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Manley, Jack Robert, CSM.
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Contact Info
Last Address Fayetteville, NC
Date of Passing Jan 29, 1990
Location of Interment Fort Liberty Post Cemetery (VLM) (Formerly Fort Bragg) - Fort Liberty, North Carolina
Died of cancer 29 January 1990 at age 57. CSM Manley was a combat veteran of the 187th RCT during the Korean War and the 5th SFGA in Vietnam. He joined the SFA in April 1969 while assigned to Special Forces duty in Vietnam.
According to the Association records, he received his prefix 3 in 1955 while assigned to the 77th SFGA where he served from 1954 through 1958. Other SF assignments included duty with the 1st SFGA on Okinawa in 1959-65, including deployment to SE Asia on Operation White Star 61 -62; the 7th SFGA at Fort Bragg in 1966-68; Company D of the 5th SFGA in 1968-69; and a second tour in the 7th SFGA in 1970-72. He retired from active duty as an Infantryman with 31 years of active service in April 1981.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Army Occupation Medal, United Nations Service Medal, Korean Service Medal w/2 Campaign Stars, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal (10 awards), Combat Infantryman's Badge w/Star, Senior Parachutist Badge, Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm, RVN Gallantry Cross with Palm (Unit Award), RVN Civic Action Medal (Unit Citation), RVN Civic Action Medal 1st Class, RVN Honor Medal 1st Class, Presidential Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Citation, 11 overseas bars, and Vietnamese Parachute Badge.
His survivors include his wife, Norma; daughters, Pamela Pittman and Nina Pairis, both of Fayetteville, and Sandra Hunt of Williston, SC; sons, John, of Frankfurt West Germany, and Gene and Rodney, both of Fayetteville; and nine grandchildres. Funeral services were conducted in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Chapel at Fort Bragg and burial was in the Post Cemetery with full military honors.
1959-1962, 11B10, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Constituted 5 July 1942 in the Army of the United States as the 2d Company, 1st Battalion, First Regiment, 1st Special Service Force, a combined Canadian-American organization
Activated 9 July 1942 at Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana
Disbanded 6 January 1945 in France
Reconstituted 15 April 1960 in the Regular Army; concurrently consolidated with Company B, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion (activated 19 June 1942), and consolidated unit redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces
Consolidated 30 September 1960 with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Forces Group (constituted 14 June 1957 in the Regular Army and activated 24 June 1957 in Japan), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces (organic units concurrently constituted and activated 4 October 1960)
Group inactivated 30 June 1974 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Activated 1 September 1984 at Fort Lewis, Washington
(Former Company B, 1st Ranger Infantry Battalion, withdrawn 3 February 1986, consolidated with Company N, 75th Infantry, and consolidated unit redesignated as Company N, 75th Ranger Regiment , hereafter separate lineage)
Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 1st Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces Regiment
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
*Aleutian Islands
*Naples-Foggia
*Anzio
*Rome-Arno
*Southern France (with arrowhead)
*Rhineland
1st Special Forces Battalion additionally entitled to:
War on Terrorism
Global War on Terrorism
2d Special Forces Battalion additionally entitled to:
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered PACIFIC AREA 1972-1973
*Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered ASIA 2002
*Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered JULY-AUGUST 1972
Company C, 1st Special Forces Battalion, additionally entitled to:
Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN IRAQ 2007
Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered CENTRAL IRAQ 2008-2009
Company C, 2d Special Forces Battalion, additionally entitled to:
Valorous Unit Award, Streamer embroidered CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN IRAQ 2007