Celebrity Veterans

[USincognito]

I was going to post this a few days ago, but never got around to it, but TV Guide ran a highlight of the evenings viewing for Celebrities in Uniform on the Military channel. Unfortunately I don't have that channel, and wondered if anyone else saw it, and wanted to start a thread of celebrity veterans that we all know from past experience not an Internet search.

From the TV Guide article:

Humphry Bogart (Navy?)
Jimmy Stewart (Army Air Corps/Air Force)
Johnny Carson (Navy)
Henry Fonda (?)
Ronald Reagan (Army)
Elvis Presley (Army)
Ice-T (Army Ranger)
Mr. T (Army MP)
Chuck Norris (Air Force)
Charles Bronson (Air Force)
James Blunt (British Army)
Mark Valley (? Desert Storm)

Off the top of my head:

Glenn Miller (Army)
Charles Durning (Army)
Ossie Davis (Army)
Joe Louis (Army)
Jackie Robinson (Army)
Ed McMahon (Marines)
Eddie Albert (Marines)
Jimi Hendrix (Army)
Axel Roads (Army)

That's all I can some up with now... anyone else (and I'm looking for celebrities, not politicians or businessmen, just actors and singers)?

 

[justanobserver]

Off the top of my head is:

Lee Marvin - USMC, WW2

Audy Murphy - USA, WW2

R. Lee Ermy - USMC, Vietnam

Dale Dye - USMC, Vietnam

Oliver Stone - USA, Vietnam

 

[USincognito]

Good list JanO. I just came up with 5 more myself.

Hugh Hefner - Army
Sinbad - Air Force
Drew Carey - Marines
Jesse Ventura - Navy
Arnold Schwartzenegger - Austrian Army

 

[USincognito]

Don Ho. USAF post Korea

 

[Gunny]

"I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time."
-Art Buchwald, prize-winning syndicated columnist and humorist.


"Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine."
-Tom Monaghan, owner and CEO of Domino's Pizza.


"My experience as a Marine was a very positive thing. As an enlisted man, I learned real self- discipline... It has been immensely important to me in my business career."
-J. Richard Munro, Chairman, Time Warner Inc.


"I think the discipline I got in the Marine Corps made me discipline myself when I was training for fights. A lot of guys want to do things, but they don't want to pay the price for it. I was able to, and the Marine Corps had a lot to do with it."
-Carmen Basiho, former World Welterweight and Middleweight boxing champion.


"I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps."
-Jonathan Winters, Comic Television star.

"I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines."
-Jay Johnstone, author, broadcaster and former major league outfielder.


"I went to a land-grant college in Illinois because my family didn't have the money to send me to an Ivy League school. I had to get into the Marines to go through graduate school. I worked my way up."
-Dennis Swanson, President of ABC Sports.


"I did learn discipline and a strong feeling about defending my country."
-Lee Trevino, Golf Hall of Famer.


"It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did.. Besides, I am a U.S. Marine and I'll be one till I die."
-Ted Williams, legendary Baseball Hall of Famer.


"I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level."
-Steve McQueen, Hollywood movie star.


"The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself."
-Gregory Alan-Williams, award-winning actor and author.

 

[rppearso]

Walt Disney - Army

 

[Gwenyfur]

Gunny's got the latest recruiting packet

All of those quotes were in my daughters DEP packet

 

[Gunny]

Gunny's got the latest recruiting packet

All of those quotes were in my daughters DEP packet

Semper Fi !!!

 

[Jacey]

Mike Anderson, NFL running back was a Marine as were several pro wrestlers

 

[USincognito]

Former Cowboys player Chad Hennings is an Air Force veteran of Deasert Storm.