Checkpoints March 1992

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Bill Scharton, chief of Cadet Wing Media, took this shot of Air Force quarterback Rob Perez diving for a touchdown against Mississippi State in the 1991 Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn. The score gave the Falcons a 14-0 lead over the Bulldogs and Air Force went on to an impressive 38-15 vietory. Perez was selected Most Valuable Player in the game for the second year in a row. The offensive linemen shown opening the big hole for Perez on this scoring play are right tackle Tom Maurer (^74) and left guard Ron James (#65). For more on the game and Falcon football, see the story in “Falcon Sports.”

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THE AOG BOARDROOM

Col. Richardson, ’71

The last quarter has been an interesting one for your association. One highlight is the rapid progress on the AOG Headquarters Building and Alumni House. With initial occupancy now slated for early March, Doolitte Hall is quickly taking form. At long last, the AOG has something substantial to symbolize its maturity and permanence. Because we are still about one million dollars short of the final capital campaign goal, only the first floor of the building will be completed immediately. The second floor completion will be delayed until the required funds are available. This will reduce the space available for gatherings and displays since the association offices, which will eventually be on the second floor, will take up temporary residence on the first floor. Nonetheless, requests from the cadets to use the facilities for swearing-in ceremonies and similar functions are already being received and accommodated where possible. Likewise, a number of graduate functions are also being planned in the building for the coming year. I encourage you to stop by and see this culmination of many years of work by the AOG staff and boards of directors which is truly a monument to the generosity of the graduates and other friends of the association.

In a side note, many of the recent grads will be interested to know that the position of building superintendent for Doolittle Hall has recently been filled by a longtime friend of the Academy and the association, retired Cadet Wing Sergeant Major Dave Pfeil.

I have received considerable feedback about the goals outlined in the last edition of Checkpoints. Overwhelmingly, the greatest response was to support the need to acknowledge and benefit from the vast network of graduates who are now in all walks of life. This is one of the areas which will be extensively mined in the coming year by the Plans and Programs standing committee of the board of directors. If you have any suggestions concerning how we can be more mutually supportive and more effectively develop this network, I encourage you to write Wayne Kendall, ’60, in care of the AOG office. (Wayne is the new chairman of that standing committee.)

Another bit of feedback recently received was disappointment that we did not have any discussion in Checkpoints concerning the appropriations bill provision which provided that graduates were going to be given reserve commissions after Sept. 30, 1996. In the future, we will definitely attempt to publicize significant issues and legislation in order to keep you informed and give the graduate community time to have its voice heard. This is only

possible, however, when we are kept in the loop on such issues.

Recent Board Activities:

Association Bylaws Revision: The majority of these changes were cosmetic in nature and to clarify the obligations and roles of the board members. One significant issue that was resolved was the requirement to elect exactly half of the board members every two years to serve for four years. This eliminated the imbalance that occasionally occurred when more or fewer than half of the board positions were to be refilled. As a reminder, three of the 15 board members elected every odd numbered year must have graduated in the last 10 years.

Annual Fund Overhead Allocation: The decision was made that annual fund overhead costs would be apportioned as equally as possible to both restricted and unrestricted gifts. In the past, the unrestricted gifts had borne the entire cost of fund-raising overhead.

The Executive Vice President’s Contract: Dick Coppock’s contract was renewed for three years starting Oct. 1, 1991. Previously the EVP’s contract was renewed annually.

GRADUATES SELECTED FOR COLONEL

Regular Air Force (Line Officers)

1971

Robert S. Brodel

Harry F. Davis

Ralph W. Getchell III

Kenneth Mills

Robert N. Peterman

Robert E. Ryals

Michael A. Spatola

1972

Harry M. Calcutt Jr.

Scott E. Mills

John T. Wigington III

Bruce A. Wright

1974

Kelvin R. Coppock

Rodney E. Gibson

Donald J. Hoffman

Duncan J. McNabb

Darryl A. Scott

Garald K. Robinson 1975

Craig P. Weston

1973

Erik C. Anderson

John M. Deloney

Richard L. Layman

Branford J. McAllister

Charles L. Brammeier Jr. Steven J. Redmann

Alan J. Briding 1976

John L. Hudson

William J. Jabour

Kevin P. Chilton

David R. Evans

Other Than Line Officers

Three members of the Class of 1971 were selected in the zone for the judge advocate category and one member of the Class of 1971 was selected in the zone for the biomedical sciences category.

AOG-Sponsored Seminar Teaches Leadership

The 17th Cadet Commanders’ Leadership Enrichment Seminar, designed to increase the effectiveness of Cadet Wing leaders, was held in late January at the Colorado Springs Embassy Suites Hotel.

The keynote speaker was Maj. Gen. Jay W. Kelley, ’64, Air Force Space Command vice commander. He spoke to the 120 offleers and cadets about the challenges of command.

The general addressed many command issues, giving insights on respect, risk, information and integrity. He told the commanders to respect the position they are in the same way that their subordinates do, because the commander is just a transient passing through that position.

He also commented that when the risk of a decision is low, everyone wants to help make the decision. However, when the risk is high, the commander is usually all alone. When collecting information to use in a decision-making process, Kelley advised that for difficult decisions, the commander had better have more than one source of information.

Along with enhanced teamwork among the commanders, many cadets cited closer ties between themselves and officers as a significant outcome of the seminar.

“It was great to learn that officer and cadet thought processes are more closely aligned than I ever dreamed possible,” said C1C Todd McDowell, Cadet Squadron 37. “It’s great to be able to talk to different officers and find out just how well we can work together toward common goals.”

The seminar takes place approximately one month into each semester, said Col. Philip D. Caine, the deputy commandant for military instruction. “The seminar is timed to take place after the cadet commanders have had a few weeks to get a feel for their jobs and find out just how much they need to refine their leadership skills,” Caine explained. He also emphasized the value of placing the seminar in an off-base setting to remove, as much as possible, the distractions and pressures of cadet life.

The Association of Graduates funds the seminar for the cadets. (The Falcon Flyer)

Cadet Thanks A OG

(Editor’s note: The following “Thank You” note was sent to the AOG president shortly after the Cadet Commanders’ Leadership Enrichment Seminar fCLESJ described in the accompanying story by Capt. Sherman. The note was sent by C1C Todd McDowell, who is quoted in the story and is the commander of the 37th Cadet Squadron for spring semester.)

Dear Col. Richardson,

I would like to thank you and the AOG for the absolutely wonderful experience you made possible this past weekend at CLES. I don’t think I’ve participated in anything so intense yet so rewarding since I’ve been a cadet. The entire experience brought my role and duty as a squadron commander into perspective. It makes me proud to know my AOG is doing great things for the Academy!

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AFA Fund Donors July 1 , 1991 to Jan 7 , 1992

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(Editor’s note: Individual donor listings include only those contributions of $50 or more.)

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USAFA Class Participation

Fourth Class Joel England and Brad Beyer test the commercial grade bench press in Cadet Squadron 18 which was partially funded by donations to the Air Force Academy Fund (AFA Fund). The Association of Graduates donated a total of $2,000 (limited to $250 per squadron)from the AFA Fund to support the Cadet Squadron Project Program which is administered by the Academy’s Directorate of Development and Alumni Programs. C2C Travis Tucker was the cadet in charge of the project. Cadets in the squadron made up the difference between the AFA Fund grant and the total cost of the bench press. (Courtesy photo).

1991-92 AFA Fund

The Top Five Classes

(Note: The percent of donors is calculated by dividing the number of gifts by the number of living alumni. Totals include gifts received between July 1, 1991 and January 7, 1992. Gifts received after this date will be listed in a future magazine.)

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2nd Annual AFA Fund Tailgate A Huge Success

The AFA/Notre Dame football game provided the setting for the Second Annual Air Force Academy Fund Tailgate Party. The tailgate, sponsored by the Association of Graduates, is a fundraising event to support Academy programs. This year, close to 400 people attended, almost tripling last year’s participation.

It was an exciting time, with perfect weather and a capacity crowd. A great time to see old friends and to make new ones while supporting the Academy.

The tailgate was also the scene for another special event. Gary, ’78, and Linda Hughes had said their wedding vows that morning in the cadet chapel and the tailgate provided an opportunity for a pre-reception party. Fifty of their family and friends from around the world were there to help them celebrate.

To add a little excitement to the affair, several Notre Dame fans wandered in trying to heckle the crowd.

Shortly before game time, the wedding couple helped in the drawing for the Air Force sweaters that were given away. They were then presented with a bottle of champagne and given a rousing send-off.

The AFA Fund Tailgate was a big success. The proceeds will go a long way in helping fund worthy Academy programs. We can’t guarantee a wedding party at next year’s tailgate, but we can

1991-92 AFA Fund Donors: (Continuedfrom page 11.)

Mr Emil Monda S

Mr Mark T Stugart P

Class of 1968

Mr Lindsey E Bierer III S

Col Victor J Bonfiglio S

LtCol Ray Martin Cole Jr Ret D

Mr James M Cryer S

LtCol Robert E Johnson D

Mr John D Rittenhouse S

LtCol Roger A Sindle Ret S

LtCol Donald A Sutton Ret S

LtCol Chad L Swedberg S

Col Philip K Waldron S

Col Robert T Williams S

Class of 1969

Mr Charles L Early Jr D

Mr James A Erickson S

LtCol H H "Bugs" Forsythe USAFR S

LtCol W E Garrard Jr USAFR S

LtCol Terry Hammond S

Mr Christopher J Hope S

Maj E R Humphreys USAFR S

LtCol Cary R Marsh Ret S

Mr Thomas R McGrain S

Mr David J Nielsen S

Mr Joseph A Personett S

LtCol Glenn H Schlabs Ret S

LtCol John J Warner USAFR S

LtCol Eugene R Whalen Ret S

Mr Robert David Yost S

LtCol Gary A Corbett ANG S

LtCol Richard H Downing

Mr Roger F Finnem

Dr Ritchie P Gillespie

LtCol George M Monroe

Maj Jack B Norman USAFR

guarantee you will have fun. The AOG hopes to see you next year for the Third Annual Air Force Academy Tailgate.

Second Annual Air Force Academy Fund Tailgate party include a number ofAOG staffmembers and others who helped to make the event at the AFA/Notre Dame game a great success.

Class of 1977

Maj(USAFR) & Mrs K Bodary P

Maj Matthew A Coatsworth S

Maj James R Dart D

Dr & Mrs David K Ebelke MD S

Dr Mark G Ellis S

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Mr David A Mucldey

Mr Robert Pastiak D

Mr Kirk S Sameison D

Maj Thomas R Straiton D

Mr William L Thompson S

James B Vogler III MD D

Class of 1974

LtCol Gregory J Findlay D

Mr James S Grandcolas S

Kenneth C Hancock MD L

Deane Y Harimoto MD S

LtCol Brian L Knauss S

Michael J Lucca MD PA. S

LtCol Warren R Priddy S

Maj Michael W Restey S

Maj Richard L Sandwick D

Mr Charles G Stewart S

Class of 1975

LtCol John D Barrowclough D

William G Buchta MD D

Maj Kevin P Bums D

Dr William M Caskey S

Maj Stephen M Keen D

Maj William C Ladd ANG D

Maj David A Lafave S

LtCol Perry L Lamy S

CDR Jerry L Manthei D

LtCol James W Spencer D

Class of 1976

Dr Robert M Arnett S

Maj Michael B Byers S

Maj P Michael Cunningham S

Mr Thomas W Hancock S

AFA Fund Check Presentation

Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Redden, commandant of cadets, at left, and Col. William E. Richardson, president of the Association of Graduates, hold up a checkfor $18,421.34 that was presented to General Redden by the AOG in early December. The money was raised through the Air Force Academy Fund and donated to be used for a variety of cadet club activities such as invitational meets and to buy supplies and equipment. (Photo by TSgt. Dennis Rogers)

Mr Steven D Heinz S

Dr Frederick S Lorenz MD S

Maj Brett R Mclntire D

Maj David T Nakayama S

Maj John F C Rhoades, Jr S

Maj(ANG) & Mrs M S Sackley S

Maj Steven A Stout USAFR D

Mr Michael N Wilson S

Mr Gary P Fazio D

Mr Steven J Hollowell D

Maj David P Kissinger S

Maj Donald C Moore S

Maj James A Neumeister S

Mr David C Nielsen S

Class of 1978

Maj James E Arnold S

Mr L Stephen Fikar D

Capt Terrence B Kelly S

Maj Richards E Lane D

Maj Blake F Lindner S

Maj Marshall L Wong S

Class of 1979

Mr John B Holbrook S

Capt Brian J Kelly S

Maj Carl J Mallery S

Maj Randell S Meyer S

Mr Gregory S Nemeth S

Maj Joseph S Weisman MD D

Class of 1980

Mr Mark C Faraone S

Ms Kathleen P Farrell S

Mr Jon J Hedblom D

Ms Dianne Langmade D

Capt William E Noah S

Capt Brian M O'Connor D

Mrs Matjorie A Schell S

Mr John C Scholtz III D

Capt Scott L Wheeler S

Capt Karen S Wilhelm S

Mr Lawrence A Wolf S

Capt Kirk A Yost S

Class of 1961

Capt Ricardo Aguilar S

Capt Richard W Aldrich D

Mr Gregory A Beaves S

Mr Robert Bonn D

Mr Sheldon Dennis S

Mr & Mrs Donald Ford D

Capt Leonard G Heavner S

Capt Blane A Hook D

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Video Captures Memories of Vietnam Veterans

“I felt cleansed. For the first time since coming home from Vietnam, I felt I could forgive and forget.” This reaction by a Vietnam veteran mirrors the feelings many get on watching All The Unsung Heroes, a heartfelt video tribute to those who served in Vietnam, those who died or remain missing, and the families and loved ones they left behind.

Produced by The Heritage America Group, a consortium of Northern Virginia video companies, it takes viewers to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, chronicles its history, and explains its symbolism through the words of memorial designer Maya Lin and sculptor Frederick Hart, who created The Three Servicemen figures that stand sentry nearby. Most of all, it reflects long and hard on the real meaning of duty, honor, country and sacrifice.

In flashbacks, scenes at the memorial, and letters and photographs left at the gleaming black granite wall, All The Unsung Heroes records how people have remembered the men and women whose names are inscribed there. The moving stories echo grief and pride, help separate the war from the warriors, and continue the healing begun by the memorial.

One recalls Milton Olive III, who saved his buddies by using his own body to absorb the explosion of a grenade. A mother’s poem says simply, “I would rather have had you for just 21 years, and go through all the pain of losing you, than never to have known you at all.”

A young woman’s note to her Air Force father, missing since his plane went down over Laos in 1968, says wistfully, “I have dreamed of the day you’ll finally come home and be my dad. You would have been the best daddy in the whole world. You were for that short period of time in my life. I can never forget you. I’m 23 now! I sure look a lot different from six years old. You’d be very proud of me.”

A letter to an earlier visitor, by a veteran who did come home,

1991-92 AFA Fund Donors

(Continued from page 13.)

Capt Frederic* H Martin and S

Maj Sean Lee Murphy S

Keith & Roseanna Pederzani D

Mr Frank R Worrall D

Class of 1982

Capt & Mrs William Allen S

Capt Lee C Andersen D

Capt Thomas E Grissom MD S

Capts Daryl & Martha Jones S

Capt Joseph E Overbeck D

Capt Bruce G Schinelli D

Capt David C West S

Class of 1983

Mrs Kathleen A Armstrong D

Capt Robert W Becks Jr S

Capt John A Dorian D

Capt Gregory M Dzoba

Capt & Mrs Thomas Krise S

Capt Leif C Nelson S

Capt James and Cynthia NormanD

Capt Amy L Wimmer S

Capt John D Zazworsky, Jr S

Mr Daniel T Krzeczowski

Capt Jeffrey M Wesley S

Capt John L Zerbel

Capt Robert C Dooley

Capt Daniel Hrovat

Capt Mary K Manning S

Capt Mark A Naumann S

Capt Jeffrey A Siegel S

Capt Michael J Wells D

Class of 1986

Lt Paul E Bianchi D

Capt James M Bonn S

Capt Mark W Cantrell S

Capt Angelique L Faulise S

Capt Phung D Le S

Capt Carlos W W Quiterio S

Capt Angel L Velazquez D

Capt Yolandea M Wood D

Anonymous S

Class of 1987

Capt Jeffrey C Cliatt D

Lt Edward A Kostelnik Jr S

Capt Kimberlei A Northrop D

Capts Jeffrey & Sue Rhodes D

Class of 1988

Lt Margaret C Butterfield D

Lt Darin V Colarusso D

Lts John & Georgia McCurdy S

Lts Brendan & Suzanne Mikus S

Lt James P Page S

Lt Mark V Peters D

Class of 1991

Lt Lance Devin D

GRADUATE PARENTS

Mr & Mrs William H Abbott S

Mr & Mrs Mazen M Abboushi S

Mr & Mrs Edward T Abramek S

Mr & Mrs Keith A Anderies S

Mr & Mrs Norman R AndersenS

Mr & Mrs Philip R Bauer S

Mrs Robert C Baxter S

Mr & Mrs Errol Q Bond, Sr P

LtCol(Ret) & Mrs J Bonfiglio S

Mr & Mrs John R Bozek S

Mrs Ida Blatz Brandt S

Mr Gerald F Brown S

Dr & Mrs Arthur L Brundage D

Mr 4 Mrs C A Buescher Jr S

Mr & Mrs Warner J Bullock S

is a message of hope to all who lost someone in Vietnam. “Carole, I did come home, in the hearts and the minds of each of the living. Every man and woman that came back brought a part of me. I have talked to you with their voices and loved you with their hearts. Don’t be scared, for I am always with you. I will always be there in the still of the night. Be still, listen, and you will hear my voice.”

The program’s title comes from a hauntingly beautiful song written by country singer Lane Brody, whose brother served in Vietnam with the Marines. At several points in the program, she sings her tribute to these unsung heroes, accompanied by Thom Bresh, son of guitar legend Merle Travis.

PBS Television chose All The Unsung Heroes to lead off its Memorial Day 1991 prime-time programming “to make sure America remembers its Vietnam veterans amid all the excitement over the return of its Desert Storm vets.” TV Guide rated the program one of the five best documentaries on television during the entire month. The Washington Post called it “emotionally clutching,” with “captivating camerawork” and “a haunting sound track.” Brig. Gen. George Price said it was “magnificent,” and the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 3-1/2 stars, saying the producers had “pulled it off with style.”

To order a VHS videocassette of the program, send $14.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling (Virginia residents add 67<P sales tax) for each tape to: Unsung Heroes, 8328 Chapel Lake Court, Annandale, Va. 22003. (Portions of the proceeds are being donated to the Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.)

Send Your Tax-deductible

Donation Now to the Air Force Academy Fund.

Mr & Mrs Charles H Carpenter D

Mr & Mrs Robert N Carson S

Mr & Mrs James W Casebeer D

Mr & Mrs Adam R Clark S

Ms Corinne M Cotharin

(In Memory of B A Cotharin) S

Mrs Barbara A Dettir cr S

Dr & Mrs Jerry P Drvin D

Mr Paul V Dimmick Jr S

Mr & Mrs James E Downes S

Mr Paul S Dungee S

BGen W H Bruce Erwin Ret S

Ms Doris K Esbenshade S

Mr & Mrs Leonard H Finn D

Mr & Mrs Charles D Fisher S

Mrs Hugh G Fly Jr D

LtCol(Ret) & Mrs E S Fraser JrS

Mr Ladd Fundarek S

Mr & Mrs Robert J Gierat S

Mr & Mrs Thomas L Gilbert S

Mr & Mrs Robert Gordon D

CMSgt & Mrs Rufus P Gray S

Mr & Mrs Richard Green S

Mr Maurice C Grosso Jr S

Mr & Mrs Joseph X Gunzelman S

Mr & Mrs Paul R Guthals S

Mr & Mrs Thomas P Hamilton S

Mr & Mrs Robert Hendrickson S

Ms Anna L M Hindes S

Mr & Mrs Malcolm J Ingalls S

Col(Ret) & Mrs Francis Jacobs S

Mr & Mrs Louis C James S

Mr & Mrs M H Keaton S

Mr & Mrs Henry C Kellenbence S

Mr & Mrs Frank D Kelley S

Mr & Mrs Charles E Killebrew S

Mr Karl G King S

Col & Mrs F E Kissinger Ret D

Mr & Mrs L Gary Knight S

Mr & Mrs Joseph N Kruppa S

Mr & Mrs Robert H Langmade S

MGcn & Mrs Joseph M Lank D

Mr & Mrs Francisco Lopez D

Mr & Mrs John A MacDonald S

LTC(Ret) & Mrs A MacElhaney Jr S

Mr & Mrs Joseph S Macken Jr S

Mr & Mrs Harry Magnuson D

Mr & Mrs Theodore J McAdamD

Mr & Mrs W M McCarthy Jr D

Ms Mary R McClure S

Mr & Mrs John McCullers S

Drs John & Joy McElwee S

CDR & Mrs Arthur J Meacham D

CMSgt & Mrs Bruce L Meyer S

Mr & Mrs David O Meyn (In Memory,of M Meyn) L

Ms Portia M Morris D

Mr & Mrs William T Morrissey S

Mr & Mrs Joseph W Nuccio S

Maj(Ret) & Mrs S S Ogawa S

Col(Ret) & Mrs Arthur S OlsonS

Mrs Sam Pemberton S

Ms Mary L Peters S

Mr & Mrs Charles J Peterson S

Mr & Mrs Jack I Ross Jr D

Mr & Mrs Joseph P Rossillon S

Mr & Mrs Anacleto C Ruiz D

MGen(Ret) & Mrs J S Samuel S

Ms Mary C Schorsch S

Mr Donald J Shinafelt s

Mr Toyo Shirai s

Mr & Mrs George M Shirasago S

Mr & Mrs Dennis P Slevin D

Mr Chester H Smith S

Mr & Mrs Nelson B Snyder II D

Mr & Mrs W A Sonncnberg S

Mr & Mrs Billy Soong D

Dr & Mrs Donald F Specht D

Mr & Mrs Dennis L Spidel S

Mr & Mrs Donald L Stoffel s

Col & Mrs G N Stokes Sr S

Mr & Mrs Larry D Stoner S

Mr & Mrs L A Storm S

Mr & Mrs Richard A Svoboda S

Mrs W C Sweeney Jr S

Maj(Ret) & Mrs A J Thomas D

Mr & Mrs Stanley A Tremaine S

LtCol(Ret) & Mrs R T Uyehata S

Mr & Mrs Fred A Vick S

Mr & Mrs John Vipond S

Mr Jack R Wagoner S

Mr Garey B Weibel S

Mr & Mrs J L Weidenheimcr S

Ms Josephine Ann Will S

Ms Sallie L Wimberley D

Mr Leonard A Wissman D

Mr & Mrs Edmund H K Young S

Mr Robert Edgett S

Mr & Mrs David R Hackathom P

Mr & Mrs Donald R Lee S

Col & Mrs John G Lesman D

Ms Dawn Pindat S

Mr & Mrs L D Rademacher Sr S

Mr Alvin A Kapania S

Mr & Mrs Paul G Lotakis S

Mr & Mrs S T Ohotnicky P

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SOLICATION HITS A NERVE

Dear Jim,

I recently received the mailing from the AOG asking for donations to the Alumni House. I got a chuckle out of your insert asking us “to recall our doolie math and realize that if the 20,000 nonparticipants all contributed $50 you would raise the one million needed to complete the project.” It’s nice to know that you folks “up on the hill” still have a sense of humor!

At the same time though, I would like to remind you of “doolie economics” in which we learned the basics about this country’s fiscal cycles. Now, as an airline pilot, I am surely not a financial wizard. (My philosophy of “buy high and sell low” has helped me to realize that I will not make a personal fortune in the stock market!) Yet, one doesn’t have to be a “wizard” to see that this country’s econnomy is not in a “booming expansion.” Consequently, white collar employees in the workplace may be “hurting” a little.

Your request for money during these hard economic and personal times isn’t quite as bad as President Bush when he went on TV and asked all Americans to “splurge a little” during the holiday season to get the economy going. At the same time though, it may be a little insensitive to some of our fellow grads who may have had airline or corporate jobs and are now out of work. (After all, not all grads stay in the Air Force and have a cozy government job that offers retirement at age 40!) I feel very fortunate that I

am not one of those who have been laid off, but I do know classmates who are “on the street” because of bankrupt airlines, and I realize that it is simply the luck of the draw that I am not there as well.

Yet, being a conscientious cadet, I do believe that “every little bit helps” and that’s why I would like to be a POLARIS ($100,000 or more) Donor! Actually, I’m just kidding. I think I’ll fulfill my “doolie commitment” by starting as a Takeoff Donor enclosed is my check for $50. Next time you ask for money though, it would be nice if your request reflected the “real world” by acknowledging the hard times that a lot of USAFA grads in the civilian sector may be facing.

Yea beat’em,

A. Morell, ’78

DEVELOPMENT OFFICER REPLIES

Dear Paul First let me thank you for your contribution to the AOG Building Fund. Your letter is not the first one I have received which discusses the reality of todays’ economy. There are very few peopie who have not felt the impact of our economic woes. I have talked to many grads and parents who have been directly affected by layoffs and loss of jobs. The number is higher than you might think. The most encouraging thing that I have encountered in talking with these folks is their steadfast commitment to the Academy. The comment I hear from many grads and parents is “I can’t do anything at this time but I will when I get back on my feet” or, “This is all I can send at this time I’ll do more later.” That’s real loyalty.

One thing you should remember is that we started this building project almost four years ago, sometime before the current economic crisis started to hit hard. We now have a magnificent building better than half finished, and we certainly can’t quit now. Corporations, foundations and friends have helped us a great deal, but from the beginning we knew that the graduates really needed to carry the ball. Twenty percent of our grads answered the call and contributed over a million dollars. Now we hope the other 80 percent will help us finish the campaign.

I have always felt that the Academy is not just another college. During the four years we spend here we develop a special loyalty to our classmates and the institution that clearly sets us apart from other colleges and universities. The older you get the more you realize how important this loyalty is. My personal contribution to the Building Fund is a way of saying “thanks” to an organization and institution that made things happen in my life that could never have happened had I not attended the Academy.

We appreciate the support of all our graduates, parents and friends. “Every littie bit does help” and it would be nice to see the name of every graduate in our donor book.

Yes, we are aware that times are tough but that makes us even more appreciative of those who made the sacrifice to be a part of this important project. When times do get better, I’ll be looking for your Polaris donation!

Thanks for your interest and support.

Sincerely,

Academy Forensics Tourney Starts New Debate Association

The Cadet Forensics Association hosted the 34th Annual Academy Forensics Classic, a tournament featuring 27 schools and nearly 300 participants in November.

Students from colleges and universities nationwide, including Princeton University, the University of Florida, and the U.S. Military Academy competed with those from many regional area schools including the universities of Denver, Southern Colorado, and Laramie County Community College.

Events included Cross Examination Debate Association style debate, in which two teams argue a resolution in a timed format, and Parliamentary Debate, which requires argumentative and rhetorical skills similar to those used in Parliament.

“This was our first offering of Parliamentary Debate. It was so

successful we’re starting a Western State Parliamentary Debate Association,” explained Major Gwendolyn Fayne, director of Academy Forensics.

“Despite snowy weather which required moving the entire tournament to the Hilton at a moment’s notice, everything went smoothly. We’ve received numerous compliments every year on what a well-run tournament we have. Our tournament is viewed as one of the most prestigious in the country a tribute to our cadets and also to the many faculty members who judge.”

In overall competition, Rice University came in first, followed by Regis College and Colorado State University. In debate, Denver University placed first in Open Division CEDA, with Point Loma Nazarene College taking first in Novice CEDA; Princeton University won the Parliamentary Division. (The Falcon Flyer)

Graduate’s Book Highlights Cost of Service Parochialism

A Book Review of: Vietnam Above the Treetops: A Forward Air Controller Reports

John Flanagan was a ground FAC. That alone is enough to gain empathy from most of us who flew in the Vietnam war. Actually he had an 0-1 Bird Dog available most of the time, so he logged many exciting combat missions. Still, he spent 1966 living with the ground troops: the Korean Tiger Division, the US Army’s 101st Airborne, and the Special Forces Project Delta. Few of us who joined the Air Force to fly envy him that rugged experience except for the camaraderie we see with the men whose lives often depended upon his willingness to risk his own.

Vietnam Above the Treetops chronicles John’s experiences with enough exciting combat sequences to make a good flying novel. John shows how close air support really works, and lets you see it from the front row seat of the FAC in his tiny Bird Dog. He shows how the bonds between men in combat can win battles and offers first-person examples that suggest self-serving, parochial bureaucracies can lose wars. Vietnam Above the Treetops is a book that deserves to be on your professional reading list.

John establishes the basis for lessons-learned by opening with his prewar experiences, which helped set the values he carried with him to Vietnam. He offers details of FAC training in Florida, which prepared Air Force pilots to fly combat in single-engine Cessnas. In just a few pages, however, he has taken the reader in-country, encountering veterans who already knew how tough the Vietnam war was, seven years before our eventual withdrawal.

By sharing John’s weeks with the ROK Tigers, the reader discovers why the Koreans were such a threatening adversary for the Viet Cong (VC) and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces in South Vietnam. There are lessons there about what is required to win ground wars in Asia. His short stint with the 101st offers an example of how men can die needlessly in combat.

Most of Vietnam Above the Treetops tells of being a FAC for Project Delta, the forerunner of today’s counter-terrorist Delta Force. It’s a story of teams of American and Vietnamese special forces that were inserted into enemy territory to locate hidden targets. John tells of providing air support to destroy the lucrative targets that Delta teams discovered. There are almost as many harrowing tales of extracting the teams under the heavy fire of the VC and NVA who controlled the areas. The settings range from the infamous War Zone C, near Saigon, all the way up to Khe Sanh, before it became a critical battleground during the weeks following TET 1968. Graduates from the early years will recognize a few names. Jim Ahmann from ’61 and Skinner Simpson from ’63 figure prominently in John’s story.

If you served in Vietnam, you’ll recognize that John is giving it to you straight. If you didn’t serve there, but are looking to learn more about why we lost the war, Vietnam Above the Treetops is full of stories about what worked and what didn’t.

Readers will encounter some drawbacks, but few in comparison to the wealth of information John provides. The pages are filled with acronyms

FAC, DASC, FiDO, TOC, SOG, ROMAD, etc. But acronyms go with the profession, and if you aren’t comfortable with them, government service probably isn’t for you anyway. John writes in first person. This adds a sense of immediacy, but is probably the most difficult point of view an author can choose. It’s hard to say, “Here’s a good idea I had that worked,” a few times without making it sound like “Look what a hero I was.” Once the reader accepts that John’s focus is on what happened and the associated lessons and not on his unique importance, firstperson problems evaporate. In several instances, John has chosen to flash-forward to events that happen hundreds of pages later. While this technique brings some drama into the early pages that otherwise are simply setting the story, the intrusions can be distracting.

Finally, the book has a significant lesson for active-duty grads who still have years to serve in senior leadership positions. Time after time John illustrates that there is little use for parochialism among the troops who are accomplishing the mission at the level where the dying occurs. Simply said: You don’t care what uniform is worn by the person who’s providing your air support or fighting alongside you. John gives many counterexamples of the costs of parochialism in the higher-level bureaucracies: make sure we get credit for the body count and the victories; deflect blame for failures to the guys in the other uniform. Sadly, such parochialism is likely to increase during the drawdown of the 1990s where services are competing for pieces of a shrinking military budget. We need leaders who understand that we win wars as a team, as in Desert Storm. Vietnam Above the Treetops makes a strong case for that teamwork and shows some of the real-world costs of letting that teamwork break down.

(Reviewed by Col. Jimmie H. Butler, USAF (Ret), Class of ’63.) The book’s International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is 0-275-93738-0. To order a copy call 1-800-225-5800 or visit your local bookstore.

Jimmie H. Butler’s review is from a perspective of following a year behind in some of John Flanagan’s footsteps. A member of USAFA’s Class of 1963, Jimmie also flew a tour as a FAC. Lieutenant Butler left California for an assignment as an airborne FAC in Thailand on Jan. 15, 1967, the same day Captain Flanagan left Tan Son Nhut at the end of his tour as a FAC in Vietnam.

Jimmie, the author of The Iskra Incident and Red Lightning—Black Thunder, is finalizing the manuscript for his third novel, A Certain Brotherhood, which fictionalizes some of his experiences as a FAC over the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

GRADUATES SELECTED FOR MAJOR

Regular Air Force (Line Officers)

1981

Robert J. Abraham

Salvatore A. Angelella

Kurt L. Baum

Gregory A. Biscone

Jeffrey J. Blessing

Karen M. (Boniewicz) Torres

Michael K. Buck

Michael D. Cartney

Gregory S. Coale

Lansen P. Conley

Mark A. Correll

Lauri K. Cross

Joseph C. Crownover III

Joan M. Cunningham

Frank Gallegos

Andre A. Gerner

Stephen E. Henderson

Benjamin G. Hensley

Keith A. Keck

Frederick H. Martin

Philip W. McDaniel

David C. Nichols

Eugene K. O’Nale

Leonard A. Patrick

Janet E. (Peterson) Nichols

Jay G. Santee

David P. Scott

Steven R. Searcy

Thomas A. Shircilff Jr.

Michael W. Spencer

Jeffrey E. Stambaugh

Raymond G. Torres

Yvonne E. (Wilhelm) Schilz

Robert Yates

Joseph E. Zeis Jr.

Michael P. Zepf

1982

Paul R. Ackerly

Jeffrey K. Beene

Cathy A. (Colebrook) Clothier

Brian J. Collins

Timothy J. Collins

Gail R. (Cooper) Allen

David S. Fadok

Barbara J. Faulkenberry

Christopher E. Haave

Daryl P. Jones

Steven W. Lindsey

Ramona G. Lyden

Anthony M. Mauer

Mitchell M. Miller

Troy S. Miller

Robert P. Otto

Ray R. Phillips

David B. Pistilli

John R. Ranck Jr.

Michael J. Sinisi

David M. Snyder

Lyn D. South

Suzanne M. Vautrinot

Other Than Line Officers

Five members of the Class of 1981 were selected in the zone for the judge advocate category, while Neal Baumgartner, ’81, was promoted below the zone in the biomedical sciences category.

BUILDING FUND DONORS

The AOG Board of Directors acknowledges with sincere appreciation the following contributors who pledged and made cash contributions to the AOG Building Fund from October 1 to December 31, 1991. We encourage others to join these dedicated graduates and friends in this most important project. Contributions and pledges made after December 31 will be listed in the the next publication of Checkpoints.

CONTRAILS

DONORS

($10 000-$24 999)

Mr Edward D Hopkins '60

FALCON DONORS

($5 000-$9 999)

Carnation Company

Mr A Mrs Richard N Matthews

Mr A Mrs L Gary Knight Lynda S Smith & C Allen Smith III, in memory of Maj Clyde A Smith, Jr 71

TALON DONORS

($ 1 000 - 54 999)

319th Bomb Group Reunion Association

In

Headquarters Squadron 437th Bomb Squadron 438th Bomb Squadron 439th Bomb Squadron

440th Bomb Squadron

Air Force Association Lance Sijan Chapter, in honor of MGcn Larry D Fortner '59

Mr A Mrs Don M Allison

Maj Michael E Anderson ANG 73

Anonymous '59 CDRJRet) A Mis Roy L Beavers, in honor of Leslie Ann Beavers 71

Michael J Beezley MD '69

Mr * Mrs Errol Q Bond, Sr

Col & Mrs Daniel B Cedi '66

Mr James E Chapman '59 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Col Kirk B Clark USAFR '62, in memory of Darrell Fox '62

Col Kirk B Clark USAFR '62 match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

n»c» of ‘66 3rd Squadron USAFA Class of 1981, in memory of deceased *81 graduates

Capts Brian A Cathy Clothier *82

Mr William T Coleman 71

Mr A Mrs Ron Culbertson

Col Martin T Daack '66

MGen John M Davey '59

Mr A Mrs Manly Dunlow LtCol Ben G Dunn Ret '66

Mr Stephen R Elm '67

The Ernewein Family, in memory of Shirley Harris Ernewein

Capt Lois L Evans '82

Mr A Mrs Gerald Fitzgerald

Mr James H Fleming '64

LtGen Ron Fogleman '63 Mis Bonnie L Ford

Mr Michael J Galbteath '64

Mr

Son, LtCol Robert M Linsmayer, If68

Mrs Elizabeth Linsmayer

Mrs Christine M Linsmayer

Col Donald B Livingston USAFR Ret'59

Mr A Mrs Antonio M Lopez, Jr

Mr & Mrs John A MacDonald match of Harris Foundation

Mr Michael P Manley '65 match of Hewlett-Packard Comany

Mr William W Maywhort '68

Mr A Mrs George C McNulty '61 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr Frank R Mendoza '79

Capt

Mr E Paul Johnson '65

Gen Hansford T Johnson '59

Mr Charles A Kaake '59 match of Dana Corporation Foundation

Mr A Mrs Henry Kowalczyk

LtCol Peter G Lake '69

In Loving Memory of our Husband A

Maj(Ret) A Mrs Richard J Meyer, Jr match of Allied-Signal Foundation Inc

Dr A Mrs Richard H Miller

Maj Sean Lee Murphy '81

Mr Terrence O'Donnell '66

Mr Harry J Pearce '64

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Name(s):

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Mr

Mr

Mr

Mr Garth B Anderson 79

Ms Georgina J Anderson match of Xerox Corporation

Drs Jeff & Crystal Anderson *81

LtCol Steven J Anderson 73

LtCol Emmet D Anderson, Jr 73

Col Victor C Andrews '66

Maj Ted Ankenbaucr 78

Maj Ferde P Arbeit Ret '67

Mr Michael G Aid 77

Mrs Kathleen A Armstrong 113

Capt Richard W Arnold *83

LtCol Patrick J Ash 75

Maj Rhuett K Atherton 79

LtCol William G Bader ANG 70

Col Larry C Baglcy '66

LtCol Jack D Baker ANG Ret '64

Capt & Mrs Theodore & Frances Bale ■82

LtCol David M Barcus 73

Dr & Mrs Charles J Bares

Mr Beverly L Barge II 79

Mr Tony Barnard '66

Col Barry L Bames Ret '64

Capt Robert E Barnett, Jr USAFR *83

Maj Robert P Barrett Ret '64

LtCol John I Barron 73

Dr David M Barrs '68

LtCol Roy H Bass, Jr 73

Maj Ronald L Bean 75

Maj J Doug Beason 77

Mr & Mrs Richard C Bejtlich

Maj Steven E Bell 79

Maj Richard A Claire Benbow 75

Mr Thomas M Benson '83

Capt Peter J Bergamini ANG 79

Mr A Mis Gary D Bergstrom

Mrs Lenora Wong Bcraing *80

Capt Carson C Berry 82

LtCol Thomas J Berry, Jr 71

LtCol William G Berry, Jr Ret '66

LtCol Manuel J Bettencourt Ret '68

Mr Kenneth N Betts, Jr 73

Mr A Mrs Dante A Biancucci

LtCol Robert Billings USAFR 71

Maj David L Bjomson 79

Col Thornes J Black III '69

Mr Thomas B Blaikie 76

Maj Gregory N Blake 79

LtCol Lawrence F Blameuser, Jr T1

Col William J Blitt '66

Capt Roland J Bloom 81

LtCol Rodney L Boatright

Mr

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Mr

Mr

Col

Capt

Capt & Mrs

Mr Thomas A Brumlik '72

Mr & Mrs Ted L Buck

Col John H Buckner, Jr '69

Mr Paul E Bunt 81

Mr & Mrs Robert J Burdick

Mr & Mrs Jervis O Bums, Jr

Col Joe Lee Burns Ret '63

LtCol Raoul J Buron, Jr 75

Mr Dennis H Busch '68

Maj Steven D Busch '77

Mr Gregory J Bush '78

Capt Hans Andreas Buss '81

Mr Michael R Butler '68

LtCol Gary J Butson 71

Maj Michael B Byers 76

Mr & Mrs Frank W Bynum

Capt Ann G Campbell 83

Mr Roel C Campos 71

Col George E Cannon, Jr Ret '66 match of United Engineers & Constructors

MGen Henry D Canterbury Ret '59

Mr & Mrs John N Carlson

Col John M Carney '67

Mr Todd Carrillo '78

Maj William T Carrothers '75

Mr Lee R Caison 81

Col Thomas R Case '69

Mr & Mrs Thomas S Casey

Maj Scott E Chimeiski

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Mr

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Mr

Mr

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Maj

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Capt Joseph W Cook III '80

Capt Carl R Cook USAFR '78

LtCol David R Cooper Ret '65

Mr & Mrs Anthony M Cotoia

Maj John F Courtney '79

Capt John R Crennan 82

Capt Lauri K Cross 81

Maj Stephen D Cross Ret '66

Mr Thomas L Cunningham '67

Mr & Mrs Frank & Candace Curry 83

LtCol Joseph J Dale Ret '63

Mr William R Davis 76

MGen Lawrence E Day '63

Mr Frank R DeFalco '79

Maj Paul F Demmert Ret '69

Mr & Mrs Patrick Denehan

Col Leslie G Denend Ret '63

Mr Sheldon

Capt

Dr

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Mr John F Casey, Jr '77 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Capt Rodolfo Castillo ANG '81

Mr & Mis Wen Yean Chen

Col & Dr Charles & Brenda Cherry

Maj Clifton H Childers USAFR ’71

Maj

Capt

Mr Thomas F

LtCol(Ret) &

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Donation and Recognition Levels

Please

TAKEOFF

Contributions of $1000 or more will be recognized on a permanently displayed plaque in

lobby of the Association of Graduates building. Other contributors’ names will

Donations Still Needed For AOG’s Doolittle Hall

Despite typical front range winter weather, the AOG Alumni House is on track for completion in March ’92. The photographs show the building as the exterior glass is being installed. Once the building is enclosed, work will begin on the interior finish. Movein is scheduled for April, and the building should be ready for the ’92 June Week activities. Reunion classes are already making reservations to use the facility in the fall.

