Alexander Kreiser

Alexander Walter Kreiser Jr (May 5, 1901 – February 7, 1993) was a brigadier general and a Naval Aviator who served in the United States Marine Corps and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1924.

Early Marine Corps career
He became a Company Officer of Smedley Butler's 3rd Brigade China Marines from 1927 to 1929 and a Quantico Aviation pioneer of Marine Fighting Squadron Nine (VF-9M). He received the Yangtze Service Medal in China during the Nanking Incident in 1927 and the Nicaragua Medal of Merit for his service as a combat pilot during the second United States occupation of Nicaragua.

Marine aviator — 1930s
By the mid 1930s, Alexander Kreiser was assigned to the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics as a captain and served under the command of the Director of Marine Corps Aviation Ross E. Rowell before being assigned, to the Naval Air Station North Island at Coronado, California in June 1939.

World War II; 1940s
During World War II, Kreiser was a pilot in the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and he earned a second Bronze Star Medal in the Solomon Islands campaign.

1950s — Commands, Assistant Commandant
BGen Alexander Kreiser was Assistant Commanding General of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in the Korean War.