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CH EC K POI N T S VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1

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SP RI N G 1990

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Grad Chosen Vice Chief/ Wins Zuckert Award . . .

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1977 Graduate Turns Entrepreneur General Doolittle Awarded Honorary Membership

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Graduat e Gol f Cou rse Ru les Ou t l i n ed

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Academy Memorial Programs Available Jewish Chapel to Receive Torah Scroll

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Admiral Crowe Earns Thomas D. White Award . .

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AOG Life Membership Options Expanded A ss o ci a t i o n P r esi d e n t

Eric M. Thorson, ‘67 Execu t ive VP/ T r easu r er

Richard M. Coppock, ‘61 Vi ce Pr esi den t, Ser vices

Jock C. H. Schwank, ‘60 Vice President, Development James E. Wilhelm, ‘61 Di r ect or of Pu bl i cat ion s T om K robot h A O G S t af f

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Mrs. Kathy McCann Ms. Karen Kipp Stephen H. Knight Irene Knight P at D o n ovan

Mrs. Monica Young B OA RD O F D I R ECT O RS To Serve Unt i l 30 Ju ne 1991 A W Biancur, ‘60 W F Kendall Jr, ‘60 W E Aylswort h, ‘61 M J Quinlan, ‘61 J L Smi th, ‘62 J F Wheeler, ‘64 L L Casada, ‘71 G D Pollard, ‘72 K S Samelson, ‘73 R L Alcorn, ‘74 P Wi lliams, ‘75 J T Wol ter, ‘75 J B Echols, ‘76 D M Snyder, ‘78 M P Powell, ‘85 T o Serve Unti l 30 Ju ne 1993 C H Meier Jr, ‘59 J F Glaza, ‘60 J P Ulm, ‘61 M P Blaisdell, ‘62 B A Blackman, ‘65 J E Spittler Jr, ‘65 G P Mil ne, ‘67 (Secretary) E M Thorsen, ‘67 (President) W W Maywhort, ‘68 W E Richardson, ‘71 (Vice-Chairman) J L Barry, ‘73 K J Greenhi ll, ‘80 K S Wilhelm, ‘80 B A Hook, ‘81 M S Novak, ‘84

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A B O UT O U R COV E R Mr. Bill Madsen captures the newly-refurbished Memorial Tree Grove Plaque i n front of Tree Grove I to the west of the Cadet Chapel. A new tree grove is being established j ust to the west of this original one. For more information o n t h is an d o t h er m em o r i al programs at the academy, see the story on page 27.

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The unpleasant reality of budget cuts is affecting all aspects of the Air Force mission

and we at t he Academy are no except ion. Yet t he news I have to share with you concern s a broadening of our academic

programs rather than a cutback.

Thanks to t he Academy Aca demic Development Fund, head ed by its president and execut ive director, ret ired Brig. Gen. Philip Erdle, former vice dean at the Academy, we have established our first two ful ly-endowed L t G en . H a m m chairs. They are t he Brig. Gen. Robert F. McDermot t Chair for Academic Excellence and the Maj .

he was appointed by President Bush in October as delegate-at-large on the U.S. delegation to the current Conventional F or ces Red u ct i o n

in Europe negotiations. He has been attending the talks i n Vi en n a

and sharing many of his experiences with the faculty and cadets,

providing us with a “real world” education in internal affai rs.

On another positive note, let me extend my sincere thanks for your

continued support to the AOG’s Air Force Academy Fund. W h en

federal money cannot support a needed program, the AOG many t imes provides us the required funding. The AFA Fund makes a d i ffer en ce i n all areas of Academy life, from academics to extracurricular act i v i t ies.

In this time of shrinking budgets, I can’t emphasize enough how important this money is to maintain our position as a leader i n academic pursuits and leadership development It’s your co n t i n u ed

support that allows the fund to keep making the difference. T h an k you for caring and staying committed to your Air Force

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Gen. William Lyon Chair in Professional Ethics. The Gen eral McDermott Chair was funded by the United Services Automobile

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Associat ion. General McDermot t, t he company’s CEO and chairman, served as the Academy’s dean of faculty from August 1956 t o July

1968. The General Lyon Chair was made possible through a gen ero u s grant from the family.

The funds provided by the General McDermott Chair will be administered by the dean of the faculty, who will identify t h e m ost pressing needs within the various academic departments. T h e Gen eral Lyon endowment will be used to further academic excellence w i t h i n the Department of Philosophy and Fine Arts.

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vice chief of staff of t he Air Force. Prior to t he announcement he was

selected to receive the 1989 Eugene M. Zuckert Award. N am ed i n

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presented annually to recognize outstanding management ach ieve ments by an Air Force general officer or Senior Executive Serv i ce civi l ian .

The Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff sel ect ed

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exceptional management of over 400 Air Force programs val u ed at

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L ET T ER S T O T H E ED I T O R M ORE RESP ON SE S TO GRAD COM M I TM EN T (Editor’s note: In the Spring 1989 issue of this magazine we published an article by Gen. T.R. Milton, USAF (Ret), which appeared in the March 1989 issue of Air Force Magazine. This article was entitled “The Commitment Gap, ” and in i t the general questioned the commi tment of

have chosen to stay on active duty think, it wasn’t the money or the living conditions that drew them out And it was certainly not any “ lack of commitment” to their respective service, as you imply, but career betrayal by a personnel system which prefers an up-or-out policy to a highly-skilled and motivated pilot

General Milton would have us ignore the maj or contribution resignees make to the Air Force through participation in the Reserve and Air National Guard. In fact, many of those who leave the Air Force and j oin the airlines continue

If it is absolutely necessary to raise the postUPT obligation, do it to make your force

airline, he has absolutely no understanding of the work environment surrounding this profes

fo rce.

stronger or even more cost-effective, but don’t

service academy graduates, particularly Air Force Academy graduates, to serve in the military for a full career. To quote: “The Academy is producing outstanding scholars—

“ tr ue commi t men t to a mi l itary career” . It wi ll

careers short for a j ob with the airlines. The pattern says that something is wrong.’’ The following are the last of the letters to the editor generated by the original article)

airlines, with their unionized seniority rules, and long years of boring toil and little

but too many graduates cut their military

do it to satisfy any false sense that you will get a

only serve to delay separations that much longer.

I n one ot her paragraph you state " I f t he

responsibil i ty, are more att ract ive than a career

Dear Genera l Mi lt on, I t was wit h more t han a l it tle int erest t hat I

in the Air Force, clearly something is amiss.”

Respectfully, sir, the only thing amiss here is your assessment of the very people you are

in your writ ing.

ignore one pilot’s flying abilities over another’s, they also eliminate the political and preferential considerations that allow Peter Principle graduates to be promoted to squadron com mander and someone who is only a “ good stick”

read your article “ The Commitment Gap” as reprinted in Checkpoints. As a member of the gra duate group to whom the piece was targeted, I must respond if only to clear away some of the prej udices and genera lizations that you implied Your opening para gra ph alluded to “ former times” (read “ better” times) as being in the 1930s. For those of my peers who have chosen early separa tion, those times are actually more like the mid-1960s. It was about this period when the officer corps goals shifted from

“ Mission Accomplishment” to “ Career En hance

ment”; where “ flying and fi ghting” yielded to pressures for an offi cer to seek promotion sponsorships and highly visible non-flying/ staff posit ions.

1 wore my pilot’s wings not as a “ symbol of a marketable skill” as you stated, but proudly, with the expectation of what they would mean to me in the real Air Force. With only the usual

except ions experienced by anyone in the Armed

Services, the first six years of my career were everything that I had been trained and prepared for at USAFA and UPT. Only when the j obs that those wings ent it led me t o were looked on as a

handicap by the “ career enhancement” advisors at MFC did I even begin to consider another c a re e r .

I was a pi lot I was far from the best but 1 was the best t hat I knew how to be. I was no bet ter

officer than any non-rated offi cer, only different

It is that difference that is not considered in t he

magic formula you seek to retain your experienced pilot offi cers. 1 you want to keep them in, then keep them in what they know and love best . . . the cockpiL At the very least give them a choice in the matter. Ask them if they want to pursue either an unaccelera ted 20 years in operations or accept out-of-cockpit positions for a shot at the chief of staff. Ask your j unior offi cers now general, because in my informal poll-taking, more than 50 percent of my fellow airline pilots would have stayed in the Air Force or Navy through 20 if not for the policy of yanking them out of the cockpit at the six-eight year point Contra ry to what many offi cers who

tryi ng to retai n. While seniority ru les do tend t o

to be relegated to a non-volunteer command p o st t o u r.

Those “ long years” toi ling at the controls of

an aircraft are j ust what you are asking of your pilot retainees, are they not? And I dare say, sir, that civilian passengers in a B-767 hold me no less responsible for their well-being than that load of paratroopers did in t he back of a C- I 30.

This “ boring toil” which we prefer to the desks and paperwork that you term “ responsibility” is why you wi ll find Reserve and Ai r National

Guard units besting active duty units in RODEO and WILLIAM TELL-type competitions time after time. They’re not any better. They’re j ust flying more!

It comes fi nally to this. Stop listening to the “ Career Enhancement” types on your staffs and go ask the troops why they are leaving. We were always taught by you that the best leaders and commanders are the ones wit h the needs of their

people in their hearts. Stop guessing. Ask your engineers, scientists and pilots their needs and what it would take for them to stay in before they put in their papers in disgust You might be surprised at how simple the answer is.

Sincerely, Kennet h Bon n, ’73

D ea r E d i t o r :

Genera l Milton’s art icle in t he Summer issue of Checkpoin ts i nfuriated me. Genera l M il ton

has neither gra duated from the Air Force Academy nor flown for an airline, yet he pretends to be an expert on bot h. He is too far removed

from the situation to have any credibility

concerni ng t he subj ect of his art icle. General

Milton’s basic premise, that Academy graduates are resigning to fly for the airlines, is disputed i n the same issue of Checkpoints. The study of resignees indicated that more Academy gra du ates go into the business fi eld than go into

co m m erc i al av i at i o n .

their mi litary flying in t he Guard or Reserve.

S i n ce Gen eral M i l t o n h as n ev er fl o w n fo r an

sion. I have been i n nu merous sit uat ions i n

which I would have enj oyed having General Milton on the j umpseaL His idea of “ boring toil” would be quickly disproved! Occasionally the

j ob can be boring toi l, but that label could be

applied to almost any j ob including many in the

A i r F o r ce.

General Mi lton can find me i n t he airli ne

cockpiL or he may fi nd me at corporate headquarters, where I also work as an attorney for my airline. Or he might catch me in the Air Force Reserve where I perform my duties as a JAG. This disproves another grave misconcep tion held by the general, that an airline pilot is bound by some system t hat wil l not let h im

develop his potential outside the cockpiL Just the opposite is true. As an airline piloL you can move up through the management ranks, be a check airman (stan eval), or you can j ust fly and enj oy your free time. The option is yours. If you want to work in a profession outside the airline, you have the time and financial ability to do it We have pilots involved in virt ually every pursui t i maginable. We even have a few M.D.’s pra cticing medici ne in t heir free t i me.

When I gra duated from the Air Force Academy I had no intention whatsoever of resigning from the Air Force. At age 22, much less at age 18, a young person cannot know with certainty what course he or she will choose 10 years in the future. Because of this, the Academy should take the most qualifi ed students, motivate then, and hope that the Air Force will provide them with the incentives to become career officers. If you look at the Class of 1971, my class, I think you would find it impossible to predicL at the time of gra duation, which graduates would stay in the

A i r Fo r ce t o re t i r em en t

Many resignees had great experiences in the

Air Force. I loved t he Air Force, and I could not

have asked for better assignments. I, like many others, did not resign because I lacked commitment or became disillusioned. I j ust found opport unities outside the Air Force that offered a far superior family life, and I saw that I could still contribute to the Air Force through t h e Rese rv e.

Like every officer who resigns, I was

counseled by a colonel who tried to convice me

to stay in the Air Force. After severa l meetings he realized that he could not change my mind, and he said, “ If I were in your shoes, I would do the same thing. 1 have found that some people can do more for the Air Force by their contributions as civilians than they could do working within the Ai r Force system, no mat ter how successfu l they might be as Air Force officers.”

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This colonel was right Like many other resignees, I have great visibility in my civilian postitions, and 1 have influenced numerous students to Join the Air Force in some capacity.

j ust fade away. They become state senators and prominent citizens who support our armed

have graduated from the Academy or ROTC. Whenever I speak to groups, I usually talk about

but I bet a th ink tank l ike t he RAND Corp. could

shed some light Perhaps it is time to completely

1guess General Milton would classify me and the thousands like me as persons who lack

pilots. Since the days of the Army Air Corps, we have always paid a nominal incentive called flight pay, but it didn’t have to be substantial, for

At least 20 st udents I have counseled i nformally

Air Force and airl ine flyi ng.

commit ment but he Just doesn’t have the facts.

The Air Force Academy graduates a body of motivated, intelligent leaders every year for service in t he Air Force. These people wi ll succeed in whatever field they choose, and they

will always be labeled as Academy graduates. As these graduates go through life, the Air Force and our country will reap great rewards that you can’t measure by counting the number of years they served on active duty.

Sincerely, Ri ck R Bart on, ’71

T o t h e Ed i t or

General Mi lton’s letter was very t imely. The

pilot training commitment has now increased to ten years after pilot training, for a total of eleven years. Convicted murderers often receive a

fo r ces.

I think the general has avoided addressing the

causes of our retent ion problem. I am not

experienced enough to list and solve all of them,

restruct ure and revolut ionize our th inki ng on

after al l, they got to fl y. Ot her t han fl ight pay, a l l

officers of the same rank are paid equally. And rest assured, to t his day if fl ight pay were

abolished, most pilots would elect to stay in the cockpit But would they stay in the active-duty A i r Fo r ce? 1 d o u b t i t

I f we want t o retain our best pi lots, I t hi nk it is

going to take two things as a minimum. Pilots are going to have to be treated as a special entity, and not forced into career-broadening assign

ments in order to be promoted. Secondly, it is going to take a lot of money! In the 1930s they wanted the regular commission for security, and today they want the dollars for that same security. If the active duty won’t provide it, the airl ines and ARF wi l l. Pi lots want to fl y and t hey

want to be compensated for it An F-15 squadron

sh o r t er sen t en ce!

commander should not be maki ng only $400 a mont h more t han t t he chief of CBPO. The Air

of commitment The opport unit ies are Just too

w h i c h t h e o f fi cer s sh o u l d er t h e b u l k o f t h e

Yes, General, pilots are bailing out at an alarming rate, but it is not due to a sudden lack

Force is unique in that it is the only service in

great to pass up. In your day if a pilot got out he could go fly KC-97s in the Guard or Reserves.

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combat arms. Yes, we would have to revolution ize our t hinking, but it wou ld save us money in

of choice on active duty, he can probably fi nd it

accident rates and training costs, irrespect ive of increased readiness, t he country would save

5, KC-10, etc. If he does not have his assignment

in t he Guard or Reserves. That is part of t he fallout of our Total Reserve Forces concept

the long run. This is a hard point to sell to Congress and the public, but with reduced

W i t h t h e i n cr eased r el ian ce o n o u r A i r Reser ve

money. Our only other choice is to accept the status quo and increase our training capabilities.

airlines are hiri ng. Can you imagine t he ARF manned by an ent irely non-prior-service corps?

productive. I put in 10 years on active duty and

Forces (ARF), it’s probably a good thing the In fact, most pilots Join the ARF shortly after separating from active duty. Why? Because they like the fl ying and the comaraderie, they don’t

want to waste their act ive-duty t ime (i.e. ret irement), and they st ill feel a commi tment to the Air Force and t heir country. Old pilots don’t

General, 1 understand your frust rat ions on retent ion, but 1 t hink your poposal is counter

have served the last eight years as an Air Force Academy/ ROTC liaison officer. I have sen t 17

young men and women to the Academy, and only one has ever qui t I don’t ask them to give me a career. I ask t hem for their four best years at

USA FA a n d t h en w h at ever ser v i ce co m m i t m en t

they incur. I tell them not to worry about the service commitment, because that is the reward they get by successfully completing the Academy. If during their service commitment the Air Force can’t convi nce t hem t hat t he Ai r

Force is right for them, then they can resign.

They will have served their country, gotten a great education, and worked with the finest people in this country. I put the onus on the Air Force to do its parL The increased commit ment has already cost

us several top students, some to Navy which has a shorter pilot commitment Imagine talking to a 17-year-old kid and telling him he has to sign away the next 15 years of his life to be a pilot And now you want me to make it 17 years and 14 for an engineer? 1 can tell you point blank that we are already running off some of the finest students in the country, students that would really like to go to the Academy.

Is our program so bad that we have to conscript these students for half of their life? If 1 thought so ,

I would quit as a liaison officer today. As things stand today, we are going to lose a lot of our engineers and pilots, regardless. Is it not better w e start with the cream of the crop? If we want to

keep bringing in 70 percent pilot-qualifi ed students, you’re going to see “C” students under your plan. You don’t need to be intelligent to be an airline pilot, JUST EXPERIENCED. To fl y an F-15 or F-16 in today’s sophisticated wartime environment, you need some technical back ground, and above-average intelligence.

Final ly general, 1 take great except ion to your

description of life as an airline pilot I look for ward to every day I fly, and have not yet

encountered “ long years of boring toil”. As for “ little responsibility”, you know not what you speak. Whether it’s unruly passengers, mechani

cal diffi cul t ies, weat her, t he FAA, bomb t hreats, or crew coordination, as the captain I have al l

the responsibility I had always hoped for. That was a cheap shot and it missed its mark.

We have some problems in the Air Force, but 1 don’t think it is in the people we bring in. I think the Air Force leadersh ip has to do its part in

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The First Bucket in the Savings and Loan Bail-out

By Hal Sil liman

“ I feel the breeze in my face” is how Michael Weinstein, Class of 1977, describes h is new adventure as execut ive vice president, general counsel and partner in a small company that provided the fi rst helping hand i n t he count ry’s savings and loan disaster.

The company, Compus Services Corporation, is a minority-owned v e n t u r e that supplies computer hardware and software systems an d “ so l u t i o n s” t o other businesses and governmental agencies. The wind i n W ei n st ei n ’s face recently became a hurricane.

agency—The Resolution Trust Corporation. Then one day a former client, O.W. Burrell, president and founder of Compus, came calling. The two talked. “ Mike had the expert ise and 1 had the business opport unity,” B u rr el l sa i d.

They became business partners and now, as well, extremely c lo se fr i en d s.

NeXT is Compus’s second coup. That’s spelled N-e-X-T as in Apple creator Steve Jobs’ newest computer company. Compus recently signed an agreement

to become NeXT’s fi rst mi nori ty business part ner and can provide NeXT computers and software to government clients and federal pri me contractors.

This keeps the Compus image on the cutting edge of “ high-tech ” as i t str ives to be a choice of federal agencies and their pri me c o n t r a c t o r s .

Compus Services Corp. is a certifi ed minority business enterprise (MBE) under t he Smal l Business Administrat ion’s 8(a) program. I t ’s a c o vet ed designation, and Compus is one of only about 300 minority high-technology

outfi ts nationwide. An 8(a) company, Weinstein explains, ca n co n t ra c t w i t h Uncle Sam easier t han ot her busi nesses, so larger companies a r e

n o w

approaching these 8(a) fi rms. He calls Compus the prototypically perfect minority-owned business because of its access to the best i n high-t ech computer systems, its exceptional corporate personnel and its unique

knowledge of t he federal procurement system. Compus current ly supplies products, systems and expertise to the Federal Aviation Administrat ion, the

U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of Commerce and Pacifi c Be l l.

Weinstein’s j ourney from White House attorney to businessowner fi rst t o o k him through two law fi rms: the international law fi rm of Heron, Burchet te,

Ruckert & Rot hwel l and t hen Wal l St reet’s Milgri m T homaj an & L ee. I t w a s while at the lat ter fi rm t hat Weinstein became personal ly assoc i at ed w i t h Ro ss Perot and was init ial ly retained as outside counsel.

Eventually, he became the fi rst, and only general counsel at Perot Systems and helped lead the much publicized court battle against “ t he largest

corporation in the world. General Motors,” over a non-competition c l au se. “ I threw my body on a hand grenade,” he said. The lawsuit d em a n d ed so m u c h Michael Weinstein at his Compus Service Corp. office in Rock vil le, Md.

ti me t hat he only saw his family “ w hile i n a state of slumber.” I t proved the turning point in his career. Although Ross Perot and t he people at Perot Systems were, and continue to be “ family” to him, he wanted to spend more t ime w ith h is own fami ly, w ife Bonnie, and (Dasey, seven, and Curti s, fi v e.

As t he fi rst contract or of t he Resolut ion Trust Corporat ion —the fed era l

government agency charged with cleaning up the savings a n d l o a n m ess —

Compus Services Corporat ion, as the managi ng part ner in a j oint-venture named ComGuard, was given a Herculean task: I n two an d a h al f m o n t h s t o compile a database inventory in excess of 30,000 foreclosed propert ies from 300 bankrupt savings and loan associat ions across the Un t ied Sta t es. O n a si t e visit to a failed S& L, i t took t hree and a half days to compile t he necessary data on 27 foreclosures because t he record-keeping was so poor. At t hat rate, t hey

fi gured there was a decade’s worth of work ahead.

Needless to say, t he Maryland-based company, wi th the help of other

subcontractors and RTC personnel on location, completed t he j ob —ni ne days

short of its deadli ne and under budget “ No one thought we could do it ” Weinstein recalled. An d no wonder, the dol lar amount o f t h e r ea l esta t e t o t a led $250 bi ll ion; t he amount of real estate involved was 15 t imes t hat original ly expected. From Weinstein’s view of the matter, the savi ngs and loan crisis could have t he impact on America equal to t hat of Pearl H ar bo r. “ I t ’s ast onish ing!”

Success aside, his fr iends st il l ask what a former Wh ite House attorney and later general counsel to Texas bi ll ionaire Ross Perot, is doi ng work ing in th is “ litt le company?” I ts staff n umbers 22 people and j ust six mont hs ago was half that Wei nstei n, fi rst, l ikes being a businessman. He was, fr ank ly, t ired of “ put t ing deals togethef ’ for someone else. He wanted to be part of the deals too. Second, he has—once agai n —found an unmet need.

After graduating from the University of the Pacifi c, McGeorge School of Law in 1981, and spending a year as a cri minal prosecutor at Hol loman AFB, N.M., he ipade himself an expert on the divestiture of American Telephone and Telegraph and its impact on mil itary and civilian commun ications. Possessing such esoteric but vi tal knowledge landed him a cherished posi t ion, duri ng t he Reagan years, in t he Execut ive Offi ce of the President Whi le working for t he White House i n two key legal and pol icy posit ions, he tackled the tort uous federal procurement process, playi ng a maj or role i n craft ing badly needed reform, parti cularly in t he h igh technology arena.

Weinstei n was also selected by senior Wh ite H ouse staff as t h e C h i ef Admin istrat ive Manager of the President’s Special Review Board (t he “ Tower Commission” ) invest igat i ng the Iran-Contra matter.

Two other developmen ts fi gured into Weinstei n’s new ca reen t h e fed era l

government’s newly revised requirements on minority-owned b u si n ess sharing in government contracts and the newest formed government

I n al l, Weinstein had held seven posit ions in the last six years. Along t he

way, he has developed remarkably successful entrepreneurial sk i l l s. H e sees

the chronic need for “ green- light at torneys” who can help businesspersons get things done rather than those “ red-light” attorneys who are nay-sayers and cost-centers to a corporati on.

After graduating with honors from the Air Force Academy in 1977,

Weinstein completed the Air Force Communications-Electronics O ff i c er s

School at Keesler AFB, M iss, and was then assigned t o McClel lan AFB, Cal if, where he was in charge of secure communicat ions for t he base, supervising some 150 personnel. He t hen at tended law school (at n igh t t he fi rst year) under the Ai r Force’s Funded Legal Educat ion Program (FLEP). After graduat ion he was assigned as the fi rst ch ief of Telecommunicati ons and Computer Law at Ai r Force Communicat ions Command, Scot t AFB, 111. fro m 19 8 2 t o 19 8 4 .

He was then chosen to be the at torney-advisor for Telecommunicat io n s an d Informat ion Systems for t he Offi ce of Management and Budget, The Wh ite House, in Feb. 1984. I n t his posit ion he also served as d esk o ff i c er fo r t h e Nat ional Aeronaut ics and Space Admi nistrat ion (NASA), Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. I nformat ion Agency, U.S. Postal Service, and the Selecti ve Service System. I n May 1986, he was named assistant general counsel of The Whi te H ouse, Execut ive Offi ce of t he Pr esi d e n t o f t h e Un i t ed States, where he served unt i l May 1987.

Weinstein t hen worked for two law firms, served as general counsel for Perot Systems Corporat ion, and assu med his current posit ion w ith Compus Services Corporat ion in August 1989. He has lect ured and wri t ten extensively on t he policies and procedures of govern ment contracti ng and w as se l ec t ed as o n e o f the Outstanding Young Men in America for 1985 and 1987. H is legal counsel on a wide variety of issues, pri mari ly in t he areas o f t el eco m m u n i cat io n s an d computer procurement law, has been specifically requested by the U.S. Congress (House of Representatives) numerous federal/ state agencies and private sector companies.