Two major campaigns are currently underway to raise the remaining one million dollars needed to complete construction. In December and January a brochure showing the building under construction was mailed to all graduates. Class participation was the emphasis of this campaign. The response has been very positive, with many of our younger graduates getting involved. The graduate participation rate will definitely improve above the current 20 percent!

Our second campaign involves our strongest supporters the parents of our graduates and cadets. These folks have been most generous in responding to our “parents phonathon” with contributions and pledges. The phonathon is scheduled for completion in the spring, about the same time we open the doors of DOOLITTLE HALL. We are most appreciative of the great sup

(Building Donors: From previous page.)

LtCol Kenneth B Freshwater, Jr '69

Mtj Gregory B Frick '75

Maj Marc W Frith '76

Maj David L Frostman USAFR '71

Capt Timothy L Frye ANG '80

Capt Richard L Fullerton '83

Col Kenneth V Funkhouser '66

Mr Timothy J Fyda '79

Col Jon A Gallo Ret '59

Mr & Mrs Gordon Gammell

LtCol Gares Garber, Jr Ret '59 match of USAA

(dr Charles P Garcia '83

Maj Daniel C Gamer '78

Maj Larry E Gamer '76

Mr & Mrs Warren C Gaudette

Mr Louis J Gavin '63

Mr Robert J Gemignani '69

Dr

Mr

Mrs Gayle Yamazaki Faircloth '83

Maj John W Fal Ret '66

Mr David B Fallon '79

Mr Jerry L Farquhar '60

Ms Kathleen P Farrell '80

Maj

Mr

Col

Col

Col(Ret)

Mr Lindsay S Fenwick '71

Mrs Roxann Goetz Ferguson '82

Mr Thomas M Ferguson '81

Mr W Russ Finlinson ’68

LtCol Mark W Fischer Ret '69

Col(Ret) & Mrs Bernard F Fisher

Col Kenneth H Fleming Ret '62

Col Robert Y Foerster '65

Mr & Mrs Allan O Fogle

Capt John J Follman ANG '78

Mr & Mrs Donald & Karen Ford '81

Maj John T Foreman USAFR '73

LtCol H H "Bugs” Forsythe USAFR '69

Mr Robert F Fortin '67

Mr John M Fox

Capt David W Francis '80

Capt & Mrs Andre & Terri Gemer '81

Anonymous '78

Mr Lenue Gilchrist, Jr '79

Capt Patricia Martinez Gillette USAFR '83

Mr Kent J Gilliland '79

Bill Gillis '60

Mr Braxton Gilmore '71

Capt Vance F Gilstrap '81

Mr & Mrs Roger Gjone

Mr Bernard W Glade '68

Mrs Linda L Glaza

Mr George Mason Goodhand '78

Col William G Goodyear Ret '60

Mr Brian K Gottsacker '78

Col John O Goyette '68

Mr James H Grady, Jr '79

LtCol Frederick R Graham USAFR Ret '63

Col Willie W Gray, Jr Ret '62

LtCol Allen Michael Green '75

Mr & Mrs Robert O Greene

Mr Gordon F Gregory '79 match of

The Salomon Foundation Inc

Mr Dan L Griffith, Jr '81

Mr Kenneth H Grizzle '63

Capt Harry N Gross '83

Mr & Mrs Robert A Grover

LtCol B Ross Gubser, Jr Ret '66

Mr & Mrs Arthur C Gudikunst

Dr & Mrs Sid D Guillen

Mr & Mrs Juan D Guillermo

Mr John E Gutzweiler, Jr '60

BGen Otto K Habedank '63

Capt Jeff L Hagens '83

Dr & Mrs Peter Hagis, Jr

Mr Brent D Hall '75

Maj Robert F Hall 78

LtCol Lanny W Hall Ret '62

Mr Thomas L Hamilton '73

Maj R Pete Hammerton Ret '63

Mr G Lawrence Hammond 71

Mr Joseph W Hanes '63

Mr Patrick D Hanford '83

port we are receiving from both the graduates and the parents. Watch this space for more information on the dedication and grand opening of your alumni house.

Abbott Laboratories Fund

Maj David B Hartley USAFR '79

Mr Steven E Hartman '81

LtCol David H Hartmann Ret '69

Ms Marie G Hartnett

Maj Donald J Haskell '78

Col William J Haugen Ret '62

Maj Carl A Hawkins '79

Mr F Neal Hawkins '64

LtGen Richard E Hawley '64

Mr Robert P Haylock II 73

Capt Laurie S Healy '83

Mr & Mrs E Ralph Hedenskoog

Mr John P Hehman '64

LtCol John W Heide Ret '63 match of Boise Cascade Corporation

Mr & Mrs Michael J Heider

Maj Jeff Heidmous '77

Mr & Mrs F W Heidt, Jr

LtCol Michael L Heil 75

LtCol(Ret) & Mrs William & Judy Heinlein '63

Mr Steven D Heinz 76

Mr J Stephen Henderson '65 LtCol Alan W Henkelman Ret '65

MSgt(Ret) & Mrs Alan C Hennings

Maj Anthony R Johnson 76

Mr Thomas L Johnson '82

Mr Arthur H Johnson, Jr '63

Maj Jay K Joiner '77

Mr Charles D Jones '83

Maj William M Jones '80

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Promotion to Major Difficult Drawdown Making

(Editor’s note: Our thanks to the Air Force Times newspaper publishing staff for granting permission to reprint this story which appeared in their Dec. 2, 1991 edition. Reprint courtesy of Air Force Times. Copyright by Times Journal Company, Springfield, Virginia.)

Captains hoping to be promoted to major will find the going a little rough for at least this next year. Opportunities for promotion to major will continue to be restricted as the drawdown leaves fewer billets to promote to, personnel officials said.

In previous years, 90 percent of the captains who were eligible for promotion would be selected. But the service lowered that to 80 percent for the major selection board that met last July. Officials plan to keep the promotion opportunity at 80 percent for the next majors board, which is not scheduled until January 1993.

“People are not getting out of the Air Force as quickly as we had projected,” said Lt. Col. Dick Smith, chief of the officer promotions branch at the Air Force Military Personnel Center at Randolph AFB, Texas. For example, Smith said, some lieutenant colonels could have been waiting around for the January pay raise, and others may be staying in because of the poor economy. “This tends to have a domino effect,” he added.

In other words, captains cannot move up to major until others above them move out. One of the underlying reasons for the

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slowdown in promotions to major is the large officer yeargroups that came in before the drawdown began. The service fell behind on promotions to major with the 1989 board.

“When this majors board (1989) was held, which is two calendar years ago, these folks were at the 90 percent (opportunity),” said Smith. “And it was before the Air Force pulled back the reins to meet the end-strengths that are congressionally mandated.” Under provisions of the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act, officers are supposed to reach the rank of major between their ninth and 11th years of service.

In 1991, the Air Force exceeded those limits by six months, Smith said, with it now taking a captain about HVi years to make major. “We’re not able to stay within the range established by public law,” said Smith. “Once you get behind, you continue to get behind.”

Smith said the service landed outside the DOPMA range in late summer of last year. The situation had been anticipated by the Air Staff, he said, and that is why the monthly promotion increments were “pulled back a little” and promotion opportunities were reduced.

The service was still drawing some names from the 1989 majors list late last year and only began using the July list in November. There were 4,535 officers picked for promotion by the 1989 board. The number of selectees dropped to 3,656 at the July Board.

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Cadet Commended for Courage After Crash

January 17, 1992 is a day that junior cadet Brent Bell of Dublin, Ohio will remember for a long time. Before the end of the day he would see a police officer dead and his date, Melanie Cook, in the hospital.

Just as the sun was setting on that fateful day, his car collided head on with Colorado Springs police officer Anthony Surdo’s car. The police report on the accident indicates Surdo crossed over the center line.

Bell tried to avoid the accident, but four-foot snowbanks along each side of a two-lane highway made that impossible. Moments after impact, Bell found his girlfriend unconscious and bleeding profusely. He knew he would have to muster all the courage and training he had to save her life.

Credited with helping to save his girlfriend's life, C2C Brent Bell is being recommended for the Airman's Medal for traveling several miles on a broken rightfoot to get help after the head-on crash. (Photo by TSgt. Dennis Rogers)

Since the accident occurred on a fairly isolated highway road near Calhan, Colo, (approximately 30 miles from Colorado Springs), getting help for his girlfriend would not be easy. After making his way out of his car and checking on the condition of his girlfriend, he worked his way over to Surdo’s car. He knocked on the car window but could not hear anything inside. It was at this moment, he decided to go for help.

The sound of barking dogs lead him down the road until he reached a house a quarter-of-a-mile away from the accident. Upon reaching the house, he yelled for help but no one answered. He made his way to the front door where he found a shovel and broke the front window of the home.

Upon entering the home he located the telephone and tried to call for help, but the phone was not working. He made his way to the bedroom and took several blankets and then ran back to his car so he could wrap his date to keep her warm.

“I kept telling myself to just stay calm... and remember what I learned in the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape class,” said Bell. He attributes his ability to overcome the ordeal with his training at the Academy.

After taking care of Melanie, he again went to check on Surdo’s condition. He opened the back door of his car and tried to pull the seat away from the steering wheel. Bell said Surdo’s head was embedded into the steering wheel and part of the dash. He felt for a pulse there was none.

Seeing Surdo’s lifeless body sent an urgent message to Bell. He needed to get help fast. He decided to try the phone at that abandoned home again. Upon arriving at the house, he tried the phone several times and finally gave up.

At this point, he remembered a truck parked in the front yard. He frantically looked around for the keys and could not find them. As he searched the home, he got his first glance at the extent of his injuries when he came across the mirror in the bathroom. A deep cut above the eye had swollen one eye closed, and he was bleeding. “I thought I was going to lose sight in that eye,” he said.

Ignoring his injuries, he ran back to his date who was now conscious. “She was really hurting from her injuries, and I tried to pump her for information as to where the nearest home was,” said Bell. Because of her injuries, she could not supply him with any information.

He decided to run in the direction of his date’s house. As he made his way down the road, he saw a light a few miles down the road. Before he could reach the light, a truck turned on the road. He flagged it down. The driver of the truck took him to his house where they phoned the state police.

Both Bell and Cook were rushed to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. Because of Cook’s internal bleeding, she immediately went into surgery. Her injuries were extensive. She suffered a broken collar bone, right wrist, left cheek bone and a major laceration above her eye. The driver of the other car was declared dead on arrival at the hospital. He was not wearing his seat belt.

Cadet Bell’s injuries included a laceration of his right eye, a broken right foot and multiple bruises.

“It is truly amazing that Cadet Bell was able to do all of these things considering the extent of his injuries,” said Maj. Lance S. Young, air officer commanding of Squadron 30. The major said he is going to put Bell in for the Airman’s Medal for his outstanding courage. Hospital officials credit Bell with helping save Cook’s life.

Before the Jan. 17 accident, Bell was only a luke warm believer in seat belts, but this accident changed his mind.

“If Melanie had not urged me to put on my seat belt, I would not be here today,” He urged everyone to wear their seat belts because both he and his girlfriend are living examples that seat belts save lives.

Defense Authorization Bill Impacts on Academies

(Editor’s note: Our thanks to the Air Force Times newspaper publishing staff for granting permission to reprint this story which appeared in their Dec. 2, 1991 edition. Reprint courtesy of Air Force Times. Copyright by Times Journal Company, Springfield, Virginia. Portions of the story have been edited and updated.)

The compromise 1992 defense authorization bill (now Public Law 102-190, Dec. 5, 1991) has had a significant impact on the service academies by demanding independent oversight of academy athletic programs, changing an academy commission from regular to reserve, and warning against preferential treatment for academy graduates in the assignment process.

The law removes some of the elevated status academy graduates have as they begin their military careers. The order states: “After Sept. 30, 1996, no person may receive an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps until that person has completed one year of service on active duty as a commissioned officer (other than a warrant officer) of a reserve component.” This means that the first full Academy class to receive reserve commissions will be the Class of 1997, but any member of the Class of 1996 who graduates after Sept. 30 of that year will also receive a reserve commission. Those members of the Class of 1996 who graduate on time and late 1996 graduates throught Sept. 30, will be the last academy graduates to receive regular commissions, which have greater career protections than the reserve commissions given officers who come into the service from other sources.

The bill also warns against any preferential assignment process for cadets and midshipmen that might send them into more career-enhancing initial assignments than graduates of ROTC or officer candidate and training schools, the other primary commissioning sources used by the services.

Traditionally, all academy graduates and the top graduates from ROTC have entered the military with regular officer commissions, while reserve commissions are given to other new officers.

The difference is largely one of perception because most officers with reserve commissions who remain in the service are extended regular officer commissions by the time they reach the grade of 0-4.

There are, however, advantages to a regular officer commission, such as earlier eligibility for severance pay if they are forced from the service for failing to get promoted. The services must use lengthy administrative procedures to separate a regular officer that are not required when removing a reserve officer from active duty.

Defense officials said having all officers enter the service with reserve commissions would require changes in personnel practices and advertising materials, but is not expected to discourage high school students from applying to the academies.

“I doubt most people thinking about attending the Naval Academy, for example, would have the slightest idea about whether they will get a reserve or regular commission, and if they knew, I cannot believe it will make a difference,” said a senior defense official.

Senior defense personnel officials, who generally support the

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Statue to Memorialize Class of 1964 Fighter Pilot

(Editor’s note: Our thanks to the staffof the Montgomery, Ala. Advertiser/Alabama Journal for permission to republish the enclosed article and photograph. Anyone wishing to make a donation to this project may send it to: Montgomery Area Community Foundation, P.O. Box 11587, Montgomery, Ala. 36111.)

U.S. Air Force Lt. Karl W. Richter, ’64, and his F-105 Thunderchief flew more combat missions into North Vietnam than any other man and machine. While most fighter pilots returned home after 100 missions, Lt. Richter signed up for another 100 and even tried to get a third tour.

Records show the young pilot flew 198 strike missions before he died in a parachute accident during combat in 1967. But there were probably more. Lt. Richter quit logging his flights when he was denied a third tour.

Although only 24 when he died, he was larger than life, a man who flew with him said. And his diligence epitomized the spirit of so many who served in Vietnam that officials want to erect a bronze statue of him at Maxwell Air Force Base.

The Karl W. Richter Memorial will be 10 Vi feet tall, cost about $120,000 and stand in front of the Fairchild Library on Chenault Circle. It will be created by nationally acclaimed sculptor Glenna Goodacre of Santa Fe, N.M., and should be complete this summer. Ms. Goodacre is also the artist who will sculpt the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington.

All of the money for the project will come from private donations, with Mayor Emory Folmar and Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce Chairman Will Hill Tankersley leading the fund-raising drive.

“When it is finished it will be one of the more remarkable things we have in Montgomery,” said Brooks Joyner, chairman of the artist selection committee. “It will be something that people will want to visit.”

The idea for the memorial came from Lt. Gen. Charles G. Boyd, commander of Maxwell’s Air University. Gen. Boyd took Lt. Richter on his first mission. “I gave him his first ride into combat on my wing” on a mission in Laos, the general said. “I was impressed with his desire, his willingness and his determination,” Gen. Boyd told a gathering at the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce. “He was there because he wanted to be there.”

When officials began discussing a new statue for Maxwell Air Force Base, Gen. Boyd didn’t hesitate. “I picked someone from that war, someone I knew who characterized what was best in our men. I picked Karl Richter,” he said.

Korean Fishes Graduate from Yellow Sea

KUNSAN AIR BASE, REPUBLIC KOREA When Capt. John Reidy strapped into his 35th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-16 last July 17, he never expected to be part of a fisherman’s catch in the Yellow Sea. Reidy, a 1984 graduate of the Air Force Academy, and his passenger, SSgt. Peter Moy, were forced to eject from their aircraft after the engine failed. They landed in the sea and were rescued within minutes by a local fisherman, Mr. Kim, Hahn Ho, from Sin Myung Ri, a small village on the east coast of South Korea.

Kim and his wife, Mrs. Pak, Sun Hwan, were invited to visit Kunsan Air Base as a thank you for responding so quickly to help U.S. Air Force members. They received personal greetings from Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Cliver, 7th Air Force vice commander, and Col. Edward Carter, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing commander. But, the person Kim was most excited to see was Reidy, as he recalled the events of July 17.

Kim was fishing for Totari (flounder) when he saw Reidy’s aircraft at about 9:30 a.m. As he watched the F-16 fly across the mountain, he heard an explosion and the aircraft separated into four parts. Reidy had been giving Moy, a crew chief, an incentive flight when the engine failed. Realizing that they were not within gliding distance of a suitable airfield, Reidy dropped all external tanks and began to prepare Moy for ejection. “We had some time’’ Reidy said, “because we were at medium altitude about 9,000 feet so I had the chance to switch to guard frequency (a universal emergency radio frequency) to let anyone out there know where I was.’’

After ejecting from the Falcon, Reidy watched as the aircraft impacted the water. He had just gotten his bearings when he noticed that Kim was already on his way to pick up the two Wolf Pack members. When Kim realized what had happened, he cut all of his fishing lines and headed toward the parachutes. By the time Reidy and Moy hit the water, Kim was only a few hundred yards away. “I put my hand in the water, and it was very cold,” Kim said. “Both men were already turning blue.” They returned safely to shore where they were met by high-ranking members of the Republic of Korea Army and Marine Corps and representatives of

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bill’s provisions related to the academies, said the changes may reflect that the majority of the military’s most senior officers are not academy graduates.

Of the six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, only one Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Frank Kelso II is an academy graduate.

Three are ROTC graduates: the chairman, Army Gen. Colin L. Powell; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Merrill A. “Tony” McPeak; and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gordon Sullivan.

Adm. David Jeremiah, the vice chairman, received his commission through Officer Candidate School. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Carl Mundy Jr. is a graduate of the Platoon Leaders Class, a sort of summer school version of Officer Candidate School.

Adopting a provision pushed by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the bill orders the Pentagon to appoint an independent review board to oversee all academy athletic programs.

The review board would include the three academy superintendents and an unspecified number of other members who are from other colleges or universities, experts in collegiate athletics, members of Congress and members of the academy boards of visitors.

The board must meet at least once a year to review academy policies on athletics, particularly on how academic and athletic programs are balanced.

In a report accompanying the defense bill, congressional

Mr. Kim, Hahn Ho, and Capt. J.R. Reidy, ’84, 35th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Kunsan AB, ROK, give the traditional “thumbs up”showing everything’s OK. Kim pulled Reidy and his passenger out of the Yellow Sea after both ejectedfrom an F-16. the Korean National Police department. Kim kept watch over the area for several days until a U.S. Navy salvage and rescue ship arrived from Japan. He continued to travel to the location of the crash so that he could remember where the aircraft went down.

When the Air Force Mishap Investigation Board asked Kim for his help in locating the downed F-16, he was more than willing to do so. Using Kim’s keen sense of direction, the searchers were able to find and recover the aircraft. “I was really happy to rescue the two men,” Kim said. “I was very proud of myself. All of my friends and neighbors told me that I did a good thing.”

Reidy presented Kim with a plaque of appreciation and made him an honorary member of the 35th TFS “Pantons.” “This is like a dream to be on Kunsan Air Base,” Kim said. “I’m not sure that it’s real. I’m going to put the photographs I received in frames and save them as souvenirs for life.”

As for Reidy, he’s just happy that Kim was fishing that day. “It worked out great that Mr. Kim was right there,” he said. “I hadn’t seen much more of Korea than Kunsan City and Osan. But, this experience gave me an even better picture of the Korean people.”

negotiators said academy graduates are more likely to receive initial assignments in combat arms, operational or unrestricted line occupation specialties than other officers.

“This practice raises a concern that the nature of the initial duty assignment may depend more upon the source of commission than upon the merits (of) an individual’s performance while working to achieve a commission,” the conference report said.

“I would suspect, since an academy education is considered more technically challenging, that cadets and midshipmen are more likely to end up in front-line combat skills than an ROTC graduate who is relegated to the supply field,” said a senior personnel policy official.

“What we don’t know is whether this is a really fair system or if there is an unfair bias toward academy graduates.”

BONE MARROW NEEDED

A 1976 Academy graduate, Craig Puz, has been recently diagnosed as having Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML). The only permanent cure to this condition is a bone marrow transplant. Craig’s family members have been tested but they do not match. His doctors are currently searching the National Marrow Donor Program computer registry for a tissue or Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) match. If anyone is interested in testing to be a donor, please call 1-800-654-1247 to find the nearest center where you can be tested and receive donor information.

Academy Answers GAO Audit “Findings

Recently the Air Force Academy received some “mixed” publicity generated by the General Accounting Office’s (GAO) audit of the three service academies. The deputy chief of staff for Plans and Programs at the Academy provided a short overview of the audit to the Association of Graduates in order to keep the graduate community informed of the official Academy response to the GAO allegations.

During late 1989, Senators John Glenn and John McCain, the chairman and ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel, Senate Armed Services Committee, requested the GAO examine the Department of Defense’s military academies. Their request was generated by concern over management of long lead-time programs, such as officer procurement, as the size of the force declined. As a result, auditors were sent to the Air Force, Naval, and Military Academies to assess the academies’ programs with an emphasis on cost issues.

In July 1991, the GAO submitted their final report titled “DOD Service Academies: Improved Cost and Performance Monitoring Needed,” to the Senate Armed Services Committee. The GAO published a number of principle findings, some of which the Academy felt were off course. The following are GAO findings which alumni should find interesting accompanied by a summary of the USAFA “rebuttal” provided to the chief of staff, our board of visitors, and key Air Force staff agencies:

1) The Service Academies are the most expensive commissioning source. In 1987, West Point conducted a study of the price, cost, and worth of their graduates which found the average cost per student of higher education in America was $117K. Because reported ROTC costs included only tuition and overhead, West Point added the average cost of higher education to the ROTC figure to achieve an “apple-to-apple” comparison. By adding higher education costs to the ROTC tuition ($14K/yr) and overhead ($66K/yr), West Point found that the cost of their graduates and ROTC graduates were comparable. The West Point study findings are still applicable. Although the cost per graduate of an Academy grad exceeds the cost reported by the GAO for ROTC and OTS, the USAFA cost per graduate represents the costs of higher education not included in the ROTC and OTS costs. Since the federal government heavily subsidizes the cost of higher education, USAFA felt the GAO’s reported costs didn’t accurately reflect the cost of those accessions to the nation.

2) Accrediting agencies and visiting professors have raised concerns about the service schools’ academic programs due to relative lack of doctorates among the faculties, frequency of rotation among the faculty, and high time demand of the military and physical training which compete with the pursuit of academic ex-

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Colorado Springs Artist Designed POW Flag

Colorado Springs is home to one Newt Heisley, a retired commercial artist, who has the distinction of being one of the least famous creative artists; however one of his creations is now a national treasure.

I have known Newt and his wife, Bunny, for over 15 years. The story of our first meeting is fun to recall...

The year was 1975 and it was a beautiful September evening. It was even more beautiful for three freshman cadets on their first night out since arriving at the Academy in June. Our destination was Fargo’s Pizza Co. for a large pizza. Dressed in our cadet uniform (since we were not allowed to wear civilian clothes) we did not expect any difficulties using a check to pay for dinner. Back in 1975, a “cadet check” was as good as using cash. Fargo’s would not accept our check... This was a pay-as-you-order establishment. A gentleman in line behind offered to cash our check, but we did not want to do business with a place that would not take our check so we opted to leave and eat elsewhere.

Several hours later we headed back towards the Academy. It was a common and accepted practice for cadets to walk near the shoulder of the road and look in need of a ride; however we were not permitted to actually hitchhike. The Academy back then even had signs on base with a big thumb saying “Give a cadet a ride.” As we progressed towards the Academy a vehicle pulled over. Lo and behold it was the same gentleman who was in Fargo’s and offered to cash our check.

On the way we exchanged names and the question was asked about our hometowns. I answered “a small town near Daytona Beach.” Heisley’s eyes perked up and he pryed further... “which small town near Daytona Beach?”

Ormond Beach turned out to be the link that would forever bind our relationship. My hometown was Heisley’s parent’s retirement hometown. It wasn’t long before Cadet Fourthclass Berdeguez became a permanent fixture at the Heisley home... The Heisley’s were my sponsors years before a sponsor program began.

During those weekends and holidays visiting Dream Lane (believe me it was a dream come true for an 18-year-old spending his first months away from home) I was able to watch Newt and his son Jim build a business together. They started in the base-

ment of Newt’s home and in four years grew into a major design and advertising firm. I learned the value of hard work and dedication. The Heisley name has become synonomous with pride and quality.

Newt Heisley, at left, holds his creation, the POW-MIA flag design, with Falcon Stadium manager Tony Guerrero.

Newt has recently retired and he has gone back to his first love... painting. (Bunny is his first real love.) His paintings are a well-kept secret... If it were known that his most famous work is literally one of the most copied pieces of art and can be found everywhere from bumper stickers to T-shirts to the beautiful work of art “Reflections” by Lee Teter the Heisley name would surely grow by leaps and bounds and the demand for his art might soar!

I have personally seen Newt’s creation in front of the town hall in my hometown of Matthews, N.C. You may have seen it flying over your state capital... or at the Academy... or in Washington, D.C. Most recently I saw it on a made-for-TV movie...

Everytime I see it I feel great pride in the fact that I have known this man as a good friend. Upon graduation I gave Newt and Bunny a USAF Academy “Plaque and Saber”... it was several years later that I learned that it was Newt Heisley who gave our country a gift... THE POW-MIA FLAG.

Write your Congressman if you feel the POW-MIA flag should be made into a commemorative stamp.

Thanks Newt...

Foreign Language Department Unveils German Unification Display

The Academy’s Department of Foreign Languages has dedicated a display commemorating the anniversary of the German unification and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Then lieutenant colonel and now Col. Gunther Mueller, permanent professor and head of DFF, noted the historic significance of the demise of the Berlin Wall which, according to him, symbolized more than anything else the end of the era of the Cold War.

Col. Douglas Murray, vice dean, who participated in the dedication ceremony, praised the past cooperation between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. He called for this cooperation to continue in the future to ensure progress and lasting peace.

Lt. Col. Hermann Zeisler, German air force and exchange officer, noted that the artistic display shows one Germany but that the border remains in people’s mind. He pointed out that the predominant color of the display is green, a color that symbolizes hope in Germany. Lastly, he praised the contributions of the United States to his country and attributed the fall of the Berlin Wall to U.S. contributions.

Mueller presented Bob Jensen a piece of the Berlin Wall as a token of appreciation for his outstanding work on the display.

(The Falcon Flyer)

(Academy Answers GAO: From previous page.)

cellence. USAFA does not require a higher percentage of doctoral degrees because we do not award advanced degrees. Also, the Academy’s comparatively lower number of doctorates is offset by several factors. First is the small class size at USAFA our core courses average 20 students or less per section. Second, we have no graduate assistants teaching or grading papers. Finally, during 1989-90, more than half of our faculty officers participated in some form of research. Although the GAO criticized the frequency of faculty rotation, USAFA considers faculty turnover a virtue. Our visiting professors comment positively on faculty turnover: “It provides for a constant input of new ideas from enthusiastic faculty fresh from graduate programs.” Additionally, about 16 percent of our faculty is tenured, providing necessary stability to our academic program. The rigor of the cadet schedule is a constant concern, and the Academy is currently conducting a study on the demand on cadet time. The academic, military, athletic, airmanship, and extracurricular program is designed to

Christmas in Colorado

Bob Hope was at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs in early December taping a segment of his Christmas TV Special. More than 150 cadets were members of the audience. C1C Michael Reschke, Cadet Squadron 18, presented a memento to Bob during a break in the taping of “Bob Hope’s Cross Country Christmas.

produce our future military leaders and, as a result, is very challenging. Regardless of the rigor, the performance of our graduates in national and international competitions for graduate scholarships attests to their pursuit of academic excellence. For example, our graduating seniors have won and accepted 600 distinguished graduate scholarships and fellowships over the last 32 years.

3) The GAO found that Academy graduates have higher retention and career progression, but they also offer preferential personnel policies and the possibility of Academy graduates promoting fellow alumni as explanations for graduate success. The preferential personnel policies cited by the GAO were higher allocations of combat-related occupations and the award of a regular commission. However, until the recent transition to a smaller Air Force, the majority of combat-related billets went to non-Academy officers. For example, in FY90, ROTC graduates made up the highest percentage of active-duty Air Force pilot training accessions. FY92 will be the first year since 1981 that USAFA graduates are the majority at pilot training. In response to the regular versus reserve commission, the DOD maintains that there are no practical differences in officer personnel management practices based upon commission type. Finally, the DOD strenuously denied the existence of favoritism in promoting Academy graduates. Despite the DOD opposition, and by their own admission a lack of evidence, the GAO included statements which suggested graduates promoted the career of Academy alumni.

4) External oversight of the academies is limited. USAFA is subject to external review from a multitude of sources, including several academic accrediting bodies, our board of visitors, and the Air Force inspector general and auditor. Additionally, the FY92 Defense Authorization Act requires the secretary of Defense to establish a permanent board which will annually review the athletic programs of the three DOD service academies.

Although the report was misleading in some areas, a number of the GAO’s recommendations should benefit the Academy. For example, the DOD is acting on a GAO recommendation to develop measures to evaluate the performance of graduates from all commissioning sources. Also, DOD agreed to develop uniform guidance for academy cost reporting to eliminate inconsistencies in the academies’ cost-per-graduate calculations. These actions should help all three service academies address unanswered cost and quality issues, and improve the way they do business.

FALCON SPORTS

10-3

Football

Falcons “Make It Happen

“Make it happen!”

This was the challenge Air Force football coach Fisher DeBerry issued to his team at the start of fall practice the first of August. Five months later the Falcons were a “happening.”

The end of the 1991 season was glorious. The Falcons emerged from their third consecutive Liberty Bowl as victors over a highlytouted Mississippi State team, 38-15.

Air Force was a nine-point underdog to the Southeastern Conference school. The Bulldogs came to Memphis, Tenn., the home of the bowl, with a 7-4 record under first-year coach Jackie Sherrill. Along the way they defeated such notable schools as Texas (13-6), Tulane (48-0), Kentucky (31-6), Auburn (24-17), Louisiana State (28-19) and Mississippi (24-9).

The Falcons faced a MSU-dominated record crowd of 61,497 at kickoff. The din of ringing cowbells at kickoff, a noise-making tradition with Bulldog fans, sent the decibel level off the noise meter.

Air Force players acted deaf.

After holding the Bulldogs scoreless on their first possession, Air Force scored on its first drive going 70 yards on 15 plays and taking 7:20 off the clock in classic wishbone fashion. Senior fullback Jason Jones capped the drive with a one-yard TD run. Mississippi State fumbled the ensuing kickoff and the “Birds” got the ball back on MSU’s 24-yard line. Six plays later it was 14-0 as senior quarterback Rob Perez scored from the one. These two

Razorback Fan Commends Falcons for Outstanding Character in Memphis

(Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Lt. Gen. Bradley C. Hosmer following the Liberty Bowl. The superintendent wanted to share it with the Academy community. It has been reprintedfrom The Falcon Flyer.)

Dear Sir,

As an avid fan of the Arkansas Razorbacks since 1946 and of the Liberty Bowl since 1984, I just wish to express myself in regards to the outstanding character of the Academy’s football team, the Falcons, and the display of the entire school in their performance and behavior while in our city.

It is a joy to many of us to see a team of fine, disciplined young men who are students who play football and not players who go to school. Let us hope and pray that the example of your fine team will encourage other institutions to establish a high standard of intellectual pursuit so that teams will be competitive in mind, spirit and body and not appear on the field like gladiators in a Roman arena.

We hope you will, along maybe with the Army and Navy, continue to come to Memphis. Although I am a retired Navy man, I (with many others) do appreciate, and will continue to do so, your great contribution to our country and the glamour of a good game.

Give my regards to coach (Fisher) DeBerry and his fine squad.

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Quarterback Rob Perez and coach Fisher DeBerry celebrate the Air Force Academy’s 38-15 win over Mississippi State in the Dec. 29 Liberty Bowl. Mississippi State dominated pre-game talk in Memphis and their fans took up most of the 60,000 seats in the stadium. But it was obvious by the score who dominated the game. It was the second straight year the Falcons went in as the underdog against a big-time football school, only to come out as the winner. They beat Ohio State in 1990. (Photo by SrA. Tana Hamilton)

scores set the stage for the remainder of the game.

Senior defensive back Shanon Yates added a second-quarter score on a 35-yard fumble return. MSU finally got on the board with 35 seconds left in the quarter on a four-yard touchdown pass to make it 21-7 at halftime.

The Falcons dominated in all three phases of the game offense, defense and kicking. The Falcons, who finished as the No. 2 ranked team in the nation in rushing with a 338.1-yard average, rushed for 318 against the MSU defense. The Bulldogs played like they hadn’t seen an option attack before Dec. 29.

Time of possession was a glaring example of the Falcons’ domination of the game. The third quarter ended with Air Force controlling the ball 13:12. Senior kicker Joe Wood added three points in the quarter with a 20-yard field goal to give the Falcons a 24-7 lead. By then, Tinkerbell could have made more noise than the cowbells belonging to the MSU backers!

The Falcons added two more scores in the final quarter. Wide receiver Scott Hufford scored on a 31-yard run off a reverse and linebacker Vergil Simpson scored on a fumble recovery in the end zone.

At game’s end, the media voted Perez the Most Valuable Player of the game. It was the second consecutive time he earned the bowl honor. He led both teams in rushing with 114 yards on 26 carries. Yates was Air Force’s Defensive Player of the Game. In addition to his fumble return for a score he had seven total tackles and two pass breakups.

The victory left the Falcons with a 10-3 record. This is only the third time in Air Force history a team has won 10 or more games. The 1983 team posted a 10-2 record under coach Ken Hatfield and

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Women Cagers Log Nine-Game Win Streak

The Air Force women’s basketball team began its Colorado Athletic Conference schedule much the same way it finished last season. On top.

The Falcons opened the CAC schedule in mid January with a 66-45 drubbing of Fort Lewis College in Durango. Senior Chris Clausnitzer continued her outstanding play with 16 points and 10 rebounds in the game. The Falcons raced to a 36-23 halftime lead by shooting 44.8 percent from the field.

The first CAC win of the season closed out a perfect week for Air Force. The Falcons tuned up for conference play with a 96-60 win over Colorado Mines four days earlier. A season-high seven players scored in double figures. Sophomore forward Kerry Kane led the way with 17 points. Freshman Tracy Willcox recorded career-highs of 16 points and nine rebounds. Tracy Pritchard added 13 points, Jennifer Patrick had 12, Cherilyn Hargis and Clausnitzer each had 11 and Shelley McCombs had 10 points.

At press time the team had won 12 of its last 14 games. The loss

Drum and Bugle Corps to Celebrate 20th Anniversary

The Cadet Drum and Bugle (D&B) Corps has been performing for football games and across the country since 1971. The corps is planning a reunion during Homecoming, Sept. 24-27, 1992.

Many activities concide with the regular homecoming activities, but they will also include: a rehearsal and performance with the Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps, and a D&B banquet with a video/slide-show. All former members of the corps and their spouses are invited to attend. Plans are underway to stay at the Hilton Hotel. Anyone interested in helping out with planning, souvenirs, registration, etc., please contact the Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps at CWD/DB, USAFA, CO 80840. Phone: (719) 472-2055 / DSN: 259-2055.

the 1985 team went 12-1 under DeBerry. It was also the Falcons’ 200th victory since the school began playing football in 1956.

DeBerry’s career coaching record now stands at 65-33-1. This is a winning percentage of .662, making him one of the most suecessful active coaches in the nation. Since taking over the head coaching job in 1984, DeBerry has taken the Falcons to six bowl games. He has won four.

The bowl win also caught the attention of the national pollsters. Coaches who vote in the USA Today/CNN football poll ranked the Falcons 24th. Associated Press placed the Falcons 25th in its final poll.

This year’s road to Memphis was paved with a lot of happenings. One of the most significant was defeating Army and Navy for the third consecutive year to win the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. Never before in trophy history has a service academy won the coveted award three straight times.

Other highlights and honors included:

WINNING STREAK Air Force won 13 of its last 16 games dating back to last season. The Falcons’ only losses came in 1991 to Brigham Young (21-7), Notre Dame (28-15), and New Mexico (34-32). The Falcons’ victories came against Army (15-3), TexasEl Paso (14-13), Ohio State (23-11, 1990 Liberty Bowl), Weber State (48-31), Colorado State (31-26), Utah (24-21), San Diego State (21-20), Wyoming (51-28), Navy (46-6), Texas-El Paso (20-13), Army (25-0), Hawaii (24-20) and Mississippi State (38-15, 1991 Liberty Bowl).

The Falcons have won eight of their last 10 road games dating back to the 1990 season. The only losses were to Brigham Young and New Mexico in 1991. The wins came against Army, Texas-El

that snapped the winning streak was against Division I opponent Colorado State, 68-71, in Fort Collins. The Falcons were outscoring their opponents by 19.6 points per game, and only six teams had scored 70 or more points on Air Force this season.

FROM THE RECORD BOOK: Senior forward Shelley MeCombs became only the seventh player in Academy history to score 1,000 career points. She reached that mark in the win over Colorado Mines on Jan. 8. The senior from Salida, Colo., has 1,017 career points to rank seventh on the all-time scoring list. Sophomore forward Kerry Kane was on her way to shattering the career free throw percentage record. Kane, a senior athletically after transferring from a junior college, has an .833 (130-156) career percentage. The current record is Michelle Johnson’s .730 from 1977-81. Senior Chris Clausnitzer became the fifth player in Academy history to record over 500 career rebounds. The Alliance, Ohio, native ranks fifth on the all-time list with 508 career rebounds.

C1C Shelley McCombs is one of seven players ever to score 1,000 career points at the Academy. (Photo by Arthur H. Bilsten) Paso, Ohio State, Colorado State, Utah, Navy, Hawaii and Mississippi State.

AFA WINS 10TH RUSHING TITLE Air Force won its 10th consecutive WAC rushing title this year. The Falcons averaged 338.1 yards per game. Air Force has won the title every year since 1982 and were ranked among the nation’s top five eight times. Air Force finished second in the nation in rushing behind Nebraska in 1991.

ALL-WAC ACADEMIC TEAM Air Force had seven players named academic all-WAC this season. They are senior Ron James (3.33 GPA-aeronautical engineering), senior Steed Lobotzke (3.26 GPA-economics), senior David Mott (3.07 GPAbasic academics), junior Scott Hufford (3.74 GPA-aeronautical engineering), junior Grant Johnson (3.87 GPA-mechanical engineering), junior Vergil Simpson (3.14 GPA-civil engineering) and junior Peter Wilkie (3.20 GPA-civil engineering).

ALL-WAC SELECTIONS Air Force placed five players on the all-WAC first team. Six others were named to the second team and honorable mention. First team selectees included seniors Jason Jones (FB), Steed Lobotzke (OT) and Jason Christ (P) and juniors Vergil Simpson (OLB) and Carlton McDonald (CB). Named to the second team were Joe Wood (PK), Keete Dornbusch (ILB) and Shanon Yates (SS). Honorable mentions were Ron James (OG), Tom Maurer (OT) and Rob Perez (QB).

POST-SEASON PLAY Three Air Force players were selected to play in post-season all-star games. Offensive lineman Steed Lobotzke was selected for the East-West Shrine game in Palo Alto, Calif., Joe Wood was tabbed for the Japan Bowl in Toyko, and Shanon Yates was picked for the Hula Bowl in Honolulu.

Men’s Cross Country Team Wins First WAC Title

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The Air Force Academy men’s cross country team raced to a come-from-behind victory and won its first-ever Western Athletic Conference team title in late November. The Air Force runners also placed 14th nationally at the NCAA Division I Championships.

All-American senior Chris Nelson led the Falcons with his time of 30 minutes, 32 seconds on the 10,000-meter (six-mile) race at Salt Lake City’s Rose Park Golf Course. The win was the second individual title in as many years for Nelson, a native of Florence, Colo. He earned WAC Runner of the Year honors for the second straight year as well.

All-American senior Chris Nelson led the Falcons to a comefrom-behind victory at the Western Athletic Conference cross country team competition. (Courtesy photo)

Water Polo Team 24-8

Ranked 12th in Nation

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The Academy’s water polo team enjoyed another successful year in 1991. The Falcons finished with a 24-8 record the most victories ever in a single season for their 14th winning season in the past 20 years. They were ranked 12th in the nation.

Individually, team captain Dave Chaney was named an honorable mention All-American by the American Water Polo Coaches Association. He became the first two-time All-American in water polo history.

Success started early for coach Maj. Jeff Heidmous’ team as they captured two tournament titles and raced to an 8-0 record. Air Force’s victims included long-time rival California-San Diego, 7-5. The Falcons also whipped Academy rivals Navy 11-5, and Army 13-3.

Later in the year, Air Force finished second in the PomonaPitzer Invitational and defeated eighth-ranked California-Santa Barbara 8-5 in the Long Beach Invitational. The Falcons also placed second in that eight-team tournament.

Air Force failed to defend their Western Water Polo Association championship when they lost to Cal-San Diego 11-9 in the final round. The Falcons finished second in the conference with a 15-2 record but failed to earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Four Falcons were named to the all-tournament team. Chaney and senior goalie Howard Redd were named to the first team, and juniors Ted Baudendistel (76 points) and Dan Farrington were named to the second team.

