Glenn left NAPS and reported to the 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, NC where he was first assigned to the 2d Marine Division Chorus, then was transferred to the Division Information Services Office.  As a Combat Correspondent he worked with the Marine Corps Reservists training at Monfort Point on Camp Lejeune.  The reserve commander that year was Col. Ed McMahon, USMCR.  He also supported the first Division Landing Team exercise since the Korean War when the division landed on Spanish soil. Later he served on the public relations team for "Operation Inland Seas" a 4-month tour of the Great Lakes by the USS DESOTO COUNTY (LST 1171).  On board the ship for the tour were examples of weapons and equipment then used by the Fleet Marine Force, a Navy Underwater Demolitin Team, Helicopter, the Marine Corps Karate Demonstration team and the 2d Marine Division Chorus. In 1965 he was deployed with Regimental Landing Team 6 to the Caribbean on board the USS BOXER (LPH-4), landing in the Dominican Republic to "protect the lives and property of U. S. citizens and those of friendly foreign nations" for which he was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon.  Soon after returning to Camp Lejeune he was transferred to the Public Information Office at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC where he had taken boot camp in Platoon 386 graduating in 1963. At Parris Island, SC he was promoted first to corporal and then to sergeant.  While in boot camp his Drill Instructor, SSgt. Eddie Johnson, told him "If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a wife they would issue you one."  So he went to the Woman Marine Battalion, met and married PFC Beverly D. Walker (who completed her Marine Corps service as a corporal). Glenn was discharged from the Marine Corps in November 1966 and returned to Rothsville, near Lititz, his home town, Pennsylvania.  He attended Millersville State College at the same time fellow NAPSter Don Kaig was living in Lititz and attending MSC--they never met. In 1968 he enlisted in the U. S. Air Force as a staff sergeant in public affairs and was sent to Gunter AFS, AL where he served as NCOIC of the 3800 Air Base Wing Detachment 1 Public Affairs Office.  While there the couple were blessed with a son, Christopher G. Knight.  Glenn also attended the Newspaper Editor Course at the Defense Information School, Fort Harrison, IN and graduated with honors.  The commandant of DINFOS requested that he be assigned as an instructor at DINFOS and the Air Force complied.  He served as an Instructor of Applied Journalism and in his off hours continued his association as a member of the Civil Air Patrol where he had been a cadet while at Warwick High School in Lititz. The Air Force staff sergeant eventually transferred to Air Force Recruiting Detachment 500 in Indianapolis as NCOIC of Advertising and Publicity.  He was promoted to technical sergeant and their second child, Marianne Louise Knight, was born while in this assignment.  As part of an Air Force Recruiting Service test he was transferred to Air Force Recruiting Detachment 505 in Milwaukee, WI as Chief or Advertising and Publicity (a slot which called for a captain).  While in this position he was promoted to master sergeant. Next, he reported to the 63rd Military Airlift Wing, Norton AFB, CA where he served as NCOIC of Internal Information in the Public Affairs Office.  While at Norton he served temporary assignments in Korea and Japan for international exercises receiving a letter of commendation from the Chief of Information and Propaganda of the Republic of Korea Air Force.  During "Operation Snow Blow II" he escorted media to New England which had been completely snowed in, earning the Humanitarian Service Medal.  While at Norton he served as Air Force technical advisor for Hollywood productions including the pilot for the TV series "Operation UFO" produced by Jack Webb. He was next transferred to Inçirlic Common Defense Installation near Adana, Turkey as NCOIC of Public Affairs for TUSLOG Detachment 10.  While there he provided information support for two National Censuses, a nationwide strike, an aircraft crash, a major flood, a two-week community power outage, significant terrorist activity, support for three U.S. citizens encarcerated in the local Turkish prison for drug posession and the overthrow of  the Turkish government by its military.  For his service he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.  In his spare time he served at District Commissioner for the Trans-Atlantic Council of the Boy Scouts of America and as commander of the Inçirlic Cadet Squadron of Civil Air Patrol being promoted to the Civil Air Patrol rank of lieutenant colonel. His final assignment in the Air Force was creating the position of Public Affairs Officer for the 6940th Electronic Security Squadron supporting the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade, MD.  In his off hours he served as PAO for Civil Air Patrol's Congressional Squadron.  He retired from the Air Force on April Fools Day 1984 and returned with his family to his hometown, Lititz, PA. Following retirement Glenn worked as a fund raiser for the American Lung Association in Lancaster, PA.  He then created the position of Director of Development, Public Relations and Volunteers at Ephrata Community Hospital in Ephrata, PA before purchasing the Parkesburg Post and serving as owner,  publisher and editor for two years before selling to a local newspaper group.  He served one year as the Director of Public Relations (and acting Director of University Relations) at Penn State-Harrisburg. For five years he was Executive Director of the Lancaster County Historical Society, PA where he took the aging community organization from an annual budget of $65,000 to an annual budget of $330.000.  He moved to Delaware for a few years and eventually sold the house and replaced it with a 35-foot Winniebago diesel pusher motorhome and in '05 became an RV fulltimer.  Spending winters in Florida and summers in and around Pennsylvania he began volunteering with the National Park Service at Fort Pulaski National Monument, GA where he learned the art and science of interpretation.  Subsequent volunteer service at Kings Mountain National Military Park, SC and  Fort Frederica National Monument, GA expanded this interest.  In trying to learn interpretation he became involved with the Eppley Institure for Parks and Public Lands at Indiana University where he was the first person to complete the courses in Interpretive Programs and Informal Visitor Contacts.  He then became the first person to complete the advanced sections of those programs and became the first Coach in those programs.  In 2008 he was selected as an interpretive Park Guide at Appomattox Court House National Historic Site, VA and the following year was an interpretive Park Ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park, PA where he works during the summer months, spending his winters in Key West, Florida.
	PFC Glenn B. Knight at NAPS 1963
	LCpl Glenn B. Knight, Combat Correspondent, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, NC
	LCpl Glenn B. Knight interviews Pvt. Dennis Ketchum, the original Dennis the Menace at Parris Island, SC, 1965.  Note the battle jacket--I wore mine till the last day it was authorized.
	Sgt. Glenn B. Knight just prior to his discharge from the Marine Corps in 1966
	Staff Sergeant Glenn B. Knight receiving honor graduate certificate from Col. John Christie, commandant of the Defense Information School in 1969
	Glenn B. Knight's Conch Republic passport photo, 2008.

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