Captain Timothy J.
Politis
United States Marine
Corps Reserve
Tours of Duty:
Active: 1966 – 1971
Reserve: 1971- 1979
Source of
Commission: Officers Candidate School
Captain Timothy J. Politis
was born in 1944 in Manchester, England to PFC Joseph P. Politis United States
Army Air Corps and Dorothy (McGurk) Politis and later grew up in Mechanicville,
New York.
He is a 1962 graduate
of Mechanicville High School and a 1967 graduate of Castleton State College
(VT) with a Bachelor or Science Degree in History with a minor in Geography.
A member of the United
States Marine Corps Platoon Leader’s Course program he successfully completed
Officer’s Candidate School the summer of 1966 at Quantico and upon College
graduation was Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1967. He reported aboard at Marine Officers Basic
School in late September of 1967 and joined Basic Class 4-68 graduating in
March of 1968. Upon Graduation he received orders to the 9th MAB (Marine
Amphibious Brigade) with interim stops at Camp Lejeune to attend the Logistics
Officers School and Camp Pendleton to pick up and train a replacement Company.
He joined the 9th MAB in June of 1968 and served with Operating Battalions of
the 7th and 9th Marine Regiments and VMF 122 of MAG 15, 9th MAB
operating in and around An Hoa, Go Noi Island and the Arizona territory South
West of Da Nang Republic of Vietnam.
Upon returning to the United States then Lieutenant Politis joined
the1st Field Artillery Group, Force Troops Pacific, FMF PAC at 29 Palm
,California as the Group S-4 until his Release from Active Duty in January of
1971.
While starting a
civilian career in Rutland Vermont he served with H Company 2/25, 4th
Marine Division in Albany New York as the Weapons Platoon Commander from
February 1971 to February 1974. Then he
served as the Embarkation Officer and Asst. S-3 for the 25th Marine Regiment
located in Worchester, Mass from March 1974-February 1977. Later he served as
the Commanding Officer of D Company, 1/25, 4th Marine Division
located in Topsham, Maine from March 1977 to March 1979. He left the Marine Corps Reserve in March of
1979.
Military Schools
attended include TBS, Marine Officer Supply and Logistics School, Embarkation
Officers School, and the Command and General Staff College.
His awards and
decorations and badges include: Navy
Achievement Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, National Defense Medal, Vietnamese
Cross of Gallantry w/Palm, Vietnamese Campaign Medal w/2 Battle Stars and the
Vietnam Service Medal. He was awarded
expert marksmanship badges in both Rifle and Pistol.
He is married to the
former Elaine Bishop of Radnor Pennsylvania. He has five children and four
grandchildren.
He is a Chartered Life Underwriter,
and is a registered representative of the National Association of Securities
Dealers (NASD). He maintains an Insurance and Investment business in
Scarborough, Maine.