(H al Sil l iman, MA ., is director of Communications for Un iversi ty of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. The article is reprinted from McGeorge Magazine, 1990.)

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seaplanes. During this period he served with the Naval T est B oar d at Mitchell, N.Y. and was a familiar figure in airspeed record at tempt s in

t he New York area. He won t he Schneider Cup Race—t he W o r ld Series of seaplane racing—in 1925, with an average speed of 232 miles

per hour in a Curtiss Navy racer equipped with pontoons. T h i s w as t h e fastest a seaplane had ever flown. Doolittle received t he Mackay Trophy for this feat In April 1926 he was granted a leave of absence to go to Sout h America on airplane demonstration flights. In Chile h e br o k e bo t h ankles but put his Curtiss P-1 through st irring aerial m an eu vers w i t h h is an k l es i n casts.

Returning to Mitchell Field in Sept 1928, he assisted i n t h e development of fog flying equipment He helped develop t h e ar t i fi ci al

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General ‘‘Jimmy’’ Doolittle accepts his honorary AOG membership

plaque from Jim Spittler, ’65, AOG board member and past AOG president

land planes. He won the Bendix Trophy Race from Burbank, Cal if, t o

Cleveland in a Laird Biplane and took the Thompson Trophy Race at Cleveland in a Gee Bee racer in a speed averaging 252 miles per hour.

He went back on active duty in July 1940 as a maj or.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1942 and went t o Headquarters Army Air Force to plan the fi rst aerial r ai d on t h e Japanese mainland. He volunteered and received General H . H .

Arnold’s approval to lead the attack of 16 B-25 medium bo m bers fro m the aircraft carrier, HomeL with targets in Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, and

Nagoya. The daring one-way mission on April 18, 1942 el ect r i f i ed t h e

world and gave America’s war hopes a terrifi c lift A s d i d t h e o t h er s

who participated in the mission, Doolittle had to bail ouL but

fortunately landed in a rice paddy in China near Chu Ch ow . So m e o f the other flyers lost their lives on the mission. Doolittle r ecei ved t h e Medal of Honor, presented to him by President Roosevelt at t h e W h i t e House, for planning and leading this successful operation. I n add i t i o n to the nation’s top award, Doolittle also received two Dist inguished Service Medals, the Silver Star, three Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Star, four Air Medals, and decorations from Great Britain, France, Belgium, Poland, China, and Ecuador.

In July 1942, as a brigadier general—he had been advanced t w o grades the day after the Tokyo attack- Doolittle was assigned to t he 8th Air Force and in September became commanding general o f t h e

12 t h Air Force in North Africa. He was promoted to maj or general in November and in March 1943 became commanding general o f t h e Nort h Afr ican Strategic Air Forces.

He took command of the 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean T h eater

in Nov. 1943. From Jan. 1944 to SepL 1945 he commanded t h e 8 t h A ir Force in Europe. He was promoted to lieutenant general on March 13, 1944. On May 10, 1946 he reverted to inactive reserve stat u s an d returned to Shell Oil as a vice president and later as a d irect or.

In March 1951 he was appointed a special assistant t o t h e A ir Fo rce chief of staff, serving as a civilian in scientifi c m at t ers w h ic h led t o A i r Force ballist ic missi le and space programs.

He retired from Air Force duty Feb. 28, 1959 but continued t o se r v e

his country as chairman of the board of Space Technology

Laboratories. He also was t he fi rst president of t he A i r Associat ion in 1947, assist ing in its organizat ion.

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By SSgt Gary Cunningham Editor, Falcon Fly er

Retired Navy Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., former chairman of t h e Joi n t Chiefs of Staff, received the Thomas D. White Nat ional D efense A w ar d during a ceremony on the academy’s terrazzo March 8. Academy

Superintendent LL Gen. Charles R Hamm presented the aw ard.

The Thomas D. White Award is given annually to an American cit izen who is j udged to have contributed most significant ly t o t h e nat ional defense and security of the United States during the previous y ear.

Eligibility for the award is open to leaders in many f ields su ch as

science, technology, leadership, management, nat ional affairs, i n t ern at i o n al af fai rs or a co m b i nat io n o f fi el ds.

Past w i n n ers i n c l u de su ch n o ta ble A m er ican s as D r. Edward Teller,

nuclear physicist and principal architect of the hydrogen bo m b

(1962); Gen. James E. Doolitt le, World War I I aviat ion h ero (1967); Bob Hope, internat ional entertainer and humanitarian (1977); fo rm er Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1978); David Packard, fo u n der o f the Hewlett-Packard Electronic Corporation (1981); Caspar Wein berger, former secretary of defense (1988); and former P residen t Ronald Reagan (1989).

Each year nominat ions for t he Thomas D. White award a r e requested from headquarters USAF, all Air Force maj or co m m an ds and j oint commands. The nominations are then screened for propriety and validity, and t hen forwarded to t he members of t h e select io n commit tee, who decide on the winner.

During his time as the nation’s senior ranking offi cer. A dm iral Crow e was the principal military advisor to Presidents Reagan an d B ush. H e was an insider on such crucial issues as terrorism, arms control, U.S./ Soviet relations, the Persian Gulf, Latin America and Star W ars.

Super int endent Addresses Sen at e Su bcom m i t t ee

Superintendent Lt Gen. Charles R Hamm testified before t h e Senate Armed Services manpower and personnel subcommit tee i n early April. General Hamm told the panel, “ We t hink we produce a superior offi cer for t he Air Force in a cost-effect ive way.”

In addition to defending the Academy’s practice of using act iveduty offi cers as instructors, he informed the panel t hat Academy graduates remain in the service longer, do better at professional military education, graduate from flight training at higher rates, and are promoted earlier t han other officers.

According to the general’s statistics, comparing the “ o n - t i m e” promotion rates for the years 1979 through 1988, 97.9 percent of line

L t Gen. Charles R H amm, superi ntendent, presents the Th o m as D .

Wh i te A w ard to for m er ch a ir m an of th e Jo i n t Ch i efs of Staff, retired

Navy Adm. William J. Crowe, as CI C Steven P. Fraser, cadet wing commander, looks on. (Photo by SSgt. Greg Pri tchard)

Admiral Crowe also helped conceive t he idea of the 198 6 r aid on Libya, and directed t he forcedown of the Egypt ian airliner carrying con v ic t ed t err or ist A bu A b bas i n t h e aft er m at h of t h e hij acki ng of the cruise ship, Achi lle Lauro.

Whi le at the academy. Admiral Crowe spoke on “ The Future o f U.S. and Soviet Relat ions,” as part of t he United States A ir Fo rce Academy’s Dist inguished Speakers Program. higher percentages of dist inguished graduates from Squadron Offi cer School and Air Command and Staff College. He defended t h e al l military faculty sayi ng t hat t he facul ty serve as cost-efficient r o le models as well as teachers and t hat replacing half the faculty with civilians would increase operat ing costs by 25 percent

A ss o c i a t i o n S t o r er o o m

Ravaged by Fire, Smoke

Fire struck one of t he two Sij an Hall storerooms used by the Association of Graduates (AOG) on March 16. At approximately 1 p.m. smoke was sighted coming from t he window of t he storeroom w h i c h is located at the opposite end of Sij an Hall from t he assoc iat i on ’s

offi ces. Pumper trucks from one of the Academy’s fi re sta t i o n s

academy graduates were promoted to captain, compared w i t h 9 5.5 percent of all line offi cers; and 89.3 percent of line academy graduat es were promoted to maj or, compared to 77.4 percent of al l l i n e off icers.

On-time promotion rates for 1979 through 1987 showed 74.9 percent of l ine academy graduates promoted to lieutenant colonel compared with 62.1 percent of all line officers, and 60.5 percent of line academy graduates promoted to colonel compared wit h 42.3 percent o f al l l i n e

responded, and the fi re was brought under control wit hin 2 5 m i n u t es.

The fi re was confi ned to t he room, but adj acent hallways an d r oo m s

On retention. General Hamm noted t hat 64 percent of t h e m em bers of t he Class of 1959 stayed on active duty for 20 years an d al m ost 23 percent of t he class stayed for more t han 27 years. The percentage of class members who stayed for 20 years did decrease fr om 1959 through 1969, but the average 20-year retention of people graduat ing during t hat era is 50.6 percent The decline was at tributed t o t h e increasing size of classes in t hat period.

being used to cut away metal from the face of the building

offi cers.

Statistics showed that the percentage of academy graduates completing undergraduate pilot training is higher than offi cers commissioned from other sources. The average at trit ion rat e fr o m

1979 through 1988 were 18 percent for academy graduates an d 24 .2

percent for t he entire group.

The general also noted that academy graduates consistently h ave

incurred smoke damage. At the request of the fi re department,

association staff members, aided by a number of cadets, rem oved t h e ent ire contents of t he smoldering room over a period of so m e t h ree hours. The Academy provided temporary storage to permit sort ing and evaluat ion of damage.

I nvest igat ion revealed t he fi re was start ed by a contractor’s t or ch

immediately below t he floor of t he storeroom. Loss of asso ci at i o n property was extensive, with merchandising and gift i t em s as w el l as offi ce equipment incurring heavy fi re, smoke and/ or wat er damage.

I ncluded was a variety of memorabilia being stored by t he AOG for

var i ou s c lasses.

The association is in the process of an in-depth evaluation o f l osses an d w i l l f i le an i n su ran ce c lai m w it h t h e co n t rac t o r’s carr ier. W h en

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By Col. Jerry Wyngaard, ’68, and Capt. Leona Flores, ’8 1 Dir ector ate of Development and Al umni Pr ogr ams, USAFA

It seems that USAFA traditions come and go. In fact, t h er e are a l o t

of people who say t hat the one tradit ion USAFA has i s o n e of co n stan t

change. One USAFA tradition which began last year that o u r offi ce would like to see continue is " Founders Day.” The focus o f F o u n ders Day is to make people aware of the origin of the Air For ce

Academy.

It was as early as 1918 that the quest began for the esta bl i sh m en t of

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to enter USAFA and four squadrons existed. According to Duane Reed, chief of the Special Collect ions Branch in t he Cadet Library, the Academy was set up to initially have six groups of four squadrons. By the time the Class of 1959 graduated, there were 12 squadrons. The Class of 1960 graduated with 16 squadrons. The Class of 1961 saw t h e wing expand to 20 squadrons. In 1962 the wing expanded t o 2 4 squadrons. In 1967 the Cadet Wing grew to 30 squadrons (LL Col.

Tom Baumgardner, ’69, notes that there even existed f ive cadet

of debate, time, and legislation, the bill bringing USA FA t o fr u i t i on was signed by President Eisenhower on April 1, 1954. I t is t h is dat e that was selected as USAFA’s Founders Day.

groups at this time), and then a year later the squadrons n u m bered 32.

Finally, the Class of 1970 saw the last expansion of the Cadet Wing to 40 squadrons with an authorized strenghth of 4,417 cadets.

display of memorabilia from the Academy’s Special Collection i n t h e Superintendent’s Conference Room in Harmon Hall. This y e a r w e hope to expand the Academy’s participation in Founders Day. Currently slated for this year’s Founders Day is a pictorial display in

and 157 women entered USAFA on June 28, 1976.

Squadron Patches. Many squadron patches have fallen prey to the tradition of change. Sixteen of the current 40 patches ar e n o t t h e original. Due to our limited space, we will focus on First Cadet Group

I n its rookie year, the Founders Day celebrat ion consisted of a

Fairchild Hall and Harmon Hall, news art icles in t he base paper,

“ Falcon Flyer,” and possibly a feature story on the cadets’ “ B l u e Tube” television program.

While we are on the topic of traditions we though you might be interested in some of the things that have been changed since you graduated. In this issue we will start with the growth o f t h e Cadet

Wing and t he squadron patches. I n future issues we can focu s on ot her changes.

Cadet Wing Composit ion. I n 1955, 306 men became the fi r st c lass

I n 1976 women were admitted into the once all-male i n st i t u t i on

patches and review t he ot her patches in future issues. M ost of t h e material is from the AOG’s book ent itled Uni ted States A i r F o r c e

Academy 1954-1979, which celebrated the 25th anniversary o f USA FA

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em bl em bo rder ed i n bl u e. A bl u e sem i - ci r cu lar fi el d is placed at an angle on t he upper half of the patch. A camouflaged F-4 Phantom j et is at t he bot tom of the bl ue field. A snarling gray wolf s head emerges

from the plane’s cockpit and a red “ 5” is on the fuselage o n t h e w o l f s

right The word “ Wolfpack” is writ ten on t he white field below t h e aircraft The patch signifi es the squadron’s associat ion w i t h t h e famous “ Wolfpack” Fighter Wing, led in Southeast Asia by Brig. Gen. Robin Olds. The fierceness, professionalism, and dedicat ion to duty demonstrated by the wing are emulated by t he Fift h Squadron cadets.

The F-4 and the Wolf are clearly indicative of t he cunning and tenacity used by General Olds’ men and the high degree of spirit they demonstrated. The pict ures of both patches illustrate t he change fr om CS-02 P r evi o u s

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t h e o ld t o t h e n ew .

Second Squadron is on their third patch, which was creat ed i n

1972. It is a circular emblem on a black fi eld with a t h i n si lver bor der.

A banner inscribed wit h the word “ DEUCE” is above the c ir cl e. A Roman numeral II emerging from a whit e contrail in cen t ered. Red

and blue contrails produced by two j et aircraft are o n ei t h er sid e o f t h e white contrail. The contrail colors represent the American flag. The Roman numeral identifi es the squadron number. The black background signifi es the vastness of space. Man’s conquest of space is signified by the aircraft originating from the top an d t h e t h ree contrails represent the three areas where cadets st rive t o ex cel ; military, academics, and athletics. The current patch, along wit h the two previous patches, are shown to give a historical perspect ive of their patches.

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The Eight h Squadron patch was designed i n 1975 by Cadets Michael Cimafonte, Paul Music and Terry Cox, ’77, and i s t h ei r fo u r t h patch. The patch is a large circular emblem bordered i n dar k bl u e.

I n si de t h e dar k bl u e bord er i s a w h i t e f i eld w i t h a m u l t i -co lored F- 15

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The Third Squadron patch, created in 1977, is their second patch.

The prominent feature of the patch is a l ungi ng silver t h ree- h eaded dog with a serpent’s tail. Behind the dog are three red col umns rest ing on a red pedestal. Across the tops of t he col umns is a red lintel bearing t h e w ord “ Cer ber u s.” T h ere are si l ver ban ds at t h e base and the top of each of the t hree columns. A yellow fire accented wit h red is beh i n d the columns. Cerberus is the watchdog of Hades who prevents the

Eagle centered on a white field. The let ters “ EAGLE” are printed in dark blue across t he top of t he aircraft A dark blue “ 8 ” i s at t h e bot tom. Four stars, colored gold, blue, si lver, and red, are on t he righthand side of the emblem. The squadron chose the F- 15 for t he patch for two reasons: The F-15 was the newest interceptor, an d t h e n am e Eagle alli terates wit h “ eight ” The ghost-gray color along the plane’s leading edge is t he color used by t he Air Force Aggressor squadrons.

The four different colored stars represent t he four cl ass co lo rs. T h e patch symbolizes the squadron’s aggressiveness in intercepting an d destroying its enemies. We tried get t ing pict ures of all of t he patches, bu t t h e t h i r d o n e i n t h e su ccessive l i n e of fo u r w as n o t t o be fo u n d.

living from entering and prevents the dead from returning t o t h e

world of t he living. The t hree heads symbolize loyalty, obedience, and

fearlessness. The squadron number, represented by the R o m a n

numeral II I, is depicted by t he three columns and links t he squadron to one of the greatest professional armies of all t ime. Fi r e h as tradit ionally been a symbol of eternity and represents t h e et er n al an d undying nature of t he squadron’s ideals. As you can see, t here is quite a difference between the previous patch and t he current o n e .

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The Ninth Squadron pat ch was adopted i n 1977 and is t h ei r t h i rd

patch. It is an octogon-shaped emblem with a Viking ship sailing away from a bright orange-rayed sun. A royal blue flag fl i es fr o m a mast stretchi ng upward from the ship’s deck. The work “ VI K I N G” printed in royal blue is to the left of t he flag. A large white sai l bordered in black bil lows from t he mast The Roman numeral “ I X ” represents the cadet squadron, and the dragon symbolizes t he power and tenacity characteristic of the Vikings. The Vikings sought

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The Fifth Squadron patch was designed in 1975 by Cadet Ja m e s

Bisher, ’78, and is their second patch. The patch is a w h i t e ci r cu lar

adventure and were courageous in their exploration o f u n ch art ed lands around the globe. Again, our records came up short in t rying to fi nd one of the Ninth Squadron patches.

Does anyone from 8th of 9th Squadrons have the patches w e’re missing?Would you donate them to the Academy’s special co l lect i o n ?

If so, please send your patches or pictures of patches to HQ USAFA/ (Conti nued on nex t page.)

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TH E SE CRE T LI FE OF WA L D O F D UM BSQUA T

By Don Hall, 7 6 Colonel Waldo F. Dumbsquat, a man who saw every episode of Call to Glory, strol led into the Wing Staff hallway of t he “ old dorm.’’ The CQ spied the massive officer and called the area to

“ Great! Let ’s pick one out!’’ exclaimed Regs as he u n fol d ed t h e n ew s p a p e r .

W al do’s M ovi e L ist

at t en t io n .

“ Stand at ease and listen up, Mister!” “ Yes, Sir!” “ I’ve got a message you must del iver to t he staff whenever t hey get back from their commander’s privilege.” “ Yes, Sir!” The t hree-smoke shivered from t he colonel’s icy voice.

“ T h e fresh m en w i l l n ot be rest r i ct ed t h i s w eek en d.”

“ They won’t?” “ No, they won’t Read my lips! The ent ire fourt hclass w i l l be convoyed downtown t o the mall. Now, speed out!” “ Yes, Sir!” Performing the perfect about-face, the colonel strode dow n t h e h al l and disappeared into the nearest latrine. A magical t r an sform at i on took place next to t he paper towel dispenser and the officer emerged

moments later as C/ 4C Waldo F. Dumbsquat The scrawny doo l ie t u ck ed in h i s el bow s an d ch i n s an d m ar ch ed back t o h i s r oo m . T h ere

he found his roommates, Warren Heels and “ Regs” Buch. “ Gosh, I ’m sure l ucky to find you guys here!” “ Why?” asked Warren. “ We live here!” “ Well, never mind t hat Looks like we’ll get t o see a m ov ie t h is

Driving Miss Daisy in 2 Degree Cars” : A drama about t h e secondclass quest for equality, Lambado-my” : A musical look at fi eld grade surgical operat ions.

‘My Left Foot” : A rifle dri ll team member st ruggles to stop bobbing i n for m at i on .

The Hunt for Red October” : A cadet develops the fi rst c o n c r e t e su bm ar i n e.

‘Roe versus t he Volcano” : Supreme court drama.

‘Always” : Sequel t o “ Somet imes.” */4 ‘Henry V” : Fift h in t he series of Henry movies starring Sly Stal lone.

“ The choices are awesome!” said Warren. “ You go ahead an d d ec i de which one we go see, Waldo.” “ Act ual ly, t he B.S. Department is sponsoring a new m ov ie at Ar n o l d H al l I ’d l i k e t o see.”

“ What is it ?” asked Regs. “ Twelve O’clock H igh.”

w eek en d aft eral l .”

(Al umni Aler t : Conti nued from previous page.)

XPAA, USAFA Colo. 80840, Attention: Captain Flores. Any informat ion on who created a patch would also be helful. Also, if you know more or bet ter informat ion on any of t he patches, please write.

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U P DAT E ON SECON D CL A SS CA D ET CA RS This article is an update on the change to the regulation involving second class cadets owning and maintaining a vehicle. I n th e Fal l ’89 Checkpoints we interviewed Commandant of Cadets Brig. Gen. Joseph Redden, who alluded that second class cars were under review . For th ose not familiar with second class cars, it was decided in the spring of 1980 that second class cadets were permitted to have cars an d t h ere were n o restrictions on who could own a car other than class st a t u s.

In addition, we have added the cadets’ perspective of the change via an excerpt from The DoDo. The maj or change is the criteria for owning a vehicle. The following is a condensed version of a letter sent from the superintendent to cadet parents and guardians: “ Cadets may apply to their AOC for permission to own and maintain a vehicle. Applications can be submitted at the beginning of the second class year or the beginning of the second class spring semester. The criteria, based on meri t, is as follows: Second class cadets desiring to maintain a vehicle at t h e Academy must have attained any two of the following prior

to application: 2.65 Military Performance Average (MPA) for the previous semester, 2.4 Grade Point Average (CPA) for the previous semester, or 300 on the most recent Physical

Fitness Test (PFT). Also, none of the criteria can be less t h an a 2.2 MPA, 2.2 CPA, and 220 PFT.” The letter outlines that cadets must provide their AOC w it h a detailed fi nancial plan ensuring their capability to acquire and mai n tai n a car without undue fi nancial hardship. Car privileges can be revoked if a cadet has a car not meeting Air Force and state safety equipment requirements.

Finally, a cadet will lose car privileges if fo und guilty under cadet regulation. Uniform Code of Military Justice, or civil statutes of a drivingrelated alcoho l off ense.

On the lighter side, in a recent issue of The DoDo, Cadet Trevor Rusk,

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’92, shares the cadet perspective on the car regulation an d addi t ional requirements.

“More additions to the policy on the acquistion of car s for ’92. T o get cars at the normal time (when everyone else is able to get cars) not only do you have to have a Supt’s pin, but must also meet t he following requirements: have no cavities, be able to curl your tongue, wiggle your ears, be bom on a month with 31 day.s seriously brown-nosed an offi cer that’s at least an 0-6, have marched no tours, gone to a Barry Manilow concert, maj orly

pimped at least two classmates, read The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History in its entirety, and be able to collect at least two ounces of belly button lint a month.

“To get your car once school has started (and rarely get to use it) you must have a Comm’s or Dean’s pin and the following: have, in

your possession, a tail feather of the northern European grouse, be a member of the National Foundation for national foundations, be able to swallow at least 10 live goldfi sh, have dimples, m n a su bfi ve minute mile, own a teddy bear of not less than fi ve feet, drink 151 for breakfast and be able to explain (fu lly) how the magic money system works (be sure to have pie charts and graphs to back up your thesis). “ Those content to wait until second semester, fi guring all you had to do was keep your nose clean and stay in good standing, you’re wrong. You must also: have taken at least two years of ballet, be able to blow (at the minumum) fi ve smoke rings from one puff of your choice of smoke-producing material, explain the lifecycle of the longitudinally-grooved rorqual, know how to build and operate a trebuchet, defi ne detinue (look it up, it’s ironic) and k n ow w h at the average velocity of an unladen swallow is (Afri can an d European). “ Those cadet s not i n good standing can not get cars an d neit her can t hose who fal l under t he followi ng rest rict ions: cannot have carried on a conversat ion wit h t he l inen d u de f o r more t han 30 seconds, cannot produce more t han a pi nch o f earwax a week, cannot t hi nk t hat ‘very smal l rocks’ f l oat o n wat er, can not have ever played ‘You spank me and I’ll spank

you’ with someone of the same sex, and finally, if t h e Co m m

doesnt ’ l ike you t hen you can’t have a car eit her, so basical ly Th e D oD o st aff can ’t h av e car s.”

R u l es Ou tl i n ed for Gr ad Go l f Co u rse Use Through t he efforts of the Associat ion of Graduates an d t h e Directorate of Alumni Programs, nonret ired graduates w h o are n o longer in t he service may play golf at the Academy’s E isen h ow er Gol f Course on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Graduates, must however, follow specific rules to play on these “ Academy Grads’ Days.”

The golf course wi ll make available to t he Associat ion o f Grad uat es (AOG) four tee t imes beginning at 9 a.m. on the first Thursday of each month and four tee t imes beginning at 1 p.m. on the t hird Thursday of each month for use by graduates. Graduates wishing t o u se t h ese t ee t imes must make reservations through the AOG which will provide t he golf course wit h the names of players and their tee t i m es. W e emphasize that the graduates must go t hrough t he AOG o ffi ce for reservat ions. Tee t ime reservat ions not scheduled by 1000 on Friday prior to each Grads’ Day will be made available to active-duty golfers

fo r the Thursday reservation period, which begins at Sunday.

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Graduates who reside outside the Front Range area and w h o

ant icipate visit ing Colorado Spri ngs on ot her t han t h e f irst an d t h i r d Thursdays of a mont h should contact t he AOG in advance regarding golfing opportunities. The AOG will notify golf course personnel when a graduate who desires to play golf will be visiting t he Academy.

Golf course personnel wil l place the graduate’s name on a wait ing list for the desired day of play. They will then fit these golfers into exist ing groups as best t hey can. I n the case of act ive-duty or r et ir ed graduates, it may be possible to provide a tee time using the advance tee time reservat ion rules appl icable to non-Academy mi litary personnel and ret irees.

