Instructor pilot Josh McVay at Vance AFB, Enid
Major Josh McVay is currently a pilot with the Oklahoma Air National Guard.
Josh has served multiple combat deployments across the world including in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He currently flies MC12s out of Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City.
Kit McVay in Iraq, 2007.
SSgt Kit McVay served in the United States Army for 10 years. Kit also served in multiple combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kit is an attorney in Tulsa.
Lloyd W. Carroll
1958-1960 and 1961-1962
U.S. Army
A 143 SIG. BN 3 AM DIV.
Frankfurt, Germany.
Carroll was a radio operator that did the Morse Codes.
Larry Thomason
Army 1966 - 1968
Alabama and Vietnam.
Robert Morse
Born Oct. 5, 1932
Died Jan. 10, 1951
Attended El Reno schools from grade school through his freshman year at El Reno High School.
Was an E-2 Private serving as a Light Weapons Infantryman in G Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
Was Killed in Action in Korea on Jan. 10, 1951, after having been “in country” for less than one month.
Michael C. Kelly
Army, active duty May 1975 - May 1978 Fort Lewis, Wash.
Robert King Townsend
Born Feb. 24, 1907
Died June 2, 1944
His family had a long, pioneer connection to El Reno.
Townsend trained pilots on the Henry Bomhoff farm airfield west of El Reno as part of the El Reno Junior College pilot training program.
He gave his life trying to rescue others during World War II, even sacrificing himself for his radioman when it was apparent that the Grumman Goose aircraft they were flying was soon to crash.
David Abel Uribe-Shelton
Specialist in 2/504 PIR 82nd Airborne Division.
Served 2017-2020.
Part of rapid deployment to Iraq in support of the attack on U.S. embassy during the start of 2020.
Warren Vernon Frazier
Born Jan. 2, 1922
Died March 2, 1942
Enlisted in February of his senior year in high school.
Warren Street in El Reno was named in his honor after his death.
Was Killed in Action in the Battle of Java when his ship, the destroyer U.S.S. Pillsbury, was sunk by Japanese cruisers.
Among the 19 posthumous graduates of EHS honored in 2020.
Sammy Smith
Born Oct. 23, 1946
Died April 16, 1968
Graduated from El Reno High School Class of 1966
Served in the 101st Airborne Division
Killed in Action in Thua Thien province, South Vietnam, from small arms fire in his first battle.
