LEAGUE ADVISORS BIOS

Richard T. Childress

Dr. Mark Leney

Mr. Thomas R. McKay, GS-14

Brig. General Steven J. Redmann

MaTT DALey

David Lambertson, US ambassador (ret)

George J. Veith

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Richard T. Childress

P O Box 104, Flat Rock, NC 28731

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

· PRESIDENT, ASIAN INVESTMENT STRATEGIES. Consultant service to corporations, financial institutions, universities and foundations on Asia affairs and Asian investment strategies. (1989 – Present)

· PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER, ASIAN ENERGY CORPORATION. Developer of energy projects in Asia. (1992- Present)

· CEO, ASIAN ENERGY AND POWER CORPORATION. Power development subsidiary in the Philippines. (1994 – Present)

· DIRECTOR OF ASIAN AFFAIRS AND POLITICAL MILITARY AFFAIRS, National Security Council Staff. (1981 – March, 1989)

· GENERAL STAFF OFFICER for Asian Affairs and Executive Officer for the Director, Strategy, Plans and Policy, Department of the Army. (1978 – 1981)

· A variety of active duty Army assignments in Asia, Europe and the continental United States. (1964 – 1978)

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

· Internationally known specialist in Asian affairs with in-depth knowledge of Asian culture and broad experience in national security, foreign policy, economic and commercial matters regarding Asia. Extensively traveled in Asia for almost three decades and resided in three Asian Countries

· Senior White House advisor to the Secretary of State and official delegate to each Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting from 1982 through 1988. Led or participated in each United States policy delegation to Vietnam and Laos from 1982 – 1989.

· National Security Council representative on each United Sates Government interagency group on Southeast Asian Affairs, 1982 – 1989, and National Security Council staff advisor to two Presidential Emissaries (Senator Paul Laxalt to the Philippines and General John Vessey to Vietnam). Coordinated all Southeast Asian Head of State visits for the National Security Council, 1982 – 1988. National Security Council liaison with the US/AESAN Business Council, US/ASEAN Center for Technology Transfer and the US/Philippines Business Council. Chaired the United States interagency review on technology transfer to the People’s Republic of China.

· Responsible for global United States refugee policy at the National Security Council from 1983 – 1989.

· Designated White House Surrogate Speaker for the President of the United States.

· Independently established a successful Washington-based consulting firm engaged by the U.S. business community focused on ASEAN. Clients range from Fortune 500 to small and mid-size firms wishing to establish an ASEAN presence.

· Co-founded premier power development corporation with current activities in Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia.

PUBLIC AND POLICY AFFAIRS

· Member of and speaker at Asian fora, to include The Asia Society, Carnegie Foundation, Aspen Institute, Atlantic Council of the United Sates and various universities. Appearance on ABC “Nightline,” “Nightwatch,” “Good Morning America,” “CBS Morning News,” NBC “Today Show,” CNN “Profiles in Government,” “PBS Monitor Reports,” “The Wall Street Journal Report” and local radio/TV interviews on Asian affairs across the nation. Expert witness on Asian affairs at Congressional hearings.

EDUCATION

B.A., University of Cincinnati, Psychology, 1964. M.A., University of Arizona, Asian Studies, 1976. Additional Post-graduate study at the Universities of Oklahoma and Kansas (1967, 1972).

Full year sabbatical in Southeast Asia (1977 – 78).

Fifteen professional military courses of study, to include the Command and General Staff College and Senior Service College.

Languages – Thai/Lao, German, Vietnamese, Korean

PUBLIC HONORS

· Commendations from the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and each Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1982 – 1989.

· Defense Distinguished Service Medal (nation’s highest peacetime military decoration), Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf, Bronze Star Medal, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and numerous other U.S. and foreign military awards and decorations.

· Humanitarian awards from foreign governments, the National League of POW/MIA Families and SERTOMA. PACE award winner.

