TASK FORCE PATRIOT USA, Inc.

Jim Freeman, Founder / CEO

Jim Freeman Major, U.S. Army (Ret.) Jim has served his country in war and in time of peace. Attaining the rank of Major, he continues to provide assistance and support to active military personnel, military veterans and their families, through Task Force Patriot, a national veteran to veteran outreach, with over 600 registered members and several chapters, and founded by him in 1998. He graduated from the U.S. Army Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, GA. Previous to commissioning, in the United States Army, Freeman had enlisted and non-commissioned service in the United States Air Force and the U.S. Naval Air Reserve. Upon graduation from the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center, at Fort Bragg, Major Freeman began his first Vietnam tour in I Corps. He served in 1967-68 with the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, the second half of his tour was spent as Division Psychological Operations Officer on General Samuel Koster's staff in the Americal Division. He flew over 200 combat missions, as Forward Air Controller and in PsyOps Support. He is a graduate of the Advanced Infantry Officer's Course, the Drucker School of Strategic Planning and Management, Russian Language School and served brief tours in French Morocco, Italy, Greece and Gibraltar. It was during his second Vietnam tour (1969-70), with the First Air Cavalry Division that he became the lone survivor of a field hospital destroyed by a North Vietnamese rocket attack. He completed his active military service at Fort Benning, as a General Staff Officer and Commander of the U.S. Army Television Division, the largest TV production team in the Department of Defense at that time. His decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge, Bronze Star, Air Medal with clusters, and the Army Commendation Medal with "V" Device for Valor, and one Oak Leaf Cluster , the National Defense Service Ribbon, the Vietnamese Campaign Medal with two battle stars, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Palm and the silver wings of an air crewman. Jim and his wife Peggy reside in Lilburn, Georgia. They have two children, Mrs. Carol Allinger and husband, Todd, 3 grandson, Christopher, Matthew, and Patrick of Atlanta and Jim Freeman, Jr. and wife Tami of Fort Lauderdale, and one grandson by his son's previous marriage, Daniel. Jim is a mechanical engineer and has a degree in Biblical Studies from Moody Bible Collage, in Chicago. He is an ordained Deacon an licensed minister in the Baptist denomination. He served on the President's Advisory Council of Toccoa Falls College for 18 years, and as the Executive Director of the 60-member, North Georgia Symphony. © Web Design and Development By: Peggy Freeman