Spotlight on Former Athlete: Our Current Military Personnel – Cruse,Fontenot,Kramer,Lamy,Langston

Spotlight on Former Athlete: Our Current Military Personnel – Cruse,Fontenot,Kramer,Lamy,Langston

The Spotlight on Former Athlete for December, 2009 is on five former athletes who are currently on active duty or in the reserves. They represent 17 seasons as football players. These gridiron alumni were team members as early as 1973 and played as recently as 2003. While three of them are in the Navy, the Air Force and Army are also represented by the group.

Who are these former Ragin’ Cajun athletes who are now on active duty or in the reserves? Alphabetically, they are as follows:

Cruse, Matt – Navy 1994-2003 Navy Reserve (current) click here for AN profile

Fontenot, Stephan – Navy 1988-2009 Master Chief Petty Officer (current) click here for AN profile

Kramer, Kasey – Air Force 173 Airborne (current) click here for AN profile

Lamy, Patrick, Jr. – Army (current) click here for AN profile

Langston, Michael – Navy Chaplain (current) click here for AN profile

Dave Fisher,Sr., Herb Stein, Mel & Elena Didier, Hubert Blanchard, Marty Cannon, and Paul Bergeron are acknowledged, along with over 30 other former athletes who provided information on our military veterans. Thanks to all of you for providing information which would have not been avialable from our traditional sources.

Click here for the 1974 Football photo gallery http://athleticnetwork.net/site259.php# and click on the Defense to view the picture of Michael Langston.

Click here for the 1984 Football photo gallery http://athleticnetwork.net/site498.php# and click on the picture of the team in white uniforms to view the picture of Steve Fontenot.
(Note: Steve is number 84 in row 6 between Kevin Broussard and Joe Deforest – caption in error).

Click here for the 1991 Football photo gallery http://athleticnetwork.net/site506.php# and click on the team picture to view the picture of both Matt Cruse and Kasey Kramer.

Click here for the 2003 Football photo gallery http://athleticnetwork.net/site308.php# and click on the team picture to view the picture of Patrick Lamy, Jr.

For a listing of former athletes and support group members who served in the military, please click on the link below: http://athleticnetwork.net/site.php?pageID=1745