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Trailblazer: N.J. VFW Commander Luddie Austin

January 19, 2026 12:02 amFebruary 15, 2026 8:41 pm

Luddie H. Austin, a former Trenton police sergeant and decorated New Jersey Army National Guard veteran has become the first Black to serve as State Commander of the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars, in 2021. Austin served in the...

Trailblazer: N.J. VFW Commander Luddie Austin

January 20, 2025 12:02 amJanuary 19, 2025 8:18 pm

Luddie H. Austin, a former Trenton police sergeant and decorated New Jersey Army National Guard veteran has become the first Black to serve as State Commander of the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars, in 2021. Austin served in the...

Trailblazer: N.J. VFW Commander Luddie Austin

January 15, 2024 12:02 amJanuary 15, 2024 12:21 am

Luddie H. Austin, a former Trenton police sergeant and decorated New Jersey Army National Guard veteran has become the first Black to serve as State Commander of the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars, in 2021. Austin served in the...

Trailblazer: N.J. VFW Commander Luddie Austin

January 16, 2023 12:01 amJanuary 15, 2023 8:02 pm

Luddie H. Austin, a former Trenton police sergeant and decorated New Jersey Army National Guard veteran has become the first Black to serve as State Commander of the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars, in 2021. Austin served in the...

Trailblazer: N.J. VFW Commander Luddie Austin

January 17, 2022 12:00 amJanuary 16, 2022 5:43 pm

Luddie H. Austin, a former Trenton police sergeant and decorated New Jersey Army National Guard veteran has become the first Black to serve as State Commander of the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars, in 2021. Austin served in the...

N.J. VFW elects first Black state commander

June 21, 2021 9:04 amJanuary 16, 2022 5:41 pm

A former Trenton police sergeant and decorated New Jersey Army National Guard veteran has become the first Black to serve as State Commander of the New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars. Luddie H. Austin, 51, served in the National Guard...