Normal green fees wil l apply in the above instances; i.e. $25 during the week and $30 on weekends for civilian golfers; $12 during the week and $14 during the weekend for active duty and ret ired; and reciprocal privileges for act ive duty who have annual membership at ot h er A i r For ce co u rses.

On such occasions as class reunions and homecoming, a

tournament will be scheduled to accommodate all graduates.

Cl assi f i ed ads ar e l i m i ted to th r ee co l u m n i n ch es ea ch . R a tes a re $ 18 a co l u m n

inch plus $13.50 if art or make-up are required Halftones (photos) are an additional $10.50 each. Send your copy or double-spaced typewritten ad to Editor, Checkpoints magazine. Association of Graduates U.S. A i r F o rce

Academy, Colo. 80840-5000.

T h an ks fr o m Scu ba C l u b :

CSC M atthew Sny der and C2C Andy H ird present Col. (USAF, R et) Jock Schwank, AOG vice president. Services, with a deskweight of a

scuba diver and large polished stone. The gift was a to k en of appreciation from the Cadet Scuba Club for an Air Force Academy Fund donation of $1,436 to the club last y ear. The d on at i on w as used to purchase diving equipment which expanded the club’s capabi lity to tra i n basi c a n d ad van ced d i vers.

N ot r e D am e Pr esi den t D el iver s Rei ch L ect u r e The Reverend Edward A. Mal loy, president of t he University o f Not re Dame, was this year’s speaker for t he Joseph A. Reic h Sr. Dist inguished Lect ure on War, Morality and t he Military P r ofessi o n .

He spoke March 22 in Arnold Hall Theatre on “ The Control o f Violence, Foreign and Domest ic: Some Ethical Lessons fro m Law E n forcem en t ” T h e lect u r e ser ies w as en d ow ed i n t h e fal l o f 1988 as an an n u al lect ure in ethics at t he Academy and is supported by an en d ow m en t

fr om the lat e Joseph A. Reich Sr. and administered by t he Associat ion

of Grad u at es.

Reich, a distinguished and long-t ime resident of Colorado Spri ngs, was instrumental in bringing t he academy to Colorado Springs and was a strong support er of Academy programs unt il his deat h i n t h e spring of 1988. The lect ures honor “ Papa Joe” , as he w a s affect ionately known, for his many years of dedicated ser v i ce t o t h e academy, t he Colorado Springs community and our country.

UP T S er v i ce C o m m i tm en t

to I ncrease by Two Years

CLA SS PRI N T FOR SA L E

Air Force Academy graduates who enter flight training o n or aft er OcL 1, 1991 and complete it wil l incur an act ive-duty serv i ce commitment of 10 years, according to an announcement by t he Air Force Military Personnel Center in March. The current ser vi ce commitment followi ng fl ight training is eight years.

A - 2 L E A T H E R JA C K E T New A-2 flyi ng j acket, brown cowhide, sizes 36 to 46, basic price $175. Sizes 48 and 50, $10 extra. Long sizes $15 extra. Goatski n $10 extra. (Suggest orderi ng a size larger t han you normally wear.) Leat her nametag avai lable for $9 extra with your name and rank if desired, not to exceed 20 let ters, and type of wings preferred. Jacket is identical to standard issue for Ai r Force fl ight crews. It is marketed by direct mail through Col. Clyde Bradley, USAF (Ret), 1704 Gatsby Drive, Montgomery, Ala. 36106, (205) 265-5323. Yo u r sa t i sfac t i o n guaranteed.

subsequent ly complete flight training will incur t he current eight year commit ment, as would Air Force ROTC cadets who graduate in fiscal year 1990 and complete t he t rai ning. All others w i l l i n cu r t h e new 10-year commit ment, according to t he announcement The difference between Academy and ROTC graduat es is d u e t o t h e t ime lapse between graduat ing from t he Academy and ROT C an d coming on act ive duty. Academy graduates usual ly enter act ive duty very short ly after graduat ion while ROTC graduates, part icularly pilot candidates, must wait somet imes up to a year.

The commit ment will begin upon graduation from undergraduate pilot training which usually takes a year to complete, an d w i l l r u n concurrent ly with any ot her service commit ment The a n n o u n c e m e n t comes after Congress in November approved an increase in Academy graduates’ basic service commitments from five t o six years beginning

1981 USAFA class print by Richard R Boome available. Tit led, " Second To None” , it is number 363 of 550. Double-mat ted in grey and bl ue and framed, i t measures 37i4 '' x 22" . Ask ing $120. Please call Brian at (719) 597-2159 for m o r e i n fo rm at i o n .

A DJUN CT FA CU LT Y SOUGH T Chapman College is seeking faculty with graduate degrees in business,

human resource managemenL or related areas to teach at t h ei r aced em i c centers in Arkansas, Ar izona (Sierra Vista), California, Colorado, New Mexico, New York (Syracuse), Wyoming or i n t he Pacific Rim. I n t er est ed i n d iv id u al s sh o u l d sen d a r esu m e a n d let t er o f i n t erest t o P ro f. J.U. Overal l, School of Business, Chapman Col lege, Orange, Cal if. 92666.

Cadets w h o are co m m i ssi o n ed i n t h e C lasses o f 199 0 an d 1991 an d

in 199 2 u n der t h e 1990 d efen se au t h o r i zat i o n act

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FA L C O N SP O R T S

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1989 Academy Fall Spor ts Wrap-Up

Cross Country (Women) - The women’s cross country team m ade Academy history when, for the second-consecut ive year, they were runner-ups at t he NCAA Division II championships. Leading t he way for Air Force was Al l-American Jill Wood, who took second place.

Ju n io r Cal l ie Cal h o u n fi n i sh ed fi ft h w h i le Sh an n en Karpel fi nished 10th. For the fourt h-straight year, the Academy had a fresh m an w i n All-American when Cindy Craig placed 24th overal l. T h e Falco n s advanced to the fi nals by winning t he NCAA Division I I Regionals.

Cross Count ry (Men) - The Ai r Force men’s cross country t ea m again part icipated in only invitat ional meets. The Falco n s fi n i sh ed sixt h in the WAC. Senior Dave Fresella was the top ru n n er i n fi ve o f the six competit ions th is year and placed sixt h in t he WAC, earn ing al l -co n feren ce h o n o rs.

Volleybal l - The Ai r Force women’s volleyball team en ded i ts seaso n w i t h a 3 0 - 18 recor d. T h e Fal con s advan ced t o t h e N CAA D i v i s i o n I I fi nals, losing to Northern Colorado. The Falcons ended t h e seaso n ranked 17th in t he fi nal coaches poll. This is the best fi n i sh si n ce

1984, when they placed third in the NCAA playoffs. Sophomore Leah Dennie earned Al l-American stat us when selected to t h e A m er i can Volleyball Coaches Assoc iat ion and Tachikara Division I I t e a m .

Sophomore Jennifer Block was selected to the South Central Region team. The last all-regional player was Lisa Garraway i n 19 8 6 .

Soccer - It was a disappointing year for t he soccer team, ending the season wit h a 6-10- 1 overal l record. The loss of seven st a r t e r s w as t o o

nat i on al t eam , f i rst t eam al l -W est em W at er Po lo A ssoc iat io n an d set

an Air Force career record in saves with a game average o f 10.67.

Foo t bal l ’s C h r is H ow ard w as n am ed t o t h e GT E Academ ic A l lA m er i can seco n d t eam .

Boxers Win 3rd Straight National Championship Title The Air Force Academy Boxing Team won its third straight National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) championship at San Jose, Calif, in mid-April. Since being introduced in 1980 to t he NCBA,

Air Force has won nine of t he 11 compet it ions and was r u n n e r - u p twice. Air Force won t his year’s nat ional crown by a margin of four points over Penn State University.

Ten Academy boxers fought in the semifinals with six making it to fi nals night Two of the semifi nal losers lost to eventual gold medalists and one lost a close decision to the event ual “ m o st

outstanding boxer,” Gary McCoy of University of Nevada, R e n o .

Navy, Lock Haven and Penn State all posed serious threats t o t h e

t it le as Air Force went into t he fi nal matches. The fi rst two fighters, Sean Amutan in the 112-pound class, and Jeff Moore in the 119-pound class, both lost on close decisions. So far Air Force had only two silver m edals.

much for the squad to overcome. Highlighting the season w a s a victory over Vermont and a tie with 20th-ranked Penn State, which gave Air Force a second-place fi nish in the Air Force I n v i ta t i o n al

Tournament The last home game of t he season was against N o t r e Dame. The Falcons played their strongest game, but event ually fell 21. The Falcons were led in scori ng by freshman Dave W al i ck an d j unior Brian Goaziou.

Wat er Polo - The Ai r Force water polo team finished t h e season wit h a 13-11 overall record and 11th in 1989 rank ings. T h e Fal co n s fi nished second in t he Western Water Polo Associat ion Champion ships, losing to top-seeded Califomia-San Diego 6-5. The Falcons, who beat Califom ia-Riverside 12-8 and 16t h-ranked California 10 -8 t o advance to the fi nal round of competition, finished t he league wit h a 8-3 record. Three individuals earned all-tournament h o n or s: M ar k Baudendistel and David Chaney received first team honors w h i le Brad Kremer took second team honors. Baudendistel also received A l lA m er i can h o n orab le m en t io n .

All-Americans - During the fall season, the Academy h ad seven

at h l et es earn A l l -Am eri can sta t u s.

Women’s cross country had four All-Americans after placing second

at the NCAA Division II championships. They were Jill Wood, Callie

Calhoun, Shannen Karpel and Cindy Craig. Wood, a senior, ear n ed her third All-American cert ificate in cross country an d al so w as an A l l-

American in t rack last season. Karpel finished i n tent h place for her t hird-consecut ive All-American award i n cross country. Cal h o u n fi nished fi fth this season after ending in 11th place last seaso n . For

year, the Academy had a freshman w i n A l l-

the fourth-straight American honors in Cindy Craig, who placed 24th overall.

Sophomore Leigh Denny was named to the American Volleyball

Coaches Association and Tach ikara Al l-American Division I I t e a m .

She was the only sophomore selected to this year’s team. During 1989, Denny broke the school record in season assists with 1,755. She was second on t he team in aces with 65 and serves wit h 64 6.

Senior Mark Baudendistel, from t he water polo team, m ade honorable ment ion All-American. He was a member of t h e U.S. 24

Superintendent LL Gen. Charles R. Hamm presents the outstanding box er award to Dennis Ruis for his performance in the Wing Open

Boxing Championships in March. Ruis and Vince Becklund w e n t o n

to win their Tights in the national championships. (Photo by SgL Cydney Boubon)

The Academy’s first gold medal was won by Dennis Ruis, t h e 12 5-

pound class champion. The next two Academy fighters, B each el

Curtis (132 lbs.) and Trevor Gray (147 lbs.), took si lver m edals an d at this point things looked bleak for Air Force.

The team win hinged on 180-pound class two-time national champion Vince Becklund who finished bloodied and the fi ght went down to a decision. Becklund won and in so doing, so d id t h e A ir F o r c e t ea m .

The victory was another feather in the caps of the boxing coaching

staff, led by Ed Weichers, A1 Wile, Robert Marx and CapL Rob Strickland. Manager John Pannell also played a vital r o l e i n t h e

event ual victory.

F ive in a Row :

Hockey Team Marks Another Winning Season

By SSgt Steve Elliott Sports Information Office

After losing eight seniors and more than 60 percent of his scoring punch to graduation in 1989, Air Force hockey coach Maj . Chuck Del ic h m ust h ave loo k ed t ow ards t h e 1989 -90 seaso n w it h so m e

trepidat ion.

Looking back now in retrospect, however, the coach has had many reasons to be pleased with his team —a team that was made up largely of sophomores who had not seen a lot of varsity action, an d fresh m en who were skat ing in t heir fi rst-ever college games.

Air Force ended its season at 16- 13- 1, its unprecedented f i f t h

consecutive winning season. Delich has been at the h el m al l fi ve

seasons and has t he best winning percentage of any Air Force hockey coach .

Prep School. Cal was a 5-4 speedster who always seemed t o be n ear the puck, leading the team most of the year in goals. H e f i n ish ed w i t h 17 goals and 11 assists for 28 points and the fi fth spot in team scoring.

Bob, a 5-10 defenseman, was even more of a surprise, ending up as t he team’s best offensive defenseman and landing 13 goals an d 17 assists

for 30 points and the number-three spot in the scoring r an k s.

Another fr eshman, Terry Courtney, a fi ery 5-8 center fr om Belleville, 111., broke through with 14 goals and six assists for 20 points. Probably his biggest goal of the season was the one that gave Ai r Force a rare 3-3 tie with Colorado College Nov. 10. He also ended up w i t h an ot h er honor, although a dubious one, by leading the team in penalties and penalty minutes with 32 penalties for 85 minutes.

Dan Greene, a j unior defenseman fr om Barrington, RI., also proved to be a pleasant surprise for Delich. Green led the t eam i n assists w i t h 22 and added eight goals for 30 points and a third-place t i e w i t h B o b Ingraham for team scoring. His previous high had been two goals and

eight assists his sophomore year, so the 6-3, 200-pounder h ad co m e into his own as a playmaker, especially on the power play.

Delich played both his goalies fairly equally. Junior M ike Blank,

fr om Grand Forks, N.D., fi nished wi th a 3.44 goals-against average and 7-5 record. Sophomore Mark Liebich, fr om Rexford, N.Y., got the

lion’s share of games, ending at 9-8-1 and with a 4.40 GA A

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Falcon W rest lers Fi n ish Fo u r t h i n To u r n am en t

Head coach Wayne Baughman took a young and inexperienced Falcon wrestling team to a fourth place fi nish in the W est er n A t h let ic

Conference t ournament, but placed all 10 wrest lers an d sen t tw o t o t h e n at io n al t o u rn am en t

Air Force crowned its sixt h conference champion as se n i o r T o m

Goalie Mark Liebich and teammate Tony Roe defend the F a l con goal during one of this year’s hockey games (Photo by Art hur H. Bilsten) Only two seniors came back for t he 89-90 season: defenseman an d team captain Kurt Rohloff and left wing Matt Watson. Rohloff, a 6- 1,

200-pound bruising defenseman from Grand Rapids, Minn., h ad been t he team’s top-scoring defenseman wit h seven goals an d n i n e assi sts.

Last season, however, it seemed for a while t hat he couldn’t buy a point He scored his first assist Jan. 3 against Notre D am e an d t h en ran up a string of seven assists in five games and ended up wit h three goals and 11 assists for 14 points. H is best game was a two-goal, oneassist night against Alabama-Huntsvil le in the last game of the season on Feb. 24 .

Watson, on the other hand, had a nose for the goal al l seaso n . On e of the most consistent players on the team, Watson quiet ly racked up the goals and assists to fi nish as t he team’s top scorer with 18 goals and 20 assists, his best-ever totals in both areas. He also led the team in powerplay goals with 11, while spending the least amount o f t im e i n t he

penalty box of any starter (seven penalties for 22 m in u t es).

Watson played on t he most high-powered l ine on t he team, t hat of sophomore Mark Maj ewski at center and j unior Mike Veneri on right wing. Maj ewski finished as the team’s second-leading scorer w i t h 20 goals and 15 assists, while Veneri fi nished in sixt h place wit h six goals and 19 assist s. All toget her, t his line accounted for 44 goals, 54 assists, and 98 points—almost exact ly one-third of t he team’s o ffen se.

The good news next season is dept h —dept h at almost ev e r y posit ion. Maj ewski will be j ust a j unior next season, w h i le Ven er i w i l l be a seasoned senior and one of t he team’s co-captains.

But what about t he younger players? One big surprise c a m e i n a pair of brot hers from Georgetown, Mass. — Cal and Bob I ngraham.

Bot h were fr eshmen, alt hough Bob had spent a year at t h e A i r For ce

Tingley captured the 118-pound WAC title, earning an a u t o m a t i c

bert h to nat ionals. Junior Mark Lindow placed second i n t h e WAC at

190 pounds and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament Tingley was eliminated in the fi rst round and Lindow, aft er a 3 -0 victory in the fi rst round, was defeated by Oklahoma's Jo e Sta ffo rd i n t h e seco n d r o u n d.

The Falcons struggled t hrough t he dual season wit h a 4 -6 - 1 m ar k,

but competed most of the year without 1989 national qual ifi er Matt

Ciccarello at 142 pounds. Ciccarello sat out t he maj ority of t he year wit h various inj uries.

Air Force's biggest quest ion mark al l season was t he heavyw eight division. Several wrest lers experi mented at t he posit ion u n t i l fr eshman Jim Remsey, a j unior varsity foot ball player, was given t he start ing j ob late in t he season. Remsey fi nished wit h a fourt h-place fi n ish i n t h e WAC Tou m am en L

Ot her surprises t his season came fr om freshmen Jon Er i c kso n an d Wes Winterstein. Erickson placed second in t he WAC at 134 pounds an d w as select ed as an al t ern at e for t h e N CAA ’s t o u rn am en t Winterstein lost to event ual WAC champion Charlie Dotson o f N ew

Mex ico, 9-5, in t he semifi nals and brought home t hird place.

Winterstein fi nished his fi rst season wit h a team-high 29 v i ct or ies an d a 7-2- 1 mark in dual compet it ion.

The Falcons’ yout h was clearly shown by a start ing lineup comprised of four fr eshmen, four sophomores, one j unior an d o n e sen io r. A ir Fo rce cou l d be a fo rce t o be d eal t w i t h i n t h e WAC for several years as its only loss next season will be L i n d ow at 19 0

pounds.

Air Force, which had only two seniors and two j uniors o n i t s e n t i r e roster, will return nine of ten starters with its only loss being Tingley at 118 pounds. The Falcons will look forward to a more experienced squad next season in hopes of competing with Brigham Young, New Mex ico and Wyoming for t he WAC team championship.

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Mens Basketball Team Shows Tenacity in Post Season The 1989-90 men’s basketball team may best be remembered a s a group of record-setters. Head coach Reggie Minton’s team struggled through the regular season with a bundle of inj uries. I n all, eight

players suffered from inj uries and missed a total of 23 games. Despite t he inj uries, Air Force recorded t he school’s most su ccessfu l W est er n At hletic Conference post season. The Falcons made their fi rst t rip to t h e WA C t o u r n am en t sem i fi n als.

Air Force, which fi nished t he season 12-20 overall an d 3 - 13 i n WA C play, entered the tournament as t he nint h seed. After defeat ing San Diego Stat e 70-64 in overt ime, the Falcons advanced t o t h e quart erfi nals where t hey took on the tournament’s number-one seed, r iva l Co l orado Stat e.

Air Force made history by becoming t he first team to ev er beat t h e number one seed in the tournament when it knocked off t he Rams, 58-51. During t he game. Air Force set anot her WAC record an d a

school record by hitting all 11 free-throw attempts. Ju n i or C h r is Lowry equalled a WAC mark by connecting on all nine o f h is free

all-defensive team pick as well. He fi nished the season with an academy single-season record for assists with 224. During the seaso n h e becam e the school’s all-time assist leader with 447. In all. Bowling fi nished his career with more than 10 academy records.

Air Force set many team records as well during the seaso n . T h e Falcons set school marks for most points scored (2,138), m o s t a ss i s t s (448) and most 3-point baskets made (179).

The Falcons’ strength throughout the season was free t h r ow shooting. In addition to the single-game record set against Colorado State, Air Force set a single-season mark by shooting 74.8 percent which led the conference and was among the nation’s top 20.

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Air Force’s record-setting run came up short in the sem i fi n al s as the Falcons were beaten by eventual champion Texas-El Paso

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Seniors Raymond Dudley and Jeff Bowling were selected t o t h e WAC all-tournament team while finishing first and second in scoring

wit h 62 and 53 points, respect ively.

Dudley ended the season wit h his second consecut ive WAC scoring t it le with a 21.4 average. He also became the WAC’s all-t ime leading

scorer for conference games with 1,242 points. Dudley w as ch osen

fi rst -team all-WAC and honorable ment ion All-American for t h e

second consecutive season. During his career, Dudley recor ded m o re

than 40 academy basket ball records, some of which are most points (2,178), most WAC points (1, 242), best WAC scoring average (22.6) and most steals (148).

Bowling was an honorable-ment ion all-WAC select ion an d a WA C

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T h e A i r F orce w o m en ’s basket bal l t eam f i n ish ed o n e o f i ts m ost su ccessfu l seaso n s u n der h ead coach M ar t i Gasser. T h e Fal co n s en ded t h e seaso n w it h an overal l 20 -8 recor d an d a co n fer en ce t i t l e i n h an d.

A i r F or ce w o n t h e f i n al t i t l e o f t h e Co n t i n en tal D iv ide Co n feren ce w i t h an 8-4 r eco rd.

The last time the Falcons made the NCAA Division II playoffs was in 1985 when they fi nished the season wit h an identical 20-8 record.

The Falcons faced second-seeded Cal Poly-Pomona and fel l 89 -63

in the fi rst round of the Western Regional playoffs. I n defen se o f t h i s showing, Pomona advanced to the fi nal four before falling i n t h e sem i f in al s.

The season brought many honors to t he Falcons. Gasser w a s selected by her peers as t he 1989-90 CDC women’s basket ball Coach of t he Year. Her squad posted one of its best records in her seven years

at the academy and captured their second CDC championship.

Gasser’s record at t he academy is 119-70 and her teams h ave reco rded three 20-win seasons. Duri ng her tenure, the Falcons h ave n ever fi n i sh ed be lo w .50 0.

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M cD o w el l R ec ei ves B u l l a r d A w a r d Senior Lance McDowell, a t hree-year foot ball let terman, is t h e recipient of t he Brian Bullard Award, according to h ead coach F ish er DeBerry.

The annual award is given to a foot ball player who dem o n st rat es leadership by example and is an inspirat ion to his t ea m m a t e s. I t i s named after a former foot ball player who died in an au t o acciden t in 1983 .

McDowell, from Shreveport, La., served as t he No. 2 quarterback on t he team t he past t hree seasons. This past year he played behind Dee Dowis, the school’s all-time leading rusher and sixt h-place fi n ish er i n t he Heisman Trophy bal lot ing.

He played in eight games during t he 1989 season, including a s t i n t i n the Liberty Bowl against Mississippi in which he threw for tw o t ou ch down passes in the fi nal quarter. He fi nished the regular seaso n w it h 86 yards rushing on 14 carries and scored one touchdown. He passed for 136 yards, completing seven of eight at tempts without an intercept ion.

He completed one touchdown pass during the regular s e a s o n .

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Senior Melissa Standley and sophomore Shelley McCombs w e r e sel ect ed t o t h e A l l -Co n t i n en t al D iv i de Co n feren ce fi rst team. Standley w as also ch osen t o t h e D ist r i ct 7 t eam . T h is i s t h e t hird t ime Standley

h as been select ed t o t h e co n fer en ce t eam w h i le M cCo m bs w a s sel ect ed fo r t h e fi r st t i m e.

Standley, a 6-0 senior center, averaged 20.4 points w i t h a 4 8 .1 fi el d

goal percentage (203-422) and chipped i n wit h 10.1 rebounds per game to help lead Air Force to t he t it le.

McCombs, a 6-0 forward, gave t he Falcons addit ional fro n t co u rt strengt h and fi nished t he season as one of t he league’s m o s t consist ent shooters. She hit .463 (138-298) from t he f i el d an d .76 5 fr o m t h e l i n e.

I n addition, Cheri lyn Hargis was selected t o the CDC A l l-A cad em ic team. Hargis, a sophomore, had a 3.70 cumulat ive (4.0 is perfect) grade average in engineering.

Numerous Academy Memorialization Programs Available Many of our AOG members inquire about memorialization opport unit ies and programs at the Academy. The inquiries are usually m ad e aft er t h e d ea t h o f a family member or fr iend or as a result of reading a classmate’s obit uary which informs t he reader that a memorial fund has been established i n a d ec eased

graduate’s honor and is being administered by the association.

Many graduates and other visitors to the Academy see the various ongoi ng

memorials such as t he Memorial Tree Grove and t he Rol ls o f H o n o r a n d wonder what the criteria are for being represented on t hese plaques. We therefore asked the folks in t he Directorate of Development an d A l u m n i Programs to provide us with an overview of the Academy’s memorial programs to i nclude some definit ions and guidel ines.

To begin with, memorialization at the Academy is taken very seriously. A

proposed memorial must be founded on principle, history an d m er i t rat h er than on personality, emotion or constraint A memorial must also be t ru ly desirable for placement here, not simple acceptable. T h i s i n st i t u t io n a l perspective dominates all memorial proposal deliberations an d en su r es t h a t a l l

aut horized memorials w ill blend wit h and become part of t he Academy. Each input is weighed on its own merit and the criteria and phi losophy have been adopted to protect both the Academy and individuals/ groups being

The Graduate War Memorial stands on the north end of t he Air Gardens and contains the names of graduates killed as a result of host ile act ion duri ng a state of military conflict There are currently 151 graduates listed on the War Memorial, which was purchased through funds donated by graduates and

parents of graduates to the AOG for this purpose. It was dedicat ed duri ng

Homecomi ng 1970.

