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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">COL Sullivan originally enlisted service with the 50th General Hospital in World War II European Theater of Operations. He was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the Chemical Corps U.S. Army Reserve in 1949. After thirty-four years’ continuous service in active reserve, COL Sullivan retired in 1984 as a Colonel (0-6) Medical Service Corps. He then worked as a pharmacist and food chemist in the retail industry, retiring in 1989.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colonel Sullivan was granted armorial bearings by the Chief Herald of Ireland in 2002. His Arms are listed in Burke’s Peerage and Gentry International Register of Arms and the American College of Heraldry.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #212529; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, COL Sullivan is a member of the Seattle Last Man’s Club of World War II (past President and permanent Secretary-Treasurer); the Reserve Officers Association of the U.S Department of Washington past president (1976); the Seattle Genealogical Society (past Treasurer, 1989); Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity (1949); Washington State Pharmacist’s Association, American Legion, VFW, Senior Army Reserve Commander’s Association., Association of the U.S. Army.

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