Chaney, a senior from Chino, Calif., led the Falcons with 68 goals and 53 assists. He holds Air Force’s single-season and career

Falcon head coach Ralph Lindeman was also selected as WAC Coach of the Year by his peers. In three seasons, Lindeman has formed his team into WAC champions and national contenders.

Junior Chris Juarez also earned All-WAC honors for the Falcons with his fifth-place finish in 31:03, and freshman Nick MacFalls placed 11th in 31:43. Overall, Air Force placed five runners in the top 15.

The Falcons qualified as a team for the NCAA Division I Championships for only the second time since 1971 with their second-place finish behind Weber State in the NCAA Region VII Qualifying Meet, which ran concurrently with the WAC meet. The 17th-ranked University of Colorado Buffaloes, which finished second in the Big 8 championship, finished fifth in the regional scoring while Colorado State was 10th.

CSU led the WAC race in the early stages with Air Force’s runners trailing in seventh place at the one-mile mark. By the fivemile mark, the Falcons had moved into second place behind twotime defending WAC champion Brigham Young, and then overtook the Cougars in the final mile. Air Force finished with 45 points for the win, BYU took second with 61 and New Mexico placed third with 80 points. Rounding out the field were: 4, Texas-El Paso, 91; 5, CSU, 110; 6, Wyoming, 126; 7, Utah, 178; 8, San Diego State, 204.

“These guys have believed all year that they could win the WAC and advance to the NCAAs.” Lindeman said. “They made me a believer four weeks ago at the pre-NCAA meet in Tuscon, where they placed third behind third-ranked Arizona and sixthranked South Florida.

“They are a group of goal-oriented and success-driven young men.” said Lindeman of his WAC championship team. “Their race plan was to run a patient, come-from-behind race. That required a lot of self-confidence and they executed their plan to perfection.” (The Falcon Flyer)

records for most assists with 53 and 136, respectively. He ended his career as the Falcons’ number two all-time scorer with 347 points.

Defensively, the season belonged to Redd. The Palos Verdes, Calif, native had 219 saves and was scored on 155 times, a .586 percentage. He finished his career with 652 saves.

Other Falcon standouts included juniors Brad Reed (68 points) and Neil McCafferty (58 points). The Falcon Flyer

1992 FALCON BASEBALL

DATE TIME OPPONENT

MAR. 7 11:00 am NORTHERN IOWA (DH)

MAR. 8 11:00 am NORTHERN IOWA (DH)

MAR. 12 12:00 pm GEORGETOWN (DH)

MAR. 13 12:00 pm GEORGETOWN (DH)

MAR. 14 7:00 pm L.A. DODGERS FARM CLUB (EXH)

MAR. 19 2:00 pm DENVER

MAR. 28 11:00 am COLORADO STATE (DH)

MAR. 29 11:00 am * COLORADO STATE (DH)

APR. 4 11:00 am SAN DIEGO STATE (DH)

APR. 5 11:00 am SAN DIEGO STATE (DH)

APR. 11 11:00 am WYOMING (DH)

APR. 12 11:00 am WYOMING (DH)

APR. 17 12:00 pm * UTAH (DH)

APR. 18 12:00 pm UTAH (DH)

APR. 24 7:00 pm * HAWAII

APR. 25 5:00 pm HAWAII (DH)

APR. 26 3:00 pm HAWAII

MAY 2 12:00 pm * NEW MEXICO (DH)

MAY 3 12:00 pm NEW MEXICO (DH)

MAY 8 12:00 pm BRIGHAM YOUNG (DH)

MAY 9 12:00 pm * BRIGHAM YOUNG (DH)

*Denotes Western Athletic Conference Game (DH) Denotes Doubleheader Home games in bold face.

USAFA LACROSSE SCHEDULE

DATE TIME OPPONENT SITE

Feb. 29 1:00 pm Denver (scrimmage) Denver CO

Mar. 7 1:00 pm Colorado College Colo Spgs CO

Mar. 11 3:00 pm COLO SCHOOL OF MINES USAFA

Mar. 13 3:30 pm Colorado University Boulder CO

Mar. 21 2:00 pm Mt Saint Mary’s Col. Emmittsburg MD

Mar. 23 3:30 pm Ohio State Univ. Emmittsburg MD

Mar. 26 3:30 pm Virginia Mil Inst. Baltimore MD

Mar. 28 1:00 pm Georgetown Univ. Washington DC

Apr. 4 1:00 pm MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY USAFA

Apr. 8 3:30 pm DENVER UNIV. USAFA

Apr. 11 1:00 pm BUCKNELL UNIV. USAFA

Apr. 18 1:00 pm NOTRE DAME USAFA

Apr. 21 3:30 pm COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY USAFA

Apr. 24 3:00 pm SUNY Stony Brook Setauket NY

Apr. 26 1:30 pm Army West Point NY

Apr. 28 3:30 pm RMLA 1st Round USAFA

Apr. 30 3:30 pm RMLA Semifinals USAFA

May 2 1:00 pm RMLA Championships USAFA

May 9 1:00 pm NCAA Championships TBD

On the Move

Air Force and St. Olaf (Minn.) players battle for possession of the puck during action at the Cadet Ice Arena in November. The Falcons won the two games by scores of 8-1 and 5-2. Right wing Eric Rice scored five goals and two assists during the weekend games while Bob Ingraham set an Air Force record for career goals by a defenseman when he scored in the third period of the second game. (Photo by Sgt. Daryl Pagel)

Rifle Team Finishes 2nd Against NCAA Champion

The Air Force Academy rifle team finished second in its own invitational at the Cadet Gym range in November. West Virginia won the competition. Texas-El Paso, Wyoming and San Francisco finished behind the Falcons.

“The loss to West Virginia did not feel as painful since West Virginia is the current NCAA champion,” said Capt. Robert Kaufman, Falcon head coach. “In fact, the Falcon shooters managed to cut the margin of victory in half since their last competition with West Virginia. The win over UTEP was particularly sweet since UTEP finished sixth last year at the national championships.”

Senior Jim Mager was the third-highest individual smallbore shooter, posting a score of 1,164 out of a possible 1,200.

“Overall, I was very impressed by our performance against the number one team, especially since we posted our highest team score for the year to date,” Kaufman said.

Several Falcon shooters posted new personal bests. Junior Pat McGlads and sophomore Justin Broughton scored 1,129 and 1,126, respectively. “Both of these cadets had never fired a smallbore rifle before arriving at the Academy,” Kaufman said. “These scores showed off their competitive spirit and the viability of the Falcon rifle program.”

The Falcon shooters ended their fall period with a 12-4 record. (The Falcon Flyer)

Falcon Soccer Team Posts 9-4-2 Season

In most cases, a tie is like not playing at all. But for the Air Force soccer team, a late September tie was the turning point of the 1991 season.

The Falcons, after losing to Vermont, Adelphi and Fresno State, faced nationally ranked Creighton University at the Fresno State Tournament. They battled the Bluejays to a 2-2 overtime tie behind freshman goalkeeper Dan Warner.

Air Force then went on a 10-game unbeaten streak before losing their season finale to finish with a 9-4-2 record. The streak was two shy of the school record set in 1985.

Following a 2-1 overtime win over Metro State, Air Force shut out six straight opponents, one short of the Academy record, also set in 1985. The Falcons blanked Illinois State 1-0, Southern Colorado 3-0, Regis 1-0, New Mexico 1-0, and the University of California at Berkeley 1-0. They also tied Quincy College 0-0.

The Falcons gave up their first goal in four weeks in a 4-2 vietory over Texas Christian. They also stopped North Texas 3-1.

Air Force then shut out Colorado Mines 1-0. Despite the 9-3-2 record and a ranking in the upper half of the Midwest Region, the Falcons failed to earn a berth in the NCAA playoffs.

They closed out the season by losing to Colorado College 3-2.

Junior Dave Walick and sophomore Nick Gismondi combined for nearly half the team’s goals this season’. Walick was the leading scorer with five goals and three assists for 13 points. Gismondi had five goals and one assist for 11 points. Walick had two game-winning goals and Gismondi three.

Warner started 10 of the 12 games he played in and posted an 8-1-2 record. He ranked second in the Midwest Region, recording five shutouts, and was fifth in goals against average (.780).

Warner and five of the team’s top seven scorers return next year as coach Luis Sagastume seeks his 11th winning season since 1979. (The Falcon Flyer)

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Thomas A. Mulvey III,

Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret) Thomas Aquinas Mulvey, Class of 1961, of Mount Laurel, N. J. died of a heart attack at his home on July 28, 1991 at the age of 52.

Tom received a B.S. in engineering from the Academy and soon went on to fly in C-118s as a navigator out of McGuire AFB in New Jersey. He earned an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He served in Vietnam, and received the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. When he returned home, Tom’s assignment at Homestead AFB, Fla. was his first as a civil engineer. He then worked with the consuiting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton in Maryland on projects with NASA and the design of improved flight headgear.

Tom also graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in Virginia. After serving in the capacity of both navigator and civil engineer at McGuire AFB and completing his M.B.A., Tom retired from the Air Force in 1981 after 20 years of service.

For the next 10 years, he worked for Rohm and Haas, a chemical company located in Philadelphia, Pa. serving as the building manager. He was an extremely hard worker, a true professional. His direct no-nonsense style of management that carried over from the Air Force won him great respect on the job. He was nicknamed the “Colonel” by one CEO. He always gave his best and he brought out the best in those around him.

It was at this point in his life that my dad discovered something that would change his existence golf. He was an avid student of the game and greatly enjoyed golf outings with friends and golf vacations with my mom. My memories of my father are those of a quiet, hard-working and caring, family man with a wry sense of humor. He will be missed by many people. He is survived by his wife, Mary; his daughter Donna; myself; his mother, Thelma; his brothers Michael and Timothy; and his sisters Barbara, Gwendolyn, Patricia and Deborah. (By Tom’s son, Daniel Thomas Mulvey)

Christopher H. Brown, ’62

Colonel (USAF, Ret) Christopher Heath Brown, Class of 1962, died on Sept. 7, 1991 at Fair Oaks Hospital, Fairfax, Va. He was a distinguished member of the U.S. Air Force following his graduation from the Air Force Academy until his retirement on June 1, 1986. He was a fighter pilot with over 100 missions flown in the F-105 in Vietnam. He was a member of the 100 Mission Club Over North Vietnam and a member of the River Rats. Following his retirement, he remained a consultant in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA). In December 1986, Chris joined Kollsman Instruments, a Division of Sequa Corporation. Chris was an outstanding member of his community in Clifton, Va.

During his 24 years of service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Meritorious Service Medals, 12 Air Medals, two Air Force Commendation Medals, two Defense Superior Service Medals, the Vietnam Service Medal with three bronze campaign stars, and the Republic of Vietnam ribbon with palm, among others. His military career after graduation included being an instructor pilot, an Air Training Command instructor, Squadron Officers School, earning a master’s degree from Notre Dame, duty in Panama, Armed Forces Staff College, airborne operations training, Korea, Air Operations staff officer with Headquarters, USAF, international political-military affairs officer, country director/Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (OASD) ISA-IA, research associate Atlantic Council, and country director/OASD ISA-IA (second tour).

Throughout his life Chris continued to play his favorite sport golf. When time and weather permitted he would have his family out on the course with him. He also played soccer and basketball and coached his children’s teams. Chris was such a positive person and contributed so much to so many lives that his sudden death was a hard blow to everyone. We will all remember him for his constant smile, love of life, upbeat personality, and his infamous red sweater. He will truly be missed.

Funeral services were held on Sept. 19, 1991 at the Ft. Myer Chapel and followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetary with full military honors. Chris is survived by his wife, Miriam, three sons, Scott, Alexander and Jarret, and one daughter, Katherine. Memorial contributions may be made to either Children’s Hospital Foundation, Dept. 0146, Wash., D.C. 20073-0146 or Make-A-Wish Foundation, 10215 Fernwood Road, Suite 400A, Bethesda, Md. 20817-1106.

William R. Harwood, Jr., ’65

Bill Harwood passed away at the Tyndall AFB Hospital on Dec. 1, 1991 after a long bout with cancer. He retired from active duty in June of last year and was living with his wife, Carol, and their three sons in Panama City, Fla.

Bill was a close friend of ours, but he filled many roles so well lifetime companion, father, brother, son, Air Force officer, and fighter pilot. We won’t forget his smile, his chuckle, the twinkle in his eye. There was no one else like Bill.

He was so much a part of the happy memories that span our lives and began for us during the Camelot years that summer of ’61. Kennedy was President and the missiles were not yet in Cuba or the wall in Berlin. Each morning that first summer with Bill, we woke to bagpipes and rushed to ranks at the bugle call. We marched together everywhere (with Bob and Billy, too), to meals

Craig E. Tubb, ’80

that were non-meals, to athletic fields at double time, and to the Rock at high port, and when we got there we could see forever. And the air was so thin we sometimes leaned on one another or shared those “heavier” rifles. Mostly, though, we laughed together all through that summer and through the years.

We became fast friends well before our later loves the jets and the wives and the kids. We discovered early that Bill we called him Augie sometimes was absolutely unflappable. There was always the balance and calm perspective no matter what the stress. We sensed this core quietness when he listened to us expound on life’s agitations. He invariably took an extra moment before responding. That, in itself, made our views more important and his response so wise.

When Carol arrived into our circle as Bill’s new bride, we sensed a new dimension in his life a special space that was reserved for her. There was a quietness and devotion that sometime later would embrace their boys.

All the while, of course, Bill was serving his country as a fighter pilot in F-4s, A-7s, and F-15s, and as a staff officer. His two combat tours in Southeast Asia showed his resolve for a difficult war. We are grateful he saw the wall come down in Berlin and us “win” the cold war. They were a fitting and symbolic culmination of his service.

This past December, too soon but mercifully, the bagpipes played and the bugle called for Bill and he returned to Connecticut, his beloved family home. What do we do now? Bill would advise, with a practiced hesitation, “Continue the march.” We will, of course, but this is one of the heavier “rifles” we have ever had to share. We’ll lean on one another too... until we can laugh again.

Bill leaves behind Carol and their sons, Mike, Brad, and John; his brother David, a fighter squadron commander at George AFB, Calif.; and his father and mother, Bill and Frances Harwood, of Southington, Conn. (In tribute by his classmates and friends of the 10th Cadet Squadron.)

Craig E. Tubb, ’80

On Sept. 6, 1991, I lost my best friend. Major Craig Tubb, Class of 1980, died of colon cancer diagnosed on a routine flight physical in May. He was an accomplished WSO with over 2,300 hours in the F-111. He loved people, and he loved life. He lived more in 33 years than most people live in 73. It would be easy to write about all the fantastic things Craig did in his life, but that is not what he would want. The painful privilege of cancer is that it permits you to anticipate your death. What follows is what Craig wrote about his life and his death:

Three or four months ago I knew people died from many causes, but it always seemed to happen to the other guy. I thought I was immortal. I was shocked that it could happen to me, and I wondered how I would handle death if it came. What I experienced was not fear, despair, bitterness, nor anger. God gave me peace, joy and hope. As His word promised, He would be with me every step of the way. He was. I

Keith G. Nylander, ’87

trusted Him to heal me, but I was also willing to die if that was His will.

His word speaks about how He controls all things. What has happened to me was no accident, but rather a part of His perfect plan whether He heals me or not. People often ask me why suffering happens to good people. Jesus said not for any wrongdoing, but rather for God’s glory (John 9). We see Him by His sustaining power in times of weakness, and we glorify Him by serving Him in this weakness. My desire has been to glorify His name by serving Him. I am thankful that He sustains me through this time. His strength is manifested in my weakness (2 Cor. 12:9).

As I look back on my life, I have no regrets, only thankfulness for the parents God gave me and all who loved and supported me beyond what I deserved. I am full of thanksgiving and joy because of you. How wonderfully the Lord has blessed me.

I have two last requests: For those who have never received Christ, do it today. When the unexpected happens, you too can experience the grace of God. Secondly, live for eternal things, not for temporary pleasures. Ask yourself what is really important things that will stop at my death, or things that are forever.

In His care,

Craig

Those of you who knew Craig know that he was not a religious or “churchy” person. Craig was different because he lived his faith in everyday life. His life made you want to love God rather than make you feel like you ought to love God. He lived life “so the preacher could tell the truth about him at his funeral.”

There are so many wonderful things that I would like to tell you about Craig. But that is not what he would want. This is the last thing I can do for him, and that is important to me. He was my lifelong friend, my constant companion, my teacher and my hero. He was my big brother.

Craig was buried at the Air Force Academy. He is survived by his parents, Richard and June Tubb, Viroqua, Wis.; brothers Dick (’81) and David (’86), and sister Susan. Memorial contributions can be made in his name to The Navigators Christian Ministry, P.O. Box 6000, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80934. (Maj Richard Tubb, ’81)

Keith G. Nylander, ’87

Captain Keith G. Nylander, Class of 1987, perished July 30, 1991, when the F-16 he was piloting crashed during a night training mission near the Utah Test and Training Range. He was assigned to the 34th Fighter Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah.

Memorial services were held at Hill AFB on Aug. 3, and were attended by family, several classmates, and members of the 388th Fighter Wing. Funeral services were held in Keith’s hometown of Duluth, Minn, on Aug. 10. A scholarship fund has been established in Keith’s name at his hometown high school, and contribu-

tions can be made through the 34th Fighter Squadron, Hill AFB, Utah 84056 (Attn: Capt. William Horn).

Keith graduated from CS-02 in 1987, and even though I wasn’t there to see him accept his diploma or pin on his “butterbars”, I’m sure when he bolted out of the South Gate on his way to pilot training and to finding the “real” Air Force, he shot out with his legs pumping and nostrils flaring. I’m sure of this because when I first met 2nd Lt. Keith “Swede” Nylander at Holloman AFB, I knew that I had just encountered a thoroughbred with an unbridled enthusiasm and unharnessed energy for life and the pursuit of excellence. Keith perpetuated these attributes throughout his professional career; from award-winning performances at F-16 RTU, to Wing Top Gun awards at Hill, to joyously shepherding cadets through the squadron during summer programs.

As Lieutenant Commander Martin O’Loughlin so poignantly stated in his eulogy to Keith, “There are many warriors here today who have cleared many of the same hurdles as Keith did, and who are cut from the same bolt of cloth. Among us you will find several things for which we would hope to be remembered. Some of these would differ from man to man, but the one we would all have in common is the wish to be respected by our peers for our prowess as a fighter pilot. That is the common currency of what we do, and how we define ourselves among our peers. For many of us, especially Keith, nothing exceeds the importance of being a good husband and father. Being good at what we do professionaliy merely frames those other things that are central to our existence. So it is not for us to judge Keith on the many other aspects of his life, and yet we truly think he excelled in everything. But in our own arrogant way, we reserve the right to judge a man as an officer, a pilot, a warrior. And so we have. And the highest honor we can bestow upon him is this: If we are among the best in the country, then he was among the best of us. As we accept the challenge of life without Keith, we can multiply the accomplishments of his short life and perpetuate his ideals through the rest of our lives. For some of us, at the busiest possible moment, some wide-eyed cadet will nab us with some really dumb questions. And we will think of Swede, and find the patience and kindness to infuse in that young cadet the enthusiasm and sense of purpose that Keith had. And in that small act, we will have en-

Memorial Honors A-10 Pilot Graduates Who Died In War

Although Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm are fading into the past, we are still reminded of the events that took place in the Middle East.

One of the events that stirred our memories took place at the Air Force Academy Nov. 8 when Maj. Guy Walsh, Class of 1979, presented his Anthony C. Shine Award to the Academy as a memorial for two Academy graduates who were A-10 pilots and were killed in the Middle East war.

Walsh, an A-10 instructor pilot, was awarded the Shine Award for being the Air Force’s top fighter pilot who best exemplifies the leadership skills and flying abilities of Lt. Col. Anthony C. Shine. Shine was shot down over Laos in his A-7 aircraft in December 1972 while trying to destroy enemy surface-to-air missile sites.

Walsh dedicated his award as a memorial for two Air Force Academy graduates who died, Capt. Steve Phillis, Class of 1982, and Capt. Patrick Olson, Class of 1987.

Phillis was shot down while trying to save his wingman after he was shot down by Iraq’s Republican Guard. His actions saved the wingman’s life. Olson was killed when his plane crashed while trying to land after it was hit by a surface-to-air-missile. Both men were awarded the Silver Star for their actions.

The memorial will be displayed in the new Association of Graduates building when it is completed. (The Falcon Flyer)

sured that the next generation of Air Force officers is a step closer to meeting the standards exemplified by a certain Captain Nylander...”

As important as the Air Force was to Keith, there occurred some magnificent events that caused him to realize that his career would have to take a back seat to an even more important calling. Those events were when he became a husband to Susan, and a father to his daughters, Hope and Hannah. As a husband, I have seen none more dedicated, loving, and inspiring as Keith. As a father, I have seen none more willing to try his darndest to look and act like a monkey just to get a smile and a laugh on his “Hopester’s” face.

To Susan, to Hope and Hannah, to his parents, George and Sharon, to his brothers Glenn and Ryan, I, along with the rest of the “Rams” and the 388th Fighter Wing, extend our deepest sympathy. Keith embodied all that was decent and good in a man and raised the very core of our souls to heights unimagined. To Keith, we will remember the laughter in your voice and the spring in your step. You will live forever in our hearts and fly eternally on our wings. (Capt. William T. Horn, ’83)

At press time we had learned of the deaths of the following graduates:

Mr. Keith R. Talladay, Class of 1969, who died on May 21, 1991 when the fuel pump in his Cessna 210 aircraft froze up shortly after takeoff near Milan, Mich.

Capt. (AFRes) Arnold A. Clarke, Class of 1981, who was killed in an F-16B aircraft accident on Nov. 14, 1991 near Kelton, Utah.

Capt. Michael T. Sowell, Class of 1985, who was killed in the same crash of the F-16B as Captain Clarke above.

Mr. Douglas L. Thompson/Class of 1964, who died of a heart attack on Dec. 27, 1991 in Reading, Pa.

Our sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of these graduates.

OBITUARY POLICY OUTLINED

We have had a number of inquiries on our policy concerning obituaries for deceased graduates and cadets. Some graduates have noted that while we have listed a graduate’s death in the “At Press Time” section of “Gone But Not Forgotten,” the graduate’s obituary never appeared in the magazine.

Our policy is to write to the next-of-kin a reasonable amount of time (usually two weeks or so) after the death, and request from that individual (wife, parent, etc.) an obituary written by a classmate, friend or family member. We also ask for copies of obituaries which might have appeared in local newspapers. If we do not have a current photograph, we ask the next-of-kin to lend one to us (the photo is returned when the magazine is published).

If we do not receive a response to our first letter from the next-of-kin in a month, we write a follow-up letter asking for the obituary again and informing the individual that this will be our last request for the article. If we do not receive a response to our second letter, an obituary is not published.

When obituaries are published, we give the next-of-kin a one-year complimentary associate membership in the association beginning with the magazine in which the obituary appears. When the one-year membership expires, we invite the next-of-kin to join as a regular associate member if she/he desires.

Another question often asked when a deceased graduate is a life member of the association is whether the life membership transfers to the graduate’s spouse. Life membership dues have been computed on the life expectancy of the graduate and are therefore not transferable to the graduate’s spouse, unless of course the life membership was joint, in which case it does transfer to the spouse.

ATTENTION IN THE AREA

Register APO Addresses

Many APO NY and APO SF addresses have changed to APO AE and APO AP addresses. However, the 1991 Register of Graduates will reflect the NY and SF designations. At the time the Register database tapes were sent to the printers, the postal system was not accepting the AE and AP designations; therefore, we were unable to change our database. Effective Oct. 1, 1991, the AOG was able to start using the AP and AE designators on our mailing labels and to change the information in the AOG database. If you have an AP or AE designator and future AOG mailings do not reflect that change, please let us know so we can make the appropriate changes.

Cadet USAFA T-Shirt

As previously advertised, the AOG is selling to AOG members the issue cadet T-Shirt with blue rings around the collar and sleeves and blue USAFA on the left chest. We can have your name added above the USAFA. However, your name currently will be added in navy blue, 5/8th inches high, iron-on block letters. This is the method used for putting names on cadet replacement T-shirts and for those receiving appointments after the silk-screening orders have been placed for the entering class.

Outdated Addresses Cost AOG $$$

The AOG needs your help. Those members who fail to notify the AOG when they move cost their fellow members hundreds of dollars annually. For instance, for each Checkpoints that is not deliverable to the address we have on file, we are billed 30 cents by the post office. Every time we have to remail a first-class letter to a new address it costs the AOG 33 cents plus labor. It may not seem like much (and it isn’t) when only one or two graduates are tardy with address changes. However, when it is several hundred graduates each quarter, it adds up in a hurry. Please help the AOG, yourself, and all members by dropping us a note or giving us a call when you move. Not only will it keep our records current, but it will delay significantly your future dues increases.

Your association has no choice but to reiterate and enforce our policy of charging those members who request a back issue(s) of Checkpoints or The Register that they did not receive because they failed to provide the AOG their new address. Cost will be the printing cost of the publication plus mailing costs. (Currently the price is $2.50 for Checkpoints and $8.50 for the Register.)

AOG Staff Holiday Cheer

The A OG staffposes during a Christmas sing-along session at the office in December. From left are Linda Glaza, Cathy Pillis, Monica Young, Irene Knight, Tom Kroboth (playing organ), Karen Deyarmin, Dick Coppock (with smile and cup), Steve Knight (in back), Jim Wilhelm, and Jock Schwank. Missing are Kathy McCann and new employees Andi Kesners and Dave Pfeil. (Photo courtesy of Pat Kohl)

Change of Address

When sending in change-of-address cards please indicate either your social security number or year of graduation. There are several graduates with the same first name, middle initial and last name. This will help us to insure that we update the correct graduate’s record.

AOG Arranges Special Airline Discount Rates

The AOG has arranged for special group discount rates for individual round-trip travel to Colorado Springs and Denver during the following 1992 time frames. The primary Academy functions which the discounts support are also listed. However, families and friends visiting the Academy for other reasons during these times are certainly welcome to take advantage of the same group discounted round-trip airfares.

Ring Dance: 1-3 May 1992

USAFA Graduation, Prep School Graduation, late May and early June Weddings: 17 May - 5 June 1992

Class of 1996 Entry: 28 June - 2 July 1992

Parents’ Weekend: Football USAFA vs Rice

3-7 September 1992

Class of ’72 & ’82 Reunion & Homecoming, Drum & Bugle Corps Reunion: USAFA vs New Mexico24-27 September 1992

Class of 1962 Reunion: USAFA vs Navy 8-11 October 1992

Class of ’67 Reunion: USAFA vs CSU 15-18 October 1992

American Airlines Discounts

The special round-trip airfare discounts with American Airlines, including American Eagle, is a 45 percent discount from standard coach fare or five percent from any other lowest applicable fare following all published rules. The discounts apply to flights from the Continental United States, Hawaii, San Juan, St. Croix and St. Thomas. Flights from Canada receive a 35 percent discount from standard coach fare.

Discounted travel rates for the above events are valid two days prior to the event until two days after the event date shown above. Tickets must be purchased at least 14 days in advance. Reservations can be made through a travel agency or by calling American Airlines at 1-800-433-1790. In either case, ask for “Star Number S02Z2VT” in order to insure you receive this special rate.

America West Airlines Discounts

America West Airlines is also offering discounted round-trip rates for flights into Colorado Springs and Denver. The rates are 45 percent off of the full-day coach fare or five percent discount off of the lowest fare in effect the dates the tickets are purchased with all published rules in effect. These discounts apply to flights from the Continental United States and Hawaii. Flights from Canada receive a 35 percent discount from the full-day coach fare.

Discounted travel rates for the above events are valid three days prior to the event until three days after the event date shown above. Travelers may also take advantage of intermediate stopovers in Phoenix and Las Vegas during this time frame for an additional $30 fee. (Stopovers must be reflected in your itinerary.) Tickets must be purchased at least seven days in advance. Reservations can be made through a travel agency or by calling America West Airlines at 1-800-548-7575, Select 1. In either case, ask for CAMS Code 10517SD to insure you receive this special rate.

Association of Graduates Available Member Benefits/ Services

AOG Offices are open Monday through Friday, 0730-1630 Mountain Time. Main office telephone (719) 472-4513/2067/2073 (DSN: 259-XXXX). Development office telephone (719) 528-4136.

CHECKPOINTS MAGAZINE—

your quarterly link to friends, classmates and the Academy.

REGISTER OF GRADEA TES—

annual presentation of biographical information on all Academy graduates.

AOG MASTERCARD—

favorable terms and credit limits from Air Academy National Bank. (800) 365-5890

SCHOLARSHIPS—

a preparatory school scholarship via the Falcon Foundation.

post secondary scholarships to graduates’ children

SABER RENTAL—

sets of six for the military wedding.

CHAPTERS—

support for some 25 chapters throughout the world

CAR RENTAL DISCOUNTS—

special rate from Budget - (800) 772-3773 (AOG ID tt 876-00-09402/Rate Code: VM 14). You must present your AOG-provided Budget card when picking up your car.

MERCHANDISE/MEMORABILIA—

Academy/AOG-unioue items created especially for members.

General Dynamics Accepts Corporate Member Plaque

Col. William E. Richardson, ’71, president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates, presents a corporate member plaque to Mr. William A. Anders, chairman and chief executive officer of General Dynamics Corporation. Also attending the presentation were, at left, George Stetz, ’65, manager, Operations Support, General Dynamics Space Systems Division; and Lt. Col. (Ret) Richard M. Coppock, ’61, AOG executive vice president.

REUNION CONTACTS

’62 (30th) 8-11 Oct 92

Ph.: 719-472-3067 (W)

Col (Ret) Dick Klass 719-599-7843 (H)

6310 Poe Road

Bethesda, MD 20817

Ph: 301-365-8167 (H)

DSN: 259-3067

Hotel: Marriott

’82 (10th) 24-27 Sept 92 703-351-6620 (W)

Mr Tom LaValley

Hotel: Marriott 8330 Pepperridge Drive

’67 (25th) 15-18 Oct 92

Mr Thomas Menza

128 S. Tejon St., Suite 210

Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Ph: 719-634-2240

Colorado Springs, CO 80920-5797

Ph.: 719-522-0659 (H)

Hotel: Embassy Suites

Drum & Bugle Corps 24-27 Sept 92

Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps

Hotel: Embassy Suites CWD/DB

’72 (20th) 24-27 Sept 92

USAF Academy, CO 80840-6600

Lt Col Bill Beck Ph.: 719-472-2055

738 Grey Eagle Circle South

Colorado Springs, CO 80919- 1614

DSN: 259-2055

Hotel: Hilton Inn

REUNION/HOMECOMINGS—

coordination and planning by your AOG.

LOCATOR SERVICE—

need to find a fellow graduate? We help!

HOTEL DISCOUNTS—

save 10% at participating Clarion, Comfort, Econo Lodge, Rodeway, Friendship, Quality and Sleep Inns, Hotels, Resorts-(800) 4-CHOICE. (Ask for the travelers discount for AFA AOG members, ID 0COOO41511).

15%savings at Woodfin Suites-(800) 237-8811.

an approximate 20% saving at the Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs. Call (719) 599-9100 and ask for the AOG RSVIP Rate (excludes special and group events). You must present your AOG membership card on check-in.

Corporate Life Members

Association of Graduates, USAFA

Air Academy National Bank

Air Force Association

Ampex Corporation

Betac Corporation

Boeing Aerospace Company

Budget Rent a Car Corporation

Continental Electronics (Division of Varian Associates,Inc.)

Electronic Data Systems Corporation

Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs

General Dynamics Corporation

McDonnell Douglas Corporation

The MITRE Corporation

Motorola, Inc.

Government Electronics Group

Rockwell International

TRW, Inc., Electronics & Defense Sector

United Services Automobile Association

United Technologies Corporation

USAF Academy Athletic Association

Walsworth Publishing of Colorado

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Defense & Electronic Center

Corporate life memberships are being offered for $2,000. With the exception of voting and holding office, members enjoy all privileges of regular members. For more information on corporate life memberships write to Col.(Ret) Jock Schwank, vice president, Services, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-6600. Phone (719) 472-4513.

AOG Biographical Information

From: NAME DATE SSN

To: AOG, USAF Academy

1. Make the following changes in my graduate/associate (circle one) records:

2.

I am a GRADUATE/ASSOCIATE member. (Circle One)

Member #

AOG & USAFA

VISA#

NON-AOG

Colo,

Packaging,

CHAPTER NEWS

COLORADO SPRINGS CHAPTER

The Colorado Springs Chapter of the Association of Graduates is alive and well and revitalized. A kickoff meeting was held on Oct. 23, 1991 in the Arnold Hall ballroom. Emcee for the evening was Maj. Gen. Larry Fortner, ’59, who had directed a dedicated and hard-working cadre of people in breathing new life into the chapter.

The key events of the evening were “State of the Wing’’ presentations by Lt. Gen. Bradley Hosmer ’59, superintendent; Maj. Gen. Joseph Redden, ’64, commandant of cadets; Brig. Gen. Ruben Cubero, ’61, dean of the Faculty and Col. Kenneth Schweitzer, director of Athletics.

In addition to the excellent presentation, chapter officers were elected. They are: Pete Todd, ’59, president; Bernie Amels, ’66, vice president; Bob Kay, ’78, secretary, and Ev Vaughn, ’63, treasurer. Board members include: Larry Fortner, Charlie Neel, ’61; Marty Daack, ’66; Steve Edelman, ’69; Glenn Schlabs, ’69; and Doug Brower, ’72. It was an outstanding evening of information, insight and discussion.

The first board meeting was held on Nov. 20 at Pete Todd’s “hilltop hideaway.” Fortunately, the snow had melted on his driveway so we were all able to get there. Several issues were discussed, especially the need to set goals and engage the members in chapter activities. Also discussed was the first general membership event. As of press time this was to be a big screen TV viewing of the Dec. 29 Liberty Bowl and roast beef buffet meal in Arnie’s Cafeteria.

Several future events are planned and will be announced via a quarterly newsletter to the membership. If you have not done so already and would like to join, please contact either Pete Todd at 1250 Big Valley Dr., Colorado Springs, Colo. 80919, 531-5874 or myself at Quarters 4509G, USAFA, Colo. 80840, 472-6357. (Bob Kay, ’78)

FRENCH EXCHANGE CHAPTER

Hello to everyone! We hope you enjoyed the holidays. It seemed awfully quiet around the Academy with the cadets home on leave. They’re back now, ineluding the most recent contingent from the exchange full of enthusiasm and stories from yet another memorable exchange. The cadets were extremely well received by the Rotary Club of Salon, with each cadet hosted by a local family. These people deserve a heartfelt thanks

from all of us for their interest and concern for our cadets and the success of the Exchange. This “famille d’accueil” program is working extremely well. We hope to have a similar program in place in the near future.

Closer to home, there is a possibility of another French reunion in Colorado Springs, sometime in the fall (perhaps in conjunction with the arrival of the aspis). Mark your calendars and watch for the next issue of the Trait d’Union for details.

If you were planning on a visit to the Academy anyway... what a time to come! Two former exchangers, Frank Schmuck (EX ’87) and Mark Bates (EX ’87) are also inquiring about the possibility of a C-141 trip to Salon (sometime this year). Let us know which time frame you prefer should this trip materialize!

There are now 30 lifetime members in the association. Thanks for your support! If you are still considering a lifetime membership and want more information, just let us know. Thank you also for your responses to our query on how the Exchange has impacted not only your careers, but your personal lives as well. The uniqueness of this Exchange is unparalleled and must continue, despite budget cuts and armed forces drawdowns. We are always looking for more news, so keep your cards and letters coming.

It is time to start thinking about future leadership in the association. Glenn and I are very happy to serve you, but our tenure is drawing to a close. If you would like to serve the association as one of the officers, or know of someone who you would like to nominate to the ballot, please let us know. We’d still like more input as to whether to open a position for a French liaison to the Exchange Association.

That’s about it for now. Best wishes for a prosperous 1992. (Amy Wimmer, Dept, of Biology [DFB], U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840. Phone [719] 472-2720. DSN: 259-2720.)

NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER

We’re still going strong in our fourth year as an AOG chapter. We held our fourth annual State of the Wing Dinner in November. Our guest speaker, Capt. Keith Mondy, USAFA director of Admissions for the Northeast Region, gave us an update on current Academy issues. He also presented a detailed overview of the admissions process and discussed what general and specific talents and accomplishments the Academy Admissions

office looks for in applicants. Members of the local parents’ club and several prospective applicants joined us for a fun, informative evening.

Our Guest Speaker Luncheon Series continues its monthly meetings at the Hanscom Officers’ Club. In December, Dr. William W. Hogan, Jr., ’66, was our guest speaker. Everyone appreciated his frank discussion on his policy work with the economic transformation of the Ukraine.

January found 85-plus rowdy grads and their guests in Boston cheering on the Falcon Hockey Team against Northeastern University. Unfortunately, the Falcons lost 4-9. But we know they appredated our kazoo renditions of the Air Force Song every time the Falcons scored! Our thanks goes to the USAFA hockey coach for getting us tickets. And thanks to T. Thomson, ’73, for providing a dry place to meet and have lunch before the game.

This year’s chapter officers are: Col. Bob Johnson, ’68, as president; John Kelly, ’65, as vice president; lLt Roy Santos, ’88, as treasurer; and lLt Stacy (Sidor) McNutt, ’88, as secretary. We have planned a wide range of activities for the upcoming year, including our Academy Night Dinner on April 2, 1992. Maj. Gen. Joseph Redden, ’64, Academy commandant, is scheduled to be our guest speaker. Please write us at P.O. Box 680, Bedford, Mass. 01730 if you’d like to join the chapter and receive our quarterly newsletters. (Stacy McNutt, ’88)

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

The Northern California Chapter finished off 1991 with a great dinner in the beautiful surroundings high above San Francisco Bay on Mt. Tamalpais. The food and the view were great and the company was excellent. We had a great deal of socializing and little business networking as usual. Since it was December 7th we also heard some first-person stories about Pearl Harbor.

The chapter will meet again in March, June and September and then will finish 1992 with another meeting at Mountain Home Inn on Mt. Tamalpais on Dec. 5, 1992. If you would like to join any of our activites or to get your name on our mailing list please contact Chuck Reed at Reed, Elliott, Creech & Roth, 99 Almaden Blvd., Eighth Floor, San Jose, Calif. 95113, telephone (408) 993-9911, facsimile (408) 993-1335.

NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER

The North Texas Association of Air Force Academy Graduates held up its end this fall and winter with a round of football watching and sports participating activities.

There was the annual softball tournament this summer, where the chapter came in a close third behind the local Army and Navy societies. But that was because Army and Navy cheated they were sober.

The exciting Bowl-A-Rama led by Lance Ammon, ’70, and Raymi Ammon in late summer, allowed all of us to get out of the Texas heat.

Air Force grads led the way in the local Dallas-Ft. Worth welcome-home celebration for returning “Desert Storm” vets. Jerry Smith, ’62, and Mike Gibbons, ’63, helped make it possible to welcome home the troops with a big parade and all the trimmings.

Then Air Force took the Commander in Chief’s golf trophy, but this one is for the North Texas Chapters of Air Force, Army and Navy. Bill Reemtsma, ’63; Rick Cree, ’66; George Cato, ’70; Lance Ammon, ’70; Ron Hale, ’70; Dave Brigman, ’71; Dave Stonehouse, ’73; Rob Wayne, ’74; and Dan Shine, ’74 helped out with a combined 50 under par.

John Quincy, ’70, chapter president, fooled his wife, Karen, into letting the chapter hold its annual Fall Barbecue and Football watching party at their beautiful home in the hills above Fort Worth. About 80 of the faithful enjoyed some of Texas’ best, and sat around John’s own personal Kiva (anybody can have a spa, but only a native can have a Kiva) while cheering Air Force against Notre Dame.

Many more made the trek to Colorado during the fall to watch Air Force play at home. Rick Barton, (AA pilot and lawyer), ’71, and his bride, Jeri, led the way as they have for several years now.

Then it was “Give me Liberty or longdistance operator give me Memphis, Tennessee”. When the AOG fumbled the ball inside their own 20, our chapter came to the rescue. H. Ownby, ’69; Mike Gibbons, ’63; and Rick Grandjean, ’69; led the attack by securing a beachhead at Rum Boogie’s Bar and Grill, the hottest night spot on Beale Street. It did not matter that the owner was a Mississippi State grad, or that the place was semi-full of Bulldog fans (they were easy to find, their mothers put big cowbells around their necks), Air Force and the chapter led the way with banners, bodies, and brew. About a hundred Blue and Silver types from all over the country managed to find the party on Saturday night before the game and help us win the cheering contest. Several Bulldogs were captured trying to “steal” the Air Force pennants, but we shipped the POWs home after the game.

By Sunday night the forces had grown, and made a sizeable portion of fans cheer-

The Magic of THE RING

What’s A Nice Ring Like You Doing In A Place Like This?

I belong to Aaron Thrush, Class of 1960. I’ve been sitting in his wife’s jewelry box for five years now. She finally let him take a look at me a year or so ago. You see, I have a battle scar my stone is cracked and askew. I guess you might say I had been in an underground war for 10 years. In 1974 I moved to Fort Walton Beach, Fla. on Aaron’s finger, where I was so proudly displayed. He was prone to take me off occasionally because I was getting too small and his finger was stiii growing. Anyway, one day in 1976 he was helping to create a flower garden; I was taken off and put in the breast pocket of his shirt. You guessed it at the end of the day, Aaron, Millie and their three girls were frantically looking for me. Bricks were pulled up again, earth respaded; perspiration was abundant and to no avail.