The Rol ls of Honor are located near th e entrance to the Cat hol ic Cadet Chapel. There are plaques for graduates, cadets, NCOswho die at the Academy, and ot her Air Force officers who die w hi le servi ng t heir country. Each plaque

contains numerous individual plates which list the name, rank, class if a

graduate and year of birth and death of the individual. Act ive-duty graduates who die are automatically added to the Graduate Roll o f H o n o r as are

graduates in the Air Force Reserves or Air National Guard who die whi le actively involved in training or those who die while o n f u l l - t i m e Reserv e o r Guard duty. The graduate and cadet honor rolls are automatical ly updated

prior to graduation and homecoming each year. Other deceased act ive-du ty

officers who are not graduates may be added to the “ Other Air Force Officer' ’ Roll of Honor for a small donation. The NCO Roll of Honor is administered by the Academy’s senior enlisted advisor.

m em o r i a l i z ed.

The Associat ion of Graduates admi nisters more t han 5 0 i n d i v i d u a l m em o r i al

funds in honor of both graduates and nongraduates. I n some rare cases, t he family decides in what area of Academy programs the f u n d w i l l be u sed w h en the fund is established. H owever, in most cases, t he fu n d i s esta b l i sh ed an d

after the obituary is published and donations to the fund begin to diminish, the association attempts to match the amount in the fund wit h appropriate proj ects needed by the Academy.

Individual memorials normal ly fi l l an exist ing Academy n eed rat h er t h an

being only a symbolic remembrance of the individual. For instance, individual

memorials have taken the form of aviat ion prints and pai nt ings wit h

appropriate engraved memorial plates affi xed, benches fo r t h e v isi t o r ce n t er

trai l and t he Academy Cemetery wi th appropriate bronze plaque near t he

benches identifying the memorialized individuals; and a refere n ce d esk fo r t h e Academy Library with an aluminum plate bearing the engraved phot ographs and names of t he individuals being memorial ized.

While there are a few previously-approved and ongoing m em o ri a l iz a t i o n programs such as the Memorial Tree Grove, the Rolls of H onor, and the Airmanship Memorial Art Gallery, any other individual or group memorial iza tion proposal must be approved by the Academy Memorial Bo ard . I f t h e memorializat ion involves an award, t his must also be approved by the Cadet Awards Cou nci l in addit ion to the Memorial Board.

The Memorial Board is the pri ncipal advisory body to t he superi ntendent for

all aspects of memorialization at the Academy. It establishes policies and procedures (subj ect to superintendent approval), acts as a clearinghouse and coordinating agency, and develops guidelines for the consist ent and orderly

evaluat ion of memorial proposals. Any quest ions on memorials or proposal submit tals shou ld be addressed to t he secretary of t he Memorial Board, Mr. Bi ll Hanchey, Hq USAFA/ XPAG, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840, or by phone (719) 472-3832.

The Associat ion of Graduates admin ist ers four preapproved m em o r i a l programs on behalf of the Academy. These are the Graduate War Memorial,

Rolls of Honor, the Memorial Tree Grove, and the Airmanship M em o r i a l A r t Gallery, which consists of aviation prints and paintings displayed in t he airmanship and other cadet-frequented Academy areas.

The N CO. Graduate and Cadet Rol ls of H onor outside th e Ca d et Ca th o l i c Chapel The Memorial Tree Grove is also admi nistered by t he AOG. A tree may be

planted, for a fee, in memory of individuals who have honorably served t heir country in the military. The original tree grove is j ust to the west of the Cadet Chapel and has been recently fi lled. A new tree grove is current ly being established j ust above the original one, some 50 yards up t he visitor center

trail and below t he American Legion Memorial Tower. The i ndividual plates normally bear the deceased’s name, rank if active duty or retired, and class if a graduate.

An individual may also be memorialized through an endowed Academy

program in which a cadet program is named for the individual. Fo r deta i l s o n this possibility, contact the director of development at t h e sa m e ad d ress as t h e secretary of the memorial board above.

While normally discouraged, special or unique memorials su c h a s monuments, busts or any oth er special t ri bute t o an i n d i v id u a l m u st m eet

certain criteria to be eligible for Memorial Board considerat ion. Only deceased Air Force personnel whose accomplishments relate to t h e m i ssi o n o f t h e Academy and motivation of the cadets are eligible for special memori lizat ion.

An untimely demise through accident or illness is not al o n e su ff i c i en t j ustifi cation. In addition, one or more of the following qualifi cat ions must be sa t i si f i ed :

— Evidence of a substan tial contribut ion to or special relat ionship w it h t he Academy.

— Documented acts of heroism resu lt ing i n loss of life w hi le performing mi l itary duty.

— Recognized prominence for distinguished service to t h e n at i o n o r A i r Force on behalf of nat ional defense obj ect ives.

— Pioneering achievements in the development of aerospace p o w e r .

— Reputation or exploits validated by appropriate passage of t ime (historical perspective).

— Useful or inspirational value of memorial to cadets.

— Consideration of past precedent and probable future impact upon the Academy.

— Other information brought to the attention of the bo ard.

A written proposal must be submitted to the Memorial Board for approval. The format of the proposal may be obtained fr om the director of development T h e Gr ad u at e W ar M em or i al

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Jewish Chapel Receives

GRADUATES SELECTED FOR

By Airman 1st Class Donald R. Kusturin

Regular Air Force (Line Officers)

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most important thing a person can do (saving a life is first). One man

has done t his several t imes over, and part of t he labor of h i s w or k w as donated to the Cadet Jewish Chapel here in a ceremony in late April at

which Lt. Gen. Charles R Hamm, superintendent, accepted t h e scr o l l on behalf of t he academy.

The Torah scroll, which survived the holocaust and h as been estimated to be 200 years old, will be on display (not used) in t he Post of the Jewish War Veterans of America, who arranged fo r t h e

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Jews who did not survive the holocaust, said Rabbi (Maj .) Irvin

Ehrlich, who organized the ceremony.

Torah scrolls, the fi ve books of Moses, are an important part of Jewish services. A part is read each week. It takes one year to complete

the reading. Thirty-eight such scrolls were liberated from a Mikvah (a ritual bath) turned warehouse in Czestochowa, Poland.

Harry Rapaport, a Melville, N.Y. native who spoke at t h e cerem o n y,

learned of the scrolls in 1988. When he went to the warehouse, he found the Torahs to be in terrible condition, he stated. Apparent ly,

they had j ust been thrown into the attic of this building.

"The scrolls may have been put up there by the Nazis,” Rapaport speculated. "They had plans to make a museum to ‘the ex t i n c t Jew ish

race’ after the war,” he explained. Once he got the scro l ls back t o t h e United States, he found a scribe, someone who writes and repairs Torahs, to salvage what he could. " Scrolls must be in kosher (perfect) condition to use in the ceremony, Rapaport said.

Of the 38 scrolls brought back, only nine have been made ri t ually

if t These nine are pieces of the originals sewn together. T h e scr o l l s that could not be completely restored are being used as h o locau st memorials, such cis this one, Rapaport said.

"It is a great honor to be able to remember victims o f t h e h o lo cau st

with this memorial here at Air Force Academy, for it is only by

remembrance of these victims that we can prevent another su ch destruction, said Rabbi Ehrlich of the display.

AOG H elps to Support

Tiger 10 Drunk Hotline According to an Article in TheFalcon Flyer by C3CTania L. Dutko,

CS-05, an increase in drinking-related accidents over t he previous few t hat y ea r s convinced the cadets of Cadet Squadron 10 (Tiger 10)

something should be done. In 1988, they started a drunk driving h ot l i n e.

A cadet who thinks he or she is intoxicated can call t h e h o t l i n e an d will be told to stay where he is. Twenty minutes or so later, two cadets

show up; one drives the caller back to the academy an d t h e o t h er drives back his car. Another life may have been saved.

The program, which began by word of mouth, has become w el l -

known in the Cadet Wing. It has gained support fr om t h e cadets as

well as organizations such as cadet activities which d o n at ed a car t o be used and the Association of Graduates which donates fu n ds for advert ising the program.

Hotline drivers come from many different squadrons on a strict ly volunteer basis. Cadets serving punishments may also s e r v e a s volunteers. When a call is placed, the hotline drivers ask for t h e cadet’s fi rst name to identify the person they’re picking up, but otherwise no questions are asked. On the average, five t o six cal ls ar e made on the weekends. The program is unique in that it is total ly run by cadets for cadets.

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Steven E. Barach

Gary E. Barrentine Mark G. Beesley

Gregory J. Berlan

Den ni s F. Bi t ton Wal ter L Bum s James A. Col ley II Michael S. Coman James M . Corrigan Laurence A. Far iss Felix M. Grieder James E. Hart n ey Richard K. Jones Roderi ck R Kal lman Wil l iam S. K urey Kevi n M. Lanzit Peter C. Losi John A. Loucks II I Robert C. Lyn n Dan iel C. McCorry Jr. Richard L. Pyat t Eric J. Rosborg John E. Vandendries Jr. David G. Wallace John S. Woodward

Donald P. H iggi ns Jr. Rich ard P. K ing

Bradley L Moff ett

Crai g S. Moser Lan7 D. New

Anthony F. Przybyslawski David A. Robi nson T homas E. Sawner II I Michael L Sevier James W. Tu rner

Joseph Wysocki 19 7 7

Curt is M. Bedke Robert E. Deh nert Jr. David M. Edgi ngt on Marc H. Li ndsley Wil l iam T. Lord Randy J. Mart in ez

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Robert us C.N. Remkes W il l iam H . Ro hl man Paul E. Sch u tt Mark D. Shackelford 19 78

Roger W. Burg

Herm an S. Anderson Bruce W. Deane Michael P. Erdle Marc D. Felman

Stephen M. Goldfein

Robert C. Grosvenor Jeff rey B. Harri son Michael C. Henchey

P et er J. B u n c e

Michael (j . Gould

Thomas J. Owen

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David K. Edmon ds

(Memor ials: Conti nued from previous page.)

The Academy administers the Memorial Wall Program, in w hich plaques for

remembering air-related units may be placed on a memorial w al l i n t h e Academy Cemetery. Criteriaand guidelines may be obtained from t he secretary

of the Memorial Board. Note that monuments, works of art, or stat uary wil l not be used as ways to honor living persons, as Air Force policy restricts this pract ice.

Proposals for any other special memorials to combat o r fo rm er co m bat u n i t s

must confer some benefit upon the Academy by their en sh ri n em en t h er e.

Written proposals must be submitted to the Memorial Board in proper format

and must therefore reflect a hLstorical perspective and clearly dist inguish between the sacrifi ces or achievements of the nominated u n i t an d t h o se o f a l l other units engaged in the same or similar activity, campaign or circumstance.

Combat casualties alone are not sufficient cause for a unique form of memorialization. An uncommon degree of elitism also m u st be asso c ia t ed w i t h t h e u n it

Finally, individuals and classes have in the past asked about t he possi bil ity

of naming Academy buildings, streets or facilities i n honor of decreased

graduates and others. There is currently a moratorium on t he naming of

buildings, streets and facilities until 2004. However, n o m i n at i o n s fo r individuals considered truly deserving may be forwarded to t he secretary of t he Memorial Board for consideration when the moratorium expires.

AOG Life Membership Options Expanded $2.50 added to each 2- year monthly payment $25 added to semiannual payments

The AOG Board of Directors has announced an expanded l i fe

membership plan for graduate and associate members. This plan,

which became effect ive Jan. 1, feat ures rates based o n t h e m em ber ’s

age and the various payment options shown below: Sem i an n u al

Bir t hday

Su m

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2- year mont hly Payment *

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$550.00

$290.00

$49.00

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4 3 .0 0 4 0 .0 0 3 7 .0 0 34 .0 0 3 1.00

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2 7 7 .50 2 6 7.5 0 2 5 5 .00 2 4 0 .00 2 2 5 .0 0 2 0 5 .0 0 19 0 .0 0

•The monthly payment plan is allowed only if the AOG i s authorized to charge payments on an Air Academy National B an k or

AOG credit card or through t he coupon payment plan w h ere t h e associat ion is not required to accomplish mont hly billings.

Gr aduat e Joint Life Member ships are for graduates married t o graduates, and their price is based on the age of the youngest of t he

j oint graduate members. The costs for a graduate j oint l i fe membership, added to the individual life membership rat es sh ow n above, are:

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Air Academy National Bank (AANB), will accept payment o f membership fees through specific credit cards. Either t h e AA N B MasterCard, the AANB Visa card, or the AOG/ AANB MasterCard m a y be used to make payments. No other credit card may be u sed.

We urge our members to consider obtaining the AOG/ AANB MasterCard which is available only to AOG annual and l i fe m em bers and currently has a $12 annual fee and a 14.9 percent finance charge

(application forms can be obtained from AANB at 1-800-9992262).

Application forms for any of the life membership options can be obtained by writing Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, vice president. Services,

Association of Graduates, U.k Air ForceAcademy, Colo. 8 084 0 -500 0

HOMECOMING 1990 AL L-CLASS EVENTS Homecoming is a j oint AOG/ USAFA event for ALL graduates. T h e 10-year reunion class spends considerable time in organizing m a n y homecoming activities for the benefit of all graduates. Alt hough t he

reunions for t he classes of ’70 and ’80 will be t he focus of this year’s

homecoming, all graduates are encouraged to participate i n t h e

following events: Fr i day , Sept 14 :

H o t el : Sh era t o n I n n N o r t h

6-9 13-16 13- 16 13- 16

30 t h Reu n i o n 20 t h Reu n i on 10 t h Reu n i on

addit ional current cost of t he publicat ions plus mailing c o s t s.

For our members’ convenience, the AOG, in cooperat ion w i t h t h e

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Upcoming Graduate Events ‘60 ‘70 ‘80

be designated. In the event of a divorce, membership ben efi ts rem ai n with the primary member unless a court order dictates o t h erw ise.

Joint Life Membership entitles the two graduates to only a single set of AOG publications, mailed to the primary member’s addr ess. I n t h e event of geographical separation of the j oint members, t h e AOG w i l l provide, on request, publications to the nonprimary m em ber for t h e

or calling (719) 472-4513/ 2067.

$50 added to t he lump sum payment price $4.50 added to each 1- year mont hly payment

’60 (30t h); 6-9 Sept 90 Col (Ret) Jock Schwank

A Graduat e Joint Life Membership wil l include t he right o f survivorship for t he original spouse only. A primary m em ber m u st al so

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Satur day, Sept 15: Cadet Wing Parade

Graduate/ Cadet Rugby game Tailgate at Falcon Stadium (advance registra t ion suggested)

Football game: USAFA vs. Citadel (tickets may

be reserved in advance through t he AOG) Jabara Banquet (advance registrat ion required) Homecoming Bal l

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Gr adu at i on V i deos A v ai l abl e fr om M edi a Many parents and friends have asked where they may purchase a video of graduation and related ceremonies for 1990. A 60-minute video of graduat ion and the week prior,

including the parades, balls, graduation banquet, swearing-in

ceremonies, and t he like, are available through Cadet Wing Media. For more informat ion, write to USAFA Graduation

Video, P.O. Box 6066, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 8 0 8 4 1

Golf tournament (advance registrat ion required) Mit chel l Hall Lunch (advance registrat ion required) Dormitory Open House State of t he Wing Briefing Memorial Ceremony

Registration forms for graduates in nonreunion classes w i l l be available on request from the AOG in mid-June. Further deta i l s o n homecoming activities will be published in the summer issu e o f Checkpoints.

B UD GE T REN T A CAR JOI N S CORP ORA TE M EM BER ROLL S The Associat ion of Graduates is pleased to welcome Budget Rent a

Car Corporation as a new Corporate Life Membei. Budget h as been serving AOG members for two years with excellent rates an d outstanding service. With 3,500 worldwide locations an d t h e w or l d’s largest fleet of luxury vehicles. Budget has demonstrated t h ei r

commit ment t o excel lent service and value. We welcome Budget as a corporate member and look forward to continuing our mut ual lyrewardi ng associat ion.

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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 (A ut ovon: 259-XXXX): Development office telephone (719) 528-4136.

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Graduation Week Act ivities: 15 May-2 June 1990 Class of 1994 Entrance into the Academy: 29 June 1990 Parents’ Weekend: 31 August-3 September 1990 Class of '60 Reunion: 6-9 September 1990 Class of ‘70 and '80 Reunions and Homecoming: 13-16 Sept em ber 1990

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C H A PT E R N E W S F R EN C H EX C H A N GE C H A PT E R

The 1989 Exchange Group has returned to

t he USAF Academy enriched by t heir four mont hs at t he Ecole de I’Air and in Europe.

One of t he once-in-a-lifet ime experiences t hat t he cadets will long remember was a visit to the Berli n Wall one mont h after it

“ opened.” As East and West Berliners were tearing down the wall and rej oicing in their new freedom, our cadets observed first-hand a page of history that will no doubt serve t hem well as fut ure USAF officers. Anot her

highlight this year was the institution of the

“ famille d’accuei l” program for our cadets.

This was a sponsor program specifi cally designed to place USAF cadets with a host family during their time in Salon. The outstanding success of this program was due in a large part to the efforts of MaJ. Phil McBride, ’78, the USAF liaison officer at the Ecole de I’Air. Without except ion, the cadets

reported on the warm welcome and gener osity they enj oyed with their sponsor families, once again demonstrating the tremendous goodwill of the French people.

From Nov. 13-16 1989, we were honored wit h a visit from Gen. Jean-Jacques Brun,

superintendent of the Ecole de I’Air, and Col.

Jean-Claude Ichac, assistant air at tachd at

the French Embassy, Washington D.C. After a command briefi ng (in French of course!)

General Bf un and Colonel I chac had courtesy

calls with the superintendent and com mandant The dean, an ardent supporter of the Exchange for many years, was TDY and unfortunately not able to meet them. Col. Ruben Cubero, head of the Department of Foreign Languages, and LL Col. (Ret)

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Jacques Adnet, escorted our guests to numerous points of interest at the Academy and in Colorado Springs. Both General Brun and Colonel Ichac visited t he airmanship

squadron and were able to get a “ bird’s-eye”

view of USAFA from t he front seat of a glider.

This highly-successful visit proved once again how personal contact between officers of t h e USA F an d Fren ch A i r Fo rces serves t o

affirm and strengthen the bonds of friendship between our two academies and air forces.

General Brun very graciously extended an invitation for a reciprocal visit to the Ecole de I’Air, which occurred during spring break when the commandant and Colonel Cubero visited Salon during t he 50t h Air Training Squadron’s trip to Europe.

Congratulations to Charlie Precourt, ’77,

and Rick Searfoss, ’78, for their recent

sel ect i o n t o t h e lat est NA SA ast ro n au t t eam .

Both former exchangers commented that

Institute of Technology (AFIT) program. If you are interested in applying for a position as an instructor of French or have any

questions concerning this duty or the Exchange Program, please contact me for details. Congratulations to the class of ’90— we especially wish the Exchange ’89 group cont inued success as USAF ambassadors to our French all ies. (Frank Gahren, Ex change

7 7, Dept, of Foreign Languages, DFF, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840. AV: 25922 98.)

N EW EN GL A N D C H A PT E R

Greetings from New England! Our chapter has kept busy the past couple of months. Our Distinguished Speaker Luncheon Series

cont inues t o provide interest ing views on a

wide variety of issues and allows members of our chapter to get together on a regular basis.

I n March, Mr. “ Flash” Wiley, ’65, was our

their experience in France proved benefi cial

guest speaker. Mr. Wiley was the senior

milestone. Overall, the career performance of former exchangers is outstanding. The

Campaign in 1987 and 1988, and he spoke on politics in the Bay State and decision-making

in t heir USAF careers and in achieving this

retent ion rate of exchangers in t he USAF is

significantly greater than class averages, and we are putting our experience at the Ecole de I’Air to good use in numerous positions throughout France and the United States.

The Depart ment of Foreign Languages

actively recruits former participants in the Exchange for instructor duty at the Academy.

This is an ideal assignment (especially

suitable for captains) and the possibilities for personal and professional enrichment are unlimited. The Academy sponsors master’s and doctoral degrees t hrough the Air Force

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We hosted t he annual Air Force Academy

Night on April 12th. Over 100 people attended, and there was a great mix of grads, parents’ club members, and new Boston-area appointees to the Class of ’94. Our guest speaker for the dinner was Maj. Chuck Delich, ’77, the Academy varsity hockey coach. He gave a special presentation on the Academy athletic program and showed a sports highlight film. A special thanks goes to John Kelly, Jr., ’65, who did an excellent

j ob of planning t he event

Upcoming events include our annual AOG golf tournament and sushi cookout in May and Family Day at t he Red Sox game on June

24th. We are also planning to buy 250 tickets for t he Air Force-Army game at West Point in the fal l. For more informat ion, contact t he

New England Chapter at (617) 935-8216.

(Stacy McN utt, ’88)

N O RT H T EXA S C H A PT E R

The Nort h Texas Bunch, bet ter known as

“ NTAAFAG” , started another year as it usually does, drinking beer, electing a new board of directors and saying good-bye to old

board members. Heck, ALL the board members are “ old” board members. Ha! This

year’s president is Steve Pruss, ’76. Steve and

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The 1989 French Exchange Group during a visit to the Berlin Wall From left are Scott Ormsby, Jeff Dennis, Tim Patterson, Kristen Dewey, Terry Bradley, French brigadier. Herb

Ehresman, and Maj . Phil McBride. Absent from the photo is Brittany Thurber.

his lovely wife, Kathleen, will be leading

NTAAFAG into a few new events t his year as

well as many of the more familiar ones. More about t hat later. Wit h Steve on the board t his

year is vice president John Quincy, ’70;

secretary/ treasurer Klem Kalberer, ’63; and (Continued on page 36.)

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GO N E B U T N OT FO RG OT T E N ■

Ro ber t S. Sch n eid er, 7 9

Barbara Ann Yost (H olcroft), ’82

Maj . Robert S. Schneider, Class of 1979, grew up around T o m ’s River, N.J. He was t he valedictorian of Admiral Farragut Academy, Pine Beach, N.J., prior to entering USAFA. Duri ng his t i m e at t h e Academy, Bob spent more t han a few semesters on the Superi ntendent’s List, and was the CS-22 commander h is fi r st ie

Barbara grew up in Ridgefi eld, Conn., where she was a dist inguished graduate from her high school. During her years at the Academy, Barbara was act ive in all aspects of cadet l i fe. Sh e w as a stalwart part icipant in t he Cathol ic Choir and t he Cadet Bowling Team. On the Dean’s List every semester, Barbara was a Dist inguished Academic Graduate from the Academy. She was engaged short ly after graduat ion to K irk Yost (Class of ’80) and they were married in April 1983. Barbara’s fi rst assignment after t he Academy w as at t h e A ir Force Logist ic Management Center at Gunter AFB, Ala. ft -o m 1982 t o 1985. Her work t here resul ted in award-winning art icles i n A i r F o r c e logist ics j ournals. I n 1985, Barbara was selected by t he Depart ment of Mathemat ical Sciences at the Air Force Academy to st udy t ow ar d a master’s degree in operat ions research and statist ics at Ren sselaer Polytechnic I nstit ute. She completed her 18-month graduate program in 11 mont hs.

There was a side to Barbara that few people were able t o sh are unless they had t he opport unity to know her closely. She was always a dedicated professional, proud of her accomplishments an d h er A ir Force career; but the side of Barbara we wi ll remember most vividly comes from the t imes we al l spent with her as a family, as squadronmates in CS-24, as fel low Air Force officers, and even as fel l ow A i r Force wives. Barbara was fi rst a woman; second, I rish (we’ll never forget t he green sweats she wore every single day of the year); and third, a very much at home member of the Air Force family. She was unselfi sh and generous, a Christ ian in act ion as wel l as i n fai t h .

Barbara had her own kind of well-meaning humor which she applied to l ife wit h friends to always keep herself and those aro u n d h er laughing. Some t hings about Barbara are impossible to forget — anyone who sang wit h her in the Cat holic Choir will always remember her face when we sang the I rish Blessing. She would knit you an afghan for your first baby; she would stay up all night with you, helping you to st udy to pass a test As an inst ruct or at t he Air Force Academy, Barbara taught five different mat hemat ics courses; she was rated as t he top i nst ruct or in t he Mat hemat ics Depart ment for t he fal l semester, 19 8 9 . B ar bara was t he OI C of t he Cadet Bowli ng Team; she had been sel ec t ed t o serve as an analyst i n t he offices of t he Joi nt Chiefs o f St aff fo r Ju n e 1990; and she had been formulat i ng an experi mental design t o isolate fact ors cont ribut ing t o t he propagat ion of t h e A I D S v i r u s.

This last design accompl ishment has been accepted by t h e W o r l d Heal t h Organizat ion and wi l l be present ed at t he United N at i o n s.

Her research resul ts may save 50,000 lives each year, worldwide,

y ea r.

I fi rst met “ Schneids” at a j udo club pract ice our sophomore year.

