VETPAC Advisory Committee:
General Joe Hoar, USMC (Retired), Former Commander-in-Chief, Central Command. Vietnam Veteran.
General Merrill M. “Tony” McPeak, USAF (Retired), Chief of Staff during 1990-91 Gulf War. Vietnam Veteran.
Larry Rivers, Former National Commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
Bobby L. Harnage, Sr., Immediate Past National President, Am. Federation of Gov’t Employees
Cecil Roberts, President, United Mine Workers
Mike Hoffman, Iraq War Veteran
Arianna Huffington, journalist / commentator
John Feller, VFW Post Commander, Des Moines, IA
David Cline, President, Veterans for Peace
David Addlestone, Esq., Veterans Law Attorney
Acie Byrd, Chief Petty Officer, USN (Retired)
Eva Plaza, Former Assistant Secretary for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Anthony Guarisco, Former President, Alliance of Atomic Veterans
Frederick H. Graefe, Esq., Captain, USMC (1967-70)
Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only.
VETPAC Officers:
Fred Allingham, VETPAC Field Director
Executive Director of the National Association of Radiation Survivors (NARS), representing atomic veterans and radiation survivors, from 1988 to present.
Served in the U.S. Air Force from 1960-1967, with tours in Guam and Spain.
Allingham is an experienced community/political organizer with a Master’s Degree in Political Science.
E. Cooper Brown, VETPAC Treasurer
Currently an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., after having served for several years as an administrative appeals judge with the U.S. Department of Labor.
For over twenty years prior to his appointment at Labor, Brown was engaged in the private practice of law, including representation of atomic veterans in the early 1980s as General Counsel to the National Association of Atomic Veterans. Brown served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.…