PUBLICATIONS

Numerous studies and risk assessments on Asian political, social, economic and military subjects; professional journal articles and academic conference papers on Asia.

MEMBERSHIPS/ASSOCIATIONS

Aspen Institute Indochina Forum

The Asia Society

Thai-American Association

US-ASEAN Business Council, Inc. – Advisory Board

United States Global Strategy Council – Advisory Board

U.S. – Philippine Business Committee

U.S. – Thailand Business Council – Executive Committee

Co-chairman of Advisory Committee for National Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Georgetown University

Dr. Mark Leney

June, 2007

Mark Leney is a British scientist who, from 2000 to 2006, worked as a Forensic Anthropologist and as DNA Manager at the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory (CILHI) and subsequently for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.  His specialty was the integration of DNA testing with identification casework and in this respect he also worked very closely with the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.  Dr. Leney has conducted POW/MIA recovery and investigation missions in Laos and Vietnam, as well as seven other countries worldwide.  In addition to his regular recovery and identification duties at CILHI/JPAC, Dr Leney taught Forensic Biology at Chaminade University of Honolulu and consulted for numerous military and civilian agencies including US Navy Trial Service Office, Pacific; Office of the Defense Counsel, US Air Force, Pacific Region; Office of the Defense Counsel, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, the Los Angles District Attorney's Violent Crimes Cold Case Task-Force and the NCIS/Honolulu Cold Case Squad.  While at CILHI/JPAC Dr Leney published and presented research on optimal DNA sampling for forensic analysis of skeletal remains and the use of mitochondrial DNA to predict ethnicity of unknown remains.  He continues to work on completing a research project using immunological assays to determine human versus non-human origin of bone fragments to small to support DNA testing.

Dr Leney was educated at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, graduating with a B.Sc.(Hons) in Biological Sciences in 1992, earning the top honours in his year and winning the Ashworth Prize in Zoology. He worked briefly as a field zoologist in Tanzania before taking up an award of a Science and Engineering Research Council research studentship in evolutionary anthropology and palaeontology at the University of Cambridge.  At Cambridge he conducted doctoral research at the Department of Biological Anthropology using multivariate morphometrics with missing data analysis to examine the biology of fragmentary archaeological and paleontological bones and took the Magdalene College Cambridge, Newton Prize in Biological Science in 1994.  Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1996,  he was elected to the Sir Christopher Cox Research Fellowship at New College, Oxford, and from 1996-1999 served as faculty member in the faculties of biology, archaeology and anthropology at the University of Oxford, was a Departmental Lecturer at the Institute of Biological Anthropology, Oxford,  a visiting lecturer in Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge (1998-1999) and conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Croatia, Greece and Bosnia.  In 1999, Dr Leney was appointed to a European Union Visiting Fellowship at Division of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology at the Ministry of Culture in Athens, Greece where he was also a visiting scholar at the British School of Archaeology, Athens prior to joining the Oak Ridge fellowship program (ORISE) at the CILHI in March 2000.  In 2006 Dr Leney took as a post as a Senior Director at the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL), a non-profit biotech company belonging to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the oldest federally-licensed vaccine producer in the nation.  At MBL he directs a number of laboratories that support vaccine manufacturing and research, development and clinical trials of genetically engineered biopharmaceuticals designed to target a range of otherwise untreatable conditions.  In 2007 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Department of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  Dr Leney continues his involvement with POW/MIA issues by serving as Scientific Advisor to the League and also informally advises family groups and veterans concerned with Korean War and WWII POW/MIA affairs.

Mr. Thomas R. McKay, GS-14

POSITION:

- Chief, Detachment 320 (Stony Beach), Operating Base Hawaii, Defense HUMINT Services (DHS), Defense Intelligence Agency

SIGNIFICANCE:

- Oversees the day-to-day activities of DIA’s POW-MIA Investigation Team; represents DIA throughout Southeast Asia in the effort to resolve incidents of Americans missing as a result of the war in Vietnam.

