David J Hunt

“I feel honored, humbled and surprised to be selected as a Grand Marshal to represent the Vietnam era. I feel that there would be many veterans that would be more deserving than me.”

David J Hunt was drafted into the U.S. Army in October 1966. After jump school, he was assigned to the 82nd ABN Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. He was later transferred to the 101st ABN Division and was deployed with A Co, 1/502 Infantry 101st ABN in 1967.
David was wounded in 1968. After getting out of the hospital, he was sent back to the states and was discharged from active duty at Fort Lewis, Wash.

In 1982, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves where he served in post security. In 1985, he transferred to the Army Reserves. He became an Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) agent in the reserves and attended Warrant Officer School.

In 2003, David was activated with his unit the 307th MP. Det. (CID) and deployed to Iraq and Kuwait. He later was transferred to the Active Guard Reserve and sent back to the states to help set up a new Army reserve CID unit in Phoenix, the 225 MP Det. (CID). He served as the commander and operations officer until he retired from the Army reserve as a Chief Warrant Officer 4, on Feb. 1, 2008.