From time to time the whole family would think about me and go looking. In my years of absence I never felt unwanted. For Christmas of 1978, a package arrived from Aaron’s mom in Ohio. She was sure a metal detector would rescue me from wherever I lay. This gift was used several times for the next few years with

ing Air Force in its well-deserved victory over the MSU Bulldogs. Friends, let me tell you, the Bulldogs are real proud of their cowbells and how much racket they make. But by the third quarter, they all had their hands inside their cowbells to keep them from clanging, and the silence was deafening.

Our chapter is not an Open Mess, but we are a Complete Mess, and to prove it the first-ever annual Dining-In was held at the Carswell AFB O’Club on Jan. 25, 1992. A large contingent of the membership was able to attend, and some of them could even fit into their mess dress uniforms. The guest speaker was W. Blake Bourland, ’78, one of the first to hit Baghdad in a sleek “no-see-um” airplane last January.

Our chapter is open to all grads who live within a three-day plane ride of North Texas. Give Jim Kuhn, ’63, (214/245-5140) or Dick Fairlamb, ’61, (817/488-5049) a call.

high hopes, but I alluded its purported talent. This was particularly true before my owner sold his house in 1984. Aaron and Millie noticed the new people redid the landscaping; any faint hope of a reunion with me grew dimmer. Two years later the land where I was missing in action was sold again. These owners, too, worked outside and one day while they were digging, I finally decided to see daylight again. Having had enough hard knocks, the sun felt warming and hopeful.

The phone rang at Aaron’s house. An excited girl answered, “Yes, my daddy is Aaron Thrush.” There were a few female screams of elation. You know the rest, except that for a while the gals kept me a secret from my true owner, hoping to get me restored before any unveiling. Millie finally fessed up, showed Aaron my condition and momentarily reunited me with him. He was relieved that at least I had survived. But, alas, I yielded perfection again because of such priorities as three children going to college. You know how it goes I am a cherished possession, but the kids came first. (By Millie Thrush)

(Editor’s note: The above entry was chosen as the winner ofthe class ring story contest article we ran in our Summer 1991 magazine. Ifyou have an interesting ring story, please send it to Gary Autrey, The Ring Man, P.O. Box 3435, Englewood, Colo. 80155.)

CLASS NEWS

Pete Todd

1250 Big Valley Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1015

Home: (719) 531-5874

FAX: (719) 531-6697

Percent members: 82

ViClever and resourceful detective work on my part has revealed that some of the people who occasionally read this column brace yourself for a shocking revelation ARE NOT ACTUALLY MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1959! I can’t overemphasize how hazardous this is, because these articles are written entirely in a secret code which was subliminally drilled into us by the ATOs. For example, the sentence, “Sxnpt fpry chwytr arlnty noplgrit fenzib!” actually means, “Drundl erktow requalid cakondin?” You can see the confusion that might result if someone tried to grasp the meaning without the key. So, if you are not a ’59er, stop reading immediately, or ask a trusted member of the class to interpret for you.

an Old Austin Healey which caused Jimmie Smith some heavy-breathing nostalgia for his graduation chariot. R.L. issues an open invitation for the next gathering in May, date to be announced.

Lots of socializing to report this issue.

PENN

a mini northeast reunion in September. Doug and Jo Anne GRAFFLIN, Jon Margot SHAFER, Jimmie SMITH, and Bob and Sue Sciarroni (former ATO) were able to find his place in Orange, CT. The highlight of the visit (besides R.L.’s acknowledged mastery of the art of barbecue) was a sortie to the New Haven airport to gawk at, climb over and fondle the cockpits, wings and turrets of a restored B-17 and B-24. The party also ran across

Lucia Montgomery’s Confidence Cake, purchased before the victory. Closer to the flagpole, Ed and Lucia MONTGOMERY hosted the Second Annual Commander-in-Chief Trophy Victoy Extravaganza after our Falcons whupped up on the lads from Hudson High in November. The party also served as a welcoming bash for Bob and Roxann BROWNING, who are restoring their household with characteristic grace and humor after their entire truckload of household goods was destroyed by a vandal’s senseless fire! Reverend Bob has accepted leadership of a church in Monument and they’ve bought a lovely home there. Other classmates attending included Dave and Robin ANDERSON, Curt and Avis COOK, Art and Kathy ELSER, Chuck and Ann FERRARI, Jim FLETCHER, Larry and Maria FORTNER, Jon and Jacquie GALLO, Max MILLER, and Pete and Wendy TODD. Jerry and Joan GARBER’s son, Dan, (USAFA ’92) was also there to represent his justifiably proud parents.

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Bob and Roxann Browning at their welcoming party.

Some of you may also remember another party guest, Jack Rosamond, who was in our class until midway through doolie year. He’s working for United Air Lines, Ed Montgomery’s employer, whence the connection. Ed serves full time as the executive assistant to the chief of United’s training, but also flies the line part time (managed to get his type ratings in both the 757 and 767!).

Tom STACK gave us a no-notice hospitality check on a recent trip to the Springs on AT&T business. He regaled us with proud-papa-andgrandpa tales as well as some typically insightful observations about life in the corporate world. Most interesting of all was his burgeoning “second job” job: he seems well on his way to becoming the Vending Machine Czar of Greensboro, NC. Besides the considerable fringe benefits (like bushels of Halloween trick-or-treat goodies at wholesale prices) there’s an astonishing amount of money to be made running a modest string of well-placed machines. Wylie BURCH, call your office.

Pete Todd and Tom Stack at a prominent Colorado Springs watering hole.

Final local news item: Larry Fortner and I have conspired to resuscitate the Colorado Springs chapter of the AOG. (Of all places where a chapter should be well supported well over a thousand grads in the area we couldn’t understand the lack of interest.) We had an organizational meeting last fall at which Brad HOSMER and the rest of the senior Academy leadership gave an informal but exciting and wide-ranging overview of their vision for the future of the USAFA. Larry had tricked me by getting me to run for president and the membership tricked me by electing me. We’ve got a strong slate of officers and directors and an ambitious agenda to involve the local graduate community. I’d welcome any gratuitous advice on particularly successful (or unsuccessful) activities your local chapters have tried. No idea is too good to steal.

Nuggets mined from Christmas cards and other holiday correspondence: Wayne PITTMAN writes that his long wait for just the right job paid off handsomely. He’s now the membership manager of the Air Force Museum Foundation and the editor of their journal. (Anybody who doesn’t belong to the Friends of the Museum and feels guilty about it can get an application from him.) In addition to a full plate of volunteer activities to which he and Karen devote considerable time, Wayne actually gets paid in real money for reading and writing Air Force history in the setting of the world’s oldest and largest aviation museum. Good thing they didn’t know he’d do it for free!

Jim REED sent me a fax (a fax!) from Hong Kong (a)continuing last year’s fanciful account of his climb up the hierarchy of the Macau pedicab drivers, (b)disavowing any interest in my Scribe job (but I know he would serve well and honorably if drafted at the next class reunion), and (c)telling me more than I ever wanted to know about the intrigue involved in the Macau Grand Prix. In a subsequent card, he hurls down an intriguing challenge: if I can organize a class trip to Hong Kong, he’ll “spring for one dinner at the notorious Foreign Correspondents’ Club.” Now, if I can just figure out whether that means a single dinner or one dinner for eveyone...

Wayne JEFFERSON finally abandoned the genteel poverty of the private consultant and has taken over as head of an engineering design company supporting the cellular telephone industry. He’s enjoying it, but the demands of the job have temporarily interruped his budding new avocation as a pianist. Bonnie continues her work as an employment counsellor for senior citizens in Old Town Alexandria. They took time to celebrate their 25th anniversay with a Caribbean cruise (the Love Boat, no less). It is reported that they transitioned readily to the life of decadent indulgence and disembarked reluctantly after their week of plying Caribbean waters with stops at Nassau, San Juan and St. Thomas.

Jim RHODES is now vice president of Garjak Research, Inc., in Solana Beach, CA, and he and Sylvia have moved to a new home in Oceanside. He has also been elected president of the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association (the famed “River Rats”), his term running until 1994.

Larry and Ann JOLLY are moving to Carrolton, TX (ne&r Dallas). Larry has accepted a bid to fly out of DFW and they wanted to be closer to Ann’s mother who is in ill health in Dennison.

Finally, in another tribute to one of our “extended family,” the Harvard Business Review (Sept-Oct ’91 issue) has done a highly complimentary article and interview on Gen McDermott and the job he’s done with USAA. It offers some interesting insights into McD’s management philosophy. My thanks to Mike Quinlan (USAFA ’61), USAA’s Rocky Mountain Region vice president, for bringing the article to my attention.

Everybody have a nice spring and, most of all, strnklib lakintrar pryng magrilit!

Chris Warack -

690 Winding Hills Road Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-2504

Percent members: 77 ‘ L / 1 1 '

Time flies and I probably shouldn’t assume all you middle-age troops can remember last quarter’s epistle. However, we did have an article about Tom SCHLECHTE and his airplane and now I have a photo. Tom is the one on the right! For many of us who haven’t seen or heard from him we might deduce his tastes haven’t changed much over the years airplanes and Mickey Mouse.

Another successful football season. The Falcon followers were quite abundant at times during the 10-3 season. The regulars were Jim GLAZA who was seen everywhere the team played; at home games, Dick and Sharon SCHEHR, Doug and Leeanna MILLER, Wayne and Barbara KENDALL, Fred and MaryLou PORTER, Jock SCHWANK, and Gary CREW, all local regular attendees. We had a group of additional fans for the Army game: Brian and Carol KALEY, still with American Airlines and still in Connecticut; Roy and Barb JOLLY, hanging on with TWA and living in Littleton, CO; and Tom and Carol SEEBODE, who also were visiting Lt Eliz (Dau) and Ed Nelson. Tom works for a commercial food processing firm in Houston, TX. Rich and Catherine CARTER came down from Denver. They have recently moved into a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Cherry Hills. We see Joan BIANCUR at most games and once in awhile Andy drops by. They plan to move to Salt Lake City soon. Rosie CLER and son Scott were present for the Notre Dame game and if I am deciphering my notes correctly he married off daughter Brandy on Oct. 29 in Boston. From the Boston area we had Paul and De SULLIVAN for the ND game and they were also on vacation in Wyoming. They have one grandchild who lives with father, Lance Bryant, a marine at Monterey, CA. Our traveling reporter Jim GLAZA went to the Navy game and saw Tom BURKE who is still at the same old business, Ace HOLMAN from Chicago with Texas Instruments, Ken ALNWICK (no change), Norm HALLER who is a granddaddy, and Doug REKENTHALER and son. Doug is in an international business operation which I believe is based in Italy but does business in of all places, Moscow. In fact he was there during the coup. Doug, we’d all like an update! At the Utah game Jim saw Dale THOMPSON, still at Hill AFB; George PUPICH, flying with the same airline; and Howie BRONSON, who as I write is likely instructing some sweet little thing how to ski on the slopes of Big Bear, CA and when there is little or no snow, continues to build on his house. Last but not least is the one who when he turns sidewise is almost invisible, Deke JOHNSON. Deke had recently returned from Saudi to Boise, ID. During Jim’s other travels he spoke to Les HOBGOOD who is the noise abatement officer at the San Antonio airport. He stands at the end of the runway to measure the noise level. He sez he’s going deaf! He also reports Hardy LABEL is still hanging on in the motel business in Rhode Island. Jim advises that he is spearheading an effort to consolidate several 30-year reunion tapes and provide a memory of our 30th. Watch for further info in future epistles.

I received a number of Christmas cards and several letters for which I am thankful. Lou PRICE writes he and Sherry are doing fine in Garden Valley, CA. Lou has just finished a book entitled Secrets of the Flute. It concerns math, physics, and design of nonmechanical folk flutes. He is working on a longer book about music and its influence on our culture

since prehistoric times. He is looking for ideas on how to market either or both. Any publishers/book retailers out there?

Ralph Lalime,

with Bob Badger at the ’60 Christmas party.

From John MACARTNEY I received a letter and notice of the ’60 Christmas Gathering” held by Bob and Liliane BADGER. Those in attendance were Tony and Karen BURSHNICK, Jerry and Betty DELACRUZ, Ralph and Darlene LALIME, George and Evelyn ELSEA, Richard HEAD, and Lorna Aldrich. From the appearance of those in the photos everyone had a good time. John still teaches at American University. He was one of many retired colonels who were interviewed during Desert Storm. He did about 50 radio interviews and several TV appearances. Is he a star?

1991 the ‘‘new freedoms” brought new responsibilities and economic realities to the peoples of the Soviet Bloc. Saddam Hussein’s aggression clouded the horizons and the world economy, setting the stage for the most decisive victory since the battle of Agincourt in 1415. Then, through coup and reorganization, the Soviet Union became the Former Soviet Union. Lee BUTLER is dismantling SAC. We are in an election year, the economy is getting mixed reviews, and now the President believes we can cut Defense even deeper than the 25 percent projected during the budget agreements. The members of the Class of 1961 have really joined the ranks of the over-30 gang. Can any of us recall just how old the members of USMA 1930 seemed when we graduated? Yet, somehow this all is not unlike the world Jesus lived in and understood, and the world in which he promised to be with us. Here’s the view from within the Eller world, in which we received many, many of the Lord’s blessings this year.

You may wonder what happened to Randy CUBERO. Well, he became the dean, and, well, you know, deans get other people to do the work. Actually, as your elected (in May 1961!) class secretary, writing the Class News column in the AOG magazine was my job over 20 years ago. I passed it on to Tom SUTTON who passed it on to Randy who kept the job so long most of us forgot he had not always had it. Thanks Randy for doing such a great job. (The USMA Class of 1941 has had the same guy doing it since 1941. Still going and going...) At Randy’s request I took the job back as Executive Class News Scribe. I’ll be responsible for passing the duty around among other classmates who want to do the job for a while. The working Class Scribe for the next year will be Bob BRICKEY, so send all of your cards and letters to Bob, 2314 S. 2200 E., Salt Lake City, UT 84109. This is the address that is in the AOG Register.

As those of you who attended the 30th Reunion last August know, we did an after-action opinion survey in the fall. The general message is ‘‘If you ask five members of the Class of 1961 anything you’ll get ten opinions” COPPOCK was right, ‘‘Don’t ask them anything, just do it.” Generally, you said “I came here to visit with classmates, and as long as someone else does the work, it doesn ’t make much difference about the details. Seriously, I appreciate your inputs. The comments relating to the hotel have already been discussed with the hotel management by Jock SCHWANK, (’60) on behalf of the AOG. The AOG office will pass the survey results along to the committee for the next reunion. Speaking of the next reunion: of the 42 survey respondents, 17 voted for summer, 12 for a fall football, seven for fall without a game, four for spring and two for winter. Thirty-one voted to have it at the Academy, 13 away from the USAFA, with five of those calling for Hawaii. Everyone who lives here and has helped with the last umpteen reunions wants to have it in Hawaii, they just didn’t put it in writing.

Gordo and Ann FLYGARE send an ‘‘Ops Normal.” He lives in Norman, OK and works for Boeing. Tony and Karen BURSHNICK are now settled in their old house in Springfield, VA.

Had a phone call from Jim THOMASSON who is flying more and working in the family construction business less. He flies a King Air for Executive Business Charters in Charlotte. Recently he flew a charter to Clemson and visited with Earl H. Ambrose, once AOC of 7th Sqdn. Earl was a pilot at Clemson U and in the Dept of Athletics after he retired. He lives in Seneca, a suburb of Clemson. Jim had planned to hear Roach speak on Dec 6 at the Chamber of Commerce meeting but the Roach cancelled to ‘‘reorganize the Air Force.”

NEW ADDRESSES: John MACARTNEY, 2119 O St NW, Washington, DC 20037; Wm BISHOP, 11523 Olde Tiverton Cir, Reston, VA 22094-1930; Don WOLFWINKEL, 1934 Twickenham PI, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464; and Charles HOLMAN, 404 N. Elm St, Itasca, IL 60143. Thanks guys! Keep those cards and letters coming.

Tom Eller

1504 N. Nevada Ave.

Colorado Springs, CO 80909

Percent members: 84

The world seemed more hopeful at the beginning of 1990 new freedoms in the Soviet Bloc and a rebounding U.S. economy. During

Ron FULLERTON, special assistant for Quality to the TAC Commander (Mike LOH, ’60) sent Dick COPPOCK a note, the picture shown below of the WOLCOTTs, SCHUTTs, the FULLERTONs, and Mike RAWLINS at the Langley O’Club, and an article from the AFOTEC (commanded by Marc ANDERSON) Milestones for October. The article features Richard M. COOPER, who retired in 1990 as AFOTEC’s Detachment Five commander. Dick is now a test pilot for Douglas Aircraft testing the new C-17. Says Dick, ‘‘What I did was go from a managerial position back to down-and-dirty work. It was almost like going back to the position of squadron pilot in terms of activity.” Dick, as I remember, you always did love flying!

One of the most famous Academy alumni did not graduate with us. Rather, Robert F. McDermott (General McD) was the one who decided whether any of us would graduate. Mike QUINLAN, USAA VP for the Rocky Mountain Region, sent in a reprint from the Harvard Business

Class of 1961 Enjoys 30th Reunion

Review. September-October 1991: “Service Comes First: An Interview with USAA’s Robert F. McDermott.” It is a good article. Makes me proud that I know General McD. One quote: “In the military, we found that perhaps the most important factor in esprit de corps is being needed by the other guys in your unit... In our case, it’s a matter of feeling needed by the membership.” I for one appreciate McD’s unfailing demand for top quality performance from all who worked for him, from cadets and faculty then, and from USAA’s employees now. Thanks for the article, Mike.

We saw Marc and Ginger ANDERSON and Lee and Doreen BUTLER at the Army game. Heard that Brice JONES and Bob BRICKEY were also here but did not see them.

Mrs. Ida Vacirca and Jim Vacirca, the mother and brother of Larry VACIRCA, who died in 1963, came by the Academy this fall for a visit. Nancy WILHELM escorted them around.

The AOG received change-of-address cards, but no expanded news, from the following classmates: Les SCHNEIDER, from one place to another in Kansas City; Stu BOYD from Ohio to Ogden, UT; Marc ANDERSON from England to Kirtland AFB, NM.; John MAY from Marmora to Mays Landing, NJ; Jim ULM from one place to another in Colorado Springs; Dick GODDARD from California to Austin, TX; Hector NEGRONI to an APO in Spain; and Rees WAGNER from Falls Village to Torrington, CT. If you guys would send more news the Class Scribe would print more.

The AOG building, to be known as Doolittle Hall, is coming right along. Due to lack of money, however, it won’t all be finished now. Our class has done well in pledges and gifts, but as Jim WILHELM keeps saying, “Send those cards and letters with checks in them.”

Tom and Susan CONLEY hosted the Colorado Springs local ’61ers for a Christmas Party. Everyone passed the limerick and iambic pentameter test but Tom ELLER, whose wife forget to tell him he was supposed to show up with a poem. Present were the CUBEROs, DANBORNs, WILHELMs, SAUNDERS, JONES, (not Wayne, not Reb, not Lowell, not Brice), STORMs, HARRINGs, and COPPOCKs. (We missed Mert HULL).

With the turmoil in the airline industry and the downturn in the defense industry several of our classmates are looking for work. We wish all in

such circumstances the best. If you have any leads, why not call Dick COPPOCK. He is the central class communications node.

So long for now. Don’t forget to send your news to Bob BRICKEY.

John W. “Jack” Jamba

4 Judy Court

Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Home: (407) 777-5520

Office: (407) 861-3519

Percent members: 72

HI REDTAGS!

Well this will be a long newsletter. Got lots of input. First from John FLANAGAN. John called me a few weeks ago. He told me about his new book and his headline-making problems with the NYANG command structure. I have a copy of a news story about John. Excerpts follow from the New York Post of Feb 20, 1990. “A former Delta Force commander in Vietnam who earned more combat decorations than Oliver North was suddenly booted from the New York National Guard after he complained about minority discrimination and mismanagement, the Post has learned. John Flanagan, Jr, 50, rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general in the New York Air National Guard where he held the No. 2 position. But Flanagan, an international business executive and St. John’s University adjunct professor, was summarily fired last September after refusing to retire under pressure from the National Guard commander. T recognized the discrimination, the manpower shortfall, the self-serving leadership, the loss of traditional purpose,’ Flanagan wrote in a Dec. 6 letter to New York Gov. Cuomo... To many National Guard insiders, Flanagan’s ouster symbolized how a tight-knit fraternity of bureaucrats could close ranks to silence a critic ‘who did not fit’ and who threatened their domination over a state agency... A recent New York Post investigative series found that top National Guard officials skillfully deflected investigators for years by intimidating potential whistleblowers and by altering record-keeping practices. The series also unearthed smoking-gun evidence that the National Guard commander and his predecessor, a convicted bribe-taker, kept a phantom Army of several thousand no-show soldiers on their rosters thereby inflating troop strength and bloating their annual budget to $400 million...” I can’t print the entire article because of space limitations. It talked about John being a USAFA grad, rescuing trapped and wounded troops in enemy territory, receiving the Silver Star, becoming a business executive and other items. If anyone wants a copy, call me or drop me a line. John sent me an info sheet on his new book titled Vietnam Above the Treetops: A Forward Air Controller Reports. It is due out in April ’92. The book has two major themes: combat history and warrior values. Some people in New York are encouraging John to run for Congress in the same district where he received his appointment to the Academy. Got a picture from John taken at the Navy game. Thanks for all the info, John. Keep me posted on your progress.

Got a Christmas card from the LEEs. Dave’s wife, Fran, wrote the words. “Jack, we were in Melbourne in June visiting friends. We called but you were out. Bob KUCHLEWSKI had a kidney transplant on Dec 3rd at Ohio State Med Hospital. His son Robert E was his donor. We are all so grateful both are recuperating very well. Tom YOUNG, Herb WEATHERHEAD, Joe GALLAGHER and Dave got together to tell each other their latest news. The get-together came about because Joe

Gallagher flew in to Dayton (compliments of Delta) and it was a good excuse to see each other. The Regtags still manage to find time to see each other even with everyone’s busy schedules. Talked to Fred and Arlene F1ENDRYX last week to give them the latest news on Bob’s surgery. They are as great as ever.” The newsletter from the Lees mentions that Fran will be starting her 14th year at a division of H & R Block, a temporary service job during tax time. Son Dean, and wife, Kelly, had a lovely twostory house built this year. Dean has a new position at NCR while Kelly has been nominated for two teacher excellence awards. David 11 works as a forester consultant to Dayton Power and Light. Keeps active in softball, hunting and canoeing. John is in his second year at Dayton Business School. He broke the school shot put record, played lacrosse, started a rowing club and works part time. Sounds like the Lees had a busy year. Thanks for all the updates.

Dave (son), Julie, Beth, Kevin Boyum, Ann and Dave Beth’s wedding in August at Ft Walton Beach.

Got a card and newsletter from the WHITMANS. Their son Dave left his job with the Sheraton in Tucson, AZ, changed his mind about going to Hawaii and spent the summer with the folks. He then headed for Vail, CO, where he is holding down three jobs and enjoying the skiing. Daughter Beth got married on March 23rd in Fort Walton Beach to Kevin Boyum (see accompanying photo). Both are lieutenants stationed at Eglin in the Armament Lab. Both Beth and Kevin will be heading to Dayton next summer to get their master’s degree at AFIT. Julie is in her final year at USAFA. She will be going to Ft Sam Houston next summer for two years to get a master’s degree in physical therapy. It looks like the Whitmans will be planning the mother of all graduations this coming May. Ann and Dave spent the rest of their spare time this year at their jobs at Sacramento Sierra Medical Group. On a sad note, Ann’s mother passed away on Nov 6th in Oklahoma City. She was survived by 12 children and 28 grandchildren. Thanks Dave and Ann for the updates.

Got a Christmas card and newsletter from the DYKES. They describe their year as “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” In February they took Fairfax County to the Virginia Supreme Court on the financing scheme for their transportation artery. In April they won the suit only to have it withdrawn for a hearing in the fall. Ted decided to run for the state senate seat in April. It became the race to watch in the state. Ted won the Sept primary after being outspent 20-1. In October, Ted was invited to the White House to meet President Bush and attended a briefing on his agenda for education. The Nov election was a squeaker. Garnering more votes than any Republican senate candidate in the country, Ted lost by four percent. Then the Virginia Surpreme Court ruled that the financing scheme was legal. An appeal is is the works. On the family front, Tammy and Montana gave Ted and Marcy their second grandchild. Montana served in the Persian Gulf War. His ship was one that got mined. His ship was diverted to Bangladesh to help with typhoon victims. Then he arrived in the Philippines in time for the volcano eruption. Chris and Sandy just moved into their new home. Chris’ Thanksgiving project was putting on the deck. He learned well from his father. Chris’ jobs this year included designing the exhibits for the main floor of the Nissan Building in Los Angeles. And to cap it all off, Ted has been named to a blue ribbon panel to study waste and mismanagement in Fairfax County. Thanks for the news Ted and Marcy.

Got a Christmas card and newsletter from the HALEs. Son Charles is still working for McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach. He is putting in lots of overtime, including many Saturdays. Likes the city life. Curtis is working on an ambulance crew as an emergency medical tech in San Bernardino. After a year of practical experience, he will reapply to the Paramedic Program at Crafton College which is near his residence in San Bernardino. The Air Force Training contract for KC-10 training was won by CAE-LINK this past fall. Charlie has a new employer. The instructor force was reduced in number. These past few weeks Charlie has been on the 5 to midnight shift while Pat worked the 8 to 5 shift. So they only talk on the phone during the week. Pat works as a finance secretary at Air Force Village West, a retirement community for AF officers and/or dependents. Right now they have 400 residents but there is lots of room for expansion to 900 units. Charlie continues to teach recent USAFA grads in his job. He is continually impressed with the quality of the grads and the excellence of their training. The Hales miss Stan and Mary Ann PATRIE since the Patries moved from San Diego to Charlotte, NC. Fortunately they get to see Mary Anne when she visits their daughter. They correspond with Larry HARMON but haven’t gotten together in a year. Thanks for the letter Charlie.

In October, I went TDY to Ft Worth and got hold of the MCATEEs. They were having an office chili cookout at Tuck’s house so he invited me over. Had quite a time. You should have seen the gag prize they gave to the person with the worst chili. Got a picture from Tuck showing a camping vacation they took with the BLAISDELLs in Colorado this summer. I forgot most of what Tuck and Ann told me, except that everyone in the family is doing fine. Tuck is in charge of a division responsible for foreign sales of the F-16. He likes the new challenges and the potential for growth. He said that Joe Bill DRYDEN is doing fine. Joe Bill, I called you but didn’t get an answer. My conference was too busy to allow me time to make more contact. It was good seeing the McAtees again.

Got a card and newsletter from the CHEESEMANs. “This year has been one of transition, of attention to detail, and of building our set of relationships as a family. Debbie has continued her CPA practice suecessfully with both tax return and business accounting clients. She has also found the time to concentrate on several of her craft hobbies and has

a major sewing project underway most of the time. Chuck is devoting much of his energies toward the house that we’re building at the Spruce Creek Fly-In outside Daytona Beach and he’s also now aircraft shopping in earnest. Last summer, during our vacation with Debbie’s family in New York, he flew sailplanes for several days at the Schweizer factory at Elmira. The transition part of our activities is preparing for the move to the new house. This Christmas we’ll be opening gifts among stacks of boxes packed ahead of time for the move shortly after the first of the year. While that’s been going on, Emily has been getting taller and taller and is now 18 months old. So far, it’s the parents who are being spoiled by the child; Emily’s not been sick a day of her life and is a real treat to be around for both of us. Grandpa Cheeseman moved to Daytona from Valdosta earlier this year and enjoys her as much as we do when he babysits... Jack, have a merry one. Hope to see you at our first party, date yet to be set.” Thanks for the news. Will see you soon.

Now for changes of address and newspaper stories. Larry and Penny GOOCH have moved from Santa Maria, CA to Henderson, NV. Clint SEARL lives in Belle Mead, NJ. A1 JACKSON sent a mail change but he is still in Saudi. By the way, A1 went TDY to Orlando last month and came over to Cocoa Beach to see relatives. On his way back to Orlando, he called me and chatted for a few minutes. Said the job situation in the U.S. doesn’t look too good so he will probably stay in Saudi for a while longer. Dave WESTHORP moved to Hendersonville, TN. Austin WEDEMEYER moved to Suisun, CA. Rudy BOW moved from Dayton, OH to Tempe, AZ. M/G George HARRISON has been reassigned from ACS/Studies and Analysis, Hq USAF to DCS/Ops and Dep Dir EACOS, Hq USAFE, Ramstein AB, Germany. M/G George LARSON has been reassigned from Dep Asst Secy, Budget, OSAF, to Commandant, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Nat’l Def Univ, Ft McNair.

I was very saddened by the passing of two Redtags in the last few months. The obituary on Bill HOWELL was in the recent issues of Checkpoints. The class offers its condolences to his daughter, stepdaughter, stepson and other family members. Also I saw an obituary on Chris BROWN in the Oct 21st issue of Air Force Times. The class offers its condolences to Miriam, their three sons and one daughter and other members of the family. It’s particularly saddening to me because both men were part of our original group of doolies in the Fightin’ Fourth. That’s it for now. Thanks for all the letters, cards, and phone calls. Have a great ’92. Go Redtags!

Norman I. Lee III

17532 N.E. 38th Court

Redmond, WA 98052

Work: (206) 965-9419

Home: (206) 882-0968

Percent members: 73

While browsing in a book store during a recent lunch break I spied a familiar book cover on the best seller stand: Jimmie BUTLER’s The Iskra Incident. Shortly thereafter Jimmie sent a card saying 230,000 paperback copies of the book had been shipped. Included in the book is an excerpt from Jimmies’ next effort: Red Lightning Black Thunder. There was also a marvelous advertisement in a recent edition of the Air Force Times. If the second book is anything like the first, you will surely enjoy the story. By the time you read this article, Red Lightning will be available in your book store (this is not a paid advertisement). Jimmie also included his new address: 7635 Delmonico Drive, Colorado Springs, CO.

Speaking of book recommendations, my son David gave me a book for Christmas entitled, North S.A.R. by Gerry Carroll a Navy Lt. Commander and H-3 pilot. The book is a novel about naval carrier aviation during Vietnam and has some things to say about the military during those times. Many of you will find the book both poignant and enchanting. Plus, the author doesn’t mince words. Although somewhat riddled with standard military cliches, I found the story hard to put down.

I had a delightful phone conversation with Kathy HARBAUGH a few weeks ago. Kent is the assistant dean at the Air War College. I can just see Kent trying to explain the doctrines and values of our experience while around him the entire Air Force, and the world, change beyond recognition. Most assuredly, Kent possesses a better vision than I, or most of us for that matter. He has come a long way since fourth-class summer when we were roommates. Kent was from Iowa all corn and pigs to me and / was a “worldly” military kid who knew the score. Right! I truly do not remember very much of that summer but you can be sure I spent more time than Kent going to special inspections. The purpose of Kathy’s call was to get Tom and Angie FRYER’S address which, after a thorough search of my well-thought-out data base, I was able to supply.

Pres DAVIS called to update his status USAF Retired and finding

out about the aircrew training business at Boeing. I did my usual and tried to sell Seattle. Like most other manufacturing companies today, we do have a hiring freeze of sorts going on but that should not deter anyone. Although defense spending reductions have forced manpower adjustments some more than others, getting work should not prove too difficult. Fact: all of us have the skills and the right attitudes. Translating military skills and achievements into a language understood by civilian employers is tough but it can be done. It is obvious to me the skills we used to lead and manage in the Air Force are what companies (like Boeing) want and need. Just don’t expect to be running the place after a year. Please, don’t hesitate to call any one of us for information or advice on employment outside the Air Force. Over the past few years most of us have learned what it takes to sell yourself. The only other advice for a job search: don’t move immediately toward the defense side of industry. Reduced defense business aside, most of the larger companies are very skittish about hiring any newly-retired military officers regardless of their militflrv hackeround.

Bob McBeth as he appears on the cover of Industrial Distribution Magazine. (Reprinted from INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION, June 9, 1991 issue, Cahners Publishing Company.)

On the cover of Industrial Distribution, a management and sales magazine for distributors, is the chairman and CEO of Associated Industrial Supply (AIS). If you reviewed the AOG Register you would know that person is our own Bob MCBETH. The cover story, “AIS workers show how to reduce losses,” features Bob’s management efforts at AIS to increase profits through reducing workplace abuse. According to Bob, a primary focus was to make each employee aware of the fact it takes $33 in new sales to make up for every dollar the firm lost to workplace abuse. Some of the findings of a survey taken in the company gives you an idea of the kinds of organizational frustrations he was up against. For exampie: employees admitted it was often necessary “to break policies or procedures in order to get the work done.” Employees felt that supervisors treated workers unfairly and “that some supervisors pick on workers.” Another response was “management does dumb things and imposes stupid rules.” All in all I enjoyed reading the article. Personal experience convinces me that the strongest organizations are those where everyone working there believe they are a part of what happens and that they have a stake in the organization’s success.

Lloyd PROBST did himself and the Class of 1963 proud this past year by being named the FAA’s General Aviation Industry’s Certified Flight Instructor of the Year. As a step in being nominated for the national award, Lloyd was selected as the FAA’s Southern Region Flight Instructor of the Year for 1991. The national award was presented Nov. 18th by James B. Busey, FAA administrator, during a special recognition ceremony at the Department of Transportation in Washington, DC. The FAA communication read: “Lloyd Probst, who has been an active ‘Gold Seal’ flight instructor since 1969, served in the U.S. Air Force as command pilot, instructor and pilot examiner. After retiring from the Air Force, Probst flew as a corporate pilot and served as manager of flight

training at Auburn University and chief flight instructor for the MaxwellGunter Air Force flying club. For the past decade, he has been an FAA accident prevention counselor, merit badge counselor to the Boy Scouts of America and a frequent guest speaker before Civil Air Patrol units and flying clubs. He has been very active in the FAA Pilot Proficiency Awards Program (WINGS) since its inception. Probst, who maintains membership in numerous aviation organizations, has given freely of his time and expertise in the promotion of general aviation and aviation safety.” A first rate job!

Mike CHRISTY was elected director of Heidrick and Struggles, an international executive search firm headquartered in Chicago. Mike is a partner in the firm, active in its information technology practice and based in Washington, DC. Before his association with Heidrick and Struggles, Mike was president of the National Security Systems Division of 1RT Corporation in Washington.

Periodically, I find a note in my AOG news folder where I place data obtained between articles that for some reason did not make the magazine. While getting my stuff together for this edition of the class news, 1 found some notes taken back in April during a phone call from Roger SIMS. Subscribing to the maxim “better late than never” here goes: Roger continues to work as a free lance producer in New York and most recently he has been doing video rework of CBS shows without commercials. If my notes are correct, the shows are done for CBS cable TV. Rog has been battling diabetes for some years and has gone through a lot, including blindness for five months. Furthermore, he is forced to use dialysis until a kidney transplant can be arranged. As a personal observation, Roger has undergone a great deal of change and some turmoil in his life but it is obvious when you talk to him, he hasn’t changed much. That’s goodness.

Jerry DRISCOLL and Sharon are planning to “tie the knot” Feb. 22nd. Jerry says his new address, effective April 1992, will be 101 Hunters Glen Road, Wayzata, MN 55391. Anyone who will give up sunny California for Northwoods winters must be in love. Congratulations!

Recent Changes: Rich O’LEAR’s new address is Bolling AFB. Rich is the assistant chief of staff, Intelligence, at HQ Air Force; Bob DE SANTO is showing Mesa, AZ as his new home. Also in the Southwest is John HE1DE living in El Paso and a student in the College of Education at University of Texas at El Paso. John complained that his BS degree from USAFA and master’s degree were not acceptable for teaching credentials in Texas. He must pass (take) the Texas high school exit exam first. Hey! Boeing doesn’t even recognize USAFA degrees as degrees if you graduated in one of the first three classes. They still don’t accept any service Academy degrees for engineering work. Ken BROMAN’s new address is in Aiken, SC, far from the cold winter of Cedar Rapids, IA. Lastly, Hugh COLEMAN’s new address is Longview, WA.

That’s it for this time. Only one more year until 1993. Take care!

Bob Hovde

8500 Camden St.

Alexandria, VA 22308

Home: (703) 799-6649

Percent members: 72

IPTWell, here it is December, and Sandy says that I really need to get serious about finding a job. On the other hand, we have a new front door, a new window in the back, and a bathroom that is stripped to the studs. As soon as my new shower pan arrives and I do the tile work, we’ll have a new (hopefully non-leaking) bathroom. Sandy says that my “projects” take too long. I tell her that I just prefer to do a job only once especially if it includes ripping out a wall! Denny MADL tells me that he has been renovating the lower level of his house also. He has moved walls and torn out a bathroom, but is almost finished. (Denny, when you own a house, you’re never finished!)

NAVY GAME: (46-6) Poor Navy (Ha!). The only football game they won all year was against Army. (Some of my Army friends really lost their shirts on that one!) Several of the ’64 grads that live in this area were there. Bill SIEG made most of the signs for the AOG, including some of the class banners. They really turned out very well. All this time I thought that Sherri was the artistic talent in the family!

Bob HALEY and Ed HARVEY were also there. I visited Ed at his office one day. He has a small communications satellite there. The Navy paid to have it built, but now can’t decide if they want to pay for having it launched. When they finally get around to it, they’ll probably wonder why everyone at the company is gone working on other projects. It reminds me of a couple of projects I had in the Air Force.

Ron WISHEIR was down from New Jersey for the game, while Bill

DOUGLASS (HQ USAF/LGM) was the only active-duty ’64 grad I saw. During the tailgate party before the game, Jeff LEVY entertained us with tales of owning a limosine company. (Just how he came to have the company is a long tale itself.) Anyway, he had decided that limos were not a money-making proposition in Washington, DC, and that he will probably get out of the business as soon as he can. Meanwhile, he is also involved with a software company. As the new CEO, he is tasked with making the company profitable. (I know, that’s what CEOs are supposed to do. This company just hasn’t figured out how to do it yet.)

CHANGE -OF-ADDRESS CARDS: A1 ROGERS is back in D C. returning from SHAPE Operations Division. Stu MCCURDY is also back from the Pacific. He’s now at Bergstrom AFB, TX. Rog HEAD has moved from Albuquerque to Alton, NM. Marty NEUENS is close by in Tucson, AZ, while Tom MORRIS has moved from Boulder, CO to Arlington, TX.

LETTERS: Terry ISAACSON writes from Tempe, AZ where he just retired. He left the Philippines on Sept 16, the day the Philippine Senate voted NOT to ratify the US/RP Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Security. Terry was retired at a flagpole retreat ceremony at Williams AFB, with Tom BROWNING officiating (see photo). Tom is stationed across town, serving as commander at Luke AFB. (For those of you who have not kept up with the new Air Force, all bases will soon have a general officer as commander. The commander will be in charge of everything on the base, from flying to street cleaning.) Terry says it was a great honor to have Tom present him the flag which flew over Willie on his last day in the Air Force.

Bob CLARK also writes from Alaska. He retired in Feb 1991 to take a job as deputy commissioner for Health and Social Services in Anchorage. (Bob was the management expert in the office his boss was the MD.) Unfortunately, the state legislature cut the office budget too deeply for his newly-created slot to be sustained, and he was out of a job as of the end of August. (Hopefully, both of us will have jobs by the time this is published!)

I also got a nice personal note from Jim WHEELER congratulating me on making it to civilian.

HIGH FLIGHT: For those of you who missed Space Shuttle Mission STS-44, Fred GREGORY was the commander again. The crew successfully launched the Defense Support Program satellite via the inertial upper stage rocket. Unfortunately, one of their shuttle computers broke and they had to return a day early landing at Edwards rather than Kennedy Space Center as planned.

ORDINATION: On the 10th of December, Paul BELMONT, Bob LEVINS, Ray BLUNT, and Steve CROKER went down to Woodbridge, VA to see Tim KLINE ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal Church. Tim now heads west for a mission in Kansas and Oklahoma. Speaking of this group, Paul is working much too hard for a retired guy. It’s hard to even get him on the phone. Meanwhile, however, he has talked Bob into going to work with him at The Analytic Sciences Corp. Bob retired the first of December, and now consults for TASC, trying to get the Space Defense Initiative Office to understand total quality management. Steve is moving, also. As the interim commander of the new Air Combat Command, he has moved to Langley AFB, VA where he is responsible for putting the new Air Force fighting command together.

D.C. THINGS: Steve RITCHIE is now the president of the American Security Council, a national policy research and information clearing house. (Steve has moved from Colorado to Washington, DC.) In November, the ASC Foundation had an award ceremony for those

members of Congress who had contributed to the “peace through strength” strategy of the last ten years. The “Peace Through Strength Victory Celebration” at the House of Representatives’ Cannon Caucus Room was well attended by a bi-partisan group of senators and congressmen. A few of us from ’64 also showed up to lend our support to Steve. Of course, the free food/drinks weren’t important (see photo).

John GRAVES has been doing a super job of tracking down all ’64ers who show up in the area. There are 57 of us on his list, which he publishes every couple of months. In November, he coordinated the first of a series of ’64 lunches, to be held once a quarter. Seventeen of us made it to Ft Myers for a very good lunch and a few “war stories”. Harvey MANEKOFSKY is still keeping the civil engineers at Systems Command straight. (He helped get one of my laboratory building projects funded last year.) Mike WOOD works for Lockheed doing computer intelligence analysis. Karl WIDMEYER is back from the Far East. Bill BODE is busy doing his lawyering in D.C. Actually, it was just good to be back in a place where a few of us can get together for lunch without having to make it a big deal. We will do it again in February, and once per quarter from now on.

