Master Sergeant, U. S. Army
5th Special Forces, Green Beret
Joint Service Commendation Medal
January 1972
Bronze Star Medal
May 1972
Fort Bragg, N.C. M. Sgt. Carl G. Johnston, 36, Fort Bragg, N.C., died Friday morning from injuries suffered in an automobile accident, here.
Born Aug. 28, 1939, he was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Otis Johnston. On June 6, 1964, he married Betty Cheek, who survives.
He was a 1958 graduate of Forest, Indiana High School and had served in the U.S. Army for 17 years. He had served two terms in Vietnam and one in Cambodia. He was an ROTC instructor in Raleigh, N.C.
Surviving with the widow and his parents of Michigantown, Indiana, are three sons: Raymond, Donald and Otis Lee Johnston, all at home; one brother, James Johnston of Kokomo, and two sisters, Mrs. Thomas (Mildred) Craig of Hagerstown, MD and Mrs. James (Deloris) McCarter of Forest.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the John F. Kennedy Chapel, Fayetteville, N.C. The Rogers & Breece Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Appeared in Fayetteville Newspaper. December 1975
"They Shall Grow Not Old,
As We That Are Left Grow Old,
Age Shall Not Weary Them,
Nor The Years Condemn.
At The Going Down Of The Sun
And In The Morning,
We Will Remember Them
5th Special Forces, Green Beret
Joint Service Commendation Medal
January 1972
Bronze Star Medal
May 1972
Fort Bragg, N.C. M. Sgt. Carl G. Johnston, 36, Fort Bragg, N.C., died Friday morning from injuries suffered in an automobile accident, here.
Born Aug. 28, 1939, he was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Otis Johnston. On June 6, 1964, he married Betty Cheek, who survives.
He was a 1958 graduate of Forest, Indiana High School and had served in the U.S. Army for 17 years. He had served two terms in Vietnam and one in Cambodia. He was an ROTC instructor in Raleigh, N.C.
Surviving with the widow and his parents of Michigantown, Indiana, are three sons: Raymond, Donald and Otis Lee Johnston, all at home; one brother, James Johnston of Kokomo, and two sisters, Mrs. Thomas (Mildred) Craig of Hagerstown, MD and Mrs. James (Deloris) McCarter of Forest.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the John F. Kennedy Chapel, Fayetteville, N.C. The Rogers & Breece Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Appeared in Fayetteville Newspaper. December 1975
"They Shall Grow Not Old,
As We That Are Left Grow Old,
Age Shall Not Weary Them,
Nor The Years Condemn.
At The Going Down Of The Sun
And In The Morning,
We Will Remember Them
Master Sergeant, U. S. Army
5th Special Forces, Green Beret
Joint Service Commendation Medal
January 1972
Bronze Star Medal
May 1972
Fort Bragg, N.C. M. Sgt. Carl G. Johnston, 36, Fort Bragg, N.C., died Friday morning from injuries suffered in an automobile accident, here.
Born Aug. 28, 1939, he was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Otis Johnston. On June 6, 1964, he married Betty Cheek, who survives.
He was a 1958 graduate of Forest, Indiana High School and had served in the U.S. Army for 17 years. He had served two terms in Vietnam and one in Cambodia. He was an ROTC instructor in Raleigh, N.C.
Surviving with the widow and his parents of Michigantown, Indiana, are three sons: Raymond, Donald and Otis Lee Johnston, all at home; one brother, James Johnston of Kokomo, and two sisters, Mrs. Thomas (Mildred) Craig of Hagerstown, MD and Mrs. James (Deloris) McCarter of Forest.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the John F. Kennedy Chapel, Fayetteville, N.C. The Rogers & Breece Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Appeared in Fayetteville Newspaper. December 1975
"They Shall Grow Not Old,
As We That Are Left Grow Old,
Age Shall Not Weary Them,
Nor The Years Condemn.
At The Going Down Of The Sun
And In The Morning,
We Will Remember Them
5th Special Forces, Green Beret
Joint Service Commendation Medal
January 1972
Bronze Star Medal
May 1972
Fort Bragg, N.C. M. Sgt. Carl G. Johnston, 36, Fort Bragg, N.C., died Friday morning from injuries suffered in an automobile accident, here.
Born Aug. 28, 1939, he was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Otis Johnston. On June 6, 1964, he married Betty Cheek, who survives.
He was a 1958 graduate of Forest, Indiana High School and had served in the U.S. Army for 17 years. He had served two terms in Vietnam and one in Cambodia. He was an ROTC instructor in Raleigh, N.C.
Surviving with the widow and his parents of Michigantown, Indiana, are three sons: Raymond, Donald and Otis Lee Johnston, all at home; one brother, James Johnston of Kokomo, and two sisters, Mrs. Thomas (Mildred) Craig of Hagerstown, MD and Mrs. James (Deloris) McCarter of Forest.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the John F. Kennedy Chapel, Fayetteville, N.C. The Rogers & Breece Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Appeared in Fayetteville Newspaper. December 1975
"They Shall Grow Not Old,
As We That Are Left Grow Old,
Age Shall Not Weary Them,
Nor The Years Condemn.
At The Going Down Of The Sun
And In The Morning,
We Will Remember Them
Inscription
M/Sgt E-8 5th Special Forces Group
