Memorial Day Speakers

Two military men were the speakers at the Clearbrook and Gonvick Memorial Day programs. Lt. Colonel Jeff Melander was in Clearbrook and CMSgt Doug Faldet was in Gonvick.

CMSgt Doug Faldet was the special speaker at the Gonvick Memorial Day program. He graduated from Gonvick-Trail High school in 1980. He joined the US Air Force in 1982. He was stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany and Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV. He left active duty in 1989 and joined the North Dakota Air National Guard in Fargo, ND. He worked full time for the Happy Holligans since 1990. He worked in aircraft maintenance on F-4, F-16 and C021 aircraft. In 2014 he received training to be a Geospatial Imagery Analyst focusing on targeting. He is currently the 199th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group superintendent.

He lives in Moorhead with his wife Teresa.

Lt. Colonel Jeff Me-lander was the speaker for the Clearbrook Memorial Day Program. He was born in Bagley, graduated from Fosston High School in 1971, attended the University of Minnesota, Morris, and graduated from University of Minnesota, St. Paul with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1979. He was commissioned into the United States (U.S.) Army Veterinary Corps in November 1986. He attended graduate school at Colorado State University and completed a Master of Science degree in environmental health in 1994. In 2002, he graduated from the U.S. Army War College. He lives in Gully.