PHONE CALLS: Sandy got a call from Jeanne WITTRESS (Bill). Both she and Bill are working for Boeing in Seattle. (Doesn’t everyone in Seattle work for Boeing?) Bill works for Boeing Computer Systems, while Jeanne works on the B-2 program. They have also moved into a new house not too far from their old one.

Sandy and I wish each and every one of you a happy and prosperous 1992. For those of you who do manage to prosper this year (perhaps a tall order, considering the economy), please remember that the Association of Graduates still needs help to finish the funding on the new AOG building it will only take a little bit from each grad to finish it.

Ed Farrell

13015 Blanche Coker

San Antonio, TX 78216

Home: (512) 496-3537

Percent members: 68

We begin our first column of the New Year on a very sad note. Bill HARWOOD died on December 1 after a long and determined fight against cancer. Carol and their three sons are now living at 703 Monty Circle, Panama City, FL 32405. Carol expressed her deep appreciation for the support she and Bill received particularly from Bill’s classmates in “Tiger Ten”.

As 1992 begins, we suggest a resolution for each of you who mail out an annual Christmas letter to friends and relatives. We hope you will send a copy of your letter to one of the four class scribes because your letters are a source of information which we can pass on to everyone who reads Checkpoints.

The San Antonio Chapter of the Class of 1965 held our third annual mini-reunion along the San Antonio Riverwalk in October, and welcomed John and Susan TAIT to our expanding group. John is stationed at Kelly AFB as chief of the International Engine Program. They are happy to be away from the Pentagon, but we think this is a temporary stop on their journey farther west (i.e., Colorado or New Mexico) San Antonio is too much of a big city for their likings. Susan is actively pursuing her

career as an artist with her major complaint being not enough room in the house to spread out her art supplies.

Jerry and Dee KEYSER are celebrating their eighth Christmas in Arizona and are expecting their second grandchild. Jerry is now the chief experimental test pilot for the McDonnell Douglas helicopter operation in Phoenix, and still claims to love his job even though paperwork has increased and flying time has decreased. Dee spent 1991 working for the American Red Cross Chapters in the Phoenix area.

Bill GROSVENOR returned to Randolph as the ATC inspector general, after a two-year tour as the wing commander at Laughlin AFB. Bill and Trish have a son who lives in Dallas and teaches advanced math concepts to inner-city 4th, 5th and 6th grade students, and a son who lives in Houston and works as a consultant.

For those of you who frequent the skies with American Airlines, please take heed that Ed FARRELL now teaches American’s air crews about the engines on the 727. Ed has a part-time apartment in the Las Colinas area and would enjoy hearing from anyone passing through the Dallas area.

Larry RANK called to invite anyone passing through the Portland, OR International Airport to visit him. He is the assistant city manager in Portland, in charge of the airport terminal.

Rick ZURBRUGG wrote about a mini-reunion held in Barrington, IL in November hosted by Warren LANGLEY and a broken-down former football player named Joe O’GORMAN. Rick was shy on details, but did remember that Bart HOLADAY, Bob PANKE, Kary LAFORS, Gordon BOOZER and Mark JOHNSON, and spouses were in attendance. Rick also informed us he and Jo have decided to move to a warmer climate and will be living in Hilton Head, SC after Dec 15th. He issued an open invitation to us to drop in when on the island.

Bob PANKE ran the New York Marathon this fall in under 3:20 qualifying him for the next Boston Marathon. Bob has formed a new publishing joint venture which pools the talents of several artisits to create one-of-a-kind greeting cards.

Sam GRAVES lives in Boston where he teaches at Boston University. Sam and Florence ski as often as possible and spend time restoring their 100-year-old Victorian house. Florence, who for years was the managing editior of Common Cause magazine, is now starting a new magazine for women.

Skip COX received a letter from Tim GRAVES who reports there are about 80 ’65 grads in the D.C. area. Tim and Jerry WILKOWSKI are on the board of the Air Force Academy Society of Washington, DC; Tim is the treasurer. The ’65 class party is scheduled for Feb 22 at the Bolling AFB Officers Club, and Jim VICK, the commander of the Air Force District of Washington, is in charge of planning.

The recent Air Force/Navy game brought together classmates who congregated around Rich SINER’s vehicle where Tim GRAVES raised a USAFA ’65 banner. Gary FAUSTI came from Atlanta, Jim ROBINSON came from California, Wendell HARKELROAD came from New Jersey where he’s starting a new trucking compnay, Ray BRILL set up space-age tents from his World Shelters, Inc., and Mike SHORT came from Langley.

Flash WILEY was in D.C. recently to visit his sister-in-law, the mayor of Washington, DC. Flash also appeared on the front page of the Washington Post because the mayor was married in his home of Boston.

An update to our last report on Joe HENDERSON. He decided towing banners over the beaches of Panama City was not sufficiently exciting, so he and Stevie have now opened an indoor target range called Gun Fun. Daughter Melanie is doing wonderfully with the San Francisco Ballet, and son Michael is studying engineering at the University of New Mexico.

Changes of address: Bruce GROSSETTA from Europe to a retirement home in Tucson, AZ; B/Gen Mike SHORT from Bergstrom AFB, TX to Langley AFB, VA, where he will be the assistant DCS/Operations at HQ TAC; Keith JOHNSON from Vacaville, CA to Rancho Cordova, CA; Howard HILL from Shalimar, FL to Niceville, FL; Jim WILSON from

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Mission Viejo, CA to Laguna Niguel, CA; Curt NELSON from Monterey, CA to APO Miami 34023; Jim BEAVERS from Niceville, FL to APO New York 09802; Tad OELSTROM to APO New York 09012; Chuck JOHNSON transferred to Japan with the OSI; Larry FARRELL moved from AF/PR to DLA; Terry SHILLING left General Electric in Valley Forge and joined Fairchild; Brad GREMS has moved to Blacksburg, VA, joining Tom HAMILTON who is PAS at VPI; Marv ALME, Gary CLOSE, Jim ALSOBROOK and Ken HOUGH are back in the D.C. area; and John WARDEN has moved to the Old Executive Office Building as a special assistant to Vice President Dan Quayle.

Late breaking bulletins: Bob PRICE retired in Anchorage and will be working with Tim MCCONNELL in the public utility business (no word on where, but we believe Tim still lives in New Hampshire). Bill SANCHES is back in the air, this time with Airborne Express now you know who is to blame if your package does not arrive on time. Ray CHOJNACKE will retire the end of December, Mike RICHEY retired in October, and Lowell SCHUKNECHT retired and moved to Lewiston, ID. John LOVE retired and moved to Fort Worth, Dan HOLOVIAK retired and says he is just loafing, Steve TALLEY retired and moved to Pico Rivera, CA; Tony MRAS retired and moved to Fairfield, CA; and Mike PHILLIPS retired and moved to the D.C. area.

That’s all for this edition. Keep the cards, letters, and phone calls coming.

Ryan Denny

1210 Applewhite Road

O’Fallon, IL 62269

Home: (618) 624-4255

DSN: 576-5007

Percent members: 73

Greeting Redtags and how about that Reunion! I’ll give a short review of the weekend’s events for those of you who couldn’t make it. This may also help to fill in a few of those blank spaces for some of you who did make it.

First of all, a tremendous “THANKS” to Marty DAACK, Tom MARKHAM, Hans MUEH, Bill RILEY, Paul VIOTTI, Jim WOODY, and all the others who worked so hard to make sure the rest of us had fun. And we did have fun. About 175 of our classmates found their way to Colorado Springs one more time. After a great reception on Thursday night, I found myself with a hard-core group sitting around in one corner of the ballroom. Our wives had already deserted us and Bill MANNING was swapping lies with Dick THOMPSON and Denni WATSON about how much fun they had during intramural boxing. Do you remember going swimming after the 100th Night Dining-In? Or how about painting the F-102 with red spray paint? (The kind that didn’t wash off.) We remembered these and a lot of other things we had done just a few short years ago.

On Friday we wandered around the Cadet Area, the Academy in general, and C-Springs. I got lost because the Kachina Lounge wasn’t there any more. Everything had changed at least a little, but those beautiful mountains were still the same and the memories kept rolling right down them. And almost all those memories are good ones. To formalize our memories of the 26 classmates who are no longer with us, we

Class of ’66

25 years later!

had a short, moving, memorial service on Friday afternoon. J.O. MCFALLS and Rusty GIDEON (both BGs) laid a wreath at the class wall and then we all (voluntarily) went into the chapel where Marty DAACK read all 26 names to the reply of “Absent, sir!” by a cadet from our classmate’s squadron. The Cadet Choral sang. They were always great, but the female cadet voices really add a lot to their sound. The rest of the evening was much lighter as we ate, drank, and danced all night at the Marriott. Everyone I talked to seemed to be either a doctor, lawyer, or airline pilot. Maybe they were the only ones with money and time to make it to the reunion. In spite of all the lawyers, it was a sharp-looking, suecessful bunch of fun-loving guys.

The football game against Army on Saturday was lackluster, but did result in a 25-0 win. There were a few announcements made about some rowdies who were sailing pizza boxes into the crowd. I’m glad that I didn’t know any of them, but they were all wearing red hats. The highlight of the pregame show was when a cadet parasailer jumped into the stadium carrying a sign that said “Col and Mrs WACKER, can I marry your daugher, Dawn?” Bill was impressed, but Beverly is still thinking it over. Saturday night was squadron get-togethers and more reminiscing about upper classmen we liked or didn’t like. Arne WEINMAN and I made a low pass at the Golden Bee, but it was too full of zoomies to get a seat. Some things never change.

We saw way too many people that weekend to remember what everyone was doing, but I’ll pass on what little I can. Ken HACKER is retired and working for the FAA in Atlantic City, NJ. He was looking good in fact, he looked younger than he did at the last reunion. Terry HIGGINS (of gymnastics fame) is living in Georgia, engaged in his favorite hobby starting up nuclear power plants. Arne WEINMAN did retire from the wing commander job at Fairchild AFB and is planning on building houses in the Spokane area. Bill REAVEY is a lawyer in San Diego. Gary HOFFMAN is a lawyer in Sacramento. Lyle KOEN is a retina surgeon in Austin, and Steve SWARTZ is flying for American Airlines out of Los Angeles. (What did I tell you?) John FAL just moved into a huge house in Monument and is running the training department for Logicon in C-Springs. His wife was out of town, so we partied at John’s house on Saturday night. Paul SHERIDAN is a systems analyst for United Technologies in San Diego and Vic ANDREWS is running the Center for Low Intensity Conflict at Langley AFB.

It was a super reunion, but I was having too much fun to take many notes. Besides, if you were there, you know firsthand what everybody is doing. If you weren’t there, this paucity of information might encourage you to get to the 30th Reunion to find out what really happened to the Class of 1966.

Stay in touch. Until the next time Happy Landings!

Greetings one and all, and Happy ’92... For those of you who still are not aware, this is the year of the 25th anniversary of our graduation,

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when we all pinned on our little gold bars and drove our ’Vettes, GTOs, MGBs, etc into the big wide Air Force world. And what a 25 years it has been.

Here is what is going on amongst us, as reported by a variety of class sources.

Roy MILLER wrote a brief note saying that Ray WATTS is retired and living in Tucson where he may join Roy’s Arizona AFA liaison officer unit. Roy was recently selected as the outstanding liaison officer commander in the U.S.

Lots of information in a long letter from Bob MULDROW, who kept his job as director of Conventional Ops for SAC and added the additional duty as SAC’s chief of the Air Combat Command Transition Team. He describes that as being a golden opportunity to irritate two MAJCOMs all by himself. His son Scott is a junior at the U of Michigan while their younger son is a high school senior trying to decide on the right college. Bob says that he and wife, Dale, are looking forward to the welfare lines next year when they have both kids in college.

Bill STROUD is at Langley and is part of TAC’s reorganization transition team. He and wife, Jan, recently had their second child, which seems to make them the current leaders of the youngest offspring competition.

Paul SCHLICHTER and wife, Bev, live just outside Dallas where Paul has “danced very successfully from banking to pet food to security systems.” They, the Muldrows and Steve LANDERS were to have a minireunion after a soccer tourney in Dallas. Steve and Sherry went from Wright-Patterson AFB to Brooks AFB to start up an acquisition program for the medical community there, from whence he moved on into “... the pseudo-SPO business of life support.”

Ralph and Tommie FEMRITE are back at USAFA where he is the DP and she is very active in the Women’s Aglow Movement. I hope I did not reverse the order of those. Bob described Ralph as “disgusting” for having neither gained a pound nor lost a hair since zoomie days.

Dick NEATE and Lois are in Iowa where he teaches electrical engineering at Maharishi University. Dick is no longer a strict vegetarian and is renewing his golf game “after years of neglect.” The Neates have two kids.

Bob PASTUSEK is at Langley and is “still going a mile a minute.” He and wife, Judy, just purchased “another dream townhouse” on the water near the base.

Last year the Offutt crowd had a holiday party at Muldrows. The gang included BGen (sel) Gene LUPIA, working as a congressional staffer while waiting to pin on his first star; Don OWENS, who is the #2 SAC logistics guy and who had his hand on the stick for an extended period ineluding DESERT SHIELD/STORM; and John WRIGHT, who retired in Omaha and is now in the computer contracting business. Thanks, Bob, for all your info.

Bill HALL sent a Seagram’s Seven newsletter, chock full of pearls. From it came the following: Tom and Beth GRIESSER hosted a minireunion at their home in Monument for John HOLLSTEIN, A1 and Kathie DAINES, Rich and Gayle BEBEE, and Linda MILNE who represented Pete, in St Louis installing window shades (?). Tom had returned from Torrejon, is now the CAP regional director and was to leave shortly to take some classes in mountain flying. A1 is working on his MS in MIS and will probably remain in that field when he retires. Rich is attempting to get his ’67 Corvette roadworthy again. Pete is heavily involved in his work as deputy director for the Defense Mapping Agency, which particularly appeals to his navigator instincts. Bill had also heard from Rich RODRIGUEZ who is at Bergstrom AFB where he plans to retire after the base closes next year. Bill signed off with a note that he recently made/survived his 201st parachute jump his first jump in 23 years.

Hendrick “Hand” ARNOLD wrote that he had retired from the Army Medical Corps in June and settled in C-Springs where he is in private practice. Others from CS-17 in Colorado include A1 LUNDBERG, Skip PUMFREY and Chuck DENHAM. They have gathered a few times and look forward to the Big Reunion over our 25th. Hand expanded a bit on the career adventures of the Denhams. Chuck recently retired after a computer oriented career, much of which was classified and involved work for NASA in Houston; a hardship tour in Woomera, Australia, for two years; and Peterson AFB in C-Springs. Chuck and wife, Carolyn, plan to travel a bit in Europe and Australia before settling down.

Another of our generals, John MCBROOM, sent a note from Langley

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describing how much he enjoys working with the media. Best wishes in all future contacts with these dedicated defenders of their free speech and right to know what they want to tell.

From the AOG: Keith SWEATLAND moved to Shalimar, FL; Ralph LESLIE to Kirkland, WA; BGen (sel) Peyton COLE to a different location but still in Alexandria, VA; Ray WATTS moved to Tucson since Bob Muldrow’s letter to me; Roger HILL is at APO 09703 (?); Roger CARLETON is at SHAPE SPACOS at APO 09705 (?); Fred GROSICK is now in Ashburn, VA; and Doug BRAZIL has moved to Albuquerque.

In case there are some of you who have not read a newspaper or watched a news show in the past year, there are some monumental changes taking place in the AF and in Europe. I am here observing some of those changes. It would be impossible for me to convey their magnitude. Reorganization of the AF; slimming down the military and its ramifications for many, many good talented people; rethinking conflict scenarios now that there is no longer a Warsaw Pact or USSR to defend Europe against; escalating environmental issues; belt-tightening, recession, and/or inflation, and dollar devaluation against European currencies; pilot excess and SERB issues; and an election year when it seems to be politically correct to claim that a strong military is simply too expensive... Our 25-year legacy class will have a brave new world to contend with.

Have your doolies, kids, staffs, etc recite in their recitations of Checkpoints” that 15-18 Oct is our 25th. Plan to attend the AFA gala for a glorious homecoming.

P.S. By the time this is printed I will have been on my first ski trip in the Alps. Keep them cards and letters coming in.

Tim Davidson

12 Lake Lorraine Circle

Shalimar, FL 32579

Home: (904) 651-1372

Office: (904) 884-2271

DSN: 579-2271

Percent members: 64

The turkey and stuffing are history along with the New Year’s resolution I made in 1991 to cut down on what I eat during major holidays. To prevent an embarrasing confrontation with my talking scale, I think I’ll wait a few weeks before stepping back onto the thing.

HELLO ’68! Congratulations to all you Cold Warriors who bolstered America’s defense against the former Soviet Union. Your skill and cunning, mixed with a bankrupt Marxist-Leninist ideology, have removed our nation’s foremost adversary from the face of the globe. It is time to buy stock in Rand McNally and new civics textbooks to help this country recover from a more universal adversary, i.e., a faltering economy. I wish I could get those mental images of one of our required Doolie English novels, Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, out of my head.

Madsen holds sister, Sky, born 30 July 1991.

This first photo was used to stake Jim and Debbie MADSEN’s claim to having the youngest progeny from the Class of ’68. Congrats to Jim and Debbie and best wishes for a child who sleeps through the night!

Having just read the Fall ’91 Checkpoints, I want to ensure Bob PAVELKO and family that the extra “Z” on his name was an editorial addition and not on my original copy. Same thing goes with “third” versus “thrid” under the WAG photo.

SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 1968. WARNING: NO ONE ELSE MAY READ THIS MESSAGE! All of you out in Check-

points Land realize that (your eyes are getting heavy) it is just a matter of time (your eyes are getting heavier!) before your subliminal consciousness (your eyes are getting even heavier!) urges you to write and send those all important family photos to your Scribe. So don’t wait another minute. (Write to your Class Scribe!) Know it is the right thing to do and that you really want to do it. (Write and send photos to your Class Scribe!) Be like Pat MCBRIDE, and write and send a family photo to your Class Scribe! (You will feel better about yourself as a human being after writing to your Class Scribe!)

Chalk up

classmate who finally succumbed to a primal need to write to his Clas leribe. In his letter, Pat MCBRIDE said that everytime he got his Checkpoints he always intended to write, but never got around to getting the letter off. This time his good intentions turned into action. Thanks, Pat!

Son Brian and daughter Katie will graduate from college this spring, Brian from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL, and Katie from the University of Notre Dame. Cindy is a sophomore at Notre Dame, Karen is a sophomore at Elston High School (in Michigan City her dad’s alma mater), Kevin is a high school freshman at Culver Military Academy, and Wendy is a fifth-grader.

For the past six years, Pat and Rusty have shown an affinity for horses. Jumping, cross-country, and riding along the shores of Lake Michigan with their three Arabians have been exhilarating for them. They have also ventured to Ireland on four occasions, which included riding with the Fox Hunt Clubs. Pat signed off with a look forward to our 25th Reunion.

I received nice Christmas letters and photos from Elizabeth Linsmayer and Rob’s brother, Christopher, thanking the class for support following Rob’s death. Also received a note from Pat and Nita RUSSELL that all is going well in Las Vegas. Phil PIGNATARO wrote that he completed his probationary period with United Airlines on Dec. 20, but that the recession took Martha’s private pediatric practice that she had enjoyed for the past four years. Martha is now teaching pediatric nurse practitioners at the Universtiy of Maryland two days a week. Son Gregory, at age two, keeps both Phil and Martha on their toes. Phil said he sees Gordie WAGNER (United 727 copilot out of Chicago) and Brooke BAILEY (United 727 flight engineer out of D.C.) often.

Speaking of Brooke BAILEY, I received his bright, green-colored Christmas letter that told of happenings in or about his homestead in Springfield, VA. Wife, Cathy, is working full time for Nations Bank (formerly Sovran). Daughter Liz was captain of her West Springfield High School tennis team and will be attending the University of Virginia this fall. In addition to flying, Brooke does some consulting work with his brother in the area of business speaking. His golf handicap is down to 12.

Also got a card from one of my old Basic Summer Cougar Flight buddies, Michael “Tony” BARIBEAU. Tony now lives with wife, Jean, in Scottsville, KY and manages a computer shop. For recreation, they spend most of their free time riding their Honda Goldwing around the USA. They are also heavily into Country and Western dancing. I think you will have to admit, Tony, it’s been a few years between your “Heyup!” on the North Road under arms and the “Yeehah!” to Alabama and Garth Brooks in Kentucky! Thanks for the update.

Joel GORDES has very much enjoyed his first year away from the Connecticut legislature by continuing his work in the field of energy conservation. Together with Lin, Joel has taken great pride in renovations around the house (hardwood floors) and outdoor enterprises (beautifully landscaped gardens). Marty and Claudia COLE issued their annual Cole-

O-Gram that provided a handy update on their new abode in Albuquerque. Marty is still flying with Southwest and Claudia is taking great pride in a home that she really enjoys. Also from the Southwest circuit came news from Bashful Bob DALEY who is anxiously awaiting wife, Mercy’s, completion of her PhD.

Jim REESE discovered that Cecille CASTRO’s plight has worsened. After already waiting five years, when her father died her petition for emigration had to be initiated all over again. Our next action will be to try to get assistance from a U.S. Congressman. If we are unsuccessful, Cecille will not be eligible for emigration for another six to ten years!

On a happier note, Jim ran into a bunch of our gang during his flying duties with Delta. He went to the sixth game of the World Series with Rob Linsmayer’s dad. He saw Ernie and Joanne HOUGHTON in Rochester Hills (near Detroit). Ernie is involved in a family business that handles waste water from industrial tools. He bumped into Dick COE, who is an MD 88 copilot out of Dallas and who will be upgrading to the A310 in January with a basing change to JFK. He regularly sees Cuffy KELSO and John SWANSON, both of whom are copilots. He saw Steve MISH’s flight kit in D.C., but not Steve. Steve is also based in Dallas. Finally, he bumped into A1 PRICE, a 737 captain based out of Atlanta.

Lisa and I received a beautiful picture of the STALEY family printed onto their Christmas newsletter. Steve will retire in 1992 and has already landed a job as the director of Recruitment, Retention, and Advising at the Universtiy of Colorado in C-Springs. In addition, he and Connie completed their book, Communicatin in Business and the Professions: The Inside Word, which was published in October.

’68 SPOTLIGHT

The ’68 Spotlight for Winter 1991-1992 falls on Richard E. (DickE) FALLON. After flying stints in helicopters at Sheppard, Vietnam, Edwards, and Eglin, and serving as a life support officer at Edwards, Eglin, and Tyndall, DickE retired from the USAF in 1986 to form his own electronics company. His corporate empire grew by another enterprise in 1991 so that he now owns D & S Electronics and is co-owner of ETS Computer Sales and Repair. Both companies are located in Fort Walton Beach, FL.

When I asked DickE what the Academy meant to him, he reflected on advise that he gave his son, Josh, who is now in his doolie year. He said, “what I really was searching for was something from my hindsight that would significantly affect his foresight... I guess that it’s been a long time since I thought about how proud I am to be a graduate of the Class of

1968 and how lucky I am to have alumni friends that I can trust under the most trying situations... The Academy not only gave me the academic skills necessary for success, but helped to shape my character in life. In hindsight, the price paid with hard work, perseverance, and dedication was small compared to the reward the self-confidence to maintain the highest levels of honesty and integrity. So, what did I tell my son?... The most important thing to remember is, no matter how tough it gets, it is worth the effort. The rewards that you will reap from your efforts will help you to develop the type of character that cannot be purchased for any monetary price. The values that you establish will last well beyond your Air Force career and will allow you to do things that others only dream of. Now, I only hope that he listens better than I did.” Thanks, DickE, for meaningful reflections from your past and the hopes and values that you have passed on for the future.

’68ers On The Move: Charlie COOLIDGE to Omaha, NE; Bob HUGHES to Rockford, IL; Rich MIZELL to Alexandria, VA; Roger SORENSEN to Abu Dhabi, UAE (Cinda SORENSEN is staying in Alexandria, VA while Roger is overseas); Ed THOMAS is retiring from Sharon Dr. to Ruckel Dr. in Niceville, FL; Jim WIGGINS to Byron, CA; Roger WILES to Austin, TX; and Bob WILLIAMS to Great Falls, MT.

OK sportsfans, let’s have one solid USAFA Pre-Game for the Liberty Bowl! Mind the flak, keep’em flying, and keep those cards (your eyes are getting heavy), letters (your eyes are getting heavier!), and photos (you will feel better about yourself as a human being!) coming to your Class Scribe!

Lindsey Parris

5926 Colfax Ave.

Alexandria, VA 22311

Home: (703) 998-0488

Work: (703) 475-1463

DSN: 335-1463

Percent members: 62

Happy Holidays all. ’91 has been a humdinger, and here’s hoping that by the time you read this, ’92 will be off to a roar. Very little news to pass along to you this season, with little time to seek out or even fabricate it.

Terry LUMME has relocated from Burbank, CA to Tionesta, PA. Ed ALLEN and Tom FLEMING are way up north in Alaska. Tom KECK, long a SAC kinda guy and most recently the commander at Beale, is now ensconced deep in the heart of Langley AFB and living on a road called Tyndall, a good example of the new composite wing structure’s impact on assignments. In November, Rich KELLS moved from Fayetteville, NC to Ocala, FL. Scott SONNENBERG relocated from Poquoson, VA to Europe, where he commands the 432 OPG. Walter BERG is also overseas at an APO address. Marty PAGE is in Plano, TX. Tim MUELLER is at Hill AFB near Salt Lake City.

My answering machine received calls from two 3rd squadron ’69ers, Jim PETEK and Jeff POSNER, Jim being in town with the AX Project Office and Jeff relocating from Europe. Haven’t spoken to either yet, though I’ve tried hope to pass along more on them next time.

Craig UPTON finds himself in Raleigh, NC, having relocated from Plattsburgh, NY. Terry SCHWALIER still heads the Colonels Group and is well known to most ’69ers who continue to wear the blue suit on a dialy basis. Chuck ALDRICH relocated from Dale City, VA to San Angelo, TX. Rich BASSI has changed towns in New Mexico, from Albuquerque to Rio Rancho. Gary HOE retired and is now a senior engineer and chief of the electrical engineering department for Merrick & Company, an architectural/engineering and consulting/construction firm based in Denver with a major branch in Los Alamos, NM. Gary and family will live in Albuquerque until his daughters graduate from high school. Burr CRITTENDEN is the vice wing commander at Kunsan, Korea. Doug SCHOTT has retired, and moved from Rapid City, SD to Oak Ridge, TN.

A1 MCCREE is living in Tennessee, somewhere near Brentwood, where he heads an outfit called Musical Concepts. In effect, A1 is a professional speaker and a musical humorist who fills the role of keynote or afterdinner speaker for groups nationwide. He speaks on two primary subjects: ‘‘What Does It Take To Be Happy?” and ‘‘The Leadership Contract.” Seems he also puts out a quarterly publication called the LOBE (for Loyal Order of the Balding Eagles), and unabashedly has turned his hair deficit into an entertainment asset. Of course, there are many of us who could speak on the subject, but no one as entertainingly as does Al.

Wayne WARREN, living in Phoenix, is a first officer with Delta Airlines based out of Dallas. Wayne and Nikki invite all ’69ers passing through Phoenix to stop by. Pictured are their son and daughter who are

Matt and Piper Warren getting their first exposure to the Zoo. Terry BRADY, now living in Arlington, VA, will begin flying for United Airlines sometime in the winter of ’92.

The Hansons

Robin HANSON is still a sales executive with Digital Equipment Corporation in Denver, but in a more important vein reports that he has just become a father for the first time. Pictured are beaming poppa and momma and twins Michael and Kevin. Robin figures he’ll have to work until age 80 to put them through college!

Some cards and letters, please. Merry Christmas every day. Lindsey.

Tony Marietta

1070 Knollwood Circle Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-3201

Work: (719) 593-8888

(800) 451-7217 (outside of Colo. Spgs.)

Percent members: 59

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The cards and letters are still coming in. You guys really can write, call and use cameras. It’s great!

Had a long talk with Tim SHARKEY regarding the Desert Storm action. He was in General Horner’s command as SAC advisor for all Air Wars. Tim was in charge of B-52s, U-2s, and RC-135s. ‘‘No green light” from Tim meant “No Go” (I call that a major, major, major player). Tim was in charge of the crisis action at SAC for the invasion of Kuwait and had four hours to deploy. Talk about “last call for a noon meal formation.” He said he mentioned to his wife, “Oh Carol, I know you were planning on doing some of my laundry tomorrow, but maybe it would be a good idea to start the machine tonight say in 1-2 minutes.” Tim did find time to see AFA vs Ohio State (past Liberty bowl). There were supposedly no TVs to be found at the Royal Saudi AF headquarters, buuuut the Academy’s SERE training paid off as six grads went on a mission to “seek, find, and control a TV.” At 2 a.m. they slithered quietly into the unit of General CARUANA (’63) and watched a great game. They were nice enough to ask if he wanted to join them. Tim is now stationed at SAC headquarters in Omaha in charge of the SAC-TAC transition. Tim and wife, Carol, have five children, ages 21, 19, 15, 10, and 8. Also Tim

coordinated the “fly overs” for the B-l, B-52, and ’135R aircraft at the AFA vs Wyoming game. Must have worked we won. Thanks, Tim!

Tim said he saw Ross JOHNSTON and his wife, Marty, at Lake Okoboche or Okonoke or anyway, he said they were doing great. Drop me a line Ross and Marty.

Talked with Terry PFAFF. He is flying with United and lives in Spokane with his 11-year-old son, Nathan. Terry is also with a SAC national guard unit. He stated that his unit is still together but there appears to be many changes on the horizon. Hope they are good ones. I believe Terry flew KC-135s in Desert Storm, but since my notes are illegible, I can’t verify it. Sorry, Terry. Terry said Dave PERRON and John PENNY are working for United (currently in Denver), and that George RAYL and Tom RAYL are flying for United and Continental. Looks like the ’70 grads are controlling the skies.

Received a nice letter from Gary COVINGTON. Gary is in the oil exploration and production business in Texas. He originally entered the field in 1977 and is currently a vice president. Gary sent a great picture of his 12-year-old daughter, Darcy, and his 10-year-old son, Daniel. That is Gary’s greasy old flying jacket with the 390th TFS patch next to the new 390th ECS patch. Some minor changes, but the same old Wild Boar. Gary saw this new patch when he was attending the EAA fly-in convention at Oshkosh, WI. Since he had flown the F-111A and the F models, he was super excited but not enough to hold his old greasy flying jacket, so he pleaded with his daughter to do it. You pilots never do like to get your hands dirty. Gary says he still flies all the time in his civilian T-41. He said he really enjoyed the 20th reunion and is looking forward to the 25th. Thanks for the letter and get your jacket dry-cleaned.

Got a great letter from Rick BEREIT. I mentioned in my last article that he had won the Lt. Gen. Leo Marques Award for Outstanding Aircraft Maintentance Field Grade Manager of the Year for 1990. Well, I now have all of the articles written about Rick in several languages very impressive. Rick was at Spangdahlem AB, Germany at the time as assistant deputy commander for Maintenance with a group of approximately 1,800 people. Unfortunately, because of editing limitation, I cannot print the article written about Rick, but every word is praise and congratualtions for a superior job. Rick accepted the award with pride and humility. He stated that although he does the thinking, organizing and planning, it was the 1,800 maintainers who earned the award and he accepted it on their behalf. Rick was involved with Desert Storm. He was sent to Incirlik, Turkey where he was part of the flying operation Proven Force. Rick sent me some leaflets that the F-16s dropped on Iraq during the first few weeks of the war no wonder we won! Rick wanted me to say hello to Jerrv BRUNI and thank him for all of his oast efforts.

Got a super letter from Tim KINNAN with, yes, more pictures. The two beautiful young ladies are Tim and wife, Sue’s daughters: Emilie on the left and Jennifer on the right. Emilie is a junior at the SHAPE American High School in Belgium and Jennifer is a sophomore at the University of Florida. Tim mentioned that Emilie is actively working toward the USAFA Class of ’97. You must really be old Tim. Tim says they are having a fascinating time in Europe and that the only thing they know for sure is that tomorrow will be different. Tim is employed as General Davis’ (their chief of staff) executive officer. Great hearing from you and hope all is going well.

“Dad,

what is on this jacket?”

Got a Christmas letter from Ken HASSEN and wife, Kdee, with a picture of their 3‘/2 -year-old daughter, Chelsea. I am glad she takes after Kdee it’s always good when a little girl doesn’t look like an ex-football player. Chelsea told Ken that if he would show her how to tie her shoes, she would show him how to use the computer. I’m not sure Ken thought that was as funny as I did. Ken is still with the OSI in the Los Angeles

Emilie and Jennifer Kinnan. Very, very oldfather, Tim, not pictured.

Got a call from Chris DUNBAR. Chris and wife, Mary, now live in Kingwood, TX (near Houston). Chris works for Exxon in land management. Chris and Mary have two boys, 14 and 9. Chris said he saw Dave RADCLIFFE, who also works for Exxon, in Denver.

Talked with Cary CLOVICKO (’73) and he mentioned that Don RUSHING and Charles BLACK were attorneys in the San Diego area. They’re working with their local AFA chapter. Don and Charles, drop me a line.

Talked with Russ CARPARELLI, who is an attorney in Denver. I mentioned Russ in my last column, although some of the information was edited out because of space limitation. We Italians do talk. Anyway, Russ continues to help organize the Air Force Society of Colorado. He stated that there are approximately 1,500 grads in Colorado with the vast majority of them in Colorado Springs and Denver. He is extremely interested in developing the organization’s networking capability, as well as its potential for community and AFA support. He reemphasized that while the organization is independent of the AOG, it is tremendously supportive of the AOG and does not compete with it. If you would like more information about this organization, please contact Russ at 303-470-1146 or 303-278-3300.

Received a Christmas letter from Dave STERLING and wife, Donna. They live in McLean, VA. Donna is almost finished with her doctoral program in science education from George Washington University. Very impressive. Their daughter Dana, 16, is in the school color guard which has excelled in area competition. Dana is also learning to drive, which has prompted Dave to learn how to cleverly hide the car keys. Their son Douglas loves sports, excelling in baseball. Dave, who continues to lobby for the driving age to be changed to 25, is working with Motorola and still finds time to work as a scoutmaster.

Another Christmas letter, this time from Dan HANCOCK and wife, Laurie. Written in red and green type pretty clever. They are living in San Antonio, TX. Their daughter Kerri is studying nursing at the University of Northern Colorado. Their daughter Heather is a high school junior and is on the Starlite drill/dance team, which made the state semifinals in

Texas. The Hancocks said their home is always open to us when we travel. Let’s plan the 25th reunion at Dan’s house!

Yet another Christmas letter, this time from Mark EWIG and wife, Kristie. And, yes, another picture. The Ewigs live in Yorktown, VA and Mark is now Colonel Mark. (You’ll still be fondly remembered as the “Tuna” to the football players.) Congratulations! Kristie mentioned that Mark is working in intel and is actively involved with the reorganiztion of AF Intelligence. Kristie is teaching high school English and is also teaching daughter Katie to drive (you need to contact Dave STERLING on creative methods of losing the car keys). All three kids are excelling in sports good genes. The Ewigs also invite us to visit them. Maybe we could have our 30th reunion there.

The Ewig clan climbing Mt. Everest!

Got a note from Carl BANG. He mentioned a raid on the flatiron indine above the SERE camp during the ’71 and ’81 reunion. Carl and Larry BUSH bought panels and two gallons of red and white paint and arranged them into the “70” numerals that were 30’ x 30’. At 0500 Friday, 20 Sept 1991, these commandoes (or is that Yo Yos) started the climb up the hill. (At their age it was like climbing Mt Everest.) The timing was perfect because the classes were too far into Friday’s events to organize a search-and-destroy mission and the “70” numerals stood all day Friday. The Class of ’81 (much, much younger than us) was able to rearrange them by Saturday morning to look like “81”. It is certainly reassuring to know that there are grown men willing to risk their reputations for maturity and common sense in order to place the “70” numerals above the Academy. Carl also mentioned a great party that Larry VAUGHN and wife, JoAnne, had after the UTEP game. Carl says he remembers seeing the following people there: Larry and JoAnne VAUGHN (good Carl), Larry BUSH (probably still had paint on him), Carl’s wife, Barbara, (Carl must have been with the CIA before he retired), and Fred HUMKE and wife, Carol.

Got another letter and picture from John DISOSWAY. The picture was taken at the change-of-command ceremony of the 128th TFS. Are you guys having as much fun as it looks? The happy-go-lucky guy on the far right is Bill BADER. Bill took the squadron over in Nov 1991. John is in the middle trying to control his laughter and at left is BGen Don Hub-

bard, the wing commander. As I mentioned in the last newsletter, Bill is a Federal Express pilot and flies F-15s at Dobbins AFB, GA and John is a Delta pilot and also flies F-15s at Dobbins. John mentioned that there are a lot of ’70 grads in the local area. He saw Lew WEILAND in the fall and he was flying F-117s and is still an avid golfer. John saw Greg SCHWARTZ and he is flying for Northwest out of Detroit, but still lives in Marietta, GA with his wife and four children.

Got a really nice Christmas card and letter from Charles Joseph (C.J.) BOHN. C.J. says he has been trying for years to get away from “Skip” or “Skipper” and that going to AWC gave him the chance for a new start, although he confused 10 of our classmates there. Skip (oops), C.J., wife, Peggy, and three daughters live in San Angelo, TX. C.J. is deputy commander of the 3480th Student Group and has been selected for promotion to full colonel. Congratulations! Peggy is a volunteer spokesperson for the Humane Society of Tom Green County. Their three girls, Erika, Alyssa, and Kelsey are all very active in dance and excelling in school. C.J. injured his knee in karate and may need reconstructive surgery. Hope all turns out well.

Got a Christmas card from Rod (John Randolph) HORNOR and wife, Sherry. They are at AWC in Alabama. Rod says several ’70 grads are there: Jim BRECHWALD and wife, Jeannie; Craig NORTHRUP and wife, Karen (Craig is on the faculty); Tim CAREY and wife, Cathy; Doug CARLSON and wife, Susan; and Dave VOGELGESANG and wife, Deborah. Phil MEILINGER is on the faculty at ACSC. Rod wishes all peace and prosperity in 1992.

Dusty SWANSON is flying for Federal Express out of Memphis. Craig JOHNSON has moved from California to St. Louis, MO. Craig is vice president of Special Programs for McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems and is working for Randy JAYNE (’66). Craig is responsible for producing light infantry weapons, the aft propulsion system for the space shuttle and the ACES II ejection seats. That’s super, Craig.

Change-of-address time: James BURGESS to Wichita Falls, TX. Roy ALMEIDA from San Antonio to San Antonio, TX (not a big move). Francis BUCHAN from Nebraska to Woodbridge, VA. Ralph SAUNDERS from Panama City, FL to Tyndall AFB, FL. Scott HOVERSTEN from APO SF to O’Fallon, IL (welcome back). James SPURGEON from MacDill AFB, FL to Tampa, FL. Robert LEWIS from Las Vegas, NV to Upland, CA.

I am sorry to report that Terry DESSERT’S wife, Linda, passed away in September 1991. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, Terry.

I want to thank all of you for a great job of keeping in touch. Please note my new address and phone number. May 1992 be a year filled with joy and happiness for you and your loved ones.

Paul D. Knott 8941 Bellcove Circle Colorado Springs, CO 80920 (719) 282-1402

Percent members: 54

Congratulations to all of our new colonels (and any other promotees in these lean times). A glance through the AF Times netted me about 50 names of classmates who officially retired in July and August (as well as 19 new 0-6s). If you have changed Air Force blue for retired tweeds, jeans, suits, etc., let me (and the AOG) know.

You may have noticed in the last column that there is a small change to our address from the summer issue. We had rented a house at Easter time, but our landlady-to-be had her PCS orders cancelled. Luckily, nobody took me up on my housing offer, because we were still moving in when Reunion came around, and this house is slightly smaller. Speaking one last time about Reunion, Dave MCCLOY’s article from the Falcon Flyer brought back many memories. He listed some of the high points of our cadet careers, including Gen. Olds’ first Mitchell Hall speech, the fly-by, the “Lucy Show”, the Fog Bowl, “Hair”, the Stanford game, and the “dog-gone” Sugar Bowl. Excellent article, Dave.

Our first correspondent is Gordy KAGE. I actually had his letter the week we moved, but the packers buried it in a box of kitchen supplies so we didn’t find it until after the fall issue went to press. Gordy not only sent in a photo of Wayne TURK’S retirement ceremony at the Pentagon last fall, but mentioned a few job changes, including his own. He’s a colonel at SHAPE, Belgium, in the Policy Division. Mark SUCHER is a colonel on the JAG staff. Sam KAESER retired, Bob LOWE works Airlift, Dan BOHLIN is working on long-range plans and special projects while awaiting his French Air War College class date, Rich COTE is here at the Academy in the Supe’s Plans shop, and Pat MCCULLOUGH is busy in the Air Force Base Closure Office. Pat’s boss is

Dave MCCLURE. Ed MCGANN is Engine Production honcho at Kelly.

Dwayne TEHEE (Gordy’s SHAPE sponsor) works in SHAPE Strike Ops. Dale TURNER is rumored to be Gen Powell’s special assistant. Rich ZIEMET works at TAC HQ, and Paul HAMILTON is a Comm Squadron CC in Arizona.