Though new to a sport which tradit ionally takes a long t i m e t o cat ch on to. Bob quickly got to the point where he was one o f o u r bet t er competitors. We became good friends and some of my favor i t e memories from t he Zoo are of our tough Friday night w or k o u ts followed by a trip to Coco’s restaurant in Schneid s Corvette —a pat ty melt and chocolate shake to fol low. A humble person w i t h a n everending sense of humor. Bob always had a way of making you feel that you were one of his very best fri ends. The t ruth is t h at h e h ad t h at effect on everyone. I never met a person who had anything bu t t h e highest regard for Bob and his capabilities as an offi cer.

I somet imes wonder if t he Ai r Force took advantage of Bob’s easy going personality. Laughlin needed T-37 I Ps? Bob was t here to pick up t he slack. (Of course he quickly became one of their best instructors.) Al l along. Bob wanted to fly F-15s or F-16s. Following Del Rio, t he best he was offered was an RF-4. After a few years at Bergstrom AFB, Texas, it seemed the only way Bob could get his F-15 was to accept an assigment as a j ump-ALO to Fort Bragg, N .C. A f t er four years at Fort Bragg, Bob fi nally got his wish to fly Eagles and was assigned to t he 12t h Tact ical Fighter Squadron at Kadena AB, Oki nawa, following F-15 RTU. Schneids died in a mid-air collision Jan. 24, 1990 whi le flying in this year’s COPE TH UNDER exercise in the Phi lippines. I l earn ed o f his death within a couple of hours after ret urning fr o m JUST CA USE in Panama, where ot her servicemen had also died in defense of liberty.

Whet her in train ing exercises or act ual combat, the l oss of a cl ose fr iend bit terly underscores the price which must be paid for our fr eedom. We cherish your memory Bob. Bob is survived by his wife, Sandy, and parents, Robert and Dory Schneider of Miles City, Mont (CapL Paul J. Weaver, ’79) Barbara Ann Yost (H olcroft), ’82 Capt Barbara Yost Class of 1982, died in an automobile acci den t o n Dec. 31, 1989. She was returning fr om a TDY back to t h e A i r Fo rce Academy where she had been stat ioned as a mat h instructor si n ce Ju n e 1986 . H er d eat h h as affect ed u s al l.

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Lori A. H ogan, ’85

James M. Poppo, Jr., ’8 7

Barbara is one of t he first female Academy graduates t o d ie i n t h e line of duty. She was a member of the Association of Grad uat es an d i s survived by her husband, Kirk; her mother, I rene Holcroft; an d h er brot hers John and Eugene —all of whom st ill suffer fr om the tragic death of Barbara’s father four years ago. Barbara is buried in the family cemetery, next to her fat her. The Barbara A. Yost Memorial F u n d h as been establ ished in her memory at the Associat ion of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000, and contribut ions w i l l be u sed

Jim was bom on Dec. 14, 1964 in Charleston, S.C., and t h en lat er moved with his family to Ronkonkoma, N.Y. He became an Eagle Scout at age 13, was a member of t he Nat ional Honor Society, graduated in t he top two percent of his high school class, and received a congressional appoint ment to t he Academy in 1983.

At t he Academy, Jim maj ored in mechan ical engineering, w a s a member of the Academy Honor Guard, went t hrough free-fall parachute training, and completed T-41 flying traini ng. He graduated in 1987, and at tended undergraduat e pi lot training at Columbus AFB, Miss. In Nov. 1987, he married Wendy Carlson (Class of 1987). He graduated from pilot training in June 1988, and went t o H o l l o m an AFB, N.M. for fighter lead-in training. He and Wendy w e n t t o Bergstrom AFB, Texas on a Joint-spouse assignment Jim was t he dist inguished graduate of his class and w i n n er o f h i s squadron’s reconnaissance compet it ion in RF-4 training. H e remained at Bergst rom AFB for his follow-on assignment an d w as mission-ready in minimum t ime. He flew in t he Hq TAC Operat ional Readi ness I nspect ion wit h very lit t le mission-ready experience, and achieved a 100 percent target acquisit ion rate, direct ly contri but ing to his squadron’s " outstanding” rating.

As an aviator, his performance was cont inual ly rated as abo veaverage. Not common fo r a young lieutenant but due to his meri ts, he was selected to be chief of the squadron Air Reconnaissance Tasking Sect ion, making him direct ly responsible for coordinat ion of higher headquarters exercises and daily squadron taski ngs.

Jim’s ent husiasm for life and its challenges encouraged m a n y people. His accompl ishments reflect t he at t it ude wit h w h i ch h e achieved many goals—to be t he best he could be. He wi ll be sorely missed, but remembered for his humor and friendship. We love you

for a memorial to her on the Academy grounds.

I n t he 1982 Polaris yearbook, Barbara wrote: " . . . the go od t i m es and the good friends will be the memories I want to rem em ber. I f anything makes the Air Force special, it’s t he people you meet along t he way. I hope I leave ot hers wit h t hat feel ing.” For al l o f us w h o knew hen she did. (Judy Martini Abshire, ’82) Lori A. H ogan, ’85 Capt. Lori A. Hogan, Class of 1985, was born on March 10, 1962 in Middletown, N.Y. She graduated fr om M iddlet own High Sch oo l as a member of t he Nat ional Honor Society and was one of the top three in her class. She attended Orange County Community College prior to being selected to at tend the Air Force Academy. She w as a l i fe m em ber of t h e Assoc iat i o n of Grad u at es.

I n 1986, Lori was assigned to t he 320th Security Police Squadron, Mather AFB, Calif., where her performance was exceptional as a sh i ft commander. In Dec. 1988, she was reassigned to the 435th Security Police Squadron, Rhein-Main AFB, Germany, where she died a tragic death on Sept 19, 1989 while on duty.

A memorial service was held at Rhein-Main AFB on SepL 22. B u r i al wit h military honors took place on SepL 27 in her parents’ h o m et ow n .

The huge amount of correspondence and support received by t he Hogan family at this difficult t ime was a t remendous help.

H er aw ards an d decorat io n s i n c l ud e t h e A ir Fo rce Co m m en dat i o n

Medal, Air Force Longevity Ribbon wit h one oak leaf cluster. Small Arms Marksmanship Ribbon wit h one bronze star and t he A i r F o r c e Training Ribbon.

Lori is survived by her parents, Frank and Mary Hogan, o f Middletown, N.Y.; a brother and two sisters.

James M. Poppo, Jr., ’8 7 1st LL James M. Poppo, Jr., Class of 1987, was killed i n a n R F - 4 crash on OcL 13, 1989, while assigned to t he 67th Tact ical Reconnaissance Wing, Bergst rom AFB, Texas. As a pilot i n t h e 91st Tact ical Reconnaissance Squadron, Lieutenant Poppo an d h i s weapon systems officer were out on an aircraft handling characterist ics mission when the j et went out of control. Un able t o recover t he j eL Lieuntenant Poppo init iated the ej ect ion se q u e n c e

Ji m .

Jim is surv ived by his w ife, Wendy; his parents, Mr. A n d M rs. Jam es Poppo; and his brot her, ScotL A m em or i al fu n d h as been esta b l i sh ed i n Ji m ’s n am e t o be u sed for

the Academy Honor Guard and Dri ll Team. Donations may be m ade t o the James M. Poppo, Jr. Memorial Fund, c/ o Associat ion of Graduat es, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000.

At press t ime we had learned of the deat hs of the following graduates: Mr. James B. Brooks, Class of 1963, who died on Feb. 19.

Col. (Ret) Fred W. Walker, Class of 1964, who died o f an illness at t he MacDill AFB, Fla. hospital on Feb. 14.

1st Lt Michael N. Ayot te, Class of 1987, who died in an A - 10 crash near England AFB, La. on Apri l 5.

O u r sin cere con do l en ces t o t h e relat i ves an d fr i en ds of t h ese

graduates.

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A Book Review of: Hoyt S. Vandenberg: The Life of a Gen er al (H oy t s . Vandenberg: The Life of a General by Phillip S. Mei linger, Bloomington, I nd.; I ndiana University Press, 1989, 279 pages, $27.50.

Reviewed by Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell, USAFA ’60, author of Archie Flak, AAA, and Sam: A Short Operational H istory of Gro u n d -B ased A i r Defense. Repri nted from Parameters, the Army War College j ournal.)

While there is a massive literat ure on and by World War II general offi cers, least represented are the airmen. Thus, the r ec e n t biographies of Arnold, Chennault, Baker, LeMay, and Spaatz are much welcome. Hoyt Vandenberg now j oins this august company, an d h i s biography by Phillip Meilinger may in fact be the best o f t h e lo t F or unl ike most of t hese generals, Vandenberg is fort unate t o h ave a biographer equal to the task.

Vandenberg was an undist inguished cadet at West Point graduating 240t h out of 261 in the class of 1923, and, l i ke Ar n o ld an d Spaatz, without achieving cadet rank. Too low in class standing to get into the cavalry but want ing to escape t he infantry, Vandenberg gained the reputat ion for bei ng one of the hot test pilots in the air arm and punched his t icket by attendi ng t he Air Corps Tactical School, the Command and General Staff Col lege, and t he Army War College, as well as instruct ing at the Tac School.

Duri ng World War II, he served as a planner and staff o ffi cer before becoming commander of the 9t h Air Force, America’s principal tact ical air force. Vandenberg’s other wart ime accomplishments incl uded a four-month st int in the Soviet Union, 26 combat missions, and front-page coverage in Time magazine. His performance an d f lair put him in a special category of officers primed for higher rank fo llowi ng the war. He served in intelligence for 11 months, commanding a forerunner of the CIA and subsequent ly recei ved h i s fourt h star at age 48, making him t he second youngest offi cer i n t h e Army to achieve t hat rank I n 1948, Spaatz select ed Vandenberg to succeed him as A i r F o r c e

(Chapters: Continued from page 33.) f ur at-large board members: Leon Rausch, o ’65; Jim Kuhn, ’63; Dave Stonehouse, ’73; and H. Ownby, ’69. Leaving the board this year after serving three years was past president Lance Ammon, ’70; Denny King, ’63; and Joe Kreimborg, ’71.

NTAAFAG, t he fi rst associat ion to host t he annual “ Tri-Service Academy Alumni Softball Tournaments, has j ust start ed anot her fi rst, the Tri-Service Academy Basket ball T ou r n am en t T h i s M ar ch M ad n ess t o u rn a m en t is t i t l ed “ A FAN Bask et bal l ” . I t w as

played at the Dallas Aerobics Center on t he 24th of March. I t consisted of t hree games, four-on-four, full court Whew, I get winded j ust writ ing about it Air Force, coached by Joe Kreimborg, won bot h games. I’m t old even Roger Staubach’s helping the Navy team did t hem lit t le good this year. The four players for Air Force were Joe Kreimborg (aren’t you over 40 yet?), Dave Stonehouse, ’73, and two mystery players. At t ime of writ ing this, I couldn’t fi nd out who they were, so we’ll call t hem Mit ch Jordan and Mag Johnson.

On March 17t h, John and Kat hy Quincy hosted a board meet ing at t heir new home on the range. The range, in this case, is about 10 acres. Anyone who invites all these guys, their wives and all the past presidents and t h ei r w i ves n eeds at least 10 acr es bet w een 36

Chief of Staff. I n t hat post Vandenberg faced numerous problems, such as t he buildup of the Air Force from 375,000 personnel an d 5 5 wings to 960,000 personnel and 137 wings when he ret ired four years later. He also guided the j unior service through the Berlin Airlift, the supercarrier vs. B-36 fi ght, and the Korean War. Despite his youthful appearance and good looks, he seems to have done a good Job. The aut hor concludes t hat Vandenberg was an ideal blend o f leader an d manager, remarkable for his self-control. I n Mei linger’s w o rds: “ T h e general’s technical expert ise as a pilot, combined wit h his managerial ability, dynamic personality, and aggressive leadership, m ade h i m a dominant and respected figure in the cold-war era. Unfort unately, his early deat h in 1954, less t han one year after ret irement, along wit h his reticence in committ ing his innermost t houghts to paper, h as cau sed his significance to be largely overlooked.”

Fort unately for Vandenberg, and for us, Meilinger corrects t h ese problems in this well-done, scholarly biography. The au t h or cover s the subj ect wit h dept h and understanding, but perhaps m o s t important, Meilinger puts his subj ect into t he context o f t h e t i m es and writes well. The author is not afraid to come to grips wi th hard quest ions such as Vandenberg’s racism, his powerful Un c le A rt h u r (senator on t he Senate Foreign Relat ions Commit tee), an d t h e A ir Force’s place within the defense establishment The maj or issues are presented clearly and at least adequately, alt hough t h i s reader w o u l d have preferred more detail.

Overall, t his excellent st udy can serve as a model fo r si m i lar w or k s.

I n fact a number of the previous biographies would profit if redone with t he style and substance of Meilinger’s effort. H istory and students of history would be well served and surely would be grateful benefi ciaries. While Vandenberg may not be t he most important American airman, he did serve as Chief of Staff during an important period of U.S. and Air Force history. For t hese reasons an d becau se this biography is so much bet ter done than t he biographies o f o t h er air generals, t his book is highly recommended.

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F O R M O RE I N FO RM AT I ON t hem and their nearest neighbor. As I ’m t old, among t he evening’s festivit ies were some fi reworks, which ult imately start ed a range fi re. Jerry Ahmann, ’63, was fi rst to reach t he blaze and doused t he fi re, probably saving t he City of Fort Worth.

Fi lling up t he event calendar t his year for NTAAFAG members will be a golf tournament with t he San Ant onio Chapter during Fiesta weekend. That ought to be a blast. We also have a Summer Picnic, a Splash Part y, a Bowl-A-Rama, a Touch Foot ball Game (j ust touch?, sure), a fall Wine-and-Cheese Party and many foot bal l-watching part ies on t he schedule. So, if you’re new to our area or

have j ust never got in touch wit h us, give us a call and come j oin the fun. Cal l president Steve Pruss at (214) 348-8650. (Ron H ale, 7 1)

N O RT H E RN CA L I F ORN IA C H A PT E R

The Nort hern California Chapter had its quarterly meeting on March 24 at Treasure Island. After a lot of social izing and telli ng stories we had a great dinner wit h a dramat ic view of San Francisco. Eric Thorson, Class of ’67, was our dinner speaker. Eric’s speech was interesting and provocat ive. After heari ng about t he k inds of cuts in personnel t hat may take place in the very near future, we decided we need to get more act ive in helpi ng our grads find post-Air Force employment.

Alt hough networking is already a maj or part of our social izing at each meet ing, we int end to make i t a regular part of our program. We also hope to set up an informal dat a base of grads in t he area for use by grads looking for j obs.

Our next meet ing is set for June 9 at Travis Ai r For ce Base Off i cers C l u b. L L Co l . K ei t h

Betsch will be t he local contact H is phone number is (707) 438-2172/ 5775.

I f you want to get on our mailing list please contact Chuck Reed, at Reed, Elliott , Creech & Rot h, 99 Almaden Blvd., 8th Floor, San Jose, CA 95113. Phone (408) 993-

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Division messi ng wit h a navigat ion system. John fl ies airplanes, Dick works at H ughes in Quali ty (is t hat a division, a state of mind, o r a n o t h er w i n so m e town?), Jim markets water-filtrat ion systems. Gene ru ns a real estate office, Steele plays golf while Ann works at Hughes (Please write and share your negot iati ng st rategy wit h me!), and Dave does what Dave does. Craig concl uded his epist le wit h t he revelat ion t hat he’s sta r t ed d o w n t h e ro ad toward fulfil li ng a (second) ch ildhood dream. I n late June, he’ll be up in northern California taking the Bondurant High Preformance Drivi ng Course.

We are alerted to keep watching for him at Indy.

Another career dream is i n the maki ng here in Colorado. I ’v e l ea rn ed t h at

Lead-off hitter for this issue is Jim REED, who spent so m u c h t i m e a br oad while on active duty making himself the indispensable m a n i n t h e O ri en t t h at

now he can’t get a visa to reenter t he Un ited States. So, he wri tes, wi t h tongue lodged firmly in cheek, he has embarked on a second career as a pedicab driver in Makau. Excerpts: “ With a li t tle under-t he- table money t o a Chi nese Triad 1 was able to get part ownership of a t hree-wheeler and a prime locat ion at a taxi stand near the Sintra Hotel. The pay isn’t much, but there are great promotion opport uni t ies. I hope in a year or two to advance to t h e L i sbo a H o t el n ear t h e casi no ent rance, and after t hat the sky’s the limit —maybe even t he Presidente

Hotel or the Oriental!. . . I’m already learning some o f t h e secr et s o f t h e business, like (a) trying to avoid accepting female passengers who are weari ng leather and carrying a whip and (b) taking a vacation w h e n ever t h ere i s a business conference of sumo wrestlers. . . I’ll give any of my classmates a discount price; Just don’t ask me to take you to to t h e M ak a u P eak resta u ra n t ” There’s more, but you get the idea.

Despite t his bit of whi msy, it t urns out t hat Jim and Shei la are act ually ret ired in Bangkok, Thai land, where he is the director o f B u si n ess Development for UNI SYS Defense I nternat ional, Inc. Meanwhile, t heir son Scot t (USAFA ‘84) is in F- 15 train ing enroute to t he Net herlands, Chris (Georgetown ‘88) is an intel ligence officer at Yokota, and daughter Lee Ann is a

sophomore at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispbo.

I also got a note fr om Craig SCHAUM, who claims to l i ve i n a t o w n ca l l ed Placentia. (Don’t worry; I’ve got more sense than to m ess aro u n d w i t h th a t

our esteemed treasurer, Charlie MEIER, is attending law school i n Denver,

under the t utelage of Chris MUNCH, t he bane of t he tort feasors, no less.

Char lie tel ls me w ith some rel ish that, whi le i n Denver at t endi ng classes, he bunks in one of the old CWC dorms. Ah, adolescent dreams c o m e l at e t o

fruition! Never one to tread meekly, Charlie intends t o serve t h e ca u se o f public advocacy and use his lawyerly knowledge and crusading spiri t as bl unt instruments to subdue arrogant governmen t bureaucrats.

Wayne and Karen PITTMAN dropped a card fr om Dayton where t hey’re get t i ng moved into t he first home they’ve ever owned. Wayne is tackling t he

j ob market and Karen is going to travel-agent school.

In mid-March, 1had the pleasure of making a special presentat ion on behal f of all of you. Those who attended last year’s reunion w i l l reca l l h o w w e l l organized the registration arrangments were and how smoot hly t he myriad details of sale, displays, schedules, etc., were handled and how t here always seemed to be a particular smiling and helpful lady on the scene to keep things on t rack. That smile belongs t o Li nda GLAZA, as much of a spark plug on a daily basis for the AOG as she was for us before, during, a n d af t er o u r 3 0 t h Reunion. As a tangible token of our appreciation, 1presented a plaque to Linda in the name of t he Class of 1959 at a “ no-not ice” AOG staff meeti ng. As the accompanyi ng “ grip & gri n” shows, she was surprised and delighted by the gest u re.

one. Only in Californ ia!) Anyway, the note was welcome bo t h becau se o f i t s content and because he claims t hat JoAnn browbeat him into writ ing, t he first

slender indication that my strategy of enlisting the ai d o f t h e n o b l e w i ves t o support your column is beginning to work. Is it permissible t o aw ard a n

“ At tagirl?”

Craig reminds us that there is a sizable gang of ’59ers living out west i n the People’s Republic of California and that they socialize frequent ly (largely because most of the civilians won’t have anything to do wit h them). One of t he

oc c asi o n s t h at h as beco m e so r t o f t r ad i t i o n a l i s t h e annual Schaum Super

Bowl Party during which all the grads get together an d w at c h D en ver l o se t o somebody. Craig sent along the accompanying photo of last January’s Fifth Annual SSBP and, though they scrambled the pairings to tantal ize the gossip columnists, anyone with a discerning eye and lots of i magination can spot Larry and Carol THOMSON, Stan and Mary BURGHARDT, Gene an d Jan e VOSIKA, Bob and Marie JENNINGS, Dick and Linda TRACEY, St ee l e an d An n HOLMES, Jim and Sylvia RHODES, John and Pili GULLEDGE, t he Schaums, and Dave PH I LLI PS wit h Phyllis Kerns.

Finally, though I hate to end on a mournful note, I m u st ad v i se t h e c l ass o f a family tragedy affecting one of our number. Don and H ar l en e M A D ON NA ’S so n

Chris was ki l led in February in a private aircraft accident Our t houghts and prayers go to t he ent ire family as they seek from each other t he st rengt h to live with the bitter loss of such an extraordinarily talented and loving son. 1 know

they’d appreciate hearing from you.

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Craig further recites from memory that Larry, Bob and h e ar e al l w i t h Northrop, Larry and Craig working on the B-2 and Bob o ver i n t h e E l ec t ro n i c s

Well it final ly happened. The bane of al l scri bes who h a ve t o m eet

publication dates. For some rather complex reasons I m i ssed t h e d ead l i n e 37

not ifi cat ion for t his issue and am in a severe catch-up m od e. T o ad d t o t h at I am not at home and do not have my notes avai lable so you’ll have to forgive me in advance for: 1) the shortness of this column and 2) the lack of real news t hat it contains. Since Christ mas, I have been literally o u t o f t o u ch w i t h t h e

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w o r k o r ien t ed .

As an offshoot of a class sampling concerned with seeking support for t he AFA Fund, I contacted several of the classmates by phone. It provided me a chance to talk up the reunion and get a quick glimpse into what a few of you ate doing. I spoke to Kirk CANTERBURY in North Carolina. H e is doing well and gaining interest in something called the Master’s Swim Program, I understand it to be focused on t hose of us who are somewhere past our 35t h

birthday. 1 have none of the details, but when I mentioned t h a t 1 w as al so telephonically chasing Derry ADAMSON, Kirk mentioned t he possi bility of

“ recruit i ng” hi m to t he program. Derry, is it ti me t o r u n an d h i d e o r w h at ? H e also t old me t hat occasional ly he saw Jim THOMASSON, who was surviving i n the const ruct ion business and was get t i ng into pol it ics, o r so I u n d er st oo d .

I also spoke with Greg BOYINGTON, who, you will be pleased to know, has not slowed one step. He did get to the ’59 reunion, a n d h ad so m u c h fu n t h at he is already scheming to hook his partner Tom CHASE, ’59, wit h al l the work of minding their real-estate proj ects while he takes t he opport unity to top it in September. When I spoke with Fuller ATKINSON, he was also very posit ive about j oining us at the 30th. In fact everyone I spoke wi th needed no coaching to say that they were all planning on the return to t h e Ro c k ies t o reh ash t h e last 30 years.

Boy, this is tough. Being out of town and told that your defi nite deadline occurs well before you can return to your scratched-out n o t es a n d co l u m n outline material is impossible. We are all aware that our present memory capacity, or lack thereof, can not support my " faking it ” . Accept my apologies for this feeble attempt at a class news column. I thank whatever is holy for t he likes of Jock SCHWANK, who has graciously volunteered t o fi l l i n t h e remainder of this issue with the present edition of t he reunion agenda. Over to you Jock and thanks a ton for the assist

Reunion Capsule Wednesday, 5 Sept: we’ll have a pre-reunion warm-up an d i n fo rm a l co c k ta i l party for those of you who come in early to visit family, friends and/ or play a round of golf.

Thursday, 6 Sept: we’ll start check-in and registration at t he Embassy

Sui tes Hotel mid-afternoon. This wil l cont inue on into t he evening with a

companion cocktail party and hors d’oeuvres in the at ri u m area o f t h e h o t el .

Friday, 7 Sept: start the day off with a cooked-to-order compli mentary breakfast Golf for those who want to brave the elements. N o o n l u n c h at Mitch’s, followed by a tour/ open house in Fairchild Hall, the li brary, and

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Well good people, you are not going to believe this one — but I am wri t ing to you from a cadet T-43 navigational flight that is in Europe duri ng spri ng break. It’s tough duty no doubt but someone had to step forward and volunteer. Right now I am enroute to Berlin from Mildenhall, and hopefully by the time we get to Berlin, I will have finished this ar t i c l e so t h at I can fax i t t o the AOG office in time for publication. At Mildenhall we got a briefing from Marcus ANDERSON and it was wonderful to have the chance t o speak wit h him and Ginger. In addition to England and Berlin we wi ll also be going to Salon, France where the French Air Force Academy is located, and then back to Ramstein before making the trek home. The cadets are travel i ng wi t h the commandant and other officers from t heir senior navigat ional courses taugh t at the Academy. Not quite what I remember from my T-29 days, since t he T-43

is magnifi cently equipped with the latest avionics and nav equipment I have so many horrible memories from our old T-29 nav missions t hat every t ime I get inside of these nav airplanes I automatically begin to get airsick.

This last weekend, I spent with the “Wiskey-Deltas” up in Snowmass, CO. Sam HARDAGE, Brice JONES, Rich MAYO, George BUCHNER, M i k e QUINLAN, Bob BEST, Bob BRICKEY, and I had our annual m i n i -r eu n i o n at Sam’s condo. As usual, the weather was wonderful and the scenery at the top of the lifts was absolut ely breat htaking. Unbeknownst to us, Sam sold the condo a month before and arranged it so that he could invite us up one last ti me, before the new owners took possession. I j ust hope he has t he decency to buy

anot her condo so that we won’t be inconvenienced for next year’s meet ing.

