ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Fred “Gunny” Stenglein was born and raised in Rochester. At just 15 years old, he enlisted in the Marines, fudging the paperwork to do so. “I come down to the corner where we all used to hang out and nobody was there no more, everybody had gone in the service so, what am I doing here by myself, I’ll see if I can make it,” Gunny recalls of why he initially decided to enlist.
He was first sent to Okinawa during World War II where “it was a firefight every day” but he made it home and decided to re-enlist. Then, he was deployed during the Korean War. “We went to Korea and we kicked some rear-ends,” Gunny says.
It was around that time, he got the name he goes by now—Gunny. As an infantry gunnery sergeant, he was on the front lines but again, he made it home safely and started a family.
His wife of 73 years was by his side during three more deployments during the Vietnam War. “The day I shipped out to Vietnam, we were going aboard ship and my battalion commander said ‘hey, I heard your wife went to the hospital and had a baby…’ I said, yea… I guess she did,” Gunny remembers.
By the time he got home, that baby was a year old and his three older children were growing up fast. “My enlistment was up and I had three grown kids that were going to be going to school and college and what have you, and they ain’t gonna do it on a gunnery sergeants pay,” Gunny recalls.
So, he retired and went to work for Kodak. But his desire to serve his country wasn’t quite complete yet. He spent more than 20 years in the Coast Guard Reserves.
At a ceremony on Friday, Rep. Joe Morelle and County Executive Adam Bello presented Gunny Stenglein with an American flag that flew above the nation’s capital. A small token of appreciation for a lifetime of dedication to protecting others.
Monroe County’s Annual Veterans Day Parade will be held Saturday, November 8, 2025. The parade will kick off at 10:30 a.m. at the corner of South Goodman Street and Highland Avenue and proceed up Highland Avenue to the Greater Rochester Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Gary Beikirch Park on South Avenue.
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