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Work in progress Draft of David "Dave" Eubank article

Introduction

Family background
Parents Allan and Joan Eubank both Texans members of the "greatest generation"

Allan graduated form Texas A&M with a Geological Engineering degree in 1951 and served in the Army as Captain CO (commanding officer) of a combat engineer company in the Korean War.

Joan was an up-and-coming Broadway and Hollywood star.

They met in Korea while he was deployed and she was on tour with the USO

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Parents married December 1959

Early life and education
Few months after his birth family moved to Sam Yaek a small village in Thailand to help as Christian missionaries

Three younger sisters

Thai first language of him and siblings

at seven went to boarding school in Chiang Mai, 500 km north

there he (when he was in 8th grade) met his best friend an future brother-in-law (married David's younger sister Laurie), Pete Dawson

By then (8th grade) the rest of his family had moved to Chiang Mai where his parents taught at a seminary

Rode his horse to school and go hunting in the hills surrounding Chiang Mai

Learned to track and hunt in the jungle from time spent hunting with his dad and local tribesmen

Traveled with dd on evangelism trips to other villages

Joined Boy Scouts with dad as Scoutmaster

Vietnam War going on next door. Determined to get in the fight.

meant Scout troop had volunteers from U.S. Special Forces and the CIA to help them train and provide aircraft for resupplies in the jungle

Bob Brewer was one of the men from the CIA

Also Harold, Gordon, and Bill Young

Eagle scout project at Chiang Mai Zoo

Bob Brewer, Gordon and Bill worked with U.S. and Thai government against communist forces in the region. All were his heros

Chiang Mai had no high school so he and Pete went to boarding school again at the International School of Bangkok (ISB).

After graduating from ISB recieved a full ROTC scholarship to Texas A&M, where his father and grandfather (Louis Charles Eubank, class of 1922) had gone. Majored in Political Science

He was in Company I-1 and became a brigade commander his senior year. He was a Ross Volunteer "The Corps of Cadets at A&M was a hard and excellent training ground for future officers, and it was brutal. In addition to a full class load, we freshmen cadets, or “sh,” were at the mercy of the upperclassmen, who could make us do basically whatever they wanted—clean their shoes, run around campus for three hours, or even stand naked in the hallway late into the night while upperclassmen beat us with ax handles. Although it was officially against all A&M rules, hazing got physical and violent. By my senior year, I found myself in the rare role of trying to introduce some perspective into the situation. I was the brigade commander and we got rid of the ax-handle beatings. We enforced push-ups as punishment rather than beatings—those also hurt but made you stronger. A&M prepared me well for future challenges." After graduating joined the U.S. Army where he became an officer holding the rank of Second Lieutenant and had his first command of a platoon of forty men in Panama

Won several endurance events while in Panama that helped him stand out to his commanding officers who chose him to be the scout platoon leader

Tried out and was selected to the 75th Ranger Regiment and led Ranger units for three years in the 3rd Ranger Battalion based out of Fort Lewis in Washington (state)

Then tried out for the Special Forces, after selection and qualification course he was assigned as an A-team detachment commander

Not long after meeting his future wife Karen Huesby he left the Army after ten years as a major. Then enrolled at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

The got married on June 5th, 1993.

They spent summers in Burma until he finished seminary and was ordained in December 1995. Moved to Thailand in March of 1996 to start their mission work.

Awards and Honors

 * The Association of Former Students Core Values Coin, 2017
 * Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets Hall of Honor Inductee, 2019

Draft: Relevant links

 * Do This for Love: Free Burma Rangers in the Battle of Mosul
 * https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avvb9/free-burma-rangers-myanmar-war
 * https://www.freeburmarangers.org/
 * https://www.freeburmarangers.org/home-page/who-we-are/letter-from-the-director/
 * Mini documentary on rescue in Mosul by Popo Medic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjM1XmbUnxU
 * CBS Mornings video about rescue in Mosul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojgZueHW6Tk
 * Compilation of footage from rescue in Mosul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqfl2zRGb6w
 * Texas A&M
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGk9Dr4HAY&ab_channel=TexasA%26MCorpsofCadets
 * https://corps.tamu.edu/reverend-david-a-eubank-83/
 * https://storycorps.tamu.edu/chancellor-john-sharp-and-david-eubank
 * https://today.tamu.edu/2017/06/19/texas-am-former-student-turned-aid-worker-saves-iraqi-girl-amid-gunfire/
 * https://theeagle.com/news/local/love-for-iraqis-motivated-aggie-who-famously-saved-girl-in/article_a5169b26-c836-596d-81df-e1138764c97b.html
 * https://www.aggienetwork.com/news/145859/aggies-daring-rescue-of-young-girl-caught-on-video/