Ann TURK, who also sent me a copy of this photo, helped identify a couple of the folks Gordy had forgotten. She also sent along photos of a mini-relunion of Frat Five that the Turks held in June. By the way, Wayne, what are you doing now?

Bob DROWLEY dropped a biographical note to the AOG with a new address Woodstock, IL and a transfer to Chicago from LAX as MD-80 first officer with American.

Change-of-address cards came from D. ALLEN at Hickam AFB, A1 BRYANT, retiring to Westminster, CO; Jim DOWNS in Albuquerque; Tom FOX to Livonia, MI; Ed MCGANN, within San Antonio; Dan NIMS, retiring to Albany, OR; Ed NOLTE, moving back to Papillion, NE; and Jackie OEHME, retiring to Beavercreek, OH. By the way, when you send in a change of address, a photo or letter to the AOG, I eventually get them. If you want to get in touch with an old roommate or classmate, let me know and I’ll send you their new address. If you want your photos back, let me know.

As you might know, the Air Force is moving to make the career track for future UPT grads clearer by changing the class “A” uniform to more closely resemble airline uniforms. Since all I know about the proposals is what I’ve seen in the papers, it might be interesting for those of you who might have actually sighted the new dress coat to comment. Pluses seem to be a plainer uniform with less junk pinned on and better fabric. My only gripe so far is the Navy sleeve insignia, but I thought that the late unlamented dress whites made us look like middies out for a night on the town, so I may be prejudiced. If the new look doesn’t make you feel like writing, how about the new ACC and AMC? How many of you will have to move or change jobs?

Hope you all had good reception for the Liberty Bowl. Our local chapter of the AOG had its first official social gathering on Sunday night with Arnie’s Cafe open for anyone who wanted to watch the game with a few fellow grads. The only other ’71 grad there was John STUBBLEFIELD and his bride, Bernadette. John has a big move in his New Year from Peterson to the Academy. Even gets a day of travel. This would have been another good year to take USAFA and even a few points. The mood was pretty ebullient after we were up 21-0, but there were a few folk looking for their blood pressure medicine during the fourth quarter until Vergil Simpson fell on the ball in the end zone. Then we thought we might just pull this one out. My congratulations to Bob KAY, ’78, who arranged things.

Thanks to those of you who have commented on the column. I do my best, but you guys are really the ones who make the news. I just report what I hear from you. Wives, don’t be shy about bragging on your men. I’m not at all adverse to passing on your comments. Indeed, if you guys want to do the same for your significant others, I’ll be only too glad to include good news of any type as long as I can make some sort of connection to ’71. Until next time then.

Ed Bishop

2011 Buoy Drive Stafford, VA 22554

Home: (703) 659-8166

Work: (202) 767-1735

DSN: 297-1735

Percent members: 47

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Andy CERON1 was considerate enough to send a letter explaining why he and Trudi didn’t make Homecoming. They’d made plans to go when Andy got a hot assignment to the AF IG staff. Now he strains to learn about Programming and Budgeting and Resource Allocation, then heads home to Fairfax to shower most of it off.

Chris BRIMS sent a short letter after the Reunion thanking the committee for their work and also sending some word on Dave MCDOUGALL. He is a full-time Army Guard LTC in Tacoma, WA flying Cobras. Chris is working with the Air Force at Eglin.

Remember Larry RANDLETT’s Lotus? His next career is involved with something a little bit faster Bobby Rahal’s racing cars, as V.P. of Operations. How far is Dublin, OH from Indy, Ramjet? I don’t know whether to ask about infield tickets or “stick” time.

Sandra EVANS sent a few lines about Bill’s job. He’s with the JCS in the Nuclear Division in the Pentagon. Their time on the beltway should be up in June, and at least one person in the Evans family is looking to move a B-52 wing to Peterson! Sandra, Academy Boulevard is doing its best to look like 1-95, but I understand what you’re saying.

Dave FROSTMAN wrote to let me know of the formation of a new graduate group called the Air Force Academy Society of Colorado. As Froggie says, their charter and ability is greater than AOG chapters; they hope to provide a service to grads and to the community at large. If you live (or are moving to) the Denver area and are interested in the society, please call Froggie at (303) 666-7877 (H) or (303) 939-6017 (W). Speaking of work, Dave works for Ball Aerospace, not Bell. Count on my predecessors to keep me straight.

I hope all of you and your families had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying a prosperous New Year. For 16 of us, the New Year should bring new rank and status (assuming a reasonable pin-on time). Congratulations to our new 0-6 selectees. Below-the-zoners include Harry CALCUTT, Gary ROBINSON, and Craig WESTON. In-the-zone (but still two years ahead of us on-timers) are Marty AMELUNG, Clint ASBURY, Larry COOPER, Bill CRUMM, Dean FOX, Andy GESSNER, Lew HENDERSON, Eric NEDERGAARD, Gary PAYTON, Jim ROBERTSON, Ken ROSEBUSH, Bill VINAL, and Mark WILLIAMS. Good job, one and all. One other promotion I’ll pass on. Remember P.K. Carlton (’69), the wing commander our doolie year? He is now Brigadier General Carlton, ATC command surgeon. The Air Force-Navy game as you know was a blowout victory for the

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good guys. Not too many of our classmates made it to the AOG tent. Those who did included Raz RASMUSSEN, Harvey LECATO and Andy GESSNER. Raz is with OSD where he works Latin America and Africa defense security assistance. Harvey works in J6E for the Joint Staff working strategic connectivity and Andy is at National War College.

My final entry to the Who Are Those Guys? contest is the next item of business. No fair using a magnifying glass to read the name tags. By the way, how many of you need to use a magnifying glass to read this article?

Who are these guys?

The mail bag brought seven very welcomed letters, including three pictures and two Christmas cards. The first came from Rich VANDAME. Rich is a staff engineer for the SAE International (The Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space). I’m not sure how the letters match up but that’s what his business card says. Rich staffs a number of technical committees that write aerospace standards. I imagine his work can only increase as the spirit of cooperation grows throughout the world. Rich also flies the AH-1S Cobra for the Army in the Pennsylvania National Guard as A CWO-2. As a warrant all he does is fly, without all the hassle of staff positions and management problems. I always thought the Army had a good way of letting pilots do the flying and support people do supporting sure eliminates the rated supplement problem. Rich, his wife Paula, and their 14-year-old son live on the family farm, along with three horses.

niece and himself (the tall one) at the Zoo overlooking the Cadet Area from the Chapel (for those of you who could not quite place the scene).

Hank HAPP wrote for the second time, a feat matched only by Marty JAYNE and Charlie BROWN. Hank proposed an A1 Parker Memorial PFT (physical fitness test for those of you who have forgotten deliberately or otherwise) during our class reunion. I passed on the suggestion to the reunion committee via Dave WAGIE. I think it’s a great idea. I don’t know if it will happen but now is the time to start conditioning (if you don’t routinely). Remember pull-ups, push-ups, broad jumps, sit-ups, and 600-yard runs. I think it’s relatively (that’s for you Hank) safe besides, with any luck one or more of our class docs will be there just in case. On the personal side, with the reorganization of the laboratories, Hank finds himself supervising 40 people, instead of doing just techie stuff, at the Phillips Lab (the old Weapons Lab) at Kirtland. Hank, they call it progress, I think.

Speaking of the Reunion Committee, heretofore known as “the Committee”, Mark MAYER wrote to volunteer to work on the Committee. Fortuitously, Bill BECK, the chairman of the Committee, wrote with his phone numbers. They are HP: (719) 599-7843, WP: (719) 472-3067, DSN: 259-3067. Please call him with your ideas and volunteer statements. Bill also submitted the photo of a typical committee meeting. Answers to the Who are those Guys? contest are: standing Dave WAGIE (tenured professor in astro) Doug BROWER (assistant deputy commandant for the Cadet Wing), and Kurt CHAMBERLIN (director of Admissions Liaison & Recruiting); sitting Steve HOYLE (tenured professor in mathematics), Bill BECK (tenured professor in economics) Scott TEEL (professor in computer science) and John BUSH (commander, 94th Airmanship [Soaring] Squadron). It’s obvious from this picture they need assistance the pitcher is still half-full.

The final letter came from Bill WALKER’S wife, Pat, along with a Christmas card. They live in Beaverton with their daughter while Bill works at Wright-Pat as the U-2 program manager in the Office of Special Projects.

Rich VanDame in his AH-1S Cobra.

Charlie BROWN wrote to say he has moved from Yokota and is now at Beale. He noted he had to get out of Yokota seems he was the only ’72 grad who wasn’t an 0-6. Bob DIERKER and Lee RODGERS were also at Yokota. Charlie is now working reconnaissance current operations in the newly-activated Second Air Force. Charlie never did tell me if Northwest ever found his baggage.

Rich also wrote he has kept in contact with Pete VOGEL. Pete is with the N.Y.-N.J. Port Authority and flies with the New Jersey National Guard. Rich commented Pete lives in New Jersey by choice. However, if the other choice is New York, New Jersey seems like the proper decision. Pete and his wife have two daughters.

Rob STONE wrote from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA where he is learning, or least being taught, Italian. After language school he’s off to Rome to the Embassy in the Office of Defense Cooperation. Rob has two ex-roommates on the 0-6 list, Gary ROBIN SON and Eric NEDERGAARD. He enclosed the pic of his daughter,

Check out the plates!

Speaking of final letters, this will be my final letter as your Checkpoints rep. Harvey LECATO has graciously volunteered to take over this responsibility. Please write or call him. I know he will appreciate your support. His address: Lt Col Harvey LECATO, 7913 Colorado Springs Drive, Springfield, VA 22153. HP: (703) 451-8950. WP: (703) 614-5651. DSN: 224-5651.

It is time for me to move on to other things. I am also retiring from the Air Force so I will be concentrating my efforts on finding new employment. Thank you very much for your support over the last four years. I leave you with my best wishes for your continued successes. Pax vobiscum.

P.S. Plan to attend the reunion, 24-27 Sept ’92.

Thomas D. Bailey, M.D.

1221 New Crest Lane

Shelby, NC 28150-9782 (704) 482-6767 or 1-800-766-1054

Percent members: 39

wGreetings from North Carolina. We’re enjoying life in a small community west of Charlotte and the multiple challenges of managing a private medical practice. As for most of us, life is very busy and we are looking forward to a trip to Colorado for some skiing, education and relaxation in February.

I’m going to start with a letter from Scott STINE. Unfortunately, it arrived about one day after I sent in the article for the Fall Edition but I think the news is still pretty current. Scott is a solo family practitioner in eastern Ohio. He and his wife, Brenda, have three children ages 6-15. Being located in a rural county I am sure Scott is filling an important need in his community.

Scott wrote with news about two other classmates. William D. CARPENTER assumed command of the 7th Tactical Fighter Squadron (Holloman AFB, NM) in May of 1991 and Kevin E. MCHUGH assumed command of the 84th Flying Training Squadron at Laughlin AFB, TX. Bill and Jennifer have a boy and two girls all under five. I can appreciate his situation since we have, in addition to two older children, a matching set of a boy and two girls under five. We wouldn’t trade them for anything but sometimes you find yourself wishing for the quiet, rest and relaxation we had in BCT! Kevin and Joanne have two teenage boys. Congratualtions to them and their families. I’m sure they’ll both use their outstanding opportunities to help improve the Air Force and the accomplishment of its missions.

Bryan CLARK sent a letter, and a great picture of a good portion of the members of 19th squadron. This was taken at their third squadron reunion (’81, ’86, & ’91). I think it represents an enviable accomplishment. They had 17 squadron member graduates, two who left early, 15 wives and 30 children in attendance. They had a great time meeting and I’m sure reminiscing (i.e., playing “remember when?”) for a long weekend in July. Bryan reports knowing the location of all their squadron mates except Vic SINGLETON. If anyone has any clue as to his location, I’m sure Bryan and the rest of the “Playboys” would like to know.

Europe. John LESSER II has moved from Fairfield to Davis, CA.

Since news seemed scarce, I got on the phone to try and get some more. I was lucky enough to reach James M. ARNETT at home in Colorado Springs. He, his wife Priscilla, and three children, Becca (15), Wendy (12), and Debbie (10) are enjoying Colorado where he works in Space Command and is chief of Stan Eval. They are looking forward to a move and a new job as commander of the Sixth Missile Warning Squadron. He filled me in on the whereabouts of many of the members of the 9th Squadron and others. Steve ANDERSON is at HQ Space Command. Tom STILWELL of the 36th Squadron was last heard from in the Austin, TX area. Steve GAST is deputy commander for Operations of the 4th Satellite Comm Sq at Holloman AFB.

Don PETTET (wife, Jan; daughter Rachel, 15) is reportedly director of Operations for an F-16 Squadron in the Washington, DC ANG. Gordy BENDICK (wife, Debbie) is at Edwards AFB. Vic THUOTTE is a civilian residing in the Boston area.

Ray BASS recently graduated from Air War College and is exec to the chief of the AF Reserve at the Pentagon. Bruce JOHNSTON is commander of the contracting squadron at Lackland AFB and Mike SCHEIFER is at HQ Recruiting Service, Randolph AFB. Brian Eric ANDERMANN has recently left Buckley for Patrick AFB. Gerry HENNINGSEN is now living in Cincinnati with his wife, Jill, and two children. He transferred to the Public Health Service after the Air Force eliminated the Veterinary Corps. He obtained an additional PhD in toxicology and is working in that field.

Karlon YOUNG is an anesthesiologist in Charlotte, NC. He came there about five years ago after separating from the Air Force and is keeping very busy. His group has several Academy grads (both AFA and West Point) and is attached to one of the largest medical centers in Charlotte.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for now. If you have any news or photographs, please send them along. Don’t be shy send family shots or whatever. Your classmates are interested.

Joe Brezovic

112 Simmons Drive

Huntsville, AL 35763

Home: (205) 882-6916

Office: (205) 726-1974

Percent members: 40 w

STARTERS: I hope all is well with you and yours! The total intake for this round is nine change-of-address cards and five letters, one newsclipping and one invitation to a change-of-command ceremony. Four of the letters were enclosed in Christmas cards thanks so much!

CHANGE OF ADDRESS: One change of address came from the North Pole! Not Saint Nick, but I bet Steve BOYCE will be looking for him as he treks the drifts there. Some individuals confess that they aren’t at the end of the world, but they can see it from where they are. Hey Steve, can you see it any better? Steve, please check with Santa on Harold MURPHREE, I have no idea where he is on the RAF exchange program. Chris CAMPBELL sent an update from Heidelberg while Eugene RICHARDSON sent a card from Ecuador. William MURRAY moved from Tampa to Virginia. James TEITJEN left Maxwell to Pratville, AL (Why? Moved out of a PO Box!). Richard and Susan PETERS now enjoy the humidity, moving from Tuscon to Biloxi, MS. Martin HARPER came back home from APO (yeah), to Abiline, TX. Philip HUGHES left Denver and now resides in Greenwood Village, CO. I almost had to move. Two of my bosses graduated from Mississippi but yes, I certainly liked the way the Liberty Bowl went this year!

LETTERS: Lots of exciting news! What a find! Stu LINDNER sent a note from his Waco, TX office, where he is prospering in new store development. Stu sent a clipping that his dad (Gary, Indiana) sent him out of the Gary Post Tribune: a great pic of proud John and Irene Vereb holding a firstie picture (one with the saber sash) of John VEREB. Our classmate is the senior pilot of eight who fly Air Force Two! John was also nearly selected as an astronaut out of the nearly 2,000 applicants. To even get that far is outstanding. The only way to beat that is to be selected. For those of you who missed last Checkpoints, Donald MCMONAGLE is selected for a future shuttle flight! All those years of training under stress finally paying off!

Address changes from the AOG include: James M. ARNETT, moving from one address to another in Colorado Springs; Richard W. SHURTLEFF moved from Mililani to Wahiawa, HI and David A. ROODHOUSE from Woodridge, England to Neu Ulm, Germany. William J. ROTHWELL, Jr. returned from Ramstein, AB to Layton, UT. Gary BLOKLAND has left Mobile, AL and now resides in Riverside, CA. Paul GUTTMAN has moved from Belgium to another location in

Speaking of training, Nick PUZAK is chairman of the local school Safety Committee. Seems this coach of an undefeated ’91 soccer team pointed out to the city, county, school district and police chief the total disregard they had for student safety. He’s a father of three I’m sure this safety position is just a sign of Nick’s leadership and no sign of overprotection! Joanne provides more young’uns to care for as she trains a Cub pack every Friday.

Charles LATHAM sent a family update of his three young’uns and wife, Kathy. He’s working on integrating AFLC and AFSC into the Air Force Materiel Command and should still be there for the next three years. Will it take that long to do it? Chuck and Kathy extend an invitation for visitors to the Wright-Pat area. Chuck did participate with the Air Force Tennis Team which won the Armed Forces match, more importantly, beating the Army for the first time in seven years! He, as well several other ’74 families, have complained about their teenage progeny taking an unbalanced share of phone time. I wonder if any parent limits the call times and length? This is an ‘all-rights’ question: any ideas on freeing up the phone for parents, short of getting their own phone line?

Another winner in competitions is Eli COLOTTA who was awarded the AF Excellence-In-Competition Gold Medal for Service Pistol Competition. Guess he’ll need it, because by now Eli is the AF liaison to the U.S. Army Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg. Wonder how much practice he had working (with the Army?) during his stint in Desert Storm. Eli must have found out how lonely single life can be but now has found someone to share trials/triumphs with. Yes, indeed, shy Eli has asked darling Doris to marry him. January ’92 is the month, no day was mentioned. So if you can, call/write congrats to Eli and Doris.

There’s one more bit of exciting news from the Dirty Dozen Family (DDF). Our own Mike “Cranny” CRANFORD met and romanced his future wife, and convinced her to marry him. Tracy and Cranny will be married sometime this spring in Sydney, Australia. But they will have another ceremony in Colorado during the summer. Please keep us posted so that many of us who know you will be able to visit!

NOTE: For many of you who still read, here is an insightful book that could have been used in Military Studies: Leadership Secrets ofAttila The Hun by Wess Roberts. It won’t take long to read, and it sure has several great ideas!

That’s all I have for now. May you live long and prosper.

Jeff Hackett

1825 E. Jeanine Drive

Tempe, AZ 85284

Home (602) 831-9439

Office: (602) 891-2734

Percent members: 39

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LIKE COAL IN MY STOCKING IT’S A HOLIDAY TRADITION! The stockpiling of bowl game munchies is on hold, my new Christmas toys will have to wait... there’s a Class Article to write! But this one should be easier than most as you guys and a gal (no, not a sex change a classmate’s wife) kept the mailbox spider jumping!

LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT’S A BIRD!... IT’S A PLANE! Actually, depending on the NASA and Checkpoints schedulers, it may right now be our classmate Brian DUFFY! As of this writing the ATLAS-1 shuttle mission (space lab science cargo), STS-45, is scheduled to launch from and recover to the Kennedy Space Center in March 1992 with Brian as the pilot. God’s speed to Brian and the rest of the crew!

YOUR PICTURE ON THE COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE. Lance GRACE sent me two very nice 8” x 10”, color, glossy photos (suitable for framing and/or magazine covers) of himself, Ben PHILLIPS and Wayne WILLIS. Sorry Lance, I didn’t have enough pull to get this on the cover of Checkpoints but I’m still waiting to hear back from Modern Parenting!

I made the editorial judgement to include this, the “After” photo (depicting our classmates with their wives, 10 children, and “Texas Cadillacs”) rather than the “Before” picture (three middle-aged guys standing in front of a 1974 Corvette) call it artistic taste. Lance is the 6586 Test Squadron commander at Holloman AFB, flying F-16s and T-38s. Wayne is flying F-15s and T-38s as part of an AFOTEC project there. And Ben is with American Airlines and living in the Chicago area. Lance notes that Walt BURNS is also at Holloman (F-15 Squadron Ops officer) but was not allowed in the picture because he only has two children and drives a “little old” Jeep! No mention of Don LEWIS’S familial nor transportation status but Lance advises that he is detachment commander for the drone-flying folks (QF-100 & QF-106) there at Holloman.

AS IF WE NEEDED ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW TIME

FLIES. By the time you read this it will have been over a year since Chuck NYSTROM helped deliver a message (and some iron) to the Mother of all idiots. Charlie’s wife, Teresa, wrote to give a short account of Chuck’s combat exploits (20 sorties in F-lllFs), his transition (F-15Es, back to Lakenheath), and his peacetime job (“token WSO” Wing Weanie). She also sent along this picture taken on their recent European vacation.

Chuck, Zoe (3), and Bonnie (8) Nystrom in Prague.

POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE... OF NOWHERE! Jim DILL sent me a postcard of the Thule AB, Greenland metropolitan area. Suffice it to say that we should hope that being base commander for 950 folks will keep him busy until he gets home (Colorado Springs) in May ’92; don’t appear to be many sight-seeing opportunities.

THE 732 GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Checking my Christmas card basket against the Register of Grads would indicate that there are over 730 folks out there who are already in the running for Santa’s 1992 “Naughty” list. On the other hand, Dennis BROOKS, Dave COMMONS, Mark DONNELLY, Chris GLAESER, Brian GOMES, Dale MEYERROSE, Buck ROGERS, and Jon TURNER will earn their just reward (yoifknow, something like being asked to assist in the selection of additional members for the Swedish Bikini/Parachute Team). Much of the news from their cards/letters has been covered in previous articles but here are the highlights:

Dennis and Leslie BROOKS are still in Colorado Springs and, unfortunately, Denny’s still pretty much medically homebound. His ardent interest in software and radio controlled modeling still abounds. Leslie and daughter Becky are doing fine. Leslie’s still an IMA Reservist at Hill AFB.

Dave COMMONS’ card was augmented by a phone call from Tucson where Dave is going through F-16 requal. I guess the Rickenbacher ANG(OH) transition to F-16s was looking more and more tenuous so Dave went out and got himself picked up by the reserve squadron at Bergstrom AFB. He’s redomiciled (Delta Air Lines) to Dallas-Fort Worth and he and Barb are in the process of having a house built in Austin, TX. The whole gang (Dave, Barb, and the two boys) expect to be settled by late spring.

Mark DONNELLY has moved up with the big boys... make that THE

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Big Boy! You see, when he’s not acting as a C-20 (Gulfstream III) IP, Mark is sitting in the right seat of Air Force One! The Donnelly clan expects to remain at Andrews for the foreseeable future.

As we noted in the last column, Dale MEYERROSE is at National War College. He notes that he and classmates Joe STEIN and Sam RYALS are having a great time of it.

Apparently all the flying Jon TURNER did while his unit was activated for Desert Storm/Desert Shield Clean-Up made the marketing job at Hewlett-Packard seem a little too earthbound; Jon has been hired as a pilot instructor for United Airlines in Denver. Staying geographically stable will allow Diane to continue as the director for one of Colorado Springs’ largest and most-sought-after preschools and let Jill and Ric carry on their busy/varied activites.

The ROGERS’ Christmas letter included Buck’s assessment that dodging Saudi taxi drivers in Riyadh (where he was deputy chief of Targeting for SAC) was much more dangerous than avoiding the SCUDs that came their way. Suzie was also called to active duty (at Andrews AFB) during the conflict. Buck has orders that will bring him to F-15E training at Luke in the spring and the whole family (two girls and a boy) will be off to jolly ole England in July.

READING BETWEEN THE LINES. Stan COLLINS thoughtfully asked the AOG staff to pass his biographical information form along to me. Not only did Stan include his own particulars (he’s the airlift requirements manager in the Advanced Requirements Directorate), he even gave a good rundown on other ’75ers at Scott AFB. Danny SPIER is working on replacement aircraft for the VC-137s; Bob LYONS is working on the MAC Mission Planning System “among other things”; Mark FANTASIA is working on the C-17 Program; and Ron BEAM, Mark FRY, and Frank DRESSEL are working in the Directorate of Planning and Programming. Whew, sounds like a lot of work.

I was also able to glean a couple of items of interest from the otherwise nondescript COA cards. First, Craig MATT is in the RAF Exchange Programme (guess that’s the way you spell it while you’re sipping tea). Finally, Phil ROMANOWICZ has finished his job as an attack planner for NATO (or did they just quit now that there’s nobody left to attack?) and has gone to Reese AFB.

DON’T FORGET THOSE EASTER CARDS & LETTERS. Or just a note of celebration on the beginning of another baseball season! The next article will be penned in the early part of March and if you don’t call or write today you’ll wind up muttering to yourself, “Geez it is later than I thought!”

Bill Brundage

20 East Washington St. y 1

Colorado Springs, CO 80907

Home: (719) 634-7040

Work: (719) 472-2270

DSN: 259-2270

Percent members: 38

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SrHello everyone, hope your holidays were joyous, restful, and relaxing. Out here in the lee of the Rockies we are cautiously observing the sky and wondering when the next foot will be falling five points extra for puns this time! It’s a good year for those of you who like your white stuff deep. We are rapidly approaching the normal winter’s load and my calender doesn’t show ’92 yet! For those of you who still have knees and the time

BONE MARROW NEEDED

A 1976 Academy graduate, Craig Puz, has been recently diagnosed as having Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML). The only permanent cure to this condition is a bone marrow transplant. Craig’s family members have been tested but they do not match. His doctors are currently searching the National Marrow Donor Program computer registry for a tissue or Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) match. If anyone is interested in testing to be a donor, please call 1-800-654-1247 to find the nearest center where you can be tested and receive donor information.

to use them, just drop me a line when you pass through I like to dream sometimes.

Got a FAX (now there’s a concept for all of us who have difficulty putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboards!) from Dave TERIFAY (Linda, Stephanie, 12; Lindsay, 10). Dave’s note was definitely a blast from the past! For those of you keeping track of such things, it was 19'/2 short years ago that I met a guy named Dave Terifay who had just come from the absolutely worst barber this planet has ever seen. You know, I suppose, as your loyal representative I should somehow commemorate our joint beginnings at an appropriate time and place this summer. You know, sacrifice a doolie or something any suggestions guys?

Anyway, Dave passed on that he now spends his time in Long Beach, CA test flying, delivering and doing some training for Douglas Aircraft in the MD-11. Dave spent September and October of ’90 with Brad JONES (Jayane) flying KC-lOs for the 79th Air Refueling Squadron out of Pope, Dover, etc, etc. Brad flies 767s for Delta out of Salt Lake City when he’s not getting acquainted with the East Coast.

Dave passed on that he personally witnessed Rob PARKER’s (Elizabeth) departure for his remote to the PI just prior to Mt Pinatubo’s entry onto the world stage. Hope everything worked out for Rob and his family that just may be the shortest remote on record! When Dave isn’t putting KC-lOs or MD-1 Is through their paces he calls Seal Beach, CA home.

Dave, I must point out a serious breach of etiquette whenever you write the class scribe you are supposed to invite said individual to your house! This is doubly true if you live near a beach! Seriously, thanks for the note Dave and here’s wishing you and yours all the best in the coming year. P.S. Did your hair come back all white like mine did? I think it’s something the barber did!

Got a wonderful letter from Karen BOMA (Jim). Karen passed on that Jim is now an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Division for the Miami & Ft. Lauderdale office and a commander in the USNR. Jim got recalled to active duty for a year in January 1991 and has been spending time at U.S. Central Command at MacDill AFB. Besides being acting branch chief of naval operations for his section, Jim has been able to get some parachuting in and will get his jump wings soon wish my knees were that good! Karen passed on that the highlight of the whole experience was an invitation to General Schwarzkopf’s retirement dinner now there’s one for the old scrapbook! Jim and his family are doing great and here are the pictures to prove it:

now live just outside Las Vegas, NV and Jay KENNON (Ruth), who now flys for American. Thanks a million for a wonderful letter Karen.

The Navy let me know that Lt Cmdr Barry MUHLENBERG (Terry) is continuing to wow them by completing Naval War College and is now slated for assignments in higher level commands and management positions. Congratulations Barry and Terry. All the best in the future.

Kevin CHILTON (Cathy) called from Houston. If all goes well ’76ers will soon have a classmate in space. Kevin will be headed skyward in April in STS-49, the first flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavor. Kevin has graciously volunteered to carry aloft a bit of ’76 memorabilia which we will be able to place in an appropritate part of the rapidly-rising AOG building. Still have to figure out what to send up maybe Waldo F. Dumbsquat’s head? (I won’t say who recommended that!) Anyway, a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Kevin and Cathy. I don’t know about you but I sure am going to be closely watching the doings at Cape Canaveral this spring.

Not a lot of movement this fall. Guess we used up the TDY budget moving everyone in and thankfully almost everybody back out of Saudi. Jim BAUER M.D. (Janet) headed west to God’s country and now calls Lake Oswego, OR home; Dave CLARY (Lynd) is now at APO 09497; Bill KEARNS (Christine) is at Vance AFB; Montgomery LEE (Terry) has shifted to Westminster, CA; Wade MCROBERTS (Susan) is now in Yorktown, VA; Dave NAKAYAMA (Joanna) is now at APO AP (wherever that is); and Bill WILEY (LouAnn) moved to Peachtree City, GA.

Well, this is it for now. Keep those cards and letters coming folks. Hope the New Year treats all of you well especially all you potential LCs. Lots of big changes out there let me know what the maelstrom looks like from where you sit!

John J. Michels, Jr.

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w§STILL HATES TO WEAR TIES DEPARTMENT: Greetings from my new job and status in Richmond, VA. Hope this finds everybody recovering from a safe, happy and “undeployed” holiday season. Quite a change from a year ago when we were all waiting for Desert Storm to break. I’ve settled into my new digs here in Richmond. Please note my new address and phone above. I’m working for a large law firm in the city, specializing in labor and employment law (race, sex, age and religious employment discrimination and union issues). The work is interesting and Sonia and I are finding we really enjoy the area. I got lucky and was accepted into the reserves so I will not lose complete touch with the blue suit. Right now I’m slated to pull my tours at Langley either with the First Fighter Wing or at the new Air Combat Command headquarters. Hope to see some of you there.

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grads in the Miami area sent me an article from the Miami Herald from late November concerning a rising political superstar, Darryl JONES (Myoushi). Darryl got out of the blue polyester world in 1984 and went to law school at the University of Miami. He is now representing southwest Dade County in the Florida House after capturing 64 percent of the vote in his district last year. He’s already being touted to take a committee chairmanship in his next term and in his spare time, is attached to a reserve unit flying out of Homestead in F-16s. Modesty and a sense of style prevent me from quoting everything that’s said about Darryl, but it should come as no surprise to anyone from the class that he’s doing as well as he is. Congrats Darryl, remember us little people on the way up.

IN-BASKET: To those of you who wrote me at the firm’s address that I gave in the last issue, many thanks. It helped convince the partners that I actually knew somebody and might be able to drum up business. Dave PODOLNY (Cec) dropped me a line from 6 ATAF over in Turkey where he is now guarding NATO’s southern flank from the threat posed by the Republic of Georgia (no, wrong Georgia, Jimmy is not running for president again). Dave is working with another Dave, Dave KISH (Lani). In his card, Dave indicates they both were briefing General McPeak over the holidays.

Also got a card from Pat MCVAY (Cyndee) who is spending his time over the wheat fields of Wichita, KS these days. Pat left ACSC in June as a DG, and is now assistant ops officer and chief of Training for the tanker squadron at McConnell. I suspect there are few people happier about the alert standdown than Pat. He’s enjoying Kansas, among other things going to Broncos-Chiefs football games and taunting your humble narrator for finally making it to the ACSC picture this fall. Even when I do it right, I get grief.

Marc LINDSLEY (Pat) who is a bonafide Lt. Col. now, is pushing ’Ills around the skies at Clovis, NM. When we last left Marc, he was at Plattsburg as an operations officer of an FB-111 squadron. He was there long enough for Pat to finish her master’s in pyschology and then faced the prospect of having his airplane retired out from under him. Instead, he found himself moved to Clovis to assist in running what will soon be the Air Force’s only F-l 11 base. Marc is now the ops officer of the 428th. Marc and Pat are very taken with the area, to quote their Christmas letter “Clovis is out in the middle of nowhere with nothing nearby.” That’s pretty much how I remember it too. And we’re closing places like Myrtle Beach.

Paul PIROG (Mary), who was last heard from vehemently denying any knowledge of an assignment to Washington, DC, now writes to tell me he might be going to D.C. after all. Paul also previously denied any knowledge of how the assignment process works, so I guess that’s been validated as well. He’s probably due for a move. The Air Force believes that anybody who’s been the staff judge advocate in Palo Alto, CA two years has enough of a good deal. As I noted previously, Paul is the only person I know of whose housing costs will actually go down when he moves to Washington.

Finally, Joe FERRARA (Molly) dropped me a line from George AFB to where he has now returned. Molly wrote to say he saw plenty of action in the Gulf, but is now like most of TAC, in the process of phasing down the Wild Weasel operations. They are hoping for a kindlier, gentler 1992, as are the rest of us.

I also got a phone call from Steve SCHWALBE (Ingrid) who is at Langley. Steve is attempting to stave off a Turkey billet until next spring, and is working for another of our fast burners, Paul DETTMER, in intel at TAC.

CARD GAMES: Mark SHACKELFORD (Kathy) has moved from Edwards AFB in test pilot work to Wright-Patterson and test pilot work. Doug VICK (Linda) moved from his job at Denver to Oliver Springs, TN. Doug BEASON (Cynthia) has left Kirtland and is now working in the D.C. area and I assume, working on a new book.

ADJOURNMENT: That about closes it out from the former capitol of the Confederacy. Sorry no pix this time. Drop us a line when you get a chance and we will fill the column up a little bit more. Till next time, be seeing you.

Happy 1992! I hope that everyone had a joyous and wonderful holiday season. I know that all of you must have been busy celebrating since I only received one short note. (And he didn’t even offer to take the job of

Class Scribe!) I could invent some interesting news but I’ll save that for next column if I don’t hear from anyone.

Jere MATTY (Rosemary) reported that they are expecting child number three aoout any time now. Jere has been promoted to GM-13 and is chief of Propulsion Technology at Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tullohoma, TN. Jere is also trying to locate Archie RIGGINS. If you know where he is please write.

Niki, Sue and Denny

Denny DANSER (Sue) is with the Pittsburgh Air National Guard and flying for U.S. Air. Other than Denny flying all the time, Sue reports that they do some mountain biking and boating around their home in Boardman, OH. Also with U.S. Air and performing Academy LO duty in the Pittsburgh area is Dave (Jacquie) LENGYEL. (Hooyah! Dave.)

NE. Ken CHARPIE from Gwinn, MI to KI Sawyer AFB, MI. Jeff FELLMETH from APO SF to APO AP. William A. FREY, Jr to Colorado Springs, CO. Richard DUNHAM from Nellis AFB, NV to Las Vegas, NV. Dennis JEANES from Colorado Springs, CO to Omaha, NE. Andre KEVORK from Arlington, VA to Alexandria, VA. Victor LIN from APO NY to APO AE. Blake LINDNER from APO NY to APO AE. Ron MITTENZWEI from Leavenworth, KS to Annandale, VA. Michael QUINN from Middletown, RI to Marina, CA. Mark A. SCHULER to a new home in Oxnard, CA. Philip SCHWARTZ to a new home at Vandenburg AFB, CA. James SHEEDY from Aurora, CO to APO AE. Jerry SINK from Tenino, WA to Prattville, AL. Randie STROM from Maxwell AFB, AL to APO AE. Sam THERRIEN from Phoenix, AZ to APO AE.

Larry Sandoval

100 Orville Wright

Barksdale AFB, LA 71110

Home: (318) 742-7944

DSN: 781-3334

Percent members: 35

Happy New Year fellow classmates. I hope this newsletter and springtime find you in good health and great spirits. I feel extremely honored that Bob MCGREAL would turn over this newsletter work to me. But I’m sure he is too busy on the beaches of Hawaii to worry about this class business. I guess he deserves the short break after his rough assignment in India. I hear Stephen LOWERY is also at Hickam working with XPXX. So much for Hawaii.

I heard from Guy WILLS who is working at the new Air Combat Command Headquarters, Langley, VA. I really appreciate Guy taking the time to let me know where some of our ’79 classmates are hiding these days. It appears Mike FOX and Mark GIGLIO are working ACC safety. Every now and then you’ll see an article in the TAC Attack, safety magazine. You’ll recognize Mark’s articles because of all the spelling errors. Ed ZANOWICZ, Frank FRANCOIS, John BINGAMAN and Guy are all working in XP. Bill TRAVNICK gave up football for work in military sales. Jori CROMWELL just showed up in Virginia and will work in DR along with Arch RIPPETO and Burt FIELD. Steve DEAUX works in drugs at DOXN. Guy tells me all these old classmates of ours run across each other at the gym (getting rid of frustrations I guess).

I ran across Gary NICHOLS on a Delta Airlines flight from Washington National to Dallas. He is doing well and currently lives in Arizona. He showed me around the pilot lounge just in case I am unemployed with all the Air Force cutbacks. Speaking of Delta, I did hear that Jon FAGOT is now living in Peachtree City, GA.

I am still at Barksdale working as the chief of KC-10 Operations and getting ready for the last and final SAC IG. Soon our KC-lOs should belong to the new Air Mobility Command. I have three wonderful children (10, 8, and 3) and have been married for 11 years. Jeff GLASS is working with the SAC SAES (STAN/EVAL) and may soon be employed at Scott AFB. Fred VANWICKLIN is also at Barksdale working with the Test Squadron.

Margo, Jack and Family

Jack (Margo) ANTHONY is busy at the Space Tech Center in Albuquerque. Margo says that Jack is busy with the tempo in the space business and is racking up the frequent-flier miles. Occasionally though, they break away to an Academy football game and visit with friends in the area. Finally, Ed BRUCE (Suzanne) dropped a note from Offutt. Ed is an IP flying the EC-135 Looking Glass, and unlike the rest of the tankers in SAC, the ECs at Offutt are still pulling alert.

COA: James ARNOLD from Edwards, CA to chief of Military Affairs for 17th AF, APO AE. Ed BRUCE from Montgomery, AL to Papillion,

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I did receive a Christmas card from Gene STONE working at Scott. He is working the C-141 and C-5 assignments. Gene tells me that Ken WAVERING is in charge of Executive Development, Mike HEABERLIN works the Ops Support airlift assignments, while Steve KING stays busy at Scott in Plans. Ken HOLLENBECK was a C-130 nav and now works in Command Presentations. Also, Erv LESSEL will soon rotate back from his joint assignment in Incirlik. Finally, Brock ESHLEMAN is also working for the new Air Mobility Command as a test manager. I asked him to explain what this entailed but he hasn’t quite figured it out yet. Brock did write and tell me his family is well except his wife, Marianne, has been “taking lessons to become a psychological chauffeur ’cause she’s driving the family crazy.”

Ron LAFON is working with American Airlines flying a DC-10 and working as a cadet liason officer. He has two children and may soon move to Dallas. Since he is my brother-in-law I asked him to share some of that airline money with me, instead he fed me more class information. Thanks Ron, 1 appreciate you helping out. It appears Rocky ELLISON and family are enjoying Krum, TX and raising ducks as Rocky continues to fly the Super 80 for American. Ed DUBICKI also flies for AA and I understand he was recently given the Bird. Congratulations Ed! This apparently was for being the Outstanding Liason Officer for the Year in southern New York. C.R. DAVIS (Rick) and wife are still at Edwards wondering if they will ever leave. Scott CUMMINGS is still molding young minds at the Academy as an AOC. Something about that makes us sound old. Keith KRIES is with U.S. Air and planning to marry Micki this summer.

Many changes have occurred throughout the world, including many within the Air Force and the civilian community. As Eastern, Midway, and Pan Am folded in 1991 some our our classmates were affected. I hear Charlie WADDELL was laid off by U.S. Air but was keeping himself busy as an Academy liason officer and his wife apparently works for Delta now. Burt STULL was flying the A310 with Pan Am until the December 4 closure. I’m sure by the time this newsletter reaches the street all those impacted will be gainfully employed.

Well that is all for now. God Bless and have a great summer. By the way, how ’bout them Falcons beating Mississippi State (great bowl game!).

Don Myers

105 Shore Drive

Shiloh, NC 27974

Home: (919) 336-4502

DSN: 723-1540/FAX: (919) 335-6454

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WISHIN’ I WAS HOME. Not just because it’s two days before Christmas and I’m in Florida flying resupply missions to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (to assist with the Haitian migrants), but because most of my AOG stuff is at home including all the correct spellings of your names. It’s OK, Karen at the AOG office will help she’s a champ. I was waiting for your Christmas cards/letters before I went to the word processor. Very few came my way and the editor needs to get this out, so I’ll look for some late Christmas cheer (translated, “input from my classmates”) to come my way for the next article.

THOSE THAT CAME THROUGH. George RYAN sent a note from Randolph. He and Rox Ann (plus Kevin, Colleen, and Patrick) have almost broken themselves of the habit of talking to store and restaurant employees in Greek and are back into the CONUS routine. George is chief of counterespionage operations for the AFOSI District 10 and says he welcomes any voices from the past at DSN 487-6361. Sidenote: George asked the AOG for an AOG Chapter contact point in San Antonio. Joining a chapter is a good way to stay in touch, and the AOG will help you find a POC.

Bob (Susan) ALLARDICE wrote and said every few years he breaks down and writes the class scribe. He does it at Christmas time because he just has to add a note or two at the end of their annual letter to friends what a novel idea! Bob’s been at HQ EUCOM for past one-and-a-half years and they’ll be at ACSC this summer. The three girls go to a German school and Susan teaches them American subjects. Bob says although the gals in the family speak Deutsch well, all he speaks is “Joint staff puke words.”

