Colonel Richard M. Stacey USA. RET. MSC.

A graveside memorial service, with full military honors, will be held for Col. Richard M Stacey USA. RET. MSC. on Wednesday November 3, 2010 at 10:30 A.M. at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. He is survived by his daughter, Suzanne Stacey, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Col. Stacey had a distinguished, 31 year, military career. He was the first male baby born at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, Denver, Colorado on May 9, 1919 into a military-medical family. He graduated from Iolani Prep School in Honolulu, Hawaii, and then attended Texas A&M in College Station, Texas as a pre-med student. He enlisted in the Army on March 17, 1942.

Col. Stacey exemplified the “Soldier without Guns” as a combat medic in North Africa and Italy, surviving the battle of Monte Cassino, Sicily, during WWII. Some of his duty stations, as an officer, included: General Headquarters Tokyo, Japan during the Korean Conflict, where the original MASH unit was used; Logistician for the Surgeon Generals Office in both Manhattan, NY. and Washington, D.C.; Commander of the 32nd Medical Depot, 67th Medical Group at Fort Sam Houston; Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Military; Liaison to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health and Medicine at the Pentagon; Chief of Staff for US Army Med-Command Europe, Headquarters Heidelberg, Germany.

The Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Joint Services Commendation Medal, United Nations Service Medal, and National Defense Service Medal are some of Col. Stacey’s awards.

At age 91, Col. Stacey was still considered a “Combat Warrior in Transition” at BAMC, where he received the kind of medical care he fought for as an Army soldier.