Pat Fox
Veteran, Advocate
Pat joined the U.S. Army in November of 1980 as an enlistee and after 5-years of service was honorably discharged as a E-5 Sergeant. While completing and earning his degree in Business, Pat was in the Army Reserves and ROTC Program. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1989 and was assigned into the Aviation Division as a UH-1 helicopter pilot in 1991 in the Army Reserves. After US Army flight school, Pat started his civilian career in Sales and Sales Management while still in the Reserves. Pat became involved in Veteran Non-Profits in 2019 as Executive Director with Active Heroes and now serves on the HBOT4KYVETS, Inc. Board
Eric Koleda
Veteran, Author, Advocate
In 1973 Eric Koleda enlisted in the USAF and served until 1977 on C-130’s and honorable discharged as Vietnam Era Veteran. He received his Airframe and Powerplant FAA license from Teterboro School of Aeronautics in 1979 and beginning his airline career. Eric re-entered the USAF Reserves from 1980-1986 flying C-141B aircraft and received his FAA Flight Engineer license. Eric worked within the airline industry for 35 years with four different air carriers, the last air carrier being UPS Airline as a startup management team member in 1988. He held varying management positions and levels of responsibilities in Quality Assurance and Quality Control, Line Operations, Finance, Procurement, Domestic and International Major Maintenance, and Airline Safety, retiring in 2013 after 26 years. Founder and President of Advance Aviation, LLC, an aviation consulting business for two years. Director and Co-Founder of HBOT4KYVETS since 2018. Inc. Currently works as National Director, TreatNOW Coalition State Legislative Efforts. Published and co-authored The National Brain-Wounded Veteran Brain Drain with Dr. Robert Beckman in 2021. Holds BS and MBA degrees from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Currently serves has President and Co-Founder of HBOT4KYVETS, Inc. managing the daily operations and funding efforts
Eunice Van Winkle Ray
Publisher
In 1976, Eunice Ray began her work in publishing at a startup city magazine in Louisville, Kentucky titled Louisville Today Magazine. In 1981, as a young mother, she ran for the Kentucky General Assembly. She was subsequently appointed, by then County-Judge Executive, Mitch McConnell, to the Jefferson County Housing Authority. In April of 1988, she served on the Finance Committee in Kentucky for Bush’s Victory 88, in support of the election of George H. W. Bush for president. In 1991, Eunice was appointed by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (DACOWTS), a 3-year, 3-Star Pentagon appointment to address the role of women in the Armed Forces post Desert Shield, Desert Storm. In 1996, Eunice co-founded RSVP America, a national grassroots campaign to Restore Social Virtue and Purity to America. Eunice founded First Principles Press, Inc., a not-for-profit educational organization that publishes historical and scholarly works. Today she serves as the president of First Principles. In 2018, she initiated and secured legislation to provide hyperbaric oxygen for Kentucky veterans with traumatic brain injury and was appointed by the governor to the state Council on Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Autism. Eunice is currently working to establish the Colonel Ronald D. Ray Library of American History.
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Dr. Linda Jeffrey, Ed.D
April 2000 to the present. Director of Research, First Principles Press, Inc. First Principles is a nonprofit ministry whose goal is to restore God’s Law to American public policy. My responsibilities include historical and legal research, writing, and preparing educational materials for briefings to military and legislative American leadership. I have prepared research monographs and white papers for publication in house, and for other Christian family advocacy groups. Projects have addressed Christian prayer and Exemplary Conduct in the U.S. military, development of materials for churches to teach our Christian Foundations in American History, and writing an online version of The Bible in History and Literature, a project we developed for the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools. I am a certified teacher, and have taught in grades 7-12.
Dr. Jeffery holds a B.S., Biology, George Peabody College for Teachers, 1975, Nashville, Tennessee, M.S., Natural Science, George Peabody College for Teachers, 1976, through a grant from the National Science Foundation Leadership Development Program, B.S., Physician Assistant Program, Trevecca Nazarene College, Nashville, Tennessee, 1978. Doctor of Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Occupational Training and Development, University of Louisville, May 2000. Dissertation.