George (Nadine) MADSON landed a job at HQ SAC this year, bought a house, and was promptly told SAC is out of business. It looks like tanker training will be headquartered at Scott, so they’ll probably be moving this summer. Such a deal.

Bob HAILS wrote and sent a photo along with suggested verbiage: “After a ‘blistering’ round of golf at the Wright-Patterson AFB, O’ Club West; Jay (Edie) TRAGESAR, Kevin (Kathy) GRANT, Wendell (Lisa) SIMPSON, and Bob (Laura) HAILS and their families roasted weenies and reminisced this fall in Dayton, OH. Jay manages a consulting firm in Dayton, and Bob works for an engineering company in Atlanta (both in black suits); while Kevin and Wendell (both PhDs) teach systems acquisition at AFIT. The active-duty contingent had obviously spent the last three years in the classroom and not on the links! All are hard at work providing the next century’s USAFA recruits. A rematch is scheduled for next summer with handicap negotiations already underway.”

Paul and Ricki (SMITH) SELVA wished us a Merry Christmas from Montgomery, AL. Ricki discovered the best job she ever had last January when she became a teacher-naturalist at Fontenelle Forest Nature Center. When they moved to Maxwell, she left the forest and will soon be a docent at the Alabama State Archives and Museum you’ll find her in the Indian Gallery. Paul is now a “double student” as he goes to ACSC by day and is getting his master’s in poly sci from Auburn at night. If there’s any free time left, they ski the Alabama River. Ricki adds they now have a cat and dog and judging by the critters’ behavior, the Cold War isn’t quite dead.

Chelsea (almost three) holds Emily, Cameron and Hayley (three weeks).

Dan and Susan SAVILLE decided to combine their Christmas cheer with a babies announcement. No, my grammar isn’t slipping they had triplets. They’d been preparing for many months, but noted nothing totally prepares anyone for such an awesome, heartwarming, and exhausting experience. Each baby is doing well after a difficult pregancy. Susan’s body started shutting down and the docs delivered by C-section after 31 weeks. Everyone is now home and fine. Susan penned that Dan is flying F-16s out of Luke with the 311th and uses his flying as an excuse not to get up for those wee-hours feedings. She notes they’re having a ball, are thankful for the healthy children, are exhausted and can’t wait for the trio to sleep through the night.

EAR TO THE GROUND. Heard from my ’79 contact, Jeff DUNAWAY, regarding two of our classmates: Sue (TIMMONS) (Bruce ’79) BUSLER is still at Wright-Pat. They recently were honored as “Family of the Year” for the base. Sandy (WAPLES) (Rick ’79) WALLACE is in Irian Jaya. She and Rick are with Mission Aviation Fellowship, a Christian organization which supports mission activities in remote areas of the world using small aircraft. While Rick flies and fixes the plane, Sandy provides flight following, works to maintain a basic lifestyle, and cares for their four children. In a letter I saw, Sandy recounted how she walked a jungle path, down a hill, over a bridge, and across an airstrip to the mission hospital to have child H. I’m sure they can use our prayers and support.

Reb and Alicia BYRNE are at Tyndall where Reb is wing scheduler. They have two boys and Reb is trying, like many of you, to stay in the cockpit. So far he’s succeeded with F-15/OV-10/F-15/F-15 assignments (along with a stint in Turkey during the war). Kathy CONLEY and Mark FARAONE are near Newport, RI where Kathy is attending the College of Naval Command and Staff. Mark likes it because he’s close to his family and it’s not a bad commute for Delta. Kathy gave me two other names attending with her: Mike GARDNER and Scott NORWOOD. Scott says it’s a very sophisticated school, what he thought colonel selectees would attend and you even get a master’s degree out of it. Lastly, I found out from one of my calls that Phil PROSEDA is back in ’141s at McGuire.

COA CARDS are starting to look a bit better. Steve (Joline) SWANGER actually used the “AOG Bio Info” form in this pub and jotted some stuff at the bottom. He’s moved to East Peoria, IL since separating (Luke F-16 IP) and is a part-timer with the ILANG for their F-16 conversion. Thanks, Steve. More: Chrys LEMON and Doug HAGER to Arlington, VA; Tim BRENNAN to Ft Walton Beach, FL; Fred (Sherry) CHENEY to VA Beach, VA Fred’s on the Naval staff at NOB Norfolk; Lorraine ROEMISH to Waipahu, HI; Daryll KEELING to Evergreen, CO; Chuck WOLFE and Mike LOFTUS to Huber Heights, OH: Clark BURTCH to Universal City, TX; Pat CAMPBELL to Manassas, VA; Joe BIANCO to North Pole, AK (honest!); Ron WILT to Little Rock AFB as wing scheduler at the 314TAW; and Randy FRIZZELL to Bennett, CO.

MEMORIES: As I sit here with my mild sunburn from the golf course

this morning (I know, I should have used sunscreen), I can’t help but think of 4,400 young men and women returning from leave and marching around in pointed black parkas designed to let the cold in and the warm out. I don’t miss the “Dark Ages.”

Until next time, friends. Don

Scott Dering

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USAF Academy, CO 80840

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lilfGreetings fellow classmates. Since this is my first attempt to chronicle the spine-tingling adventures of our class, I thought I should outline the rules I will follow when writing these articles. First, I am resolved not to have the shortest column in Checkpoints even if I have to make up a bunch of meaningless drivel to do it. Anyone who has ever met me will know this is not an idle threat. Second, if you write or call me with news about yourself and others, I will faithfully relay your story to the best of my ability. If I have never heard from you, however, I will feel free to repeat any rumors or obnoxious exaggerations that come my way. Third, since this is a column about the entire class, not a diary, I will never make even the slightest reference to my own meteoric career. (That’s “meteoric” in the true sense of a meteor rapidly downward to a fiery conclusion.) Finally, I’m realistic about the amount of input I’ll be getting. I know the vast majority of you will never write or call, but since I never contacted any of the class scribes myself during the past 10 years, I can sympathize with your motives for keeping quiet. Some people won’t write because they’re afraid they’ll come across as shameless braggarts. Others will think no one cares what has become of them. Although most of you will be correct in thinking these things, I intend to get information anyway, so I will be calling classmates at random. In other words, I am going to hunt you down, one by one. Here are my first victims.

Steve KALE is a happy man after finding a job traveling around the country playing golf for Delta Air Lines. His home course is in San Antonio where he also flies F-16s for a “crack fighter squadron” in the Guard. Steve and his wife, Mimi, have a one-year-old girl named Seve. (That name will make sense to you golfers out there.) Steve’s long-time roommate Gerry MCPARTLIN and his wife, Beth, had their second child, Sean Patrick, on Dec 1. Gerry is an MD-88 first officer with Delta in Atlanta. Joe NYPAVER also flies the MD-88 for Delta out of Cincinnati, and Greg WALSH flies for Delta out of Dallas.

My search for Sheldon DENNIS led me to North Chili, NY where Sheldon is a sales representative for Mobil Chemical Corp. He sells the chemicals which are made into packages for potato chips, candy bars, and the like. Sheldon spent a few years in acquisitions after leaving the Academy and then took a “career broadening assignment” in transportation at the erstwhile Clark AFB. In his words, this job broadened him right out of the Air Force, and he has worked for Mobil since 1988, first in Dallas and now just outside of Rochester. Sheldon’s personal life will also be changing dramatically because he became engaged to Cynthia Walters at our reunion. Sheldon told me that Robert BONN flies for Federal Express out of New York. Robert and his wife, Susan, live in Connecticut and are expecting their second child. Jon and Cathy WICKLUND are somewhere in England where John works special programs for Space Command. Fred and Lisa WEISHOFF are at WrightPatterson, and Ed KNOX has carved out a successful career as a master of ceremonies at weddings and parties in Los Angeles.

I tracked down Glenn BAUGHER to an Air Force appreciation assignment as an air liaison officer at the Army’s luxurious Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Glenn had flown A-lOs at Myrtle Beach, and he is hoping to get back into the cockpit for his next assignment. Glenn and his wife, Marsha, have three boys and were disappointed they couldn’t make it to the reunion where he could have reminisced with his old buddy, Lance CONLEY, who tries to standardize NATO procedures at the Pentagon.

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Dana HOURIHAN is a C-141 navigator and is just finishing up a tour as the master MAC scheduler for the planet Earth at McGuire. Dana claims that had it not been for his heroic scheduling efforts during the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein would now operate out of the Oval Office. This must be true because Dana is transferring to MAC HQ (that’s Air Mobility Command for those of you who are up on current events) to become what surely must be the master scheduler for intergalactic airlift. Dana still keeps track of the following people: Jim “Foosman” VOGT lives in Redondo Beach, CA and flies for Delta. Denny “500 on the PFT” GRUNSTAD flies for the Wyoming Guard, and Jimmy NILES flies for the reserves at McGuire. Ned RUDD flew F-16s during the Gulf War, and Terry FOLEY flew stealth fighters over there as well. I would love to get more information on the heroism of these and any other classmates who contributed to the war effort.

Bob “Larry D” JONES is a GS-14 with the-er-Department of Defense at Ft Meade. (Could this mean the National Security Agency?) Bob was an EE major at the Academy and went to Ft Meade directly after graduation. He liked the work so much he stayed on as a civilian once his commitment was up. Along the way, Bob picked up a master’s degree in EE at Johns Hopkins. Bob’s old roommate, Bill PFAU, flew A-lOs in the desert and is now a T-37 instructor at Randolph. A1 KOSHAK lives in Peculiar, MO (I am not making that up) and flies for Federal Express. I tracked down Josie BALLATO to Severn, MD. After graduation, Josie worked in space operations in Houston and at Ft Meade (there’s that National Security Agency again) where she also got a law degree from the University of Maryland. Rather than go remote to Shemya, AK, Josie got out in 1989 and is now a patent lawyer for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington. To punctuate her transition to civilian life, Josie took a three-month bicycle trip across the United States before starting her current job, and she looks forward to taking a similarly adventurous trip in the next few years. Josie has kept in touch with Donna CLIFF who works with the Canadian Armed Forces in North Bay, Canada.

Galen CORXTON is a production supervisor for Tetra Pak In Denton, TX. Although this company may not be familiar by name, we all know its product those rectangular juice boxes you poke straws through. Galen was an F-4 back-seater at Seymour Johnson before getting out to take a position with Texas Instruments in Dallas. Before moving on to Tetra Pak, he worked with Mike TAFFETT at TI before Mike’s transfer to Austin.

After getting out of the service in 1987, Gerry NALEPA got an MBA from the University of Chicago and now works as a lobbyist for Air Products Inc. in Washington, DC. Gerry is too busy peddling influence to keep up with any of our classmates.

Marty and Becky FRANCE are relocating to FRANCE of all places, where Marty will be on an engineering exchange tour with the French space program in Toulouse just a short trip to the Riviera. To prepare for this grueling assignment, he and Becky are taking a six-month French course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. Marty hopes to return to the Astro Department at the Academy once he straightens out the French aerospace industry. (You have to admire the cleverness of those NASA guys. What better way to sabotage the French competition than to send Marty over there to assist them?)

Paul RAINES got out of the Air Force two years ago and is now on a PhD fellowship in political science at Harvard University. In addition to taking courses, serving as a teaching assistant, and starting his dissertation, he is fighting a lonely battle against the Harvard Chapter of the Political Correctness Gestapo. Paul and Becky have a little girl named Kristin. Paul says that Tim WILSON works as a civilian for NASA in Cocoa Beach and is finishing a master’s in systems engineering from the University of Florida. A1 and Marcia SIMON have recently moved to Washington where A1 works as an action officer on some highly mysterious programs. The Simons have a three-year-old daughter named Taylor. After talking to several impostors by the same name in the 513 area code (most of them of the wrong gender), I found the real Pat SWANKE in Marysville, OH. Pat was the assistant varsity women’s basketball coach at the Academy before moving on to Wright-Patterson where she was the ASD Headquarters Squadron commander. Now she is putting her EE degree to good use as Dayton Power & Light’s manager of the Marysville power grid. Not too long ago Pat heard from roundball counterpart Reggie JONES, who recently started a management job with the Schneider Trucking Co. outside of Chicago.

Meanwhile, five of our classmates are taking over the Academy’s T-41 squadron. Mike PAVLOFF arrived last spring (just in time for golf season) from an F-15 tour at Eglin and several assignments as a T-37 instructor. Pav and his wife, Kathy, have two girls and are expecting their third child. The only classmate of ours left at Eglin flying F-15s, accor-

ding to Pav, is Bill KASS.

Chuck SCHNEIDER has also advanced from the F-15 to the T-41. Chuck, his wife, Elizabeth, and their two kids came to the Academy after an F-5 Aggressor job at Nellis sandwiched between a pair of F-15 assignments at Kadena and Bitburg. Chuck had news of several other classmates. Jeff BELL has moved from Kadena to another F-15 cockpit at Tyndall, Rich BROOK flies fro Northwest, Gary RICHTER flies Eagles at Kadena, Rob ZYRIEK flies F-16s at Kunsan, and Pat ROSS flies F-15s at Tyndall.

Rich RONNESTAD is yet another ex-F-15 driver in the T-41 squadron after Eagle assignments at Luke and McChord and a tour as a T-37 instructor at Vance. Rich married his wife, Shelby, two years ago. Thanks to Rich we know that Steve HIRST is an F-15 instructor at Luke who will soon be moving to Tyndall, John FAGNANT is an F-15E instructor at Luke, and A1 GREGORY flies F-16s in the Reserves at Luke in addition to flying for the airlines.

Just when it looked like T-41 students would get all their training from ex-Eagle drivers, KC-10 veteran Mike ZEPF came along to save the day. Mike and his wife, Brenda (who should have given birth to their first child by the time you read this), came from Barksdale where Andy GERNER flies KC-lOs and Rob REITER flies KC-135s.

All of these new arrivals join T-41 veteran Joan CUNNINGHAM who is busy preparing the squadron for the T-41s long-awaited replacement. Joan and her motorglider husband, Michael Winton, are finishing up their third year at the Academy. Joan’s ex-roommate Karen (BONIEWICZ) TORRES and her husband, Ray TORRES, are both C-5 pilots at Altus who will be going to ACSC this summer. Joan’s doolie roommate, Allyson (LINDER) HURLBUTT, is a KC-135 navigator at Grissom. Joan also reports that Maura BURKE is married and flying for one of the airlines. Ralph BENDER, a C-141 pilot at Altus, and his wife, Barbara, are eagerly awaiting their first child. Finally, Dave NICHOLS flies F-16s at Ramstein, and his wife, Janet (PETERSON) NICHOLS, is working a desk job at nearby Sembach after an assignment flying EC-130s.

That’s all for now.

Jim Ratti

P.O. Box 40 'tilA

Churchton, MD 20733-0040

Home: (301) 261-9588

Work: (301) 981-1959

DSN: 858-1959

Percent members: 40

The Hines Family

Their family is doing well, with the addition of Jacob Daniel born in March of ’91. They have moved into a bigger house, complete with a treehouse which attracts kids from miles around. Here’s their Christmas picture, with Sheri, Dan, Andrew (Big Guy), Jake (the Fat Man) and Katie.

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Greetings. I sincerely hope that the holidays were as happy and relaxing for you as they were for Ellen and me. We got to do a little visiting and a lot of relaxing, as my travel schedule finally let up a bit. I actually got to spend TWO WHOLE WEEKS in the D.C. area. Couple the lack of TDY with a modest work schedule because of the holidays, and you get a pretty nice mini-vacation.

As you might expect, the mailbag was heavy with Christmas cards and letters. First up were Jon and Trish KIMMINAU. They are still stationed at Okinawa, Japan, where Jon is the operations officer for the 6990th Electronic Security Squadron. Like many of us, Jon didn’t get to go to the desert, but instead solved the headaches of covering the absences of those who did. Trish got to spend two months back in the states visiting relatives.

Eric and Valerie BJORN checked in from Dayton where Eric is tolerating the rigors of USAFA East, better known as AFIT. He had just finished Defense Systems Management College here in D.C. before moving to AFIT last June. Valerie was able to find work in Dayton as a liaison between USAF and Navy life-support activites. She had been working at Pax River before their move. They’ve bought a beautiful house in Beavercreek, and plan to stay there for the foreseeable future.

Bryon and Mary Lou HINES’ Christmas letter had us belly laughing before we got past the second paragraph. They recently moved from Marlton, NJ to Crystal Lakes, IL so that Bryon could be closer to his domicile of Chicago. Even with (or because of...) all their experience as military movers, this one turned into quite an adventure. They decided to do it themselves with a U-Haul truck. As Bryon put it, why pay three fat guys with no butts to wreck all their belongings, when they could do it just as easily themselves? Well, after flameouts, blowouts, potty breaks, traffic, and a lot of help from their friends and U-Haul contract maintenance, they made it. This picture shows Bryon, Mary Lou, Lindsey, Bridget and Whitney. They are all smiling, so Bryon’s letter was probably cathartic.

I got a really nice letter from Dan and Sheri MOKRIS. They are still in Dayton where Dan flies C-135s and EC-18s in the 4950th Test Wing.

The Mokris Family

Marianne (CAFIERO) YOUNG dropped a line from Edwards, where she and her husband Brian (’81) are stationed. She does software stuff for AFOTEC and he flies in the F-15 Combined Test Force (CTF). They had an addition to their family last November when Marianne give birth to their third child, Madeline Celeste. The other children are Nathaniel, 7; and Rachel, 5. Look for Marianne at Keesler from July to November where she’ll be TDY attending Advanced Computer-Communications Officer Training.

Another birth announcement came in a Christmas card from Sue (GRANT) GUNNING and her husband, Mike. When she is through with her maternity leave, she will resume flying 737s for United out of San Francisco. She told me that Carolyn (CURTICE) and Dave STAHL had a baby girl (Katrina) in August. Finally, she said that Jane MENGEL has separated and is a professor of engineering at Modesto Junior College.

Next up are Ray and Joan TUREK, who wrote from their new home in Omaha. They moved there last summer when Ray took his new assignment as a bomber operations staff officer at SAC HQ. Ray made quite a name for himself during Desert Storm when he developed a computerized correction for B-52 high-altitude bombing releases that was implemented command-wide He also flew numerous missions over Iraq and Kuwait, and was on the B-52 that CNN reported made an emergency landing at Palermo. While he was off to war, Joan was busy moving into a new house and nursing a broken bone in her foot, and kids with chicken pox. All turned out well though, with healthy offspring, healed bones, a suecessful move, and Ray returning safely and making officer of the quarter. The next picture shows the children, Robert, Rachel, and Ryan.

My last letter came via Prodigy from Ray PHILLIPS. He is a C-141 flight examiner at Norton, and also serves as the wing commander’s exec. He’s been at Norton for about three years, and will move to Maxwell this

The Turek Children

summer to start ACSC. Bob RANCK, also a C-141 evaluator at Norton, will join Ray at Maxwell for ACSC. Ray and his wife, Kim, have two boys, ages five and two. Bob and Liz have a daughter, Amy. Ray sends word that Mark BAKER is stationed at Pope and doing real well. All of the above (and I!) are looking forward to the reunion this fall.

I gleaned the following tidbits from bio sheets and change-of-address cards. Andy ANDERSON is still keeping his head above international waters at Maxwell, where he is the deputy director for Services at the International Officers School. Kash JOHNSON, who had been flying F-16s at Ramstein, now loves to fly for Delta, and it shows. He is domiciled in Salt Lake City, and lives near the Snowbird and Alta ski areas. He and his wife recently had their third child, a boy, and invite visitors to ski with them. They also have two girls, Ashley and Danielle. Gary HOGG has moved to Hurlburt, flying the MC-130, and Brendan CLARE is also there, flying the MH-53. Glen DOWNEY is a B-52G aircraft commander at Wurtsmith. Last but not least, Rich ANAYA moved to Wright-Pat, but I don’t know what his job there is.

That’s about it for this installment. I’ll be traveling a lot over the next few months, so maybe I’ll bump into a few of you out there. Until then don’t forget to use my E-Mail addresses: CompuServe, 72477,1255; and Prodigy, FFKX27A. ’Till the next time, be safe. Ratman.

Ray Blust

RD #4, Box 178-A

Peters Run Road

Wheeling, WV 26003 Ml

Home: (304) 242-3995

DFW: (817) 277-3224

Percent members: 37

HOLD THE ’VATOR. Has it been two years since I’ve sat down to put quill to paper for your reading pleasure? Sure has! I could write this whole article on Julie and I and our quest for that perfect, stable life but... we’re still searching, more on that later. As the class president, I’ve come to realize this job may not be all fun and games as we approach our reunion date. However, you all have made my job a piece of cake thus far by volunteering to write most of these articles, probably because you couldn’t stand to read mine four times a year. However, we have another vacany in our scribe department.

Leslee (WASHER) FORSBERG, our fall scribe for the past few years says it’s time to pass it on. But first I want to thank Les for helping out, not an easy task to write the article post Stu “Man-chu” POPE. We all appreciate your time and effort. If anyone is interested in taking over the winter article please let me know.

I just read through the ’91 Register and was surprised at the number of classmates with NCMA-No Current Mailing Address. If you know of the whereabouts of any of these MIAs please ask them to write to the AOG or they may miss out on some reunion info. Thanks.

Those with no addresses are:

Charles ALIBERTO Kevin GRENIER Jarean (RAY) CARSON

Pete BARTOS Phil HAMM

Gregg BECHARD Jim HECHTL

Carlisle BRADFORD

Mike BREY

Paul BRICKER

Dave BUCKEMYER

Mike BURNES

John CARTER

Edgar CASTOR

Pete CONRAD

Robert CUSHING

Markus DEITERS

Paul DIMECH

John DORSEY

Gary DROZE

Timothy DUFFY

Mike BB DUNN

Mike EDWARDS

Tim EICHOLTZ

Mark FINVER

Steve & Tonia (FLORES) MANN

Terry FORD

A1 GARCIA

Alvaro GRACIA

William GRAY

Eric RIOS

Greg SCHELTENS

Paul BERG Ted HOLLOWAY Todd SCHULZE

Gregg BONTLY Billy HORN Aaron SCHWARTZ

Andy HOWES

Grant HUDSON

Tony HUDSON

Douglas HUNTLEY

Steve HUSKINS

Mary Beth KALMEYER

Wayne KENDIG

Phil KOPPA

Kimberly KORZENIEWSKI

Todd KOSKI

TG KYRAZIS

Rogelio LOZANO

Mike MADRID

Paul MADSEN

Steven MANN

Don MCDANIEL

Mike MELLERSKI

Mike MENDONCA

Kathy (MOYER) DOBY

Mike PARKS

Sally (PAULL) CIRAFICI

Bryan PRATT

Evan SMITH

Martin SMITH

Mike SMITH

Dan SUROWITZ

Kelley TABOR

Tony TALIANCICH

Cliff Wolfy THOMPSON

Mack THORN

Dave TIMM

Ken TINGMAN

Luis VACA-PARDO

Larry WALTON

Tim WARD

Margaret(WASZKIEWICA) SAMPSON

Greg WHEELER

Jim WHITACRE

Ronald WIEGAND

Don WILLIAMS

Gary WILSON

Mark WRIGHT

Don ZIEGLER

More business. The AOG still needs our support for the Alumni House. Our class has done a great job so far with 21 percent of the class contributing with an average gift of $58. Let’s keep it up, we’ll most definitely be using this building during our reunion. Recent Takeoff Donors are

Peter and Carol JONES and Billy WALKER.

Now for the lighter side of our news. Julie and I are now civilians with unlimited passes and no 35-10. We made the plunge in July and have not stopped since. We had great plans of an easy commute from Dallas to Austin as Julie continued to work at Bergstrom and instruct numerous aerobic classes throughout Austin. However, we had a stealthy, surprise attack from the stork. Pictured between Julie and I is our newly-adopted son, Matthew Joseph. We have since packed up our house in Austin and Julie has taken up full-time motherhood in West Virginia, while I drop in for as many male-bonding days a month as possible. Matthew is truly the joy of our lives and our early Christmas present.

Ray, Matthew Joseph and Julie Blust.

My travels throughout the American Airlines terminals reminds me of base ops during our UPT days of old. Here is a list of some ’83ers out there flying the more friendly skies. Dave “Oppie” LEIBBRAND recently finished AA FE school and is headed to ORD-Chicago. Oppie is still a bachelor. Why? Could spending your AF career in Del Rio and Clovis have anything to do with it? Oppie told me Tom “Nothing sticks to me” KING is out and flying for Delta. Laura Lea and three are now living in south Texas. Also found roaming the halls of the Fit Academy was ex-B52er, Marc OLSON. He was still in his fire-hose days, by now he’s out there somewhere updating ACARS.

Saw John MULHEARN at DFW fit ops’ “Coke and Gag” snack bar. John was on his way back to New York where he’s a 727 FE. John’s been married five-plus years to Pam. After finishing a grueling three-day trip and dodging numerous paxs in 3E, I almost ran over Lisa (LINDEN) OSTERHELD (’75), my old table mate from Tweets in Del Rio. She was faithfully following her Capt and FO to their next gate. Lisa is a 727 FE at DCA-Washington DC, and by the time this article comes out will be happily off probation. Tami SMITH is also a 727 FE at DFW and will remain

about 50 seniority numbers ahead of me for the rest of our careers. Tami is temporarily living with Ken MILLS and his wife until her house is completed. Ken is a 727 FE with Delta.

I shared a computer terminal with Bob “Adios” BUONGIORNO at DFW. Bob’s been an AA 727 FE for a year and a half and will soon upgrade to Super-80 FO. Bob and his wife, Diane, have a four-year-old boy named Matthew, (great name) and are expecting number two in May. I’ve run into Mickey MELLERSKI a few times around ops. Mickey’s also an AA 727 FE at DFW and will be upgrading to S-80 FO soon. Mickey and his wife, Dawn, have one daughter, Kristi, two years old.

As I was leaving ops for a three-dayer I spotted Bob “Morocco Mole” BROWN, an AA S-80 FO, awaiting his space-A flight home. In the hall I ran into Frank and Candace CURRY. We had no time to talk but I hope I’m correct in my observation to say Candace was pregnant. I suppose I’ll find out real quick if she wasn’t. Frank’s also an AA S-80 FO at DFW. Also joining us in the hall for a quick chat was Mark “Bogus” BOGOSIAN. Mark’s an AA S-80 FO at DFW. That pretty much raps up my run-ins for the last few months. If I missed anyone, sorry.

Jon, Brenda, Jeffrey and Kendall Duresky.

This article is usually the hardest to get out on time (it’s now Christmas Eve), but the easiest to write as the Christmas cards contain a few tidbits (except for the Duresky Diary, only three pages this year) of information. I guess that’s a pretty good lead-in to the Jon “JDQ” DURESKY family. Pictured are the Dureskys on one of their many vacations. This one was taken in Florida as young Jeffrey puts his dad in his place with a trophy sea bass. Jon is again caught holding the “little one.” Next to Jon is his better half, Brenda, Jeffrey (seven), and Kendall (four-plus). Jon is currently a C-130 IP at Little Rock AFB with a follow-on assignment to Andrews in July. Jon will join the VIP/Distinguished Visitor (Air Sun-

nunu) Airlift Sq as a C-12 pilot for a year or so, then he’ll be transitioning to one of the squadron’s other planes to fly the brass around. Jon’s determined to be a general, or at least fly them around. Jon don’t forget our percent-body-fat check at our reunion. Congrats Jon and Brenda, and good luck.

The next photo comes from across the frigid Atlantic as Ron “I’ll do anything you want, but get me outta Texas” GRAVES writes from Great Britain where he’s an F-lll pilot. Pictured with Ron are his wife, Tonia, and soon-to-be one-year-old son Eric. Keep in touch ya’ll. I also got a note from my ex-roomie, best man, Bill “Huge” RUJEVCAN. Bill and Holly are now civilians as of Jan 31. Bill’s been at L.A. AFB for the past few years, bought a house and has started his own real estate investing and house fix-up business. So, if you’re in or planning to move to L.A. (why?) and want a great deal on some property, give Bill a call. I’ll have his number. How’s that for free advertising. We wish you the best of luck.

Gayle (Johnson), John, Grace and Wesley Denny.

My last letter came from Gayle (JOHNSON) and John DENNY (’84). Gayle separated in ’89 at Bergstrom while her husband, JD, flew RF-4s. They moved to Sheppard AFB where JD’s flying the T-38. Pictured are Gayle, John, “Amazing” Grace (almost four) and one-and-a-half-yearold Wesley. Gayle, since separating, has been an AF liaison officer and is currently working on her teaching certificate in high school math and govt. The Dennys will soon test the waters as JD looks for an airline job. Good luck.

What a great lead-in for some well deserved recognition. For those of you who neglected to read all the Checkpoint’s articles last quarter, you may have missed the best article yet. Kevin “Don’t we have enough attorneys” CARRENO was recognized as the outstanding Admissions Liaison Officer in the nation. The article is on page 15 of the Fall 1991 Checkpoints. Kevin was selected from amoung 1,900 active duty, reserve and Air National Guard liaison officers. Kevin was also recognized by Sen. Bob Graham as an Outstanding Young Leader in Pinellas County, FL. Congrats Kevin. Is this the beginning of your political career? How about Cecil GRANT and Bill VOLKER as your campaign chairmen. For those of us who have separated, one way to stay active in the reserves and keep up on Academy issues is to become a liaison officer. If you’re interested, call the Academy registrar and they’ll give you the name of the regional officer.

I’m sorry to say I’m bingo material, outta coffee and getting tired. I’d like to thank Scott and Ann HOLLINGER (’82) for the use of their computer. The next article will come from the home of Jon DURESKY. Please send Jon or myself any info for the next article by the end of March. Jon’s current address is: 115 Alabama Drive, Jacksonville, AR 72076. Again thanks for all your support and if you have any ideas or suggestions for our reunion, let me know. Adios Amigos. ’83 Best To Be.

Carlton P. Wickliffe

2801-B Quay Loop

Holloman AFB, NM 88330-8108

Home: (505) 479-2937

DSN: 867-5380

Percent members: 28

w(Editor’s note: We did not receive an inputfrom Carlton this issue and we understand he was on emergency leave. Please send your input to him now for the next issue.)

Mike Ott

719 N. Fourth Ave.

Ann Arbor, MI 48104 w

Home: (313) 662-4863 w

Work: (313) 451-9085

Percent members: 28

Before I get into the meat of this article and before you begin to look for your photo in this issue, let’s get a few thing out of the way. I’d like to get everyone’s photo in every issue, but the only way this can happen is if you send them to me. I’ll pause now to give all of you a moment to run to your photo albums, scrap books, hero files and local news releases, and retrieve a pic of you and any other classmates... Now that you have them, grab an envelope and send them to me at the address above. Scribble something on the back and tell me what’s up.

Tony SEELY is back in the desert from time to time. He’s flying ’117s and loves it. I hear he’s turned into the local communications expert, configuring the local lines and patching in to talk to his wife, Carey, each day. Brooks FREEMAN recently was hired by American and is living in Richmond, VA with his wife and son. Apparently, he’s had a portion of his yard sectioned off so as to grow his own tobacco crop. While at Columbus AFB, he took courses in agriculture and the tobacco industry.

Mike LAWLESS, still in Boulder, CO is the local AFA football rep and makes every Falcon home game along with a large contingent. Mike is doing human factors work. Germany is going to miss Jerry “The Captain” VAUGHAN in a few months. He’s currently a NATO AWACS controller, but is scheduled for rotation back to the states later this year. He’s been dating this awesome Dutch woman who can be seen riding in his’91 Vette through the countryside. Sometimes with him in it! He gave me some news on some other clowns he stumbled into recently. Jerry is PCSing to Keesler, 7th ACCS (EO130). This will be his first stateside assignment. Word is that Andy MUELLER is/was also a NATO controller and v*ill be attending Fighter Weapons Instructor School. In Iceland, we have Mark POSTGATE and Rick HEDGEPATH flying F-15s. Not really too sure if they’re still there though. Chuck THOMPSON is also a NATO controller and off to Tyndall after FW Instructor School. Joe SCHMIDT is now married and Steve TURCHEK recently had a baby girl.

Whitney HULETT is finishing up his second year at AFIT in aero and will then continue the homesteading and work in the propulsion lab. Joe MCBREARTY is now a T-37 IP at Williams. He was a B-52 A/C at Carswell, but got assigned to this slightly newer jet! Hope all is going well in Phoenix. Geoffrey SEWELL is living somewhere in Colorado, either Pueblo or Boulder and taking a break after separating this summer. Word has it that the President’s recent extension of unemployment benefits is directly related to the amount of effort Jeff is putting into his job search! On the side though, Jeff has been coaching female field hockey at the high school level. Jim “Mad Dog” SETZER is in Alaska, and... get this, is a state trooper, working south of Anchorage. Greg GIBBS, English department stand-out, is now instructing aero/astro at UST in Denver.

While at the Falcon vs. SDSU game in September, I bumped into a few of you. Don KOCHANSKI is still at the zoo as an instructor. He was OIC of 4th Class training. Today he’s flying the Twin Otter for the jump team and teaching PMS. Like we were always taught, leadership by example.

Wow! Don is doing great, he’s always smiling which makes you wonder what he’s been up to. Pat STONEHAM, OSI super secret squirrel, is still at Andrews participating heavily in a range of base bowling activities. When I called him he had his hands full, he was busy remodeling his garage into a beauty salon. He’s always been handy, now perhaps, it will make him some money. I thought it would be Debbie’s endeavor, but as it turns out, Pat went to cosmetology school at nights and earned his certificate. So on the weekends, he’ll be styling hair and cutting nails.

Shep SPARKS is still living in Des Moines, where he has vaulted to the position of vice president of Legal Services. Despite the obviously busy life of a salesman/attorney, Shep has still been able to keep the pulse of the city within his reach by working as a legal volunteer assisting violent sex victims and substance abuse addicts.

Charlie MORRISON and Kitty are proud soon-to-be parents. Chaz is in D.C. doing some intelligence work. He’s on the BEST program from AFSC. Dave BURNS, still in Boston after separating more than a year ago, is busy working on some defense programs and some private endeavors as well. A new home owner, he has many people over, but I recommend taking the bus. It seems that his area is a favorite for car thieves. Dan JORDAN found out the hard way! While on a recent trip to Boston, Dan left his gear in a friend’s car and later went out to find it stolen. No big deal, except the stolen gear was his study and testing material for some big NORAD shift commander test. Surprisingly, it was returned. Dan is doing great, and loving life after his stint in Turkey.

Terry GOOLEY is working on some defense programs at Hanscom. Other former Hansconians include Griff VINTON, who is currently shaping the minds of ROTC students down at the University of Virginia. He recently married Betsy Boutwell. Garland HENDERSON, last I heard, was off to AFIT or something at Wright-Patterson. Tim DERUYTER is still at USAFA coaching. You’d think he’d be head coach by now. He and Kara are doing great. Seems they’ve opened up a bedand-breakfast based on the number of people they have coming through staying at their house.

Mark MULANEY and Doug WELLS and a bunch of other guys are busy tearing up the local L.A. area. Doug missed it and had to leave Colorado. Is he married, or what? Todd MALONE, has anyone heard from this guy? Jim LOVELL is still in Germany working at a detachment of ESD. Last I heard he was taking two-hour lunches at the gym! Frank LUCCI is in the desert again. It seems those tanker guys get all the great rotations. He’s separating in January and is off to the airlines. He and Wendy are now the proud parents of Joshua Anthony. Eric DEARDORF is at the zoo as a T-41 insturctor. He and Mindy now have two children, Breton Kel and Erika.

John WILLIAMS is a KC-10 A/C at March, traveling globally often, to include a recent trip to Singapore.

Pete JAHNS, T-37 IP at Vance AFB, is back in school, working on his master’s in international affairs and political science. He’s a new flight commander and as I’m told is hopping around the U.S. on the weekends, usually with some young woman in his sights. Dean REILLY, also at Vance as a T-37 flight commander, married a super girl from the Chicago area last year. As for me, I’m done with business school and out of the AF, working for Ford Motor Co. in quality development. Cool job and great travel. And get this, I’m also an Academy liasion officer!

This is all I have for this issue. Please remember to send me some info on yourself and a classmate. We’re all happy and thankful for your safe return home from the Gulf. Thank You. Let us also take a moment to remember our classmate Mike SOWELL, who recently was killed while on a F-16 training mission at Hill AFB. A great runner, friend and flyer. God Bless.

(Editor’s note: we also received an input from Mike WELLS direct to the AOG office. His input follows.)

Hey folks, how about a seldom-heard voice to contribute to the ’85 report. As I scan my memory and address book I’ll give you a few updates. Been in touch with Troy DEVINE, first female in the U-2 program. She’s had great success and is loving every minute of it. Troy is based at Beale. My firstie roommate, Rick DEBROCK, is a T-38 IP at Columbus.

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Larry FRIEND is still at Patrick in the H-3 (Rescue) trying to scam his way back to USAFA as the soccer coach. Tim HEALY is at Pope flying joint test for the Army and Air Force in the Blackhawk helo. Tim and wife, Chris, are also new parents. Congrats.

Terrance LINEHAN, alias “T”, is at Carswell preparing to eject from his KC-135 and hopefully into a Delta B727. Price OSTEEN is very civilianized and will be moving to Chicago in Feburary with Ethyl Chemical. Saw Tim RAY at a wedding in August. He is still a Minot kinda BUFF guy and a daddy also. Art ROSS has returned from Yokota, Japan, to Mather to teach new navigators how to get lost in your own back yard. (Sorry Art.) Jay SILVERIA is a Strike Eagle guy at Seymour Johnson/Saudi Arabia. Matt VALLE is a mister now, back near Fort Rucker where his wife, Patti, has employment, and Matt watches the home shopping network.

Griff VINTON and wife, Betsey, are at the University of Virginia. Griff is teaching ROTC and squash. Jim VOGT is awaiting his results from his Delta Air Lines interview. Scott VIPOND is still at McChord deciding should I stay or should I go. Randy PARKER is finishing his tour in England in F-l 1 Is and is off to the RAF in a British Tornado to Scotland. Mark KORNMESSER is a reserve C-130 nav in the Springs/Ski Bum. Mark TESSIER is chasing the airline recruiters in Minnesota. Tom MILLER is an HC-130 IP at Kirtland. Kirby COLAS is finishing his training with Delta, and Chris WEITZER is awaiting his phone call from Delta. Lastly, I, Mike WELLS, have left the F-l 11 and Upper Heyford, UK and am now an FE on DC-lOs for Americn Airlines.

Our next scribe is Jackie Charsagua. Write her at PSC Box 76, Box 7049, APO AP 96319-7049.

Capt. Gary L. Burg

PSC 41, Box 6338

APO, AE 09464

Home: Thetford 861072

DSN: 226-3506

Percent members: 29

Winter is upon us once again. Thank goodness I’m spending this winter with my family, not in the Middle-East. For all of you still deployed to the Gulf region, my thoughts are with you and I hope for a quick return to your family. Everyone must be busy this holiday season as I haven’t received any letters as of Christmas time except from my fellow classmates from the Trolls. If this column sounds like a CS-20 column that is because, for the most part, it is.

I did receive a list from J.L. BRIGGS summarizing classmates he heard about or talked to during his summer leave. From the list, Ward TAYLOR is at Randolph in T-37 PIT, Mark and Carol CROWDER are at Sheppard. Mark is flying T-38s and they have just had their second child. Fred and Beth GAUDLIP are at RAF Feltwell. Fred is in Space Command and they just had a baby, Austin Dillion, on 2 Oct 91. Tom MENKER is flying T-37s at Sheppard but is getting out of the Air Force. Brian DENHOLM is at Columbus flying T-38s. Steve TANNER is at Sheppard flying T-38s. Bill HAHN is at Cannon flying F-l 11s but is getting out of the Air Force. Dave and Veronica IRVIN are at Dover. Dave is flying C-5s. Rich SUMRALL is a doctor somewhere in Florida. Mike MEIER is a T-41 pilot at USAFA. As I think I mentioned before, J.L. BRIGGS, Jeff HENRY and Mike PANARISI are all converting to the F-15E here at RAF Lakenheath. Mike should be getting hitched soon if all goes as planned. Another person I ran into this past summer was Jim GULSVIG, who is flying C-141s out of Travis AFB.

From the Trolls, Matt RATHSACK was one of the first to write. “I hope this letter finds you in good spirits. Theresa and I are preparing for a major change of life style. We separated from the Air Force at the end of December. We have elected to take the early out in hopes of getting on with a major airline. We haven’t heard anything yet, but anticipate that by the time you read this we will know something. I recently finished my master’s degree at Northern Michigan University. So if things don’t work out for us in the airline business, we will have something to fall back on. Hope the changes going on in the Air Force are not disrupting anyone’s life too much. It will be interesting to see what actually happens when all the dust settles. We are already looking forward to the 10-year reunion and seeing everyone. Our children are growing up quickly. It is amazing how fast time flies when you have children. Jessica and Zachary are two and have been spitting out sentences right and left. Hope everyone is doing well and happy.”

Kevin YEOMAN dropped me a line, ‘‘Krista, Kenny, Kari and I are all doing fine. Kari Renee is a new addition to our family, born 31 March 91. You will probably notice the trend in names! Kenny will be three in

January. As we are fond of saying, we have our first pair! Truly, children are a blessing from the Lord. The year has passed quickly. We moved this December. Where? Back to Colorado Springs! I am going to be an instructor in the Math Department back at USAFA. The assignment came up rather quickly for me a few months ago. Krista and I are excited about the teaching prospects, plus the skiing opportunities. It was very hard to leave Eglin and the friends we have there. Eglin is a choice place for an assignment. Back in June, I took a new job working in the explosives community, High Explosive Research & Development (HERD) Facility. All of the explosive research for the AF is conducted there. It has been very rewarding to learn more about this technology, plus the opportunity for hands-on testing, range work, with explosives was exciting. Jim SHOFF is now at Andrews AFB ferrying government officials about in a helicopter. Some very tragic news about Jim and his family concerns the accidental death of his brother John in October. I was able to spend a lot of time with all of them these past four years. This was one of the hardest things I have ever faced.”

