About Us
Mission Statement
The Mission of The Constitution Party National Veterans Coalition is to contact, inform, recruit, and organize America’s Military Veterans in support of the fact that the growing Constitution Party is a strong option at national, state and local ballot boxes for the 2008 and future elections vs. the failed two party system. All Veterans have taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Our country faces grave national issues within our borders and abroad that again calls for the same allegiance. The present crisis compels Veterans to call on family, friends, neighbors and social contacts, one and all, to join the Constitution Party to help in timely defense of our country and to insure and sustain forever the personal goals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Executive Committee
Larry Breazeale (Master Sergeant, USAF, Retired), National Chairman: MSgt Breazeale served as a USAF Security Policeman (Blue Beret), both on active duty (1966-1970) and as a Reservist 1978-1995). He saw action in Vietnam as an Air Base Defender at Bien Hoa AB during the Tet Offensive. MSgt Breazeale has also participated in deployments to England (six times), Germany, and Saudi Arabia (King Fahd airbase) as part of Operation Desert Storm. Larry is an active member of the Air Force Security Police Association and the Vietnam Security Police Association, where he participated in a memorial to fellow Blue Berets that were killed in a mission to liberate the USS Mayaguez in May of 1975. As an officer of AFSPA he helped to induct martial-arts movie star Chuck Norris (a former Sergeant in the USAF Air Police) as an honorary Blue Beret. He has also had a lengthy career in law enforcement as a deputy with a sheriff department in Southern California. Larry has been active in politics since 1972, and is a national committeeman with the American Independent Party. (The AIP is the California affiliate of the CP.) Larry enjoys scuba diving and mountain hiking.
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Clell Drumheller, Vice-Chairman: Sergeant (E-5) USMC: served in the First, Second, and Third Marine Divisions, as well as the Third Air Wing, primarily in Communications - Wire and Radio (Active Duty: 1970-1974; Inactive Duty: 1974-1976))…also, worked in Base Education managing "Float" and "Vocational Training" programs to help prepare Marines to make a smooth transition back to civilian life. Along with being Vice-Chair of the National Veterans Coalition Clell also serves as Southern States Area Chairman of the National Constitution Party.
Charles Jones III (Brigadier General, USAF, Retired), Founder and National Chairman Emeritus: General Jones served continuously in the Air Force and the Air Force Reserve from 1954 to 1986. He has held numerous command positions, including tactical and strategic airlift wings, a tactical fighter wing, and a Special Operations Group. He is a graduate of the Air War College, and he has logged over 6000 hours in 32 types of military and civilian aircraft. He has worked closely with officials such as White House staffers, US Senators, US Representatives, Governors and Industrialists. After retiring from the Air Force, General Jones owned his own business for several years. He previously volunteered as a Republican Party organizer in northern Virginia, and has worked with some well-known candidates and officials. General Jones has seen the workings of government close up for many years, and that has given him insight to the grave problems confronting America today.
Randall C. Stufflebeam, (Gunnery Sergeant, USMC, Retired), Regional Coordinator -- Midwestern. Gunnery Sergeant Stufflebeam served in a variety of specialties and assignments during his career in the Marine Corps from January of 1980 until May of 2003. (After his first four years, he had a brief break in active duty.) Specialities included Anti-Tank Assault Man, "Dragon" Missile Instructor, and Mainframe Computer Programmer. Assignments included anti-tank assault instructor, computer resource manager for the 6th Marine Corps Recruiting District (Atlanta, GA), computer training specialist, information systems coordinator, and VIP representative. In that last assignment, GySgt Stufflebeam met numerous dignitaries, including the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense. Randall deployed four times to Okinawa during his career. Only the last tour was accompanied; he and his family stayed on Okinawa almost five years. Randall is descended from preachers on both sides of his family, going back several generations. He and his wife, Lisa, have three daughters and one grandchild. After retiring from the Marine Corps, Randy first got involved with the Republican Party. But, after attending a Constitution Party rally in support of Judge Roy Moore (the famed "Ten Commandments judge"), he quickly joined the CP and soon became the Vice-Chairman for Illinois. He later ran for governor of Illinois. Although the CP did not meet the threshhold for petition signatures, and was thus denied a ballot line in 2006, Randy was not deterred. He ran as a write-in candidate, and got more than 19,000 votes. That shattered the previous write-in record held by Ralph Nader. Randall feels that his mission on the NVC Executive Committee is to help stand against the "domestic enemies" that would rob America of our rights and liberty.
M. D. Short, (Committee Member) M. D. Short was born in the Ozark Hills of Missouri in 1923. After he graduated from High School, in 1941, he migrated to Kansas City in pursuit of a plan for the future. His personal plans were modified by the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. His initial reaction, based upon his lack of geographical knowledge and appreciation of the real threat from the small island of Japan, was that our military would make quick work of disposing of the problem. As a result he opted to take advantage of the offer of a scholarship at a university to study aeronautical engineering.
While studying at the university and influenced by world events M.D. enlisted in the Navy in 1942 to become a Naval Aviator. When he received his commission and wings of gold after completion of the flight training program he took an oath in which he swore to uphold and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. He sense's that is a mission yet to be accomplished.
M.D. was trained initially as a fighter pilot and finally a nuclear weapons delivery pilot with command of a squadron whose primary mission was delivering nuclear weapons on the enemy. During his younger years in the Navy he was gainfully employed as a Navy Test Pilot and was screened to be a candidate as an astronaut for the Mercury Space Program.
After retiring from the Navy M.D. became curious why we go to war and started to study in earnest about this curiosity. This study revealed that since 1913 our money system, by act of Congress, became both unconstitutional and fraudulent. This discovery led him naively into the political arena when he ran for Congress as a Democrat essentially on the single plank of revealing that our money was based on a scheme of issuing Federal Reserve Notes not backed with anything of intrinsic value.
Long story shortened, he then became aware of the American Independent Party (AIP) and its founder. Over the years it has been his pleasure to become more enlightened about politics and political parties under the leadership of Bill Shearer with the support of his family. As a strong adherent of the long established AIP Platform, He was twice elected State Chairman of the AIP. During the second tenure as chairman he became aware of a political movement led by Howard Phillips which embraced similar tenets as the AIP. When inquiring of the possibility of joining Phillip's movement as a possible national entity, Bill Shearer was reluctant at first based on his earlier bad experiences with national political movements.
A melding of the California AIP and the then US Taxpayers Alliance was ultimately consummated, and a National Convention was held in New Orleans in 1992. There a national platform was promulgated adopting essentially the California AIP Platform. M.D. as a member of the Platform Committee provided a plank in the Platform expressing the need to reform our money system.
National Chairman, Constitution Party: Jim Clymer
National Field Director, Constitution Party: Gary Odom
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