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D.O.V.E. Fund - Honorary Member, Veteran
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Chuck Searcy
U.S. Army
1966-1969
Project RENEW
D.O.V.E. Fund Supporter
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Chuck Searcy enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969, and was assigned to the 519th Military Intelligence
Battalion in Saigon from June 1967 to June 1968. Chuck served as an intelligence analyst at the Combined
Intelligence Center, Vietnam (CICV). After military duty, he returned to the University of Georgia
as a student and became active in the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
Searcy was editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper for 12 years, worked in Washington in
President Jimmy Carter’s administration and later for U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler. He was
Executive Director of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association from 1989 until 1995 when he
moved to Vietnam as representative of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF).
In 2001 Searcy became representative of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) and
helped launch Project RENEW in Quang Tri Province, to clean up unexploded ordnance and
provide medical assistance, rehabilitation, and income generation for UXO victims.
Project RENEW’s mission also includes support for Agent Orange victim families.
Searcy is co-chair of the NGO Agent Orange Working Group in Vietnam. He
is a co-founder and currently president of Chapter 160 of Veterans For Peace, based in Vietnam.
In 2003 Searcy was awarded Vietnam’s National Friendship Medal.
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In the photo: Searcy talks with Mr. Hoang Nam, Co-founder of
Project RENEW, Deputy Chairman of Quang Tri Province People's
Committee, on a street in Santa Monica, LA.
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View a Video Presentation on Project RENEW
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