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LAS CRUCES - Las Cruces and area first responders helped celebrate the 100th birthday of Col. Fred Yanker (Ret.) with a celebratory parade on Thursday, March 11.  American Legion Post 10 Joe Quesenberry offered to organize a caravan for Yanker’s 100th birthday and local law enforcement turned out in spades. Fire department personnel drove by Yanker’s home off of Carver Road Thursday with sirens blaring on the fire trucks. Local police and the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department also joined in the line of vehicles, which stretched down the full length of the road. The Yanker family an...

Credit Fred Yanker at a formal military dinner with Dr. Wernher Von Braun. (Yanker at 1st left, Von Braun at head of table) Fred Yanker will celebrate his 100th Birthday Thursday, March 11th. He was born in 1921, that’s some incredible math!  Fred is a 30 year Army veteran, enlisting in the US Army at the beginning of WW2. He served in many roles and rose quickly in the ranks. At the end of the war he was transferred to White Sands Proving Grounds, now called White Sands Missile Range, WSMR. Throughout his career there he held multiple roles involving security, rocket launches and equipme...