- USS Haddock (SSN-621), San Diego, California
  • Ship’s Yeoman- USS Aspro (SSN-648), Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • Captain’s Writer – Fleet Training Center, San Diego, California
  • Leading Yeoman – USS Gudgeon (SS-567), San Diego, California\
  • Battalion Journalist – NMCB-74, Gulfport, Mississippi
  • Editor, Seabee Courier Newspaper, Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, MS.
  • Aviation Fuels Below Decks Supervisor – USS America (CV-66), Norfolk, VA.
  • Recruiter in Charge, Recruiting Station Monroe, Louisiana, NRD, Little Rock, AR./NRD, New  Orleans, LA.
  • Fuels Chief Petty Officer – USS Constellation (CV-64), San Diego, California
  • Safety Department LCPO/Flight Deck Safety Officer, USS Ranger (CV-61), San Diego, California – Also was serving as Hangar Deck Chief simultaneously during major #4 Main Machinery Room Fire
  • Flight Line CPO/Weapons Officer/Range Officer/Navy Police Officer (Shift Supervisor) Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas
  • Recruiting Zone Supervisor, Tulsa, Oklahoma – NRD, Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Career Recruiting Force Manager – Navy Recruiting Command, Washington, D.C.
  • Chief Recruiter/Command Master Chief – NRD, San Diego, California

 

     Master Chief Wilson retired from active military service in April 1991 and began teaching in the NJROTC program at Wilmer-Hutchins High School, Dallas, Texas in 1992.  In 1996 he relocated to Florence, South Carolina, where he taught until September 2010.  He is now the Naval Science Instructor at Mountain Home’s NJROTC, reporting October 2010. 

 

     Master Chief Wilson received his Associates Degree from Excelsior College in May 2008, and is a certified Air Rifle Coach from the National Rifle Association, Civilian Marksmanship Program, and 4H.  His awards include the Navy Commendation Medal (2 awards), Navy Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal (2 awards), Good Conduct Medal (5 awards), Navy Expeditionary Medal, and the Vietnam Service Medal (2 awards).

 

     He is married to the former Jo Ellen Lancaster of Grand Prairie, Texas.  They have five children:  Alex IV, Tracy, Tina, Scottie Payne and Joey Payne.  They have seven grandchildren, the oldest being Alex V age 20 and the youngest, Lyla Grace age 2 years.