Everytime I am up there with those guys, I learn something new. This year’s

amazing story is that Bob BRICKEY is truly one of the great chefs of the class. I missed the first evening when he cooked up some orange roughy for the group, but 1 sure didn’t miss the gourmet pasta and steak d i n n er t h at h e t h rew together on Saturday night. You know the group is getting o l d w h en i n st ead o f going to the Crystal Palace to take in the dinner show, we decided to stay in to

cook and watch television. And t hat ’s t he trut h! I didn’t have t he space in t he

last issue for this fi rst picture but it is of our resid en t “ sh r i n k ” an d h i s n ew bride, Lauren. Rich MAYO, our most eligible bachelor, did in fact get married and here is proof for those out there who need some physical evidence. We all got to meet Lauren when she came out to one of our football games in the fall and what a neat lady. You did good. Rich, and our congratulations t o bo t h o f you.

Vandenberg Hall. Mid-afternoon State of the Wing briefings i n A rn o l d H a l l .

Memorial Service in the Cadet Chapel at 1600 followed by a class pict ure. Start the evening off with complimentary cocktails at the Embassy Suites, followed by dinner and dancing at the Peterson AFB Offi cers C l u b.

Saturday, 8 Sept: Again, complimentary breakfast and then t he big tailgate party before the game. Following the game we’ll meet for drinks, dinner, swimming, hot-tub enj oyment, and socializing at the Embassy Suites as we celebrate anot her Academy w in over Hawai i.

Sunday, 9 Sept: Meet in the atrium for breakfast, complimentary as usual, and to say our farewells. Optional chapel at the Academy. F o r t h o se w h o are staying around for another night, we’ll have a wind-down cocktai l party at the Embassy Suites to retell stories about the fun times.

By the time you read all of this, you should have received a let t er fr o m u s wi th much of the same informat ion and a hotel registrat ion card a n d an o rd er form for your sweaters and golf shirts. If you haven’t received them, let me

know ASAP. Our Registration form, with exact prices fo r eac h even t w i l l be i n

the mai l in early June.

We don’t have addresses at the AOG for t he followi ng classmates. I f you know w here t hey are, please have t hem contact us so w e ca n sen d t h em t h e reunion informat ion. Don ALMANZAR, Bob BAK ER, Bi ll CURRIER, George HINES, Larry JOHNSON, Tony JONES, Bill LENINGER, Art L EWIS, Denny O’KEEFE and Charlie SAN DS. Also if you know t he addresses of any of the guys who started with our class, but didn’t graduate, and who you th ink would

like to attend, send the addresses to me at the AOG an d I ’ l l sen d t h e m t h e information. See you in a few weeks! (Jock Schwank.)

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Rich and Lauren ’s weddi ng day.

Another happy newly-married guy in the class is Jimmie P OO L E . Ji m c am e to Colorado Springs on vacation with his new bride, Susan, t o do a l it t le sk iing and we were able to muster the rest of the local group for an imprompt u gettogether at the WILHELM’S. Afterwards we all went to Spike’s Mission Inn, and spent the rest of the evening talking about the 3 0 t h reu n i o n . I h av e t o admit that a vote was taken at dinner and the maj ority fel t t h at o u r 3 0 t h should be held at the Academy as opposed to some other l o cat i o n l i k e Sa n

Francisco. The consensus also was t hat t he appropriate t ime of t he year shou ld be summer instead of the traditional fall period. Now exact ly when in t he

summer remai ns an open quest ion. The same discussion also came up in Snowmass and there were some excellent arguments for having the reunion during June Week. That way we could all participate in perhaps the most exciting time at the Academy. The only drawback would be t h e lac k o f exclusivity for the class. If you have any strong feeling one way or anot her, please send t hem to me or to our cochairmen of our class reunion committee, Mike QUINLAN and Charlie NEEL. This second picture is of our class gettogether at the WILHELM’Sto honor Jimmie and Susan, seat ed i n th e m id d l e of the pack.

Yet to the pi lot sit t ing at t he wheel

Broad plains still swept before his glassy shield; Disaster? Change? He left no slightest sign

Nor dreamed he of t hat dim horizon li ne.

So may it be, perchance when from the sky Our dear ones vanish. Peacefully they fly

On stormless air, to mark th e unknown bound

We call it death—to them tis life beyond.

C. Ev er t s

In her letter she also mentioned that Tom, their eldesL got married th is past August and that Robeit , their younger son, is still goi ng to school at the University of Arizona, maj oring in geological engineering.

Some additional tidbits before 1 sign off are that F red er ic k " B i l l ” SANZENBACHER moved fr om the big windy city of Chicago to Darien, I L: Jack WOLCOTT uprooted the family from San Antonio, TX to Norf olk, VA; and Larry HOLLIE decided to live in Memphis, TN after retiring at Wam er- Robi ns, GA I a l so recei ved a sh o rt n o t e fr o m C h ar l e M O O RE S and Maureen McCloskey.

Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Poole and friends.

George BUCHNER sent me a copy of X-Cockpit, which is a magazi ne for t he Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP). In the ac h i evem en ts sec t i o n Bruce HINDS was awarded one of eight Fellowship credentials fro m S E T P president, Wendell Shawler, and Addison THOMPSON was presented with t he Ivan Kinchloe Award for his outstanding work on the B- I B high alpha envelope expansion and flight control system development Congrat ulations to both Bruce and Addison for their weighty contribution t o avia t i o n i n t h i s

co u n t ry.

One of our classmates in the local area, Jim ULM, has been extremely busy organizing the commemorative Bob Spear Weekend for April of this year at USAFA Bob Spear was one of our pioneer basketball coaches at t he Academy and, like Ben Martin, very deserving of this high honor. If you were watching the NCAA basketball tournament you probably can identify t h e coac h o f t h e Nort h Caroli na Tar Heels, Dean Smit h. 1 come to find o u t t h at L t D ea n Sm i t h

was an assistant coach under Bob Spear in the early days of the Academy. As my nostaglia shot I though you would enjoy seeing Jimmie and Rog Li kens at one of the static displays at Lowry AFB when we were freshmen. For our 30t h, Jim has promised me another photo standing by another airplane so we can get a " before and after” perspective of his career.

They are still in Howell, Ml but in body only. Their spiri ts are st i lt in Texas where they vacationed for Christmas. They say that when they get back t hey will give it their best shot to si nk some roots i n that frozen tundra. 1 get the feeling their hearts j ust aren’t in it Well dear friends, t h is a r t i c l e sh o u l d reac h you in the middle of summer. If you are like me, that is my al l- t ime favori te golfing season, especially now that my golfer son, Dan, has decided to come back home and go to school. I k now now how the fat her felt in the parable of the prodigal son. Just be patient, good parents, and your j oy wi l l know no bounds. God bless and have a magnificent summer.

John W. (Jack) Jamba 4 Judy Court Satell i te Beach, FL 32937 Home: (407) 777-5520 Offi ce: (407) 867-7758 Per cen t m em b er s: 6 9

H I R E D TA GS!

Well the summer heat hasn’t hit Central Florida yet; t h e w eat h er i s st i l l enj oyable. 1 haven’t received any, repeaL any letters from you, my beloved Retag brethren. So here 1am scrambling at the last minute to fi nd newsworthy events to place in my column. 1started with the change-of-address card s th at I rec ei ved fr o m t h e A OG.

1 called Bill HAUGEN at his new home in Newtown Square, PA B i l l w as working on his income taxes and gave me an idea of the degree of diffi culty he

was encountering. H e ret ired last year, has three state i n c o m e ta x es t o compute, has moving reimbursements which he received f ro m h i s n ew

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This is before. . . and next year we will have the "after. " Carolyn MOULTON wrote to Dick COPPOCK in appreciation t o a l l i n t h e

class who helped out at t he memorial service for our fallen classmate. Bil l. I n her letter she included the poem that was written by her father and read as Bi ll’s eulogy. I t was requested by one of our classmates a n d sh e co u l d n ’ t remember t he name of the person. I included it now fo r a l l : The Vision Beyond

I watched a plane until it passed from sight Over the rounding earth —a gleam of light A last far flashed farewell, and like a thought Slipt out of mind, it vanished and was not

employer which are taxable; new house, etc, etc; good l u c k . H e l i v es so u t h w est of Philadelphia and has a job with Boeing Helicopter. He is in new product development for the civilian version of the V-22, Osprey. T h e V-2 2 i s a t i l t - r o t o r aimlane that doesn’t need airports. Boeing is teamed w i t h Be l l o n t h i s n ew rt nology. The plane can go fr om Wall Street to Capitol H i l l i n l ess t h an a n ir. Bill is excited about it and asked that you all wri te your congressmen to g it Since retirement 10 months ago, Suzie has been busy set ti ng up house.

2 Haugens are proud grandparents- daughter Linda is married to CapL >e Wckery who is in contracting at Wright-Pat Grandchild i s n am ed landa. Second daughter, Cindy, after two years of modeling i n N ew Yo r k a n d r aris, is a sophomore at American Univ., maj oring in broadcast j ournalism.

And son Michael is a freshman at Cornell, maj oring i n c h em i ca l

engi neering.

I next cal led Chet GRIFFIN to see how his t ransi t ion to civi lian life is going.

It seems that the Haugens and Griffi ns had gotten together t he past weekend for Suzie’s birthday. Bill and Chet were roommates in t hird class year and have been good fi nends since. Chet had retired in SepL and gone to work for Systems Engineering and ManagemenL Associates, a small but rapidly-

growing fi rm. They are based in Washington, DC. The business has grown from

25 to 160 people. Chet loves i t because of i ts size. He manages a Navy Foreign Military Sales ContracL but spends a lot of time writing proposals in the quest

for new contracts. His oldest daughter, Layna, is an acco u n ta n t w i t h P ea t Marwick in Washington. His other daugher. Holly, works as a designer i n a design st udio i n Houston. And son Bret t is on a basebal l scholarship at Nort h

Carolina State. Their record is excellent; they should be a contender for the World Series of College Baseball.

I next called Don HALLAGER Don retired last year and got a posi t ion wit h United Airlines as a flight engineer on 727s. He’s been with them since July and hopes to upgrade to right seat by the Fall. He gets about 12 days off a

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month during which he plays golf and does some free-lancing. Wife Ginny works in a fabric store and is involved i n several bible study groups. Daughter Kathy (24) is an assistant manager at the Star Gate Restaurant at Disneyworld near Orlando. His son Mike (22) j ust graduated from James Madison Univ. with a degree in business and is selling timeshares at Massanuttin M o u n ta i n Reso r t in Vermont (I hope I got it all correct ) Don occasionally sees F red GE RK E N at Tyson’s Comer, where he works for a defense contractor. Don also gets i n a

round of golf with Chris BROWN. I didn’t hear any words about anybody’s handicap.

I then called my old compadre, Don EGAN, to see how t hi ngs were going.

Don is still plugging away with his investment company, wait ing for some good developments in the depressed real estate market in that part of the

country. Wife Mary Kay works a couple of hoursa week monitoring physicians

with a drinking problem. Todd, my Godson, is a j unior at Tri ni ty in San Antonio, maj oring in computer science. His goal after graduation is a j ob with NASA Daughter Erin is attending Denver Univ., has a 4.0 average and is leaning toward med school. And Becky is a sophomore in high school. It was

good reminiscing with Don and discussing my diets.

Next I tried to talk to Fred FIEDLER but he was out o n a d i n n er

engagement I called Peter ROBINSON but got no answer. I n ex t t ri ed t o ca l l

Len WRIGHT and Joe ZALESKI but got no listing. Later I discovered t hat I had an out-of-date Grad’s Register. So I’ll try them again n ex t t i m e.

I did manage to contact Clifton WOODWORTH in nearby O r l an d o . H e w as

having a little family gathering in preparation for his son’s wedding on March 31st in FL Lauderdale. Woody is flying for Pan Am out o f B er l i n . H e’s been doing it for four years now. He manages to get home for 8- 10 days a mont h. H is wife, Dodie, is a manufacturer’s rep for an electrical fi rm. Woody says she’s a computer expert and off ice manager. Son Kevin (22) is the one getting married in a few days. His bride-to-be is Eileen Cunnane. Kevin is a mechanic for Delta Airlines. Matthew, 19, is a student at Seminole Community Col lege and a co

op employee of Firestone in Winter Springs. Woody and 1 talked about set t ing

up a party for the Redtags in central Florida some day soon. Hope we have the magush to do it After failing to re ach Dave WESTHORP in Nashville, I t r i ed Ri c h JO H N SO N in Hollywood, FL. Success! For the past six years he has been the airfield

Fred FROSTIC’s phone call was a real surprise. Why? H e is now worki ng for the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica- or as one witty c o n ser vat iv e politician called it, the People’s Republic of Santa Monica. I t hough he was still pushing F-16s around the Northeast U.S. Fred did say he was probably the last active operational fighter pilot in the class. Anyone want to dispute that claim? “ Fearless” flew the F-16 during the last five years of his career. He also lays claim to being assigned to five different operational fighter wings. Fred and Linda live in Moore Park, CA while son Fred is a f i r st c l assm an at t h e Academy, on the wrestling team and headed for flight school upon graduation.

That is, if there are any flight schools left after Congress finishes dividing up the “ peace dividend.”

Fred tells me Hollie THOMAS is an authentic medical pioneer because of his work on the balloon catheter —hope I got that right, guys. Hollie is the

professor and chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the

University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Fred also told me there is a painting of the Class of 1963 Graduat ion in t he AF Art Collection that hangs in the AF chief of staff s office area. A print of that painting would be a nice thing to have. Does anyone know if prints exist? If not, how would one go about having some made up?

Early in the year Tom FRYER put in a call between business deals to ask if anyone like the AOG maintained a list of grads with children attending the

Academy. Well, Tom- and all of those of you out there w h o are i n t erest ed - t h e answer is “you bet ” Just call Linda Glaza at the AOG office (719) 472-2067 and o n e c a n negotiate any information of that kind you desire. According to Dick COPPOCK (’61), the Academy provides the data to the AOG. By the way, Tom’s s o n I S a member of the Class of ’92 in 5th Squadron. Tom also passed on the news—which I later saw in another publication, that Mick ROTH moved up to the position of pre sident, USAA Investments. Congrats to you Mick!

Had a nice long chat the other evening with Jerry DRISCOLL. Jerry continues to live in Concord, CA when he is not flying fr o m c oast t o c oast as a pilot for American Airlines. He also gets out occasionally to give a talk about his POW experiences. This time, however, he couldn’t stop talking about his recent vacat ion to Hawaii and especially stayi ng at t he fabulous Hyat t

Regency Waikoloa Resort on the Big Island. Jerry said h e h ad t h e m o st

incredible experience there when the hotel allowed the guests to get up close

operations manager at Broward County-FL Lauderdale-Hollywood I n t er

and personal with a dolphin. Apparently, dolphin encounters are a part of the

a commission in the Air Force. Rich doesn’t get to travel much and hasn’t seen

adventures in the March 1989 issue of Professional Pilot magazine? Ji m, as you may recall, is chief of the Research Aircraft Operations D i v i si o n fo r N A SA A m es at NAS Moff ett Field, CA Jim and his cohorts were out t rying t o get close to

national Airport He was divorced five years ago but he and h is former w ife are dating again. They have twin daughters, 23, both graduates o f F l o r i da A t la n t ic Univ. Diana did well in psychology and is now a police serv i ces ai d fo r t h e Plantation Police Dept Roxanne maj ored in accounting an d h as a n accountant’s j ob in Sunrise, FL. However, she is trying to get into OTS and get

a Redtag since the 25th reunion. (Everyone send pictures. . . Co u l d n ’ t resi st that. Rich.)

Well I guess that’s it for now. My phone bill will be high this month. But it’s worth it to talk to my classmates. Start the letters coming again. Remember, two weeks after you read this column, I have to submit my next column. Help me. That ’s it for now Redtags.

Norman I. Lee, II I 17532 N.E. 38t h Court

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Well folks, 1990! The past 10 years have obviously been a decade of happenings

but the'yeais sure did fly by fast Dick FERENCY and I started the ’90s by doing

something we have been wanting to do since fi rst stepping on a golf course

together at Charleston in 1964—play a round of golf at Pebble Beach. What a

thrill! Dick, Lynn, Linda and I met in Monterey on March 13th. Wh ile the girls

shopped until they dropped in Carmel, Dick and I played the Pebble Beach Golf

Course. The weather was absolutely perfect and despite a winter in the closet, my clubs were up to the task. Of course, I dubbed the ba l l o f t h e fi rst t ee.

Contact with classmates over the past few months has proven to be very

productive and for that I am grateful. Dave NUSS was i n town last mont h

fi nalizing the negotiations for his post-retirement j ob and the night before he

left for home- Wright-Patterson- we swapped stories over d i n n er. D av e i s joining a Kirkland, WA-based construction company as VP operations. 1think

he is looking forward to the challenge.

Another visitor was Bill EBERT, in Seattle taking a look at Boeing as a potential employer. Bill’s established retirement date is September; however,

he says he can be out in 45 days if off ered the right inducements. Mike and

Margaret FOLEY joined Bill, Linda and your truly for dinner. We compared notes and relived a few highlights of our cadet and AF careers (read war st ories)

and generally enjoyed ourselves tremendously.

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resort experience. He also told the best story about one of his fl ights from L A to Dallas when a flight attendant aboard his DC-10 t urned out to be Bi ll REEMTSMA’s daughter Kristin (please forgive the spelling).

Did anyone see the picture and article about one of Jim MARTIN’S

lightning with their Lear 24 in an effort to assemble data that added to what previously known about lightning- it’s bad!- thereby improving

w as

accuracy of lightning predictions. Part of the proj ect was to bet ter understand the affects lightning can have on new forms of flight cont rols using low

voltage circuitry such as fly-by-wire. Somewhat related, Boeing is seriously

looking at fly-by-light flight control systems for t he 777. Any t houghts as t o

the impact lightning might have on a system like that?

Speaking of NASA Ames, Randy REYNOLDS is now showing a San Jose, CA

address. Some other changes include Pat CARUANA to Grand Forks—t hat’s

what happens to new BGs with a SAC background; Jim H A USE R i s bac k i n

Boulder; Larry DAY is the new Chanute TTC boss; Bob HAL L is working for ALPA in the flight safety business; Dick GUILD formed his own company RAMPART Technologies (RAMPART is an acronym); and Larry EA ST M A N i s working for General Dynamics.

I have been following with interest the 30th reunions as they occur: ’59 last year, ’60 this year. The way time seems to move by us so quickly these days, 1993 will soon be upon us. To start thinking now about how you are going to get there is not too soon. My dad’s class (’40 USNA) is having t heir 50th t his year.

That’s it unt il next time. Keep the cards, letters and phone calls coming in and re member, if you are in the Seattle area, lunch/ dinner is easy to arrange.

Bo b H ovde 1 A n d rew s C i r c le

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APOLOGIES: For those of you who depend upon this column fo r information about the class, I apologize for the small size of last quarter’s column (written in mid-December). I had received a couple of letters (included

below), but we had j ust had a “ practice” move from one base house to anot her, and my normal fail-safe filing system (neat piles of paper here and there around the house and office) didn’t survive being stuffed into boxes. Event ual ly, I opened the box that had the "gotta do” stuff in it —a m o n t h l at e!

‘64 IN SPACE: Fred GREGORY writes that John Blaha (‘65) was his pilot for

th e November shut t le mission (Fred was commander). H e sends a pict ure of the two of t hem havi ng fun at Mach 25.

MAI L: One of t he let ters I misplaced was given to me by John GRAVES at the reunion last September. As the pict ure below verifies, Jo h n a n d Ju n e h o st ed a

successful “ pre-reunion” reunion in Washington, DC o n 3 Ju n e 19 8 9 . T h e following grads made it: Joe and Benita BAVARIA Paul and Peggy BELMONT, Bob and Karen CHRISTOPHER, Jack and Carie COLE, Ray an d D o n n a GREENE, Bob and Paula HALEY, Jim and Bonnie HINKEL, Vi n c e an d L o ret ta HURLEY, Bob and Sheila INGLIS, Terry and Nancy ISAACSON, P a u l an d Ju l i e KAMINSKI, Bob LEVINS, Jeff and Gittan LEVY, Will MCKENNEY, P et e an d Peggie MORRI SON, Rich and Sherry PORTER, John and Ruth SH RI NER and

Bill and Sherry SIEG. Now. That makes 19 grads at the party, wit h only 17 in

the pict ure. It has to be a ‘64 party, because i t either took two people to take the picture, or one is passed out on the floor somewhere (Act ually, Jim HINKEL left the party early. Can you tell who took the pict ure?).

Fred GREGORY (commander) and John Blaha (’65, pilot) a t M a c h 2 5

so m ew h er e o ver ea r th .

MORE GEN ERA LS: I ’m happy to report t hat the powers-that-be sa w f i t t o

make two more 64 grads into generals. The latest brigadier general l ist

incl uded Bob THOMAS, commander of t he Sout heast Air Defense Sector, TAC, Tyndal l AFB, FL, and Lee DOWNER, commander, 20t h Tact ical Fighter Wing,

Upper Heyford, England. That makes 27 generals in the C l ass o f ‘64 .

9th SQUADRON: Jim LEMON is still in Toledo, OH, working for Teiedyne

Washington, DC, 3 June 1989. Who took this picture?

I’m not the only one to lose things. Kris MINEAU writes fr om Mi ldenhall, England, (where he is the deputy chief of staff. Logistics, for 3rd A r Force) that the picture below, of a mini-reunion in England last year, was lost for eigh t m o n t h s u n t i l h i s b ro t h er- i n - l aw fo u n d i t i n t h e St at es. B i l l D O UGL ASS l eft

England to go to general officer “ charm” school j ust before t he reunion (and some of t he ot hers must have left since). K ris and L u r a w i l l ret u rn t o t h e St a t es i n ‘9 2 .

CAE. H e says t hat being i n t he defense busi ness when peace is break ing out all over is not such a great deal. A mont h after he went to work, 40 percent of the engi neering staff were let go.

Larry SMITH was st il l wi th Federal Express as a simulator i n str u c t o r i n December. He was supposed to in terview to go back to flying in February. Jane says t hey really like Colliervi l le, which is about 15 m i l es so u t h east o f Memphis.

Gaylord GREEN is still in Los Gatos, CA in spite of the earthquake last fall. At $5,000, his house damage was below the USAA earthquake deductibility threshold. (Kind of makes you think about what kind of insurance you have, doesn’t it?) He missed the 25th reunion to be with his daughter when she graduated form pilot training. She will be flying KC-135s at Fairchild, serving

alert with her spouse. (My, SAC has changed!) Because o f h is bu si n ess involvement with the Global Posit ioning Systems (GPS —a satellite navigation

system), he got a trip to the Paris A r Show last year. Tough life!

Doug ROTMAN also missed the reunion. He and Nancy (and kids) had to suddenly move to Boise, ID, when the company for which h e w o r k ed i n Po rt la n d

was sold and the parent company asked him to move to Bo i se t o ru n an o t h er division. Nancy wri tes t hat their youngest, David, will be ready for kindergarten next fall. I know of several 24-year-olds who are at a bo u t t h e sam e level.

Ed PEGG writes that he has been busy flying overseas the past year —Jamaica nine times and Europe seven times, including a trip to Moscow in September. He said that it was a great trip, and that Moscow was a pret ty city with many beautiful parks and the most efficient subway system he had ever seen. However,

it appeared that they were living with 1950’s technology o veral l .

Jerry K I NG is worki ng wi th Airl ine Training Center in Goodyear, AZ. They

teach beginning pilot students for Lufthansa, All Nippon A r lines, I beria, and A r France. It basically is a commercial undergraduate pilot t raining base.

Meanwh ile, Bonnie is president of t he Deer Valley Educat ion Associat ion (in lieu of her normal teachi ng j ob). I n case you wondered who is mindi ng t he

classroom, Diane has graduated from ASU and is teaching i n t h e sa m e sc h o o l d i st r ic t

Enj oying the United Kingdom version of the 25th Reunion, fr o m l ef t a re J.J. and Phyllis Judd J D. and Bev Manning, Nick and Pat L acey, Lee and Barb

D o w n er a n d K r is a n d L u r a M i n ea u.

Anne BEVELHYMER writes that Herb has retired and they are n o w set t led in Muskegon, Ml, where Herb works for Teledyne Continental M o t o rs as

director of a program to build a crash/ fire-rescue veh i c l e fo r t h e A r Fo rce.

They live in an area with 100-year-old giant oaks and pines—off the beaten

path, but it looks like a Currier and Ives Christ mas Card. They left t he boys in a condo in Dayton, where they are going to Wright State. They get to see t he boys when they stop on t he way to t he ski areas north of Muskegon. The only Association of Graduates group they could find (i n Grand Rapids) is made up of West Point and An napol is grads except for t hem, so they go represent the A r Force. (That ’s about even odds, isn’t it ?)

