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Mark Beecher

Mark Beecher

Chief of Staff, Government Affairs at the Association of the United States Navy (AUSN); Navy veteran and volunteer veteran service advocate.

Sep 11, 2026

2:24
So Mark, I'm going to ask you to come on deck here, and then if you could please start with your time in the Navy, and then we'll transition over to your time as Chief of Staff with the AUSN.
2:37
Very good.
2:38
As a matter of fact, I'm a Vietnam War veteran.
2:43
I joined the Navy in 1970, spent the next four years in the Navy, traveled around the world a couple of times, was in the North Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope.
3:00
all over the Mediterranean and one tour in Vietnam.
3:05
So that was my introduction into the Navy.
3:10
And then after that, I got out and went to college and went to four years of training in college and got a job in industry that I spent for the next 30 some years in industry.

13 MINS LATER

16:12
Could you tell us that story and what happened with regard to the family trying to have a proper burial for at least a marker that was given to the family during World War II?

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