COMMANDER

PON, BOK

U.S. Army, 1962-1965

Commander Bok Pon was a former paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne Division from 1962 to 1965. Bok Pon had devoted himself to volunteer community services during the past 20 years in numerous organizations/ boards and cracked the Glass Ceiling on February 1995 by elected to the California Republican Party as the State Vice Chairman of the Northern Region. Commander Bok Pon took command of Cathay Post #384 on October 31, 2002 and started a program of Cathay Post #384 Renaissance by setting 3 goals. These goals are to work toward building a Chinese American Veterans Memorial Museum, building housing for veterans and their families, and ROTC Youth Mentor Program.

Within three short years, Cathay Post #384 has been taken off life support system and became one of the most active and best self financed state veteran organization in California. Other mainstream veteran organizations are fading and Cathay Post #384 is growing and expanding into many other areas of Americanism. Cathay Post #384 website www.chineseamericanveterans.org has been developed for greater outreach to mainstream America to show Chinese Americans had been a full partner in defense of America too.

Commander Bok Pon's wife is Agnes Pon. They have two sons; they are Major Jigg Pon, recently returned from active duty at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Dr. Jeff Pon, was formerly Deputy Director of Office of Employee Management appointed by the President of the United States and is currently the Chief Human Capital Officer for the Department of Energy.

1st VICE COMMANDER

LEE, RON

U. S. Army National Guard, 1970-1976

Both Basic Training and AIT at Fort Ord, CA. Worked in the Transportation division at Fort Ord, with transporting troops to the Processing Center for Vietnam duty. Also was stationed in several other bases. Fort Lewis, WA as a driver in Medical Troops; Presidio of San Francisco as a shuttle bus driver between Fort Cronkite (Marin County) to Lettermen General Hospital. Additional training at Camp Roberts for Medical Evacuation of Emergencies.

2nd VICE COMMANDER

WONG, DAVID Y.

U. S. Army, 1968-1970

Basic Training – Fort Lewis, WA

Army Admin. School – Fort Ord, CA

Assignment: Headquarters, U. S. Army Vietnam

Office of the Staff Judge Advocate

Legal / Admin Clerk ( January 1969 – January 1970)

Decorations: National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Service Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal. Received an early separation from the military on account of special overseas assignment. Took advantage of the GI educational benefit by attending evening classes at Golden Gate University for two years and obtained an M.B.A. degree.

3rd VICE COMMANDER

Pon, Jay

JUDGE ADVOCATE

Lum, Nelson

SECRETARY

Li, John

TREASURER

WONG, EDWARD

U.S. Marine Corps, 1958-1962

Military Specialty: Administrative

As a young man looking for action and brain-washed by the John Wayne war movies, Comrade Ed signed up for the U.S. Marines in 1958. He was sent to San Diego for a 16 weeks of intensive recruit training. Upon completion, he was sent to Camp Pendleton, CA for four weeks of advanced combat training. As a full-fledged Marine, Comrade Ed served in all three divisions of the Marine Corp- from Camp Lejuene, North Carolina to Camp Pendleton, CA and to Okinawa in the Pacific. While in Okinawa, his unit was attached to the U.S. 7th Fleet Pacific and he was fortunate to visit various ports including Hong Kong, Japan, and the Philippine Islands. At the end of his four year service, Ed was honorably discharged in 1962. Because the world was relatively at peace during the period 1958-1962, this gung-ho Marine did not have a chance to see combat action as he had hoped.

ADJUTANT

Zhang, Tony

HISTORIAN (HON.)

Dong, Roger S.

SERVICE OFFICER

Mak, Patrick

SERGEANT-AT-ARM

WONG, DICK

U.S. Army, 1953-1954

Infantry Military Awards

Korean Service Medal

UN Service Medal

ROK Presidential Unit Citation

National Service Medal

Good Conduct Medal

Dick immigrated to the U.S. in 1947. Drafted into the U.S. Army after high school and completed basic training at Fort Ord, California. Deployed to Korea and was assigned to 507th MISP APO 6 Military Intelligence and Company "G" 23rd Infantry Regiment of 2nd Division. After military service, worked for Lockheed as a Design Engineer Specialist until retirement in 1993. Served as president of Chew Kong Association in 1994.

SERGEANT-AT-ARM

Gee, Raymond