PERSONAL DATA:

- Born: 04 September 1947 in Logansport, Indiana

- Family: Spouse Tuyet (Vo); Son: Johnny; Son: Jimmy

EDUCATION:

- St Martin’s College, BA (Criminal Justice), 1990

- Jackson Community College, AA, 1967

KEY ASSIGNMENTS:

- 1999-Present Chief, Stony Beach Detachment

- 1991-1998 Vietnamese Debriefer, Stony Beach

- 1987-1991 Counterintelligence and HUMINT Officer, 1^st Special Forces Group (Abn)

- 1983-1987 Vietnamese Interviewer, Joint Casualty Resolution Center, Thailand

- 1978-1983 U.S. Army Intelligence Operations assignments

- 1975-1978 U.S. Army Intelligence, 7^th Special Forces Group (Abn)

- 1975-1975 Vietnamese Refugee Operations, Ft Indiantown Gap, PA

- 1973-1973 Four Party Joint Military Commission, Republic of Vietnam

- 1973-1973 Operation Homecoming, Republic of the Philippines

- 1973-1973 Operation Babylift, Ft Benning, GA

- 1972-1973 Interpreter/Translator, CMIC, Republic of Vietnam

- 1968-1970 Medic, Republic of Vietnam

LANGUAGES:

- Vietnamese

- Spanish

- Thai

- Chinese (Mandarin)

AWARDS:

- Defense Intelligence Director’s Award

- Defense Superior Service Medal

- Bronze Star with 2 oak leaf clusters

Brig. General Steven J. Redmann

Brig. Gen. Steven J. Redmann is commander, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. The mission of this joint task force is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of Americans still unaccounted for as a result of the war in Southeast Asia. The JTF-FA consists of more than 150 investigators, analysts, linguists and other specialists that represent the four military services and Department of Defense civilians.

The general earned his commission from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1975. He is a master navigator with more than 2,600 flying hours in the B-52G, B-1B and C-135. Additionally, he has commanded a munitions maintenance squadron, a training group, and an air base wing. He has served at Headquarters Strategic Air Command, at the Pentagon with the Air Staff and Secretariat, and at Headquarters U.S. Pacific Command.

EDUCATION
1975 Bachelor of science degree in general engineering, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
1980 Master of science degree in operations management, University of Arkansas
1983 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
1990 Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.

ASSIGNMENTS
1. August 1975 - September 1976, student, undergraduate navigator training, 323rd Flying Training Wing, Mather Air Force Base, Calif.
2. September 1976 - March 1977, student, B-52 training, Castle Air Force Base, Calif.
3. March 1977 - January 1980, B-52G squadron navigator, squadron instructor navigator and wing standardization evaluation navigator, 340th Bombardment Squadron, Blytheville Air Force Base, Ark.
4. March 1980 - April 1983, B-52G radar navigator, later, squadron instructor radar navigator, later, Standardization and Evaluation Division senior instructor radar navigator, 340th Bombardment Squadron, Blytheville Air Force Base, Ark.
5. May 1983 - May 1984, cruise missile program acquisition manager, Avionics Division, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
6. May 1984 - April 1985, special assistant to the chief of staff, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
7. April 1985 - April 1986, executive officer, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
8. April 1986 - February 1987, student, B-1B Offensive Systems Officer Initial Qualification Course, 338th Combat Crew Training Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas
9. February 1987 - December 1987, B-1B senior standardization and evaluation instructor and offensive systems officer, 337th Bombardment Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas
10. December 1987 - July 1989, commander, 96th Munitions Maintenance Squadron, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas
11. August 1989 - June 1990, student, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
12. July 1990 - January 1991, arms control action officer, Directorate of Plans, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
13. January 1991 - September 1991, chief, Conventional Negotiations Policy Branch, Directorate of Plans, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
14. September 1991 - September 1992, executive officer, Directorate of Plans, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
15. September 1992 - August 1994, chief, Strategic Concepts and Policy Branch, Directorate of Strategic Planning and Policy, Headquarters U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii
16. August 1994 - December 1995, commander, 81st Training Group, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.
17. January 1996 - August 1996, chief, Operations Division, 2nd Air Force, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.
18. September 1996 - June 1997, chief, Forces Division, Directorate of Programs and Evaluation, later, chief, Mission Support Division, Directorate of Programs, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
19. June 1997 - June 1999, chief, Secretary of the Air Force Staff Group, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
20. July 1999 - June 2001, commander, 15th Air Base Wing, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii
21. July 2001 - present, commander, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii

FLIGHT INFORMATION
Rating: Master navigator
Flight hours: More than 2,600
Aircraft flown: B-52G, B-1B and C-135

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
Combat Readiness Medal with oak leaf cluster

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Second Lieutenant Jun 4, 1975
First Lieutenant Jun 4, 1977
Captain Jun 4, 1979
Major May 1, 1985
Lieutenant Colonel Jul 1, 1988
Colonel Jan 1, 1993
Brigadier General Oct 1, 2000

MATT DALEY

(BIO COMING SOON)

David Lambertson,

US ambassador (ret)

Ambassador Lambertson is a native of Fairview, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Redlands (California) in 1962 and entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1963. He was assigned to Saigon from 1965 to 1968 as a member of the embassy’s political section, to Medan, Indonesia from 1969 to 1971, and to Paris, 1971-73, as a liaison officer and press spokesman for the U.S. Delegation to the Vietnam peace talks.

Lambertson returned to the State Department in Washington in 1973, first to the Office of East Asian Regional Affairs and then, in 1975, to the Office of Japanese Affairs as its Deputy Director. He was posted to Tokyo, 1977-80 as Deputy Chief of the political section. In the fall of 1980, he was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the UN General Assembly session.

Lambertson attended the Royal College of Defense Studies in London in 1981, after which he returned to Washington as Director of the Office of Korean Affairs, 1982-84. He was Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, 1984-86, and Deputy Chief of Mission in Seoul, 1986-87.

In 1987 Lambertson was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State with responsibility for the ten countries of Southeast Asia. His work during his three years in that position focused on negotiations to end the war in Cambodia, support for the newly established democracy in the Philippines, and coordinating efforts to achieve the fullest possible accounting for Americans missing in action in Indochina.

During the 1990-91 academic year, Lambertson was Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of Kansas, teaching in the Political Science Department. While at KU he was named by President Bush in early 1991 as Ambassador to Thailand. He was confirmed by the Senate in July and arrived in Bangkok in September of that year. Lambertson left Thailand in August 1995 and retired from the Foreign Service in September 1995. During his Foreign Service career, Lambertson earned the State Department’s Meritorious, Superior and Distinguished Honor Awards as well as several Presidential awards.

Since his retirement, Lambertson has been an adjunct professor at the University of Kansas, and in 2002 was the Freeman Foundation Visiting Professor of Asian Affairs at Claremont-McKenna College in California.

From November 2000 through December 2005 Lambertson was a part-time U.S. representative in North Korea (DPRK) of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), making eleven visits to the DPRK totaling more than eighteen months in duration.

Lambertson and his wife, Sacie, live in the country near Winchester, Kansas.

George J. Veith

George J. Veith is the author of Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War, published by The Free Press in December 1997. Code-Name Bright Light was Book of the Month for the Military Book Club in January 1998. Mr. Veith also published Leave No Man Behind: Bill Bell and the Search for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War in March 2004. He has continued to write and publish about the Vietnam War, including many symposium papers, an article on the battle for Xuan Loc in April 1975 that appeared in the Jan. 2004 issue of Journal of Military History, and various newspaper articles. He has spoken before the American Legion National Convention, National League of POW/MIA Families, and many others. Mr. Veith has testified before House of Representatives twice on the POW/MIA issue, and has appeared on Fox News and other radio and TV stations.