CHOSIN RESERVOIR DETACHMENT #968
Marine Corps League
Mason, Ohio 45040
JIM MEYERS
Our 2011 MCL Detachment Chaplain, Jim Meyers, enlisted in the Marine Corps as a recruit in Officer Candidate School in March 1966 at MCB Quantico and he was ultimately commissioned a 2d Lieutenant. Graduating from The Basic School as a member of Golf Company, 10/66, Jim received MOS training at MCB Camp LeJeune, NC followed by orders to serve with the Fleet Marine Force, WESTPAC.
Following a stint with Staging Battalion at Camp Pendleton, CA, Jim became a platoon commander (MT) in H&S Company, 2d Bn, 5th Marines - located along a small landing stip in An Hoa, Vietnam in January 1967. Serving across I Corps, RVN service saw him serve also in Phubai and in Hue, as a Provisional Platoon Commander and H&S Company XO. Returning to CONUS in 1968, 1st Lieutenant Meyers served as Tactics Instructor, OCS, MCB Quantico, before being selected as Aide-de-Camp for BGEN Michael P. Ryan, Director of the Command & Staff College, MCB, Quantico. Captain Meyers also served as Aide-de-Camp for MGEN Ryan as Deputy for Education for the Marine Corps, before being released from active duty.
Recruited into the US Secret Service, Special Agent Meyers served in Washington DC through the Nixon and Watergate era and into the Ford US presidencies. From government service, Jim entered and rapidly ascended the pharmaceutical management ranks of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Inc, and led the US establishment of the Danish Insulin Laboratorium-Nordisk-USA. Also holding management positions with Baxter (Caremark), Jim has led (presidency) several medial device firms such as US Biomaterials Corporation and US Therapeutics, LLC. He has served as director on industry, venture capital, charity and church boards. He has served as a motivational speaker in industry.
Jim and his wife, Susan, have six children, one of whom currently serves on active duty as a Captain in the Marine Corps. The Meyers have "semi-retired" and moved from Florida to the Cincinnati area to enjoy their grandchildren who reside here.
A large postion of Jim's service in Vietnam has been captured in a book written by the daughter of Jim's deceased buddy, and 2/5 batallion surgeon, Tom Viti
Following a stint with Staging Battalion at Camp Pendleton, CA, Jim became a platoon commander (MT) in H&S Company, 2d Bn, 5th Marines - located along a small landing stip in An Hoa, Vietnam in January 1967. Serving across I Corps, RVN service saw him serve also in Phubai and in Hue, as a Provisional Platoon Commander and H&S Company XO. Returning to CONUS in 1968, 1st Lieutenant Meyers served as Tactics Instructor, OCS, MCB Quantico, before being selected as Aide-de-Camp for BGEN Michael P. Ryan, Director of the Command & Staff College, MCB, Quantico. Captain Meyers also served as Aide-de-Camp for MGEN Ryan as Deputy for Education for the Marine Corps, before being released from active duty.
Recruited into the US Secret Service, Special Agent Meyers served in Washington DC through the Nixon and Watergate era and into the Ford US presidencies. From government service, Jim entered and rapidly ascended the pharmaceutical management ranks of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Inc, and led the US establishment of the Danish Insulin Laboratorium-Nordisk-USA. Also holding management positions with Baxter (Caremark), Jim has led (presidency) several medial device firms such as US Biomaterials Corporation and US Therapeutics, LLC. He has served as director on industry, venture capital, charity and church boards. He has served as a motivational speaker in industry.
Jim and his wife, Susan, have six children, one of whom currently serves on active duty as a Captain in the Marine Corps. The Meyers have "semi-retired" and moved from Florida to the Cincinnati area to enjoy their grandchildren who reside here.
A large postion of Jim's service in Vietnam has been captured in a book written by the daughter of Jim's deceased buddy, and 2/5 batallion surgeon, Tom Viti
by Lucia Viti, is scheduled to be released in April 2011.