T.K. SMITH wrote me from Altus AFB, ‘‘Well, I haven’t been doing that much traveling but I have been making the career decisions. In fact, I’m transitioning to the C-5, an awesome system, here in Oklahoma. Back on the 9th of October, I found out I got the C-5 to Travis that I had put my name in for. I had three weeks to be out here at Altus. I’m going through training with Randy GIBB (also a Willie FAIP). Pete YORK was the last FAIP at Willie to get a fighter F-15E. I was already starting to see guys from ’86 coming back from MWSs Bill BENTE (C-141) and Sterling UNDERHILL (F-l5) to name a couple. Debbie and I are getting excited to move up to Travis. If we didn’t have a house in Phoenix to sell, the move would be very smooth. And yes, I’m jumping into fatherhood. Debbie is due May 24 hopefully we will have gotten up to Travis and be all moved in by then. We’re supposed to be up there by the end of February.”

Karen CLARK writes from Offutt AFB, ‘‘I’m still in Omaha flying RC-135s. Still enjoying it for the most part too. Some TDYs are better than others. It looks like I get to spend Christmas in Saudi this year. Should be a joyous occasion (yeah, right). I’m doing well, hoping to upgrade to instructor early next year (’92). Have to make the big decision: get out or stay in. It’s been a tough year and a half with Saudi and other TDY commitments. I’m never home, it seems. Hope everyone is doing well.”

Besty (COLEY) ZIEGLER dropped me a short line. “I’m out of the AF now; and very happy about that. The Wright-Pat labs were okay but not really my thing. Dan is officially stationed at Holloman AFB but works at a geographically separated unit so we live in Las Cruces, NM. We’re really enjoying New Mexico so far. Baby Cari is now over 14 months old and everyone says she is Dan’s clone.”

My old roommate, Dave TUCK, wrote from Fairchild AFB, WA. “We just had our baby on the 22nd of November. His name is Alexander Douglas. Tracy is doing fine. It has finally turned cold here and we have had about three inches of snow so far. It is so pretty here. The climate and terrain are much like Southern Germany to give you some idea. We have bought a house with a yard and a fence and neighbors. They all think I am a kook so they don’t give me much trouble. I like my job. I don’t do much but work maybe three days a week. They are sending me to Guam in February and I hope to have fun there. I can think of worse ways to pass gas. (Dave is a KC-135 pilot.)”

Rich LECLAIRE wrote, “I finally carried out my plans to leave the Air Force. Now I live in California and work for a contractor (for... that’s right, the Air Force!). I work at Edwards AFB at the Phillips Laboratory. I am doing just what I wanted to do, work on rocket propulsion liquid rocket engine components. It’s a great job. It’s also very neat to see all the interesting aircraft flying around Edwards AFB. We hear sonic booms all the time. I don’t miss the Air Force, because I am surrounded by it all the time. I don’t miss AWACS, just the friends I made while in the AF. I heard you were in the Gulf the same time I was. Wouldn’t it be neat if we had a complete list of who else in ’86 was over there during the war? I doubt that any of us expected to see action so soon!”

Derek and Krystal Brown

Derek BROWN wrote from Saudi Arabia, “Life is ripping along still married and loving it and Krystal. Stationed in Riyadh, accompanied remote attached to Peace Shield construction outfit. Will be here at least until Apr ’93 and am looking to head back to the Academy to teach may have to extend a year to do it. We’ll see how that issue shakes out. So far we find the Middle East very interesting, having spent a few weeks here and there traveling around the Kingdom and to Bahrain. Just remember Krystal’s immortal words... “this place isn’t a desert, it’s a puddle of hypocrisy.” Next trip will be to Jordan to see Petra (Indiana Jones & Last Crusade), the Dead Sea, Amman and Aquba. We’ll also tie into the Hijay Railroad destroyed by Lawrence Olivier (A.K.A. of Arabia). Should be fun if we don’t get kidnapped!”

Last but not least, Igor BEAUFILS dropped me a Christmas card mentioning that the RIFs, early outs and other methods to reduce the force have started and that the next few years are going to be very hard. But as he stated, “with the good Lord’s guidance we will make it.”

In the area of address changes, Roger THRASHER is in Europe; Geoffrey and Shelly HILL are in Hampton, VA; Jesse ASHE is in Charlotte, NC; Trevor HOY is in Littleton, CO; Jennifer (GRAHAM) WREATH and her husband, Douglas, are in Milpitas, CA; Patrick FRAWLEY is in Ewa Beach, HI; Russell WILSON is at MacDill AFB, FL; Mike WARD is at Niceville, FL; Steve TREMAIN is in Burlington, NJ; Tim MCDONALD is still in Europe; Joe WILBURN is in Valrico, FL; and Mitchell and Martha HANSCOM are in Clovis, NM. Mitch has a son, Spencer. David BUCKMAN is in Beavercreek, OH; George BUMILLER is in Mt Holly, NJ; Perry PELOQUIN is in North St. Paul, MN; James MCDONOUGH is in Chambersburg, PA; Gretchen GREATOREX is in Burbank, CA; and John DUCHARME is at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. I ran into a bunch of ’89ers recently. Paul DELMONTE is married and flying F-16s at Spangdahlem AB, Germany. James TRAVIS, Chris REA, Darren HIRSCHEY, and Vance DRENKHAHN are all assigned to the 493 FS at RAF Lakenheath flying F-lllFs.

As far as I go, I am looking for an assignment to the Academy, preferably with the 50th ATS. If I can’t find a flying assignment, which believe me is like pulling teeth (especially for a WSO), I am looking for non-flying duty at the Academy. With the new assignment system, I’ll just have to keep putting in for assignments and hope I get one.

Glenn L. Strebe

7705 Stampede Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Home: (719) 531-0122

DSN: 672-7978

Percent members: 35

Greetings all across the world as ’87 prepares to go over the five-year point. It is simply amazing we have fulfilled our initial commitment. For those who are separating, I hope you have developed your job network, had a few interviews, and possibly received job offers. Since I am writing this between Christmas and the New Year, I hope everybody had a great holiday season.

Much to my amazement, I did get a few calls and letters this past quarter. Jon WISHAM called and told me he and his wife, Cathy, are expecting about the time you receive this letter. Jon is with the OSI in San

Antonio. He says Paul WADE is at Ramstein as an intel officer. He will soon be going to AFIT for area studies (probably Latin America). Paul, if I am wrong, you better write. Keith BEATTY is also an intel officer stationed at Beale. Vic VALDEZ and Chris SCHUBERT are also going to AFIT for area studies.

Bill SHEDD called from balmy Grand Forks, ND. Bill is a KC-135R copilot (soon to be AC). He was married to Sue on 28 Sept 1991. Bill also had the pleasure of being deployed for two months. Miles MCGINNIS is a KC-135R copilot (by now he should be an AC). Vic RICK has two kids and is also at Grand Forks. Diane PROVOST is also getting ready to upgrade as well as tying the hitch in June. Hey Di, what happened to my letter? Lisa HUMMLER is at Texas A&M getting her master’s in philosophy. Keith MAYS is an air traffic controller at Grand Forks. Kerry SELF is at Willie as a T-38 IP. Keith GROEN is a T-41 instructor at the Zoo.

I got another letter from my most loyal writer Nigel SIMPSON. He is stationed at Carswell which will soon be closed. Some of our fellow classmates at Carswell are Pete D’AMICO, Joe PREM, Rob HYDE, Raul GARCIA, Dave POOLE, and Paul TORO. Paul and his wife, Polly, had a baby girl, Veronica, on 23 Oct 1991. Marty NELSON is a tanker driver (AC). Nigel became an instructor this past summer and he plans to crossflow to the RC-135. If he doesn’t get that, he may try for a non-flying job. I can see it now, USAFA instructor. By the way, believe it or not, Nigel got hitched on 25 Jan 1992 to a nice Fort Worth lady named Dianna. Also from Nigel, Dave POOLE and his wife, Anita, had another child a few months ago. Steve MILLER is PCSing (this could be old news by now) to Offutt after three years in a RC-135 at Eielson. He will be going to SOS enroute.

I got a letter from Jamie WHITLEY’s wife, * leling. Jamie and Meling were married 29 May 1988. Thanks to J.B. WALTERMIRE’s attack, Jamie had a nice shiner for the wedding. However, revenge will be bitter sweet when J.B. gets married in Oklahoma. He is marrying a girl from his hometown. Her name is Brenda. Dan HANCOCK married a Texan named Susan. Dan is stationed at Offutt but will soon PCS to McChord. Dan and Susan have a baby girl named Jordan. Tim KUBES got married in Feb 1991 to Adrienne Minson. They are enjoying the beach bum lifestyle out in L.A. Bob CAVELLO is also out in L.A. Bob plans to be married in June of 1992 to a sweet California lady named Bianca. Steve JACOBSON also got married to another USAFA grad named Cindy (last name?). They are stationed in England. Mark BOVA is an IP and married to Ann. They had their second child in October. Matt RIORDAN was married at Christmas time 1990. Scott HAVERKATE is stationed in New York (Griffiss?). He recently returned from Saudi. Jeff CLIATT, after proving an eye diagnosis wrong, attended UPT and his first assignment will be to McChord. Steve SCHIFANI is also in Texas. His next assignment will be Offutt.

Bob Faneuff’s (you can see why they call him grouse) self-portrait as Ken’s best man.

Ken ARCOLEO and his wife, Tammy, just celebrated their first wedding anniversary in November. He is PCSing to Mather after being a T-37 IP at Willie. Ken will be flying the Tweet at Mather until the base closes in the spring of ’93. A few of the people that were FAIPs and their followon assignments: John WOOD, C-141 to Travis; Rich TRUSSELL, KC-135 to Dyess; Jon CRERIE, C-5 to Travis; Brett BERG, C-130 to Yokota; Chris HOPE, C-130 to ?; Curtis YOHANSON, C-130 to RheinMain; Bruce LACHARITE, MC-130 to Hulbert Field; Greg OLSON, DOS; Alex GILBERT, DOS; Steve WALTERS, C-5 to Dover; Gary HENDERSON, MH-60 to ?; and Dan HODGSON, C-130 to Dyess. Also, Bob FANEUFF is at AFIT with his wife, Mary, and their four-yearold daughter. Ken also sent a few photos for your viewing enjoyment.

Mark V. Peters

PSC Box 1353

Carswell AFB, TX 76127-1353

Home: (817) 249-3030

DSN: 739-5205

Alert DSN: 739-7444

Percent members: 35

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Greetings to all hope the pay raise is feeling good. If it’s not, just wait until this summer when we all become rich captains. I received two letters right at deadline for the last issue three months ago, so some of the following may be just a little on the old side.

Brendan and Suzanne (PALMER ’90) MIKUS wrote from Barksdale where Brendan is a B-52 nav and Suzanne’s an intel officer. “We were married on 1 June 1990 at the Chapel, and I completed CCTS at Castle AFB while she attended Intel School at Goodfellow AFB. Then I moved here to the 62 BMS in the hopes of dropping lots of bombs on people. Norm WORTHEN is a copilot in the other squadron here (596 BMS). Last January my most sincere hopes were realized as we deployed for Desert Storm. Other ’88ers involved were Tom HESTERMAN (copilot) and Jeff WHARTON (an EW), both in my squadron. I flew 13 sorties with my crew, had a great time, and eagerly anticipate the next one.

“I saw Jeff PARKER here flying C-21s and Tina JURGIELEWICZ is here in the Comm Squadron, I think. Marty MARCOLONGO is also employed in the intel shop. My roommate, John HILLYER, is an F-16 driver at Misawa, as is Clay GARRISON. Tom GOODNOUGH is flying HH-53s at Fairchild and John WELCH is married and flying BUFFS, also at Fairchild. Greg LUKASIEWICZ is flying F-16s. I saw him at our open house this past spring. Stu RODRIGUEZ headed out to fly C-12s in Alaska after UPT (quite a while ago).”

Joe TEGTMEYER’s letter also arrived at the last deadline, but the info is still good. Joe was reinstated at Sheppard as a UPT student and is doing

well in the T-38. He expects to graduate in April, but flying assignments out of UPT are a big question mark. He spent two years as a fuels officer at Altus AFB, OK. Several of the ’88ers at Sheppard include Dave BACZEWSKI, Bill BROOMHEAD, Paul CHASTAIN, Chris DOBB, and Doug HOLMAN, all instructing in the T-37. Tarn ABEL and James and John SCHAEFFER are also there as T-38 IPs. Ed SMITH is SPing at Sheppard. Nick SEAWARD is flying the KC-135R out of Altus and is engaged to married in June.

Being back at Sheppard is “really strange, kind of deja vu. I’ve gone to my old squadron and quite a few people remain. There has been a lot of building around the base; I hardly know where anything is. With the closing of Lowry and Chanute AFBs, Sheppard will become the main training base in the Air Force.”

Steve and Valarie HALL sent this after their August 31st wedding at Tyndall AFB, FL. Several ’88ers can be seen in the background: Glenn GRAHAM (best man), Tom EIDE, Jon BOWSER, John BERGQUIST, Neil ROBINSON and Fran SCHMUCK. After their honeymoom in Napa Valley, they’re back at Hill AFB, UT, where Steve is a weapons controller in the 729 TCS.

In November I heard from Chris KUBICK who called from Ellsworth AFB, SD, where he’s the new Accounting and Finance officer (AFO). He was one of the last 2,000 left at Clark helping close the place out. Also formerly at Clark was Cal SPEIGHT (CS-34) who has since moved on to Yokota as a financial analyst. Chris was married to Sharon (a CPA) just a few weeks after graduation and Cal was married to Lourdes in Philadelphia. Kelly (BONDARUK) NOVAK was in missile maintenance at Ellsworth but has since moved.

Glenn GRAHAM wrote a typically hilarious letter that I’ll just copy. “Since I last saw you (I believe it was around your UPT graduation when I was just getting there from Columbia University in New York) a lot of things have changed. I met this girl in Tempe named Allyson who had my same birthday and whose aunt knew my mom in college back in the ’40s. Anyway, to make a long story short, we were maried last December, and gave birth to a “Saddam Hussein” baby girl (even though I was at F-15 RTU at Tyndall during the war) named Lauren Elizabeth Graham on Oct. 17, 1991. at Langley AFB, VA.

“Yes, I’m in the 27 FS flying the Eagle, along with Scott WARNER who was a freshman with me in the 27th squadron at the Zoo. I thank Max TIPTON (CS-13) for introducing me to Allyson. I saw him at Robins AFB, GA, the other day where he flies the ’135. You see, we’re deployed to Savannah, GA until Christmas (1991) so that our runway can be fixed and that’s one reason that I have time to write you.

“I keep in touch with Dave LANGHAUSER (CS-01) who works at Tyndall with TAWC and AMRAMM production, and with my roomie, Bob GIBSON (CS-01) who squanders Air Force money at Wright-Pat in Dayton and is married to a lovely girl, Rhonda, with whom he has a boy, Conner.

“Also, I went to Steve HALLS’s (CS-02) wedding back in August at Tyndall. As his best man, the bum didn’t even tell me that he secretly got married to his fiance (to whom he proposed two weeks after he met her) back in the first week of January (without telling anyone) so he could get on-base housing at Hill where he’s a weapons controller, when he was supposed to be at my wedding instead!

“What else? I still own thirds in a house in Chandler, AZ, with Tyler ELDRED and Dawn DUNLOP, who are T-37 and T-38 IPs respectively, at Willie. I finally talked with Todd DIERLAM a few weeks ago. You probably know he and Ron SIMMONS are both instructors at the Zoo (Astro) and banked pilots (KC-135s or KC-lOs). Just to wrap up, I guess Doug HILL flies KC-lOs (Seymour-Johnson AFB, NC) and Mike

ROTHSTEIN flies F-15s somewhere in Europe and you probably know that Scott CARY is a tweet IP at Willie.”

Jim SISLER squeaked in just before deadline with the following: “After reading the last Checkpoints and the 1991 Register, I thought I’d update a few things. My wife, Joyce, and I are living in Clovis, NM, where I’m flying the F-lll Aardvark. We are expecting our first child in May. To add a bit to the Fall 1991 Checkpoints, Dan URIBE and his wife, Sylvia, had their second child, Eric, in October, 1990. Dan is at Wright-Pat AFB attending AFIT. Doug HILL and his wife, Linda, had a daughter, Lisa, in February, 1991 at Seymour-Johnson. Chad SEVIGNY and his wife, Alyson, had a daughter, Maeghan, at Reese where Chad is a T-37 IP. Well, enough of the offspring updates.

“The following are last known assignments of several people from Reese class 89-15 and a few others. At Reese as IPs in the T-37 are: Chad

SEVIGNY, Mike MAGNELL, Ty RHAME, and Greg MYERS. In the T-38: Mike WHITE, Jack DANIELS, and Bill MINER. C-141: Pete CHING (Norton), Chris ERNANDES (McGuire), and Mike KIRCHOFF (McChord). KC-135: Dean BRAY (Kadena), Scott CRASE (K.I. Sawyer), Joel HARVEAUX (Fairchild), Monte KLEMAN (Griffiss), Dean WEBB (Altus), and John PAYNE (Plattsburgh). EC-135: Darril

BILL (Offutt). F-16: Jeff BUTLER (Germany). C-21: Tom SEXTON (Scott). C-130: Chris ANDERSON and Grant SNITKER (Little Rock). F-lll: Paul YOUNG (Upper Heyford), and Rob MARR. EC-130: Brock HANTHORN (Bergstrom).

“Most of the above were as of September 1989 so I can’t vouch for complete accuracy. I heard from Steve HARRISON about a year ago when I was in his native Potato-Land (Idaho) in RTU. He stayed a third year at Oxford and was supposed to be headed back to the U.S. (Stevie if you read this, please write.)”

The AOG forwarded a few address changes to me but, unfortunately, they don’t say anything about new jobs, spouses, children, etc. George DEGNON is now in Sumter, SC. Doug KUGLER is in Castle Rock, CO. Chris LOWE is at Kunsan AB, Korea. Bill REVELOS is in Springfield, OH. Jeff SATTERFIELD is living in Omaha, NE. Deanna WON is in Kettering, OH. Greg ZEHNER is at Shaw AFB, SC.

In December my brother David stopped over at DFW for a few hours before continuing on to Saudi Arabia. He’ll be TDY for three months as an AFO/comptroller type for Central Command. He’s decided to extend his tour at Hickam AFB where he’s still doing the money thing.

Continuing the money theme, Joe TEGTMEYER informed me that after your second and subsequent PCS moves, regardless of your marital status, you’re entitled to a Dislocation Allowance (DLA) that can be well into three figures. You may want to have your Accounting and Finance office run a transaction search to see if you received your DLA. As it turned out, neither Joe nor myself had. It’s worth checking into.

On a personal note, I found out in mid-December that I was selected for the KC-10 crossflow program so I’ll be moving “sometime between April and September” of this year to March AFB, CA. I’m definitely looking forward to the new airplane and some Pacific TDYs. Keep mailing any class info here, it’ll catch up!

Thanks to Brendan and Suzanne MIKUS, Joe TEGTMEYER, Steve and Valarie HALL, Chris KUBICK, Glenn GRAHAM, and Jim SISLER for all the info. Everyone else, WRITE ASAP; my next deadline is usually within a week or two of receiving your Checkpoints!

Paul W. Tibbets IV

616 Sheridan Lake Road, Apt. 314

Rapid City, SD 57702

Home: (605) 341-0884

DSN: 675-4925

Percent members: 37

Welcome to yet another edition of our class news! I hope the new year is treating everyone well. Just think, pretty soon we COULD be considered old heads time sure does fly. I don’t have near the volume of information for this issue as we have had for the last few. Ya’ll keep those letters coming in, as it sure does get lonely up here in the North! Seriously, let me hear from you and those classmates of ours around you. A few people have called or written to say they actually like the article, but I can’t do it without your help.

My first letter comes from my old roommate from CS-39, Ken THIELE. Ken is stationed with his wife, Michelle, at Beale AFB, CA flying KC-135s. Ken just recently went to the Pacific doing a Pacific Tanker Task Force, where they were stationed out of Kadena for 30 days. He says he ran into Steve ZEPP, who is flying Special Ops ’130s and really enjoys his job. Also at Kadena in KC- 135s are Shawnie EWING, Tim JOZWIAK, and Dean BRAY (’88). Ken also heard that Mike CHAPA and Hal CRANMER were flying F-15s there.

At Beale, Ken says life is good in northern California. Flying KC-135s at Beale are Kris THOMPSON, Roger PLEIMANN, Steve MCQUIRK, and Larry HANTLA. Joan BOYER is working in Pave Paws. Ken also saw Bruce BEYERLY a few months ago, who is married to Lori and soon to be a dad. They are headed for Loring where Bruce is a B-52 nav. Greg BASHKOFF is flying RC-135s out of Offutt, and Steve WARRIOR is in the ’135 at Eaker. Ken says Steve may be looking for a new job soon, as Eaker is closing and they are moving the tankers elsewhere. Lastly, Ken mentions that he should be checked out in the T-38 for ACE soon, and is looking forward to traveling around the country. Thanks for writing Ken!

My next letter comes from another squadronmate from CS-39, Tony POLLIZZI. Tony is stationed at Pope AFB flying C-130s. Tony was writing me as he was getting ready to go Pinal Air Park, which is just north of Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, for a two-week deployment. Tony writes that there are several other grads at Pope, including Ted CORALLO, Kevin LANCASTER, Vince WILD, David MOHR (his roommate), Sara FERRIER, Heather SCHOFIELD, Ed KNETIG, Scott MORGAN, Mike LONCAR, Rick PEDDYCORD, and Dave CAMPASSI.

Tony says that generally speaking, most of them have been to Europe at least once, and the Caribbean a few times. Central America is not an uncommon mission either. The low-level routes they fly make up about one half of their flying time, and are not IR routes but a surveyed area where they make up their own routes. Thanks for writing Scrit!

I received a nice letter and card from Christy KAYSER around Christmas. She is flying KC-135s at Robins AFB, GA. Christy has spent most of her time since she has been at Robins TDY, to places such as Puerto Rico and Alaska. Her first TDY was with her crew to Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico for three weeks. She says they did quite a bit of flying, but also found plenty of time for sightseeing, snorkeling, and sunbathing. They even flew to St. Thomas for a day.

Christy then went to Eielson AFB, AK for six weeks. She says that again they did some great flying, but also found time for fishing, sightseeing, shopping, and hiking. Over the Labor Day weekend they drove to Anchorage and played tourist, stopping at McKinley National Park on the way down. At home, Christy says she has spent a few weekends at the lake waterskiing and swimming, a couple of trips to Florida and a trip to Atlanta to see a Braves game. In closing, Christy says she enjoys her new house and is looking forward to starting ACE soon. Thanks for writing Christy.

Next I heard from Dave KOHUT, who has been a security policeman at Kunsan since Jan 91. Dave says you get to do the real mission of an SP at Kunsan, which is Air Base Ground Defense. He says they work and play hard, and he plans to remain overseas for at least a few more years.

Other classmates who Dave has run into include Cindy CHIARAVALLOTI, who arrived at Osan AB in Sept 91 for a one-year remote as a cop. Nick CHAPAPAS is coming to Kunsan in Jan 92 as a security policeman also. Karl LEVY is in Saudi Arabia flying C-130s, and Bruce BROWN is in Upper Hayford flying F-Ills. Thanks for writing Dave!

My last letter comes from Rondall RICE, who is chief of Intelligence for the 355th Fighter Squadron (A-10s) at Myrtle Beach AFB, SC. Ron was deployed from August ’90 to March ’91 in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and has been nominated for a Bronze Star. He is getting married next April.

Upon his return, Ron found two new A-10 pilots there D.J. DRESSEL (CS-29) and Brian KIEFFER (CS-21). Both are doing fine, and looking for new jobs since Myrtle Beach is closing. Ron is going to Sembach, Germany next summer to be the chief of Intelligence at the ATOC. His roommate at intel school, Spiros FAFALIOS, was at Key West NAS, but is now in Iraklion, Greece, with his wife and a baby on the way. Pete SMITH (CS-30) is at Shaw AFB, SC, having transitioned from the OV-10 to the A-10. Thanks for writing Rondall!

I saw Scott MADISON over Christmas leave. Scott is a KC-10 copilot at Barksdale AFB, LA. He is engaged to Melinda, and they are planning a wedding in June. Scott loves the KC-10, and has been on several TDYs in his short time at Barksdale. I just got back from TDY to Patrick AFB, FL and am going in a couple of weeks to Nellis AFB, NV for a Red Flag deployment for two weeks. The B-l is great, and has a bright future ahead of it.

That’s all for now. Let me thank again Ken Thiele, Tony Pollizzi, Christy Kayser, Dave Kohut and Rondall Rice for dropping me a line. Keep those letters coming, and remember to send PICTURES! Take care and God bless.

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PSC Box 834

Castle AFB, CA 95342

Home (209) 725-7374

Percent members: 34

Greetings Most Glorious and Mighty Class of ’90!

I trust that my greetings find all of you in the best of health and spirits. Things my way couldn’t be better. Currently I’m at Castle AFB, CA with a host of others from our class undergoing KC-135 upgrade training. At the time of this writing I’ve been here for about a month. By the time you all read this article, chances are I’ll already be at Offutt AFB, NE. I’m due to report there 31 Mar 92. Mike CARTER is by my side working very diligently to help me get the news to you before my deadline. He is here for copilot training in the KC-135 and will be going to Barksdale AFB, LA. He’s about three weeks into the program. Things are going well with him and he sends his greetings to all. Others here at Castle include (on the nav side): Evan BREEDLOVE KC-135 to Barksdale, Dave KUENZLI

KC-135 to Fairchild, Pete BAILEY B-52 to Castle (incidentally, Pete is also the new proud father of twin boys), Alonzo BRISTOL KC-135 to Grand Forks, and Lanie GREENFIELD RC-135 to Offutt. As for KC-135 copilots we have: Dana WHITE Robbins, Jeff SCHWOOB Dyess. Others who are here include: Lisa (AMBRE)

FREDDO, Gary WALKER (Kadena), Paul NICHOLS, Lisa WILMAN, Rick WILMER, Joe SHAHID, Greg ANDERSON, Jim JACOBSON, Mike CLAY, and as I’ve already mentioned, my partner in crime, the real MC himself, Mike CARTER. That’s about as extensive of a Castle update that I have. Stationed here on a permanent basis is Reggie TYLER as well.

Now on to news abroad. It took Maj Bob KEELE (’78) to write me and inform me of the whereabouts of Leslie DARBY (one of my “most wanted”). I understand that she is currently at Dyess in the Services Squadron. She is OIC of the Honor Guard and I hear that she does everything from publishing physical fitness articles in the base newspaper to administering the Candidate Fitness Test for Dyess. What a woman! I’ve also heard from Eric FAISON as well. He’s still at USAFA as a coach and is on his way to Maintenance Officer School soon. He still plans to get married in May of 1992. Zac BELCHER dropped me a line recently and informed me that all is well with him and his wife, Nancy, at Loring AFB. He also tells me that Steve and Claudine LACASSE have a beautiful baby girl named Taylor that joined their family in July of 1991. Congratulations from all of us, Steve and Claudine! Lynn WAGNER sends greetings from Ramstein AB in Germany. She works in a Computer Systems Group and implements computer systems throughout Europe.

A note from Maj Richard Flood, USAR/Ret, father of Pat FLOOD, reports that Keith WESLEY and his new bride, Jennifer, pledged vows on 28 Sept 91 in Colorado Springs. They spent their honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico and soon will be leaving for Frankfurt, Germany. Congratulations and best wishes for a fruitful life together. Pat received his master’s on 13 Dec 91 from Ohio State and is currently attending Intel School at Goodfellow AFB, TX. Eric KELM received his M.S. in EE from the University of Washington and is currently in class 92-15 at Reese with Steve SENN and J.P. MARTIN.

Steven DANTZLER dropped a line to announce his marriage to the former Sarah Allison on 14 Oct 91. Also, Kelly (KRATOCHVIL) GREENE is due to graduate from AFIT in March of ’92. Get a load of her thesis topic (sit down for this if you’re not already doing so), Spatial Temporal Autoregressive Moving Averages Forecasting. I’ll give you a hand if you run into problems with that stuff Kelly, I’m well versed in that field! Best of luck Kelly.

I’ve also heard from Mark BROWN. He banked a tanker and is the adjutant for the 41st AREFS at Griffiss. Beach CURTIS banked a fighter and is serving time as a tactical communications engineer at Langley. With him at Langley are the likes of Greg WHITE, Paul WELCH, and Rachel (SLEEPER) LANGAS. Thanks for the update Beach Peace my

Missing 1990 Graduates

Two members of the Class of 1990 were inadvertantly left out of the 1991 Register of Graduates. They were 2nd Lts. Bryan S. Veit and Eric M. Vaughn. Our most current information had Bryan at pilot training at Randolph AFB and married to 1990 graduate Andrea C. (Terry). We had Eric at Columbus AFB, MS. We apologize for any inconvenience this problem may have caused.

brother.

Cathy MORGAN also sent me an extensive update. She informs me that Michelle CHAPMAN is settled in at Charleston and that Dawn MOLZEN is finishing up at Texas A&M. Cathy also wants to make a point that all the Chickenhawks (OS-16) that entered UPT completed. Yeah Chickenhawks! She tells me that Kim SCOTT is doing personnel at Fairchild, Laura KREITLER scientific analysis at Brooks, Greg NELSON maintenance at Pope, Kevin TOLLEY adjutant at Langley, Darrin TURPIN SP at MacDill, Chai ODOM computer science at Hurlbert Field, Brian OSSOLINSKI intel, John BADER S. Central Florida for engineering, Phil HARDIN A/C maintenance at Tinker, and Cathy is getting her master’s in OR from UT at Austin.

Additional letters inform me that Brian NISWANDER is an intel officer at Elmendorf, AK; Tripp SIMPSON is among the married posse, and John BADER and Van DESHAYES are soon to be. Ben DAVIS also recently wrote from the land of AWACS at Tinker. His possee in Oklahoma include Rick DENNERY, who is an engineer on the B-l in ALC. Karen WATTS is there in communications. Dave BRIEN (who got married not too long ago) is a weapons controller along with Mark GUTCHER (who is engaged to a beautiful Florida girl), and Ron DREWKE. John BELL is also a maintenance officer there with Ben. John is looking to possibly going to the new composite wing at Mountain Home in the spring. Ben is engaged to Michelle Cox, “a true South Carolina Belle” in his words. They are scheduled to be married on 20 Jun 92 in Columbia, SC. Ben also informs me that Bill GIDEON finished his master’s at Virginia Tech and is working on airborne lasers at Kirtland. Mike THIRTLE and his wife are at Wright-Pat where Mike works as a scientific analyst.

Donny HANKS and his wife, Wendy, are due to have a baby any second now. Lou DEFELICE and his new wife are at Sheppard where he is at Hospital Administration School with a follow-on to Vance. Mike OATES is soon to be heading to Randolph for PIT in the ’37 with followon to Columbus as a FAIP and Charlan THORPE is spending her banked transport time at Hurlburt Field as an admin officer.

Brian HASTINGS is still at Reese awaiting F-15 training with a followon to Langley. Sam SVITENKO is spending his banked time at Dover and Mark WEATHERINGTON is spending his banked time at McConnell as an SP. Max NEUMAYER got a C-12 to Norton and Steve BRANDT got a banked fighter and is at Reese awaiting grad school at the U of Texas. John CAIRNEY is about to begin UPT somewhere after his assignment at USAFA and Ed MARTIGNETTI got a B-l assignment. Finally, John WHISENANT is a maintenance officer at Nellis and Dave COLEY has finished maintenance officer school and has set up residency in Dover, DE.

I also got a letter from Jennifer Mateer, Jack MATEER’s wife. Jack is an aircraft maintenance officer at Shaw AFB and is on his way to AMMOC at Chanute from 16 Oct 91 to 3 Mar 92. Ben ALLEY will be there as well before he heads back to Moody AFB, GA. Jennifer also informs me that Charlie MCINTYRE is due to marry Stephanie on 29 Feb 92 and that Mike LATTANZI got married to Gina 30 Mar 91. Congratulations and best of luck to you all. Thanks for the info Jennifer and tell Jack that I said “Norm Lives!”

Well,.now on to what you’ve all been waiting for. Here are the current list of aircraft assignments as I know them: KC-135: Steve ALDRIAN (Robbins), Monica HOLZHAUER (Griffiss), Jim JACOBSEN (Griffiss), Devin WALTERS (currently at Castle with me now and heading to Plattsburg), Mike CARTER (Barksdale), Gary WALKER (Kadena), Greg ANDERSON, Lisa (AMBRE) FREDDO, Lisa WILMAN, Joe SHAHID, and Kevin YANDURA (also here at Castle now). David STEELE (currently here at Castle).

B-52: Tony COOK (Fairchild), Jim LOBASH (K I Sawyer and due to arrive at Castle any minute now), Joey MEDLIN (Loring), and Steve ARBETMAN (Griffis.)

Banked Fighters: Mike KATO, Bill TRACY, Steve BRANDT, Keith MCCLELLAND, Craig WOLFE, Kevin TOLLEY, Steve EARLY, John BOBROSKI, Sam MORGAN, Beachel CURTIS, Chris OGREN, and Clark HUNSTAD. Banked bombers: Ray SAGUI, Chris WRIGHT, Mike BLAIR, Pat HARRISON. Banked tankers: Scott PARENT, Bill SYLLA, Dan GILLESPIE, Joel ORBIN, Jon URBANEK, Kim SCOTT, Mark BROWN, Steve RAU, Randy MAZZONI, Chris WAGNER, Russ MCDANIEL, Andy PIERSON, Mike ATIGNA, Vince SCHONS, Marlena VENTRESCA, and Mike WAHLER.

C-141: Rich WESTON, Matt ROUSH, Tripp SIMPSON, Raj NAIK (Travis), Jim FAIN, and Dave ALMOND (Charleston). Banked transports: Eric MIKKLESON, Charlan THORPE, Laura KREITLER, Chai ODOM, Rich HARTSON, Michelle CHAPMAN, Greg NELSON, Cathy MORGAN, Randall GLADNEY, Cathy BEDDOW, Ben MILLER, Tom RAMPALLA, Bill CONNOLLY, Van DESHAYES,

Kirk DEJESUS, Jay OWEN, Mike HOLLMAN, Mike ARNOLD, Ryan JARA, and Beth STEGRIST.

C-9: Jim FINNEY (Rhein-Main), and Brian KENSINGER (Yokota). EC-130: Rick MUSSI (Davis-Monthan). C-130: Steve SCOTT (Little Rock), Paula DOW (Little Rock), Jack MCNALL and Rod HARRELL (both going to Yokota).

T-38: James JINNETTE (Columbus) and Andy MCARTOR (Columbus). T-37: Mike OATES (Columbus), Mark VANCLEAVE (Reese), John LAMBERTSON (Columbus), Scott WILSON (Columbus), and John LAMANTIA (Columbus). F-15: Brian HASTINGS (Langley), Mark WISER (Luke, F-15E), and Trevor SCHAEFER (Elmendorf).

C-12: Max NEUMAYER. KC-10: Steve LANIER. A-10: Jeff SAMUEL (Pope) and Brian VANDIVERE (Pope). C-21: Jeff EICKMAN (Norton). EC-135: Ted PRESLEY (Offutt). C-27: Steve ROBERTS (Howard). OA-IO: Mike MILLEN. Well gang that’s about all I have on aircraft assignments. I’m sure that this listing is not close to being all-inclusive so please keep the info coming. Thanks to all who wrote with the assignment info.

A bit more news and then I’ll have to close. Jim LOBASH gave me a pretty extensive update on a lot of your personal lives so I’ll report it as I have it. Monica HOLZHAUER and Bill SYLLA are still engaged and the plans for marriage are tentatively scheduled for late April or May. Mike KATO is engaged as well. Dan YERSCHESKY and Shannon GREGORY are married and both are doing their banked tanker assignment at Fairchild. Dan is an SP and Shannon is some kind of admin/executive officer. The grapevine tells us that Tony BUKATA married Lisa DEGENHART (’91) and Joe SHAHID married Michelle DUBOIS (’91). Also, Jim LAWRENCE married the former Becky Parszch on 15 Dec 91 at the Academy Chapel. Thanks for that super update Jim and best of luck.

I’d like take a moment to give a special thank you to those who compiled all of the aircraft assignment info that I’ve received up to this point. They include Mark BROWN, Jennifer MATEER (Jack’s wife), Cathy MORGAN, Benjamin DAVIS, Jim LOBASH, and Beach CURTIS. Thanks a lot to all of you. Let me not fail to mention that I’ve heard from Don MOSES, Carla JONES, Mike CONTRATTO (the other half of the Dynamic Duo), Chuck BOYD (PALS!), Chesca BARNETT, and Jeff PHILIPPART. Thanks for keeping in touch.

I’ve also gotten a super response from those on the “Ten Most Wanted” list. Jim JACOBSEN has reported in here in person at Castle and is doing well with his wife, Nancy. Dana WHITE is here as well and is doing fine. Jeff PHILIPPART is off the list as is John WHISENANT. I’ve heard about Leslie DARBY but still haven’t heard from her yet so you’re not off the hook yet Leslie. My repeat offenders are Greg REESE, Tim WILLWERTH, Joel MILTON, Phil HARDIN, and Raymond DUDLEY. The additional five are: Oliver WASHINGTON, Maurice OWENS, Steve ROBERTS, Patricia GOODALL, and Mike HOLLMAN. Welcome one welcome all! I look forward to hearing from you all.

That’s all for now most Glorious and Mighty Class! My thoughts and prayers are with you all for success in your lives, success in your families and success in your careers. Take care and thanks again for the overflow of letters. I’ll try to write you all back individually as I find time. Stay strong and keep the trim in the green.

Amy Reecy

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Greetings everyone, I apologize now for the short letter in this issue, but if you send me any juicy stuff I’ll be sure to include it in the next letter. With everyone still moving all over the country, it’s hard to keep track of what’s all going on. See my most recent address above if you want to send me any pictures, etc. I’m sure this will change in the near future, but till then it'will have to do.

Now for who’s doing what, where, and with whom. Chris HOWARD sent me a letter all the way from England letting me know that he and Mike THOMPSON are enjoying real college parties Oxford style. They have met a squid and all three are terrorizing the campus. Of course the folks at home hear only that they are most chivalrous. And back on the mainland, Ellsworth, SD, to be more specific, Kristen HASER and Bill POINTER are enjoying the fresh aroma of hog farming at its finest. Kim (LANE), and Scott MCLEAN will soon be together in Ellsworth after Scott’s TDY at Vandenberg is completed. Here is their June week wed-

ding photo, the second to be published in Checkpoints for the Class of ’91. I’m sure there are many more to come.

Kim and Scott McLean

Allan WANSKY informed me that he is going through AFIT at Georgia Tech until Sept of ’92. Rob SANDS sent his greetings from the Class of 92-15 at Vance AFB. He is recently married (28 Dec) and hopefully will send a photo for the next issue. Between a new wife and UPT, he tells me that he’s keeping very busy. That’s surprising, huh!

I received a letter from Ed MOODY. Because it’s the holidays and because I feel a little tired after a hard day of skiing, I’ll just put his letter in here word for word. It’s all about the CS-20 crew that he’s heard from so far. “Leon DOCKERY is out in tech training at Chanute AFB along with Gena GERVAE. Jim LOVE is still on casual status at Columbus AFB. He’s told me that Rich SVOBODA and Dave DOBBS have started UPT and they are in academics right now. Kurt GAUDETTE has started up at Reese AFB. Jim LOVE tells me he’s rooming with Blair HORTON. Pat PHILLIPS wrote me from Sheppard. He tells me that Lt Col Erdle (our old AOC) is out there in the T-38 squadron. Jim also told me that Greg SCHUMACHER is working hard at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. Marc FISHER also wrote to me. He is working at Hanscom AFB. He’s working for Brad HANBY’s father. Recently, he broke his hand in a fight with two guys, but it wasn’t his fault. (Sure!) As for me, (Ed MOODY), I’m doing the master’s degree thing at Georgia Tech.”

Thanks a lot for the info from Ed on the old Trolls. As for what’s going on still at the Hill, not much work and a lot of skiing. The snow is great and the sun keeps shining. The AH dept recently had a ski bash to Keystone. Some of the more prevelant skiers on the mountain were of course all the ’91 grads, which included John SCOTT, Russ BALKA, Mike KAZLAUSKY, Tim RUNNETTE, Brad KRAMER, Adam MCLEAN, and myself. It was a lot of fun. Sorry about no picture.

Here are some rumors flying to finish up this article: Sean BORDENAVE and Hans BLEY got married. We’re not sure if it was to each other or not. Sue HENKE and Carlene PERRY recently finished environmental training school and are now official BEEs. Congratulations! Sue is now studying alligator movements in Shreveport, LA, and Carlene, who’s staying temporarily at Sue’s parent’s house in Beaver Creek, OH is studying corn reproduction at Wright-Patterson.

I hope everyone got the chance to take time off over the holidays and relax and enjoy life. Mine included a short trip home to the Hog Capital of the World, Kewanee, IL, and then off to Massachusetts to spend some time with my new ski partner Adam MCLEAN. That’s all folks. Write sometime. I’ll be glad to hear from you and these articles will be longer and more interesting, I promise! See you in the funny pages. Take care and God Bless. Amy.

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