Hometown: Yonkers, New York
Born 11 November 1936

First military man to be awarded 12 hour freefall wings

Sergeant Duffy, was the leader of the Knights' competition team. He joined the Army in 1958 and that same year completed airborne training. He was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division until 1961, when he came onto the Golden Knights for the first time. He left the fol-lowing year to serve as an instructor at the 82nd Airborne Division's Raider school, re-turning to the Knights in 1964. That year he was captain of the U. S. team that placed second in the first parachuting champion-ships of the military Olympics and the following year he was the U. S. National Parachuting Champion. In 1967 he left the Knights to serve a year in Vietnam as adviser to the Vietnamese airborne. He returned in 1968 to the Knights. That year he was captain of the U. S. team that again placed second in the parachuting championships of the military Olympics. Sergeant Duffy's name has appeared on over 100 world parachuting records. He holds two Bronze Stars, one with V device for valor, the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross and Honor Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Army Commendation Medal, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Army's master parachutist wings and Vietnamese jump wings. He is also the fourth member of the Knights and the eleventh jumper in the United States to achieve 2,000 free-fall jumps.