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It is appropriate that we honor an ex-Marine who made his home in Athens after service as head of the U.S. Marine Corps detachment at the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School in Athens (2000-05).
He is Col. Don Walter, currently head of the University of Georgia Parking Services.
He graduated from Gettysburg (Pa.) College in 1981 and joined the Marines. He was deployed aboard the USS Guadalcanal for Operation Ahaus Tara in Honduras in 1982, also in support of Operation Urgent Fury (Grenada) and was aboard the first combat deployment of the TAVB 3 Wright. Walter is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War, serving in the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and then the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
He was at the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School in Quantico, Va., in 1990; the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., in 1994; and Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico, Va., in 1997.
Walter's other significant billets include assistant chief of staff forces command, Norfolk, Va., and operations director, Fleet Readiness Center East, Cherry Point Marine Air Station, N.C.
He is married to the former Traci Fromm, also a native Pennsylvanian. Their son, Jake, graduated from the University of Georgia this year with a degree in economics. A daughter, Katie, is in her third year at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.
SEMPER FIDELIS, Col. Don Walter