Chuck Searcy
Chuck Searcy is a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1969. Following the war, he worked as an editor at The Washington Post. He has lived in Vietnam since 1995, initially serving as a representative of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), and later as President of Chapter […]
Chuck Searcy is a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1969. Following the war, he worked as an editor at The Washington Post.
He has lived in Vietnam since 1995, initially serving as a representative of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), and later as President of Chapter 160 (Vietnam) of Veterans For Peace (VFP).
In 2001, he co-founded Project RENEW, an initiative dedicated to unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and mine risk education in Quang Tri Province—one of the most heavily bombed regions in Vietnam during the war.
Widely recognized as a long-time friend of Vietnam, he was awarded the Friendship Order by the Vietnamese government in 2003.