Houston ‘77 Inducted into Kentucky Veteran’s Hall of Fame

Published on October 26, 2023

Lieutenant Colonel Floyd D. Houston, USMC (Ret.) ‘77 was inducted into the Kentucky Veteran’s Hall of Fame in September. Inductees were chosen for their post-military community service. Houston has commanded VFW posts in Virginia and Kentucky and volunteers as a school resource officer.

His career has also included serving in Somalia, helping create a multi-million dollar Rewards For Justice reward on the now late 1983 Beirut barracks Bomber, Imad Mughniyah, and the writing a book about his VFW Post in Virginia: PILLARS OF THE POST (88 veteran biographies with profits assigned to a local veterans scholarship).

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