Edward C. Davis

Rank: SSG

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Hometown: Carthage, Missouri
Born 3 March 1939

Sergeant Davis, a demonstration jumper for the Golden Knights, joined the Army in 1955. He graduated from airborne train-ing in 1959 and the following year was assigned to the 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment in Germany, where he remained until 1962. Following a number of stateside as-signments, he was sent to Vietnam in 1965 with the famed 101st Airborne Division,
serving there for a year. He joined the Golden Knights in 1967. Sergeant Davis, who has a degree in criminology from the Institute of Applied Science and has attended the Blackstone School of Law, is a fingerprint and ballistics technician as well as SCUBA instructor. He holds the Combat Infantryman's Badge and the Army's master parachutist wings.