A Clean Energy Leader
Helps Strengthen America
South Carolina Veterans Salute
Moses Ashford, Jr., Sergeant Richard D. LaBarre,
First Class, U.S. Army Specialist, U.S. Army
Alonzo Brown, Sergeant, David Laribo, U.S. Army (Ret.)
U. S. Marine Corps Phil Leventis, Brigadier
Senator Lindsey Graham
James D. Brown, Sergeant, General, U.S. Air
U. S. Air Force Force (Ret.)
Larry Carter, Staff
David A. Lipski, Captain,
Sergeant, U.S. Army
U.S. Army
Walt Cartin, Captain,
Arthur W. McMaster, III,
U.S. Army
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S.
As U.S. military veterans, we share Senator Lindsey Graham’s Bill Cotty, Lieutenant
Colonel, S.C. Army Army Reserve (Retired)
strong belief that our national security depends on more than National Guard (Ret.) Odell Middleton,
Specialist, U.S. Army
John E. Courson, U.S.
troops and arms. America must also reduce its dangerous Marine Corps Reserve Ernest Nettles, Staff
Gregory Leroy Culler, Sergeant, U.S. Army
dependence on foreign oil and develop its own alternative U.S. Army Ellsworth Tommy Olds,
Clarence Davis, Captain, Sergeant, U.S. Army
energy sources. U.S. Air Force George B. Patrick, III,
Gary Dombek, Lance General, U.S. Air
Corporal, U.S. Force (Ret.)
That’s why our military branches are moving swiftly to improve Marine Corps
Angelo Perri, Colonel,
Johnny Edmond, Staff U.S. Army (Ret.)
their energy efficiency and deploy clean energy technologies. Sergeant, U.S. Army
Chester E. Sansbury, Colonel,
Monty Felix, Colonel, U.S.
And it’s why Senator Graham is working to forge a bipartisan Marine Corps (Ret.)
U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
Truman Freeman, Staff Peter E. Sercer, Sr., Colonel,
plan that moves our country toward energy independence. Sergeant, U.S. Army U.S. Air Force (Ret.)
Benjamin Charles Steve Shaffer, Captain,
Gridine, Master U.S. Navy (Ret.)
The Defense Department’s latest Quadrennial Defense Review Sergeant, U.S. Army David K. Shimp, Captain,
Willie F. Gunn, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.)
states that energy security and climate change are “inextricably Sergeant First Class, Joseph Shiver, Staff
U.S. Army (Ret.) Sergeant, S.C. Army
linked” and involve serious risks for our country. Senator Graham Christopher R. Hart, National Guard
Specialist, U.S. Army
has shown he understands that, and we salute him for it. National Guard
Franklin D. Smith, Sergeant
First Class, U.S. Army
James H. Holland, Major,
James E. Smith, Jr., Captain,
U.S. Army (Ret.)
S.C. Army National Guard
John Hopkins, Major,
U.S. Marine Corps Calvin S. Stocker, U. S. Army
Rainey Sumter, Sr., Staff
Thank you, Senator Graham, for helping
John Bush Howell,
Specialist, U.S. Army Sergeant, U.S. Army
Willie Hudson, Senior Master Dwight Reese Tillman,
Lance Corporal, U.S.
to secure America’s energy future.
Sergeant, U.S. Air Force
Jimmie L. James, Sr., Marine Corps
Senior Master Sergeant, Sammy Lee Wade, Captain,
U.S. Air Force U.S. Army (Ret.)
Albert Floyd Jelks, Sergeant Brian Watson, Lieutenant
First Class, U.S. Army Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.)
James Jeter, Specialist, Mitch Willoughby, General,
U.S. Army
S.C. Army National Guard
Walter J. Johnson,
George Wilson, Jr.,
Sergeant, U.S. Army
Sergeant, U.S. Army
John B. Johnston,
Captain, U.S. Army James Wines, Corporal,
Nathaniel Kinard, Sr., U.S. Army (Ret.)
Lance Corporal, U.S. Charles Lamar Young, Staff
Marine Corps Sergeant, U.S. Army
Kenneth D. Knightner, Master Leroy Zimmerman,
Sergeant, U.S. Army (Ret.) Sergeant, U.S. Army
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