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LAST FLIGHT :! am sad to report that Fred WALKER, who bat t led against cancer for t he last couple of years, died Feb. 14 at MacDil l AFB, FL. Fred took on cancer j ust like he took on enemies of t he state—face t o t h e fr o n t an d charge. When 1last talked to him, he still thought he would beat it Anyway, he said that his experimental treatments had kept him going a lot longer than the doctors had predicted. Fred was buried at t he Nat ional Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. Our condolences go out to his wife, Nyra, h is chi ldren, and t he rest of h is family.

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARD: Yes. I only got one change-of-address car d

th is quarter. John OSBORN moved from Sacramento to Woodland, CA (not far,

but not in the same phone book).

That’s all for now, folks. Take time to drop a line.

SEN D US YOU R N EW A D D RESS N OW !

Legislat ive L iasion, and then commanded t he 4TFW. All t hese guys wi ll definitely be in different j obs by the ti me you read t h is— it has somet hi ng to do with “ moving targets.” The whole class is really proud of you all. We need guys like you with common sense to keep the Air Force on the righ t t rack while Congress chops up our budget

Jerry “ Ski” Wilkowski 2423 Rocky Branch Road Vienna, VA 22181 Home: (703) 255-9083 Per cen t m em ber s: 6 9

Sparsity of news t his issue. Defi nitely i n need of let ters and pictures. Please “ Accept t he Challenge” and help me spread t he word about w hat’s happening with you and yours.

Joe KOENIG called from Dayt on where he expects to be fo r at l ea st an o t h er year (t rust no MPC types are readi ng th is column Joe). H e i n fo rm ed t h at Ji m

PERRY and wife and daughter have moved from the University o f N ew M ex ico Hospital to his medical school alma mater, the University o f F l o r i d a at Jacksonville. And that Chuck RYERSON has switched airlines, moving from Eastern where he was a systems analyst inst ructor to P a nA m as a 72 7 fi rst

officer based in Miami. In his spare time. Chuck manages t o c h art er h i s 2 4 - fo o t

boat, rigged for bot h diving and fishi ng, to a local dive shop. Sounds like a tolerable way to enj oy your semi-ret irement

Also learned that Tom and Sherrard OWENS’ son Christopher T h o m as

graduated from Canoe U. w it h t he Class of ’89 and is being trained i n Pensacola to fly off fl oat ing postage stamps wh ile their daughter Elizabet h is an undergraduate at the University of San Diego. Tom, you may recal l from a previous column, is th e 507t h Tact ical Air Control Wing commander at Shaw AFB, SC. Plagarizing a few newswort hy items fr om Ti m GRAVES’ Washington, DCarea newslet ter, A1GRI ESHABER has accepted a position as superintenden t of a mil itary academy i n Lake Geneva, WI and BG (select) Roy BRI DGES has been assigned to HQ AFSC at Andrews AFB, MD. The party which Tim organized in February was a huge success, wit h over 50 class members and t heir spouses attending. Two couples, Jim and Karol KALTENBACH and Kary and Nanet te LAFORS, came dow n from New Jersey for t he event Pict ues w er e ta k en .

Should have t hem ready for t he next issue.

ZI P CODE CHANGES Only two th is report ing period: Steve D I N GM A N f ro m Nort h Bend, OR t o Yuma, AZ and Brian WAGES fr om Manchaca, TX t o Aust in, TX. Has t he homesteadi ng syndrome set i n or is th is j ust t he l ul l before t he su m m er ex od u s?

Redtags at the Sumo Lou nge, Yokota AB. From left are Buck LYLE, Jerry BECKER, Ed SHI RLE Y, Ry an DENN Y, and Ron M ORE Y

OLD STARS: B/ G Ed SHIRLEY dropped in on us at Yokota to get a few briefings and see if t he Pacifi c was any different fr o m w h en h e saw i t l ast during our litt le war. I t was a short visit, bu t we had a chance to get together for dinner with the local ’66ers and with a surprise guest — Buck LYL E. Ed may have been on a little bit of a boondoggle, but Buck was on the boondoggle of all time. He is the squadron commander of a KC-135 outfi t for t he Kansas ANG, and was flyi ng a group of Ai r War College st udents aro u n d o n a Pac i fi c f i el d tr ip. H e was spending three or four nights each in Hawai i, Korea, Jakarta, and Bangkok —and didn’t have to attend any of the briefings o r so c ia l h o u r s. A few

weeks later, B/ G Paul STEI N passed t hrough on a CAPSTONE fi eld trip. He was i n the fourt h week of a six-week “ fi re hose” course, b u t st i l l l o o k ed as rel ax ed as ev er . P a u l i s t h e c h i ef o f sta ff at TA C Headquarters.

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M A K E A R RA N G EM EN T S N OW T O AT T EN D FINA L NOT E. By now you should have received t he information out lining the plans for our 25th Reunion, a scant six mont hs away (less by t he t i me th is issue of Checkpoi nts is in your hands). I t certainly appears that the commit tee cochaired by Barry BLACKMAN and Ji m SPITT LER, has done a super j ob of tying the diverse interests of t he class i nto a manageable and i nterest i ng schedule. I f you haven’t made plans to at tend by now, don’t put t hem off another day! This is the big 25! An historical epoch. The last for many of us before the big FIVE ZERO! You tel l me where t he t i me has gone. Do try to be there; you won’t regret the t i me, effort, or money o n e io t a. T r u st m e o n t h i s o n e.

Rvan Den ny

P SC B o x 7 6 6 7 A P O San F ra n c i sc o 9 6 2 9 3 P er cen t m em b er s: 70

Greet i ngs Redtags! H ere 1 am sit t ing in a tent at K imhae AB, Korea, weari ng my chemical gear, wondering why t his doesn’t bother m e. I t m u st h ave been somet h ing they put i n the food at M itchell Dining Hall, o r a co m b i n a t i o n o f too many push-ups in too t hi n of air. . . An yway, it ’s a n o t h er T E^AM S P I RI T exercise and anot her few weeks of exci t ing camping in sunny sout hern Korea.

And to thi nk —some people pay a lot of money to have t h i s k i n d o f f u n !

NEW STA RS: Congratu lat ions to our new generals! Jerry A L L E N w as a SA C wing commander and t hen worked at t he Joi nt Chiefs o f St a ff fo r t h e ch ai r m a n .

Dick BETH UREM has spen t most of his career i n fi gh ters and is t he wing c o m m an d er o f t h e 4 9 T F W a t H o l l o m an . N i c k K E H O E w as an ATC wi ng commander and t hen worked on t he ATC staff. J.O. MCFAL LS, af t er a br i l l ian t career as head cheerleader at USAFA, went on to fly fi gh ters, work i n

Astronaut Joh n CASPER and family.

ON ORBI T: John CASPER fi nal ly got up in space as t he pilot of the space sh ut t le A /fanto . After six years of t rain ing, a lot of set backs, and a lot of hard work, he flew a mi li tary mission that went perfect ly. Joh n and his w ife, Chris, have two small chi ldren: Robbie (fi rst grade) and Steff i (preschool). Chris wri tes (because John forgot how) that fel low astronaut Ron GRABE j ust r et u rn ed fr o m t h e So v i et Un i o n w h er e h e v i ew ed a So v i et space launch and toured Space City. Ron wi l l command anoth er shut t le mission next year (his th ird).

BIT S AN D PI ECES: Ti m BROWN flew through Yokota on his way back from

a CO P E T H U N D E R ex erc i se at C l ar k A B t o E l m en d o rf w h ere h e i s t h e D O o f

th e F- 15 wi ng. He is enj oying Alaska and what is probably the best j ob in t he

Air Force and plans on being there for at least another year. Ed TOOLEY is moving fr om his j ob as assistan t director for Nuclear Ops, Defense Nuclear Agency, to K irt land AFB as vice commander of the 1606 Air Base Wi ng. Bi ll H UDSPET H is leaving his j ob as director of Tact ics and Special Operat ions at MAC H eadquarters and is headi ng to t he Pentagon as the deputy director of th e Washington Offi ce of U.S. Special Operat ions Command

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The Class of 1990 is about to gra duate, summert ime is fast approaching, and many of us will move or travel around in the next few m o n t h s. T ak e t h e t i m e t o look up a classmate, drink a beer (or Perrier for you would-be Yuppies), take a picture and send us a few words about what you’ve been up to. Stay in t ouch

and Happy Landings!

Bill got a letter from George FRUSHOUR, on remote at Shemya, Alaska, “communing with seals and sea lions on a regular basis.” Jo h n H O L L ST E I N spent his annual two-week active duty tour in December at Langley AFB, and spend some time with John McBROOM who is the F-15 wing c o m m an d er there. Ken SPROUL has been named state air surgeon, the top medical j ob in the Indiana Air Guard; congratulations, Ken! Ken and Bobbie spent four days in New York th is wi nter on a Broadway t our, and took t he family t o Disneyworld another week. As air base group commander at Torrej on, Tom

Dan Morgan

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GRI ESSER stayed busy with the many MAC aircraft and troops flying to and fr om the big exercise last November in the Middle East T o m an d B et h t o o k a six-week Spanish course to prepare them for this assignment, an d r u m o r h as i t that Molly FRY and Beth have made sure to practice Spanish fr equently in downtown Madrid shopping. Thanks again to Bill HALL for let t ing me paraphrase your news!

AOG Updates: Special congratulations to Dale STOVALL, now a bri gadier general selectee and vice commander of 23rd AF, living on H urlburt Field, and to Jack FRY, vice commander of 16t h AF at Torrej on, Ed GUN T E R m o ved fro m

No one had a chance to respond to my micro-column of last quarter, because this quarter’s deadline occurred before last quarter’s Checkpoints hit your mailboxes. Therefore, the below offerings were sent to me spontaneously, and so deserve special appreciation. (Congratulations t o you who decipher t he preceding sentences; you qualify for a j ob in cryptogra phy.)

The one phone call I had received prior to that micro-column was from Larry WILSON, former writer of this column, and since last July commander of t he 90th Strategic Hospital at F.E. Warren AFB. This past wi nter i n Wyoming was quite a change for the family, their fi rst cold weather since Larry graduated fr om medical school i n Gra nd Forks, ND. Alt hough they m i ssed t h e sc u ba diving which they had enj oyed in Guam for severa l years, the whole fami ly felt compensated by the ready avalability of downhill skiing. Scot t (6) and Kat ie (8) already consider themselves as good as their parents in t his sport, and bot h played soccer this year as well. Scott wishes he could have moved his pets w it h him; on Guam he kept a continuous series of free lizards and geckos, which sel l for abou t $500 apiece in Cheyenne pet st ores. An o t h er co n t rast i s t h ei r

larger current home on base, which has to withstand only 30-50 knot winds,

whi le t heir smal ler, near-bunker construct ion home o n Gu am w i t h st o o d typhoons quite nicely. Although Pat is a registered nurse, she has found

herself more than busy enough as mom, senior hospital spouse, and doing Red Cross volunteer work at both the base hospital and the hospital downtow n.

Larry still loves golf, but manages a game only occasionally. Late last year Larry got a brief look at the other side of patient care, first in his own facil ity

and then at Fitzsimmons. Happily his medical results were good, but he found his point of view as a patient unexpectedly frustra ting, especial ly in Denver. As a result, he is implementing a number of ideas designed to enhance pat ients’ sense of control, comfort, and being informed while inpat ient This past February Larry got to have a mini-re union with part of his old USAFA varsi ty wrestling team. B/ Gen Thad WOLFE (’64, currently on JSTPS at Offut t) came to Cheyenne to give a Proj ect Warrior talk, and Marty DAACK (’66, curr ent ly USAFA vice commadant) came up too. They reminisced about Larry’s dubious distinction of having been in All-American Don HENDERSON’S (’68) weight class on the team. Sad to say, only Thad resembled his former weight . . . Larry also had contact wi t h Abner HAYN ES, recent ly promoted t o assista n t d i r ec t o r for the Northwest Region of the U.S. Tre asury’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,

and Firearms. Abner and Patty live in Seattle.

Bill HALL’S Seagra ms’ 7 newsletter again provided a mainstay of information, Ron ROUNCE is on leave from Flying Tigers and is flying an

execut ive model 707 for the Saudi ambassador i n Washington. Al t hough he is

based out of Dulles, he is seldom there and so commutes t o w h erev er fro m Mission Viej o, CA. His wife, Helen, teaches 6th grade and daughter Kirst in is a fr eshman at UCLA Bill says that Joe HOLBROOK sent him a photo of Joe, Eldene, and their three kids around a cattle drive stat ue i n Texas, wh ich Bi l l took as meaning that Joe is still throwing the bull. Joe is plant manager for Coke bottling company of north Texas, and has visited the WENNERs, MILNEs, and DAINES. A1and Judy ROWE and their girls Mary and Al ison are back at Rhein-Main AB, Germany, seeing the stupendous Eastern European changes up close. Judy had to handle the PCS move since A1was on a t imely (?)

TDY. Some guys live on borrowed time . . .Ven and Dianne H A M M O N D S’ so n Todd is in USAFA Class of ’93.

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the San Antonio area to Ocean Springs, MS in January. R i ch RE I TAN h as moved from Albuquerque to Las Vegas, NV. Bob and Teeny KNOBLOCK sent a welcome 10-year update. In 1980 Teeny entered an FDA-sponsored residency at the Armed Forces Inst it ute of Pathology in D.C., which began an unexpectedly-long odyssey of the family being together on weekends only. Complet ing the three-year program in two years necessitated her staying in Maryland during the week, while Bob commuted daily between their farm and Manassas, VA and his j ob at Andrews AFB. Happily they found good live-in help who literally became part of the family. As Teeny completed her residency. Bob got orders to McGuire AFB, four hours away in New Jersey. Since Bob had a good chance for a fi nal PCS back to D.C. after McGuire, and they hoped to raise hunter-j umper horses long-term in Manassas, Teeny commuted 120 miles daily to her FDA j ob while Bob (and for awhile Linnea) drove home every weekend for two years. However, Bob’s fi nal PCS was to Charleston, SC, so they sold the farm. After the sale (Ouch!), Teeny, newly board certifi ed by the American College of Veterinary Pathology, got a tremendous j ob offer in Northern Virginia, in contrast to no openings in South Carolina. When they found acreage for their eight horses only two miles fr om t heir old farm. Bob decided he could stand commut ing two more years (1,100 miles every other weekend). With no buildings on the property, it was rought for awhile. Teeny had to fi nd temporary quarters, run around taking care of t he animals, supervise

fencing eight of 34 acres and crash-building two bams, put in electricity and a well, and fi nd a nearby home for the family, all while starting a new j ob. Linnea spent the fi rst year with Bob in Charleston, and then moved back to Vi rginia and her beloved pony and horses for eighth grade.

Overlapping all of this were Teeny’s elusive but increasing health problems, fi nally confi rmed as multiple sclerosis in 1986, leading Bob to drive home every weekend for his last year in South Carolina. As Teeny says, “ What a loving spouse won’t do for love and fami ly!” Teeny was medically ret ired in February 1987 and Bob retired fr om the AF that July. After seven years of only weekends, the

adj ustments to living together were welcome. Bob went t o w o r k t w o m o n t h s after retire ment at a local home improvement discount store until they decided what they were going to do. He enjoyed it, and they offere d him a management

position, but by then they had decided to move. The farm an d h o rses w ere n o w too much work and no longer a family dre am, and over the three years the land had gotten too valuable to build j ust one house in the middle of it So they decided to go after a second dream, a boat They sold everyt hing, part being an exchange for some lots on the Intra coastal Waterway in Saint August ine.

They searched the East Coast before fi nding their “dream,” a 32-year-old wood Norwegian-built 61-foot tra wler, which they redid inside and out Except for (amily treasure s that won’t fi t on the boat. Teeny an d Bo b al m o st w o u l d n ev er want a house, though they expect to start building nearby soon. Linnea was not quite so happy until she found quality horses nearby that needed tra ining and riding, and the opportunity to go to shows with the owners. She is a j unior in high school, doing well and looking forward to scouting o u t u n i ver si t ies. Bo b

went back to school at the local tech center in diesel engine mechanics and loves it After eight months in school, his instructor entere d him in a regional student contest and he went all the way to eighth out of 64 in the national at Tulsa, OK. Not bad for no prior experience in the fi eld! Now working for a large Caterpiller company in Jacksonville, he is still enrolled as a work-st udy student, and his instructor thinks he will win the nat ionals in 1990. Anyway, he can off er a service which he enj oys where ver they go, as they intend to start serious cruising as soon as Linea is out of school.

Teeny has a laptop computer with full-sized printer that fi ts nicely under the sofa and intends to do the books for Bob’s business. She is ambulatory most of

the time. “We have always lived for tomorrow, which left l it t l e t i m e t o l ive fo r t o day. We have learned how to appreciate today for today, an d t o m o re o w w i l l be there, too.” They live on the river with a beautiful view of the skyline of old Saint Augustine. The KNOBLCXJKs note that there are enough c lassm a t es i n F l o ri da

to hold a mini-re uinion there , and they invite you t o vi si t t h em i n t h e U.S.’s oldest city.

T i m Davi d so n

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Read Al l About I t ! The Class of ’68’s got G E N E R A L S!!

That’s right, mili tary history buffs, mark it down i n your ledgers, li ne number 33 and 37 of t he latest U.S. Air Force BG l ist belong t o n o n e o t h er t h an E d EBERHART and Tony ROBERTSON, respect ively. More over Larry Welch, her comes ’68! OUr heart iest congrat ulat ions to Ed and Tony. You have done us al l proud!

Also to t he on-t imers to colonel (t hat includes Ed L E O NA R D o f t h e Academy Activities Group her in t he Pentagon, who I i nadverten ly left off of the list reported in the Fall ’89 column), congratulations on your 1 Apri l pinon. Do you suppose anyone would at tempt to draw an analogy between ’68’s

pin-on date and April Fools’ Day. Haah, I’m sure purely c o i n c i d en ta l .

Ah em !

The FY 1991 Defense Budget battles on Capitol Hill are reachi ng fever pitch with enough diatribe about cashing-in on immediate “ peace dividends” to make you wonder how these “ Honorables” ever got elected in t he first place.

We are truly victims of our ow n success! Keepi ng t hat t heme in mi nd, it might be wort hwhile for the non generals in t he class to keep t heir eyes open for some good sales on civilian attire. The winds of change are blowing at hurricane force against our Air Force personnel system. So batten down your hatches and prepare for the storm. Based on discussions here in t he Pentagon, it appears t hat not even USAFA class rings are going to save officers from being purged in t his latest RI F.

To change tenor and tempo a bit, thank goodness for C h ri st m as correspondence! Since most of it arrived after the deadl ine for t he last colu mn, I have some act ual mai l t o report to you about in t he Spring 1990 episode of “ All My Classmates.”

Why are Rob and Elizabeth L i nsmay er smi l ing? a baby boy on 5 March. Congrats! Is t his t he youngest c h i l d bo m t o a ’6 8 er ?

Read o n !

Hal and Kat hi H IGLEY act ual ly wrote a Christmas let ter i n Dec em ber (rat her t han t he follow ing May as t hey did last year). He is now flying DC- 10s for United ou t of Chicago. Kat hi spent much of her t i m e l ast su m m er i n const ruct ive —or shou ld I say “ construct ion” —proj ect by ensuri ng that her contractors put all the nails i n t he right places in di fferent port ions of t heir house. Children Becky, Hap, and Joel are, quite literally, grade-A kids, al l making eit her t he regular or high honor roll.

R K. and Kathy BROWN checked in to send Christ mas greet i ngs. R K . sa i d that t heir house in SL Louis final ly sold, which makes i t a l i t t l e easi er o n commuti ng, since they now live i n Knoxvil le. He also ment ioned t hat he got together with Tony EDEN and Jim THOMPSON while at a mili tary science l u n c h eo n at USA FA.

Bob and Thuy JOHNSTON wrote to us from t he “ h igh desert i n so u t h ern Cal iforn ia,” w here th ey have been si nce June 1988. Bob, as you may remember, is commander of t he 27t h Tactical Ai r Support Squadron. Daughter Carolyn is a fr eshman at one of my old stomping grounds, Florida State, and is a member of Al pha Delta Pi Sorori ty. Michael is a high school fr esh m a n a n d v ic e president of his class.

Ji m an d P at S E EVE RS sen t a w arm “ M el e K a l i k i m ak a ” fr o m H aw a i i. So n s

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Jim and Tim are wel l integrated int o al l aspects of sophomore col lege life— fr atern it ies, club and i ntramural sports, and even so m e acad em i cs. Ji m i s at U. of Virgi nia and Tim is at Wil l iam and Mary. Daughter Carr ie is a f r esh m an i n high school and enj oys piano and dance. Pat is still work ing as a dental assistant i n Pearl City and Ji m is chief of Manpower o f U SPA CO M .

Rhip and Betsy WORRELL sent news of their activities fr om a neighbori ng Virginia townsh ip. Rh ip is having to trade in his glory days as ICAF at hlet ic chairman for a somewhat more serious posit ion as proj ect manager for “ Bril liant Pebbles” research in our SDI program. Betsy is worki ng for the VP at

E-Systems, and daughter Lisa is also working.

Joe , Karen, Bry an and Christina M ichel send g reeti ngs fr o m a Ca l i fo r n i a

playground.

FirsL from Chula Vista, CA, Joe and Karen MICH EL wri te t h at Joe i s an engineer for t he Naval Ocean Systems Center in Poi nt L o m a. H e is a lso a co lo n el i n t h e A i r F o rce Reserve at Sac r am en t o an d i n vo l ved w i t h t h e USA FA Liaison Officer Program i n San Diego. Karen is staying h o m e w i t h t h e k i d s an d

attending school at San Diego State U. She ant icipates complet ing her degree in 1991. Bryan is a second grader, who is a math whiz and likes recess, soccer, and j udo. Christina is in preschool and loves to sing, dance, and draw.

Mark TORREANO writes fr om Hong Kong t hat Wh ich is my best shot at Chi nese for “ I’m keeping my head above water!” Bob and Cathy DURHAM tel l of t heir move to Lit t le Rock AFB, where Bob is vice wing commander. Cat hy is holding down t he fort as son Jason f i n ish ed h i s fr esh m a n year at the U. of Texas; daughter Jennifer plays some basket ball, but would prefer to be playing on a good soccer team; and youngest in t he clan, Ryan, after mending well from a biking accidenL enj oys playing basebal l an d foo t ba l l .

Brooke and Cat hy BAI LEY are sti l l at Norton AFB (meth inks not for long though!). Brooke has a two-mont h st int at Harvard in t h e fal l i n an ex ec u t ive

program and thoroughly enj oyed the Boston area. Cathy h i t s t h e l i n k s w h en

she can and cont inues to help Brook by keeping th e base funct ioning on an even keel. Their daught er Liz is i n t he 10t h Grade and is playing varsity t en nis

an d so ccer.

Rob and El izabet h LI NSMAYER wrote to say t hat it’s great being new lyweds.

I also heard t hrough t he grapvine (a.k.a. Jim REESE) t hat t he Linsmayef s had

Justi n H olland assumi ng pose that his father taug h t h i m .

The handsome young man pict ured above is Charl ie and Nancy HOLLAND’S youngesL Just in. He is an ace soccer st ar and, with brot her Chuck, is real ly enj oying t he good life in Al buquerque. Charlie spent t he night wi th L isa and me recent ly and explai ned how he is st i ll worki ng real est a t e d ea l s o n K i r t l a n d AFB to get more land and bui ldings for t he 1550t h Combat Crew Tra ini ng Wi ng. H is last vent ure gained hi m one of t he base’s tw o o f f i cer s c l u b s. N o t bad for a count ry boy fr om West Virgi nia.

Bi l l WOOD wrote to avoid hearing anot her sob story fr om your class scri be about not getting any mail. Of course, fellow classmates, you wi l l note t hat he

wrote at Christmas time when everyone else writes. Do you think he’d send me 45

a letter in May or August when the postman can’t even rem em ber t h e las t t i m e

a classmat e had wri tten? Nooo! He wri t es at Christ mas! D i d h e sen d m e a pict ure of his family? Nooo! He sends a let ter t hat says “ noth ing much t o report” and dosen’t even send a picture! Way to go, Bi ll! By t he way Bil l, don’t you wish you’d never written in the fi rst place so you wouldn’t have subj ected yourself to such abuse?

But seriously folks, I real ly did appreciate Bill’s let ter wh ich provided a

down-to-earth appra isal of what many in the “40 Something” ag e g r o u p are

going t hrough right now. He said t hat it “ seems like t he kids are experienci ng the most activity and change and weJust muddle along.” On a less ph ilosophic note, he provided an update on some good news concerning Debbie JANSEN, who has fi nally completed treat ment for a bra i n t umor t h a t sh e h as been fi ghting for a long time. After seven CAT scans, with no abnormalit ies, she has been given a clean bi ll of health. Debbie, t he ent ire class rej oices in t he answer

to our prayers and your personal triumph.

