ESU Announces Plans for Virtual Veterans Day Celebration, November 12

Major General Marvin Barry

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East Stroudsburg University will host its 12th annual Veterans Day Celebration virtually on Thursday, November 12 at 2 p.m. to recognize local veterans, servicemen and servicewomen in all branches of the armed services. The celebration will be held using the Zoom platform and will feature remarks by ESU’s Interim President Mr. Kenneth Long and a keynote address by Maj. Gen. Marvin Jay Barry. The event is open to the general public, faculty, staff and students, at no cost, by utilizing the following link: www.esu.edu/va.

Maj. Gen. Barry, who retired in January 2006, was the mobilization assistant to the Chief of the Air Force Reserve headquartered in Washington, D.C. He was the principal adviser for the individual mobilization augmentee program that supports more than 12,000 Air Force Reservists and he chaired the program’s allocation team. Maj. Gen. Barry earned his bachelor’s degree at the U.S. Air Force Academic in Colorado Springs, Co., a master’s degree in business administration from the School of Business at the University of Utah, and attended the Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College.

Maj. Gen. Barry has earned many major awards and decorations including: the distinguished service medal with oak leaf cluster, the distinguished flying cross with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star medal, the meritorious service medal with oak leaf cluster, the Air Medal with silver oak leaf cluster, and the Air Force Commendation medal. Maj Gen Barry served as the Vice Commander of Air Education and Training Command and also served three tours as a general officer on the Air Force staff in the Pentagon.

Upon entering the Air Force in 1970, he completed pilot training at Reese Air Force Base in Texas and flew in Southeast Asia as a C-130 pilot. He was a command pilot with more than 4,800 hours of flight time in C-130 and C-5 aircraft. Maj. Gen. Barry retired from the United States Air Force in January 2006. In his last military assignment, he served as an instructor, flight examiner, operations officer and commander of a tactical airlift squadron as well as the vice commander of a strategic airlift wing. During Operation Desert Storm, he commanded a provisional tactical airlift squadron, activated to support operations in the theatre.

For more information, contact June Pepe in the Student Enrollment Center at (570) 422-2830 or at veterans@esu.edu.