How to resolve AdBlock issue? SARATOGA SPRINGS — A ceremony honoring the Veteran of the Year for 2023 will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct 14, at the Saratoga-Wilton Elks Lodge #161 at 1 Elks Lane, Saratoga Springs. The event is free and open to the public. Face masks are optional.
The annual award is co-sponsored by the Friends of the New York State Military Museum and the Capital District of New York Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army.
Veterans of the Year 2023 are COL(Ret) Christine T. Rem, an Iraq Veteran, and David Terry Fox, Sergeant, USMC, a Vietnam Veteran.
COL Christine T. Rem, US Army Nurse Corps, Retired, served for 30 years in the Active Army and US Army Reserves. Commissioned 1LT, US Army Nurse Corps on 19 February 1982, she served the majority of her time in the US Army Reserve Hospitals in the Albany area. She served two one-year Active Duty Tours in the Wurzburg Army Hospital, Wurzburg, Germany, and from 2007-2008 deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. While serving, she also received her Doctor of Nursing Science degree from Sage College. She retired in March 2012. Besides the Bronze Star Medal, her other awards include the Legion of Merit, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (4 Awards), Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War On Terror Service Medal. She currently resides in Clifton Park, NY and has 3 sons and 5 grandchildren.
A Lansingburgh HS graduate, David Terry Fox enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1967 and served two tours in Vietnam as helicopter crew chief and door gunner aboard H-34 and H-46 helicopters. During those two tours, Fox’s aircraft transported Marines and Army soldiers to and from various remote jungle sites including artillery fire bases, did resupply missions, reconned, rescued downed pilots and evacuated wounded. These missions included Khe Sanh, Demilitarized Zone, Laos, Cambodia and the Ashau Valley. He logged more than 23,800 flight hours in more than 2,200 sorties earning 53 Marine Strike Flight Awards for Aerial Combat. Fox was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his brave efforts during the rescue of an embattled Marine Recon Team off a 4,000-foot cliff while under heavy enemy fire. He was honorably discharged from the USMC as a Sergeant. He and his partner Diane reside in Voorheesville, NY. They have 5 children and 10 grandchildren.
