Serge Demyanenko

Serge Demyanenko retired as a Colonel of Special Forces (Green Berets) after 31 years of service in the Regular U. S. Army. He is also a U.S. Army Ranger and a senior parachutist. The son of a Russian Czarist cavalry officer and a German mother, he was born in Paris, France and now lives in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the National Defense University. He also holds two master's degrees. He served 25 months in combat tours in Vietnam and Korea (DMZ) and on the Department of the Army General Staff working for the Army Chief of Intelligence. He has been awarded 24 decorations by various governments. He is married to the former Katherine Yundong Chey, whom he met at Berkeley. They have two sons; Serge Jr., Yale '81, deceased; and Alex, UCLA '86 who is a television producer.