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Leon J. Greenbaum, Jr.
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Leon 'Lee' Greenbaum, 1985
LTJG. Greenbaum, VPB-111, was born 24 September 1923.
Leon (Lee) entered the Navy in December 1942 and began his flight training at Roanoke College, Roanoke, Virginia.
Since official Naval uniforms were not available, they were given the green CCC uniforms (Civilian Conservation Corps).
Intermediate training was at the Memphis Naval Air Station with final training and commissioning at Pensacola.
Following commissioning,he went to the Naval Air Station in Hutchinson, Kansas for B24 training and following that, additional training at the Jacksonville Naval Auxillary Air Station.
From there it was crew assignment in San Diego and then a transPacific to Kaneohi Naval Air Station on Oahoo.
From there he was assigned duty with VPB 111.
After the cessation of hostilities and return to the States, Leon had duty at Anacostia Naval Air Station, Naval Air Station, Chincoteague and then assignment to VP-62.
His next duty was at the Office of Naval Research in Washington, DC with additional duty at the Naval Submarine Base, Groton and the Naval Experimental Diving Unit, Naval Station, Washington, DC.
Leon received training as a mixed gas deep sea diver and qualified in 1963.
The next step in his Naval carrier was to expand his education at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Following the receipt of his Doctorate he was assigned duty at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland to do research in submarine and diving medicine.
Leon coauthored two texts on compressed air, diving and submarine medicine; they were published by the Navy.
He also helped to train some of the country's first astronauts in scuba diving at the UDT Base, Little Creek, Virginia before their first space adventures.
Since much of his Navy research dealt with submarine escape, diver decompression using animal models; these models could be equally applied to stroke in man. As a result he received additional duty at the National Institutes of Health to administer the stroke program and other illnesses of the nervous system, viz head and spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, etc.
Leon retired with the rank of Captain in 1985 and took a position as the Executive Director of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, an international scientific and medical society dealing with commercial and recreational diving and the use of hyperbaric oxygen to treat thirteen medical illnesses.
His retirement from the Society was in 2001.
Scientific Contributions: 32 Scientific papers; two published texts: Compressed Air, Diving, and Submarine Medicine.
Leon is a board member in the Diver Alert Network, Chesapeake Enviromental Association, YMCA Camp Letts, and All Hallows Vestry.
My wife and I live on the water in Maryland near Annapolis.
We are cruising and racing sailors.
I play the cello in a local orchestra, sing in our church choir along with my wife, Betty.
She plays the piano and we play duets, an enjoyable and relaxing pastime.
I'm a member of the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron and in the past have served as Safety Officer on their boats, plus doing some teaching.
I have also given special lectures to the Trident scholars at the Naval Academy in diving physiology.
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