Finally, the last letter came from Jim REESE, who passed o n s o m e correspondence from Cecille CASTRO. Cecille reported a bo u t t h e d i v i sio n s i n loyalties in the Philippines—particulary in light of t he most recent coup

att empt She is hopeful for reconci liat ion w it hi n t he mi litary and reform of t he government The fami ly may need fi nancial assistance i n sending her children

to college and she asked if the funds contributed by t h e c l ass c o u l d be u sed fo r this purpose. Three of four trustees responsible for t his fu nd t hought col lege

need to preserve the very best ” Later he stated, “ while people are a high priori ty, we cannot forget t he mission. T he mission n eed s t o be m a i n t a i n ed and safety has to be included in that mission. Spares and shortages of equipment that are due in 1990 will not help the mission if funding is not available until 1991. We need to do something about t h at ”

I n regard to what it takes t o succeed, he said: “ Try your best and do j obs th at you enj oy doing. Hard work counts. Set a goal to work harder t han anyone else in t he outfi t Don’t ever get too far fr om operat ions. Even i n headquart ers staffs, stay as close to the decisions that affect operat ions as you can so that you don’t lose touch with the mission.” Thanks for your views and counsel, Tony. And, congra t ulat ions! ’6 8 er s o n t h e M o v e: Pa u l CO USI N S fr o m NAT O AWA C S t o Tinker AFB, OK; Gary DI KK ERS fr om 4 ASOC to APO NY 09130- 1054 (Sembach); D i c k FA ST from SHAPE to Fairfax, VA; Ed LEONARD from California to Wash., DC; Dave MULK EY t o Norton AFB, CA; and, Mike STEVENSON from A P O NY 0 9 012 t o Alexandria, VA. Lisa and I t hank all of you for your warm wishes upo n t h e b i r t h o f o u r daughter Alicia. Plea.se remember that your let ters and current (or old cadet days) phot os make a t remendous difference in th is column. So mind t he flak, keep ’em flying, and keep those cards, let ter, and photos coming.

Lindsey Parri s

costs wou ld be an appropriate use. The ot her trustee h as n o t been co n tac t ed yet If anyone who cont ribu ted does not bel ieve t he funds should be ex pended in t h is manner, please contact me.

Bumped i nt o Depar t ment . . . I saw Bob MACAL USO for the fi rst t i m e i n 11 years whi le he was maili ng a let ter at the H url burt Bil let ing Offi ce i n Jan uary.

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Bob in a fi nancial planner in Kingwood, TX (near Houston), fl i es fo r

Cont inental (727s), and is in th e Reserves w it h t he 7 5 t h M an eu v er A r ea Command, USFORCECOM. He told me that Danny JAMES j ust got married for the fi rst t ime at age 44, and t hat Danny also fl ies fo r C o n t i n en t a l as a 73 7 captain.

The same day t hat I saw Bob, 1 also ra n into Jerry S UL L I VA N w h o w as wait ing for someone to pick him up fr om t he Fort Walton airport Jerry also sends regards.

Jim PARK ER was doing some FBI work in our area and managed to get i n a dinner visi t wit h Lisa and me. He and family are doi ng wel l and he expects that his j ob may take him back to his original home terri tory i n W i sc o n si n i n t h e

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’68 Spotlight

The news from ’69ers is, again, somew hat sparse. Please give me a cal l if you’re passing through D.C. or drop me a short not e as t ime permi ts with news of yourself or classmates wit h whom you’ve been in t o u c h .

Change-of-address cards show t he fol lowi ng: Larry HOWEL L h as set t led into t he Midwest, having moved from Washington DC to Beavercreek, OH. Bi ll GREEN is t he commander of t he 14th M i litary Ai rlift Squadron at Norton. Joe PERSONETT has repatriated to Colora do, having relocated fr om Yokohama, Japan to Monument Jim TAYLOR has moved w ith in Maryland, fro m Ar n o ld t o Sevem a Park. Denny KALMUS is l iving i n San Antonio.

Received a newsy let ter from Foot INGERSOL L, who wr ites a bo u t a r ec en t TDY he took to the pacific. Ran into Jeff GRI ME, newly i n st a l l ed as c o m m an d er of t he 3rd TFW at Clark AB, and st il l su ffering from j et lag from his t ransfer fr om Spangdahlem. Pooh BEAR is the Wing ADO to Travis—carries a br ic k and trundles up and down t he fl igh tl ine i n his leather j acket looking every bit the dashi ng fugure we remember. Dick H EFNER is a squadron c o m m an d er at Travis and lovin’ i t Foot bumped i nto Fred STEWART t here, who was TDY fr om Norton. He also saw Tom TOOPS at Elmendorf, though o f fered n o n ew

knows something about flying Air Force aircraft and w h at i t ta k es t o su cceed in a Stra tegic Air Command Tony’s personal goal was t o be a wing commander

from Norton, and t hough not in Larr y MCK ELLAR’s Reserve squadron, t hey did admit to knowing him. Brave people, t hey.

The memory book to t he reunion was going to press duri ng t h e fi r st w eek o f Apri l at the latest The book and videotape w ill be mailed as soon as printi ng is completed, so those who placed orders should have received t hem by t he t i me you read this. For t hose of you who missed t he reunion, the pict ure (passed along by Ri ch ME'TTS) of St ick TURNER leadi ng us in a vi ntage version of “ Slash ’em w ith a beak!” should say worlds.

n ear f u t u re.

Bob DALEY checked in and said t hat Marty COLE has been hired by Sout hwest Fi nal ly, quite literal ly as I was goi ng t o press, Phi l and Mart ha PIGNATARO phoned to t el l me of t he birth of t heir son Gregory on 22 March.

Mom and Dad are tired, but happy. Again, I ask, are t here any gra ndfat hers out t h ere?!

The ’68 spot light for t his col umn falls on Brig Gen (Select) Charles Thomas “ Tony” ROBERTSON. Tony is curr ent ly serving as assistant deputy chief of staff for Plans and Resources (or Deputy XP) at SAC H eadquart ers at Offutt AFB. H e j ust fi n ished a tour as commander of t he 384 th Bomb Wing at McConnell AFB, and is one of two offi cers to be selected to ra nk of brigadier general from t he Class of 1968.

Wit h operat ional experience in t he AC- 119K, B-52H , FB- 111, and B- 1, Tony and fly B- l s. He achieved being wing commander tw ice a n d fl ew B - l s i n h is last assignment So, now as he puts it “ the rest is gra vy.”

H is view for t he changing t ime is that “ we should save as m u c h fo rce st ruct ure and good people as we can. We know we are goi ng to take cuts. We

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Rich METTS wri tes from Al buquerque, w here he is fl yi ng 72 7 s fo r A m eri can out of Dal las-Fort Wort h. He relates t hat ot her ’69ers—Fl ip K ECK, Ch uck

HOSMER, Larry MCKELLAR, Larry PRENGER and Lee SICIU O ar e fel l o w

flyers for American. How is American’s black market for contraband honey-

roasted peanuts, anyway?

Seats at National War College are scarce, especially for Reserv ists, and t he AF generally gets only a single such slot a year. So congratulations to Darrel WHITCOMB, who has been selected to attend National next year. Don’t be surprised to see the stock prices of Nantucket Whale O i l a n d Ro la i d s so ar o n

Jim ANDREWS wrote to assure everyone that al l is well at t h e A i r W ar

College for the Class of 7 0. Everyone got together for t he bowl game last December (except Joe RENAUD who was out of town) and had a great evening.

th is news. Stu JOH NSON, current ly at ICAF, asked that 1 relay t o you one of the lessons he’s learned at t he Nat ional Defense Un iversity — it’s adversi ty, not

professors, that you’re supposed to learn to laugh i n t h e fac e o f.

Like my predecessors, I need your help in putting this quart erly piece together. I’d like to keep the balance between fact and fabricat ion weighted i n favor of the former, so contact me if you can. For NCAA b-bal l addicts. I’m giving Duke and two in t he semis and taking t hree in t h e fi n a l s. I t ’s e i t h er t h at o r L i t h u an ia a n d 48 .

Ch eers u n t i l n ex t t i m e.

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Al though it ’s March as I write t his column, si nce you’l l probably be reading th is somet i me close to t he 20-year an niversary of June 3, 1970, 1can’t help but th ink how much our lives have changed i n t he last 20 years. For example, as I look across my living room right now, my older son is t ry ing to convince my wife to buy a personal computer being advert ised on a cable TV shoppi ng channel (I guess one PC in the house isn’t enough). As ordinary as t his all seems now, 20 years ago I didn’t have a wife, didn’t own a home, had no kids, cable TV was in its infancy and shopping channels didn’t exisL and t here were no personal computers. And as much as our environments have changed, we have changed, too. In Sept ember, duri ng our reunion, we’re going to have a very rare opport unity to catch up on t hese changes, enj oy again t he special kind of fel lowship we once had, forget our present concerns for aw hile, and listen to good music, swap war stories and j ust have a real ly great t ime. If you’ve ever taken your kids to Disneyland or some such place so they cou ld enj oy being a kid, t hink of our 20t h Reunion as a chance to treat yourself and

enjoy being a Class of ’70 zoomie. This one’s for you!

An now to the news. I re ceived a nice let ter fr om Margar et an d Jo h n MARTINSON. They live in the Princeton, NJ area toget her wit h their daughter Kara and sons John and Jeffr ey. The kids are very sports-minded an d even t h e

youngest (only 5) plays golf with dad. John left the A i r F o rce af t er a Vi et n am

tour, t hen worked for American Cyanamid and Exxon, a n d m oved o n t o beco m e a member of a vent ure capi tal group. Eventual ly, he founded Edison Manage ment, a vent ure fund. John and Margaret are looking fo rw ard t o t h e 2 0 t h Reunion and would like any classmat es in their area to get in touch.

From the War College: Tom Abbey, Rich Marrow, Mark Ewig, Cur t Emery

and (seated) Ji m A ndrews.

Ji m m en t i o n ed t h at h e an d Ri c h M UR ROW w er e i n t h e sa m e AW C sem i n ar

and, t herefore, he can confi rm t hat Rich real ly is one of our classmates (a lit t leknown fact among non-aero maj ors). Jim also passed along some intel ligence

that Howie ROBSON is doing gre at in Ft Walton Beach, F L an d M ar k M I L L E R has fi nally been able to admit that he’s been an engineer fo r GE o n t h e B - 2 program i n Californ ia.

Si nce t he news was a l itt le slow t his quarter. I ’m going to ramble a bit abou t

two pet causes. If you look at the other columns in t h e C lass N ew s sec t i o n you’ll notice that for classes before ours the average A(X I membership rate is above 70 percent, for classes after ours the average rate is below 40 percent, and we’re somewhere in between at around 60 percent I d o n ’ t k n o w w h at ’s re sponsible for the downward trend, but I know I don’t want to be a part of it Therefore I propose a Proj ect 70 —a goal of 70 percent AOG membership for our class. What t his means in n umbers is get t ing about 70 o f o u r n o n -A O G member classmates to j oi n, and I ’m wi ll ing to start t hings going. Specifically, I’m going to contact 10 non-AOG member classmates and ask t hem to j oin t he re st of us. I f some of you w i ll also con tact classmates (I t hi nk you can use t he AOG Register for th is) and if we have some success, w e can r eac h t h e 70 percent number.

Now for my second cause. Ot her t han for t he ot her zoomies w h o at t en d ed UCLA wit h me back i n 1971, I can’t name a dozen ot her UC L A a l u m n i t h a t I know, yet their alumni “ old boy” network seems much more helpfu l and att ract ive to me t han USAFA’s. Somewhat simi larly, I don’t t h ink anyone

would argue that our network is anywhere near as effective as W est P o i n t ’s.

Frankly, I don’t want to accept this. UCLA is a good school, but it’s nowhere

near as select ive as USAFA. West Point is a very fi ne instit ut ion, but other t han for West Point grads I don’t know many people w ho t hink W est P o i n t graduates a higher quality person (I strongly believe quite the opposite in t his case). So here we have USAFA, a top school wit h top graduates, w hose mil itary and civilian graduates aren’t being helped and guided suffi cient ly by an “ old boy” network to become t he top performers t hey’re capable of being. We zoomies didn’t come t o USAFA to enj oy four leisurely, fun-packed years on

campus. We recognized that USAFA require d many sacrifi ces, b u t w e fe l t t h ese

sacrifi ces were worth it to prepare ourselves for leadersh ip and t he fut ure. Well, folks, t he fut ure is now, and al though many classmates are maki ng signi ficant progress in and out of the Air Force, I really don’t sense that t h is progress measure s up to t he qual ity of our class. I say we need a bet ter “ old boy” network, and we ought to discuss how we’re goi ng t o get it If I get some i npu t

on this topic. I’d be glad to print it Maybe we can d i sc u ss i t o v er a few co l d

ones at t he reun ion, too. On t he ot her hand, if you t hink my rambling is most ly j i ngoism, why don’t you send me your own t houghts and suggest ions?

That’s i t for now. Keep t he cards and letters comi ng. See you all i n September!

H OM E CO M I N G 1990 The M arti nson family: Jeffrey, John, Margaret, Kara and Johnny.

I also re cei ved a n o t e fr o m D ebi an d Pet e FOX . Af ter a short stay at Randolph,

they’re moving on to H ill AFB where Pete will be the vice wi ng commander at the 388th there. Pete’s looki ng forward to climbing back into an F- 16, and both Pete and Debi are looking forward to the upcoming re union.

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for Federal Express for six years, and hopes to upgrade to B727 captain soon.

In addition to writing his favorite class scribe (alright, his only class scribe), Dave was responding to the request for Jack JACKSON’s locat ion: 1495 Woodthrush Way, Marietta, GA 30062, (404) 971-6205. Dave got the daU by calling his parents, who called Jack’s parents. Good show of class spiri t,

G.E. (Andy) Anderson, Jr. 7851 Epsi lon Drive

Rockville, MD 20855 Home: (301) 330-9447 Offi ce: (703) 734-1511

Dave.

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Hi, gang! This has been a great quarter. Even before t he last issue hit t he streets, some of you started bombarding my mailbox wit h Ram bo-kil lers. Must

have been that old ’71 psychic energy rolling through the skies, calling for help- you remember, thesameenergy that mysteriously picked up the Bell X-

4 and placed it in the Arnold Hall quad where the engineers c o u l d n ’ t

sooner or later it comes to that, doesn’t it? David L FROSTMAN : Boulder, CO to Louisville, CO(I’ve never heard of Louisville, but knowing Frosty, it’s closer

to the slopes). Bruce P. WIMBERLY: changing apartments i n t h e sa m e building in El Segundo, CA. Robert E. RYALS: fr omWoodbridgeto Springfi eld, VA. John M. SEVERSKI: fr om the mythical APONY to Lancaster, CA. Dan iel F. NIMS: from Huntington to Owings, MD. Bruce E. CRIMIN: t o Sh aw A F B as chief. Wing Currant Ops for the 363 Tac Fighter Wing.

get it out

Dan DEVINE wrote twice- his fi rst letter to a class scribe (the supply side of

pent-up demand, I guess). In addition to visual aids (Far Side and Here s Jake cartoons) and clippings from USAF-related periodicals, it contained Dan’s comments on subjects ranging from international politics to the origin of the USAFA j unior varsity’s nickname, “ brown tide”. The Dyess AFB newspaper clipping he sent included comments fr om Rick WIRTH, commander of t he 917th Air Refueling Squadron, incident to their support o f th e P an am an i an

operation JUST CAUSE. Another article (taken fr om Airman magazine) was entitled “ Remote in Turkey and Liking IL” It included observat ions from Carl

STEGMAN, site commander at Eskisehir. In his letter Dan told of wat ching Bob LOWE pin on his eagles last summer. Bob is the DO for a MAC wing (which one?). About thesame time Randy and Moira PADFIELD ret u rn ed fro m Madia, Norway where he had flown helicopters to oil rigs (and pioneered for

the Baha’i faith) for 12 years. Randy is now living in Bet h lehem, PA flying choppers for Trump and writing free-lance. John and Jayne WROBLEWSKI have moved into their new home in Monument, CO. John was transferred t o the Springs fr om the East Coast by Softech last spring, and Jayne works for a

high-tech magneticsfi rmin Monument Dan isthe96th Ball ist ic Missile Wi ng flying safety offi cer. Given Dan’s creative approach to life at USAFA, I

concluded that he’s trying to teach members of the 96th to fly ballistic missiles safely. Dan’s second letter was actually intended for Wrobo, and apparently

seem s Perhapsthestrangest itemthisquater wassignedsimply “ F azo l e” . I tera fee l

o n e or m o re

members of the class who were part of the Dodo of that

(recycled

they can offer an alternativetoaDodo-for-gradsauthored by current zoomies.

TheproposedCINCfor thisaction sent apicturewhich is apparently typical of

old roomo. If I’d known that, I’d never have let him borrow my car and play my

the Middle Eastern nation in which the picture was taken, nor the membership

routed to me for coordination. The “staff summary sheet”

government paper) attachedtoWrobo’sletter said, “ Jon never wri tes to me, his records.” The complete letter was a fi ll-in-the-blank, wi th (dare I say?) sarcastic overtones. While I would never have expected such a performance fr om one of USAFA’s finest, I dutifully passed the l et t er t o Jo n .

Paul KNOTT has cemented his place in the Guinness Book of Records wit h what must be his fourth or fi fth letter duri ng my tenure. He notes t hat Harry

(Jay) DAVIS and Sam CLOVIS command the two F-16 squadrons o f t h e

347TFW at Moody (today the wing, tomorrow the world!). Thanks for stayi ng in t ouch, Paul.

Mike OONK wrote of his new assignment as the chief pilot for the 16t h Tac Airlift Training Squadron at Little Rock AFB. Mike has been assigned to the 16th since his return from Clark AB in October 1988, and loves t he fl ying. I t sounds as though Mike and Patti are settling into the area- they’ve built a

housethere, andthefamily(twoteenageboysandnine-year-olddaughter) like it Mike writes that several other ’71ers are assigned to “ the Rock : Russ KELSO is62nd TAS(RTU) and Danny SMITH and Dick NASH are serving wit h the Arkansas ANG (also C-130 training). Thanks for t he note, Mike.

A short note fr om Don SOLTMAN brought back a lot of f o n d m em o n es. D o n is a VP of a 200-bed hospital in Cour d’Alene (Idaho) hospital, and is living in

Hayden Lake. “Dad loves his work”, and has no plans t o leave nort h Idaho.

Don’s daughter Hillary (10) usually lives with him, but is spending this school

the exploits of this rag-tag band. The individual in question would not specify of thegroup in the background. In any case, I was instructed t o sol icit interest

fr om the class in contributing to a moderately-reputable endeavor (not hing planned for which you’d loseyour clearance). All responseswill be placed in an unmarked container and picked up by the guy in the b u rn o o se. T h er e w er e n o dark intimations, so I guess it’s on the up-and-up. Let me know if you want t o

help “Fazole”, and I’ll pass your name along when he cal l s.

That’s it for this time. God bless you all, and keep t hose cards and lett ers

coming.

Ed Bishop 2011 Buoy Dri ve Stafford, VA 22554 Home: (703) 659-8166 AV: 29 7 - 17 3 5

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First of all, happy anniversary to those of you who got married right after

year with her momin Frankfurt, West Germany. What an opportunity for her.

Thanks for remembering me, Don. . . .

graduation. There should be a special award to any woman who can put up

active duty at Travis. Forrest noted that Rog WILDERMUTH

M C N E RN EY.

Forrest PRICE called to say hi. Forrest isan old “loggie” w h o l ef t ac t i v e d u t y in ’85 to join a trucking company. He kept his hand i n w it h t he 446 MAW as a for training officer, and he hears the call of the blue suit again: he’s iapplying s a c o m b at controller with the special ops guys at Hurlburt Good luck returning to the blue suit, Forrest, and thanks for the call.

Dave BLAIR is fi rmly ensconsed in the Memphis, TN area, having moved there 11yeare ago to fly for Braniff (another opportunity to excel). He’s worked

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wit h t he l ikes of us for so long.

You slugbaits let me down. After several issues with great letters, and being the envy of most of the rest of the Checkpoints reps, I am dismayed to report that only one letter was received. However, it was a good one from Mike Mike wrote and enclosed the picture of what he thinks is a first - a squadron

with all the officer positions fi lled with grads. The 67th Tac Train ing Sq at

Bergstrom was the squadron which provided RF-4C RTUacademic t raining.

The commander was none other than John VAALER, assisted by Mike as ops officer. Mike has since left the Air Force and is looking for a ride with one of the major airlines. John has also left the squadron to become th e deputy resource manager for Cannon AFB. Remember ZI fi eld trip to Cannon? I had CQand guys offered to pay to take my place so they wouldn’t have to go to t he

dance. ., , ,^ ^ Mike also wrote that Smokey STOVER is now a captain w i t h A m er i can an d Pat BURKE is a B-767/ 757 fi rst offi cer with Delta. Karl RO D E F E R is i n F- 16 s at

Shaw and is the ops offi cer with the 17th TFS. Ed MILLER is t he pavement

division chief at the Air Force Engineeri ng and Services Cen t er. T h ese are t h e

guys who develop such things as rapid runway repair, e t c .

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(although 1 think you can see the Vegas lights from any locat ion west of t he Rockies). Dave also t old me Chuck SIMPSON has made his debut as t he

commander of the Thunderbirds. I also recently talked to Terr y TYRELL, SAP/ PA who also saw Chuck when he was in the Pentagon for h is public affi ars

o r i e n ta t i o n .

The only other person I ran into was Ken ENGEBRETSON. K en i s d ow n at TAC in medical computer systems. He was up here with the TAC/ SG briefi ng AF/ SG. He promised to get back with me but to date, n o l u c k.

News flash. I j ust pulled Ben SLADE, literally, out of the hall and into my offi ce. Ben is the chairman. Department of Hyperbaric Medici ne, at David Grant Medical Center, Travis APB. I sighted Ben visiting t h e d o c i n t h e o f fi c e next to mine. Ben was here for a meeting with the Navy on how to prove hyperbaric medicine as a clinical procedure. (It is used to treat gas gangrene, etc., wit h good results but there have been no case st udies.) Ben is new to the flight surgeon, hyperbaric field of medicine, having spent most of his career as

a family-practice doc —this after graduating from Case W est ern Reserv e an d residency at David Grant. Ben and his wife, Rischa, have two daughters, 5 years

an d 16 m o n t h s.

From left are Tim Brennan, ’80; Dave Beizer, ’79; John Vaaler, ’72; M ike Crudele ’78; Mike McNemey, ’72; John Severance, ’81; and Dan H oida, ’79.

I will break my silence on my goings-on to add a little i n fo rm at i o n o f a personal note. A couple of weeks ago we had the Boy Scout Eagle Court of Honor for our younger son. He was given the Eagle pledge by his older Eagle

Scout brother. The enclosed picture shows oneeach proud fat her with his two Eagle Scout sons.

CHAN GE OF A DDRESS CA RDS: Don PARK S is now wit h t he A P P RO at

Boeing Military A rplanes in Wichita, KS. Darryl MARSHALL (Kat hleen) is an L-1011 pilot for Delta and an A-7 pilot with the 178 TFG, Spri ngfield-Beckley Municipal AP, OH. However, he lives in Olalla, WA One h el u v a co m m u t e. P h i l NORTH from Dayton, OH to Washington C.H., OH, and Bemie BA R RI S fro m on base at Scott to Mascoutah, IL Dennis SBACH (Alma) m o ved fr o m a P .O.

Box in Houston to a real st reet and Dan VI CIAN is now livi ng in Miami. And as

previously reported, Roger TYLER (Judy) and Bill LOONEY (Mari lyn) are bot h i n t h e D.C. ar ea.

In closing, I have one more political commentary. I am a little disappointed

in President Bush’s recent decision to ban broccoli fr o m A r F o rc e O n e. I t h i n k

he should have grabbed the opportunity to ban broccoli from all foreign and domestic flights.

Please write. Give me your thoughts on Decision ’92. A so, how about some info from you guys in Operation JUST CAUSE. Rick Karvosky

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Honolulu, H I 968 18 Home; (808) 422-8227

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From left are Eagle Scout Ryan Bishop, Ed Bishop, and Eagle Scout Blair

Bish op.

I recently had the opportunity to provide testimony to the Occupat ional

Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on their proposed ru lemaking o n controlling occupational exposure to methylene dianiline (MDA . (Some of

you have asked what I do, this is part of it ) MDA is used in advanced composite materials in some of our newer aircraft Participating in the regulatory process

was very enl ightening.

In developing the testimony I had assistance from Bill SP I N D L E an d Jo e SOVEY (’73) in opening some doors and pointing me in the right direct ion, it is a very good feeling to know you can call on fellow grads and get help. It is the action officer’s force multiplier. In these days of fewer and fewer bodies, but no decrease in workload, force multipliers are essential. Bil l and I had a l it t le

philosophical discussion (that’s Pentagonese for BSing) o n t h e w o r k l oad trend. Our conclusion is the Academy prepared us for t h i s f u t u re be t t er t h a n

our contemporaries from other institutions. Academy grads always fi nd a way to get the Job done. Fortitudo per aspera.

Most of the rest of this column is the