By direction of President Johnson, Chaplain (Major) Harry Z. Schreiner, one of the three Jewish chaplains in Vietnam, has been awarded the Air Medal for his “meritorious achievement while participating in sustained aerial flight in providing a chaplaincy program in support of combat ground forces in Viet Nam” from October 20, 1965, to July 12, 1966. The citation commends Chaplain Schreiner for his participation in 123 “aerial missions over hostile territory in support of counter-insurgency operations.”
Chaplain Schreiner was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York and the University of Newark. He was ordained as a rabbi by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and was recruited and ecclesiastically endorsed for military service by JWB’s Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy. A career chaplain who saw service in the Korean war, he also served in Orleans, France, Stuttgart, Germany, and other places.
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