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Colonel NESTOR G. PINO-MARINA
On June 15, 2013, Colonel Nestor G. Pino-Marina, devoted husband and loving father, died at home of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Colonel Pino-Marina served his country in the United States Army for 27 years, including two tours in Vietnam, where he earned a Silver Star medal.
He is survived by his wife of nearly 45 years, Randee, their three children, Christina Hughey, Joseph Pino-Marina, and Meredith Pino-Marina, three grandchildren, Garrison, Katherine, and Alexandra, his sister, Teresa Pino-Marinas and his cousin Rosita Lopez de Herrera. A funeral mass will be held at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, October 9 at The Old Post Chapel, Fort Myer, Virginia, where Colonel Pino-Marina and his wife were married in 1968. Burial with full military honors will follow at Arlington National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, those wishing to honor Colonel Pino-Marina's memory are encouraged to make contributions to The Alzheimer's Association's "2013 Walk to End Alzheimer's" via the "The Havana Club" team's web page, an effort organized by Meredith Pino. The link for this event can be found here: http://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=team&fr_id=376 2&team_id=82514
Published by The Washington Post on Sep. 29, 2013.
Washington Post
Nestor G. Pino-Marina, Army colonel
Nestor G. Pino-Marina, a highly decorated Army colonel and Special Forces veteran who participated in operations in Asia and Central America and was involved in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion that tried to topple Cuban leader Fidel Castro, died June 15 at his home in Vienna. He was 72.
The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, Randee Pino-Marina.
Col. Pino-Marina attended the military academy in his native Cuba before Castro’s rise to power in 1959. He then joined CIA-trained Cuban exiles in Guatemala, and the brigade of more than 1,000 was defeated by stronger Cuban forces during the Bay of Pigs incursion.
Col. Pino-Marina was among those who received 30-year prison sentences before their release to the United States in December 1962 in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in food and medical supplies. Several other prisoners remained in captivity for decades.
Col. Pino-Marina joined the Army’s Special Forces in 1964 and participated the next year in the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic.
He served in Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. He received the Silver Star in 1968 for helping supervise construction of a vital operating base at Thien Ngon in Vietnam, despite intense and repeated enemy attacks.
He was a military adviser in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the early 1980s. His final active-duty assignment, in 1990, was intelligence work on the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington.
Nestor Gervasio Pino-Marina was born in Havana, where his father was police chief in the mid-1940s and a retired army colonel. His mother was a lawyer.
Col. Pino-Marina was a 1974 graduate of Park College in Missouri and received a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Florida in 1978.
After his retirement from the military, he spent 11 years as president of Aegis Enterprises, a Vienna-based security consulting company. In the early 2000s, he was operations director of the African Crisis Response Initiative, a peacekeeping and humanitarian relief program financed by the State Department. His work took him frequently to Kenya, Senegal and Mali.
Besides the Silver Star, his military decorations included the Legion of Merit, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Soldier’s Medal and the Bronze Star Medal.
He was a member of Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Vienna.
Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Randee Newgaard Pino-Marina of Vienna; three children, Christina Hughey of Brasilia, Joseph Pino-Marina of Romoland, Calif., and Meredith Pino-Marina of Richmond; a sister; two half-sisters; and three grandchildren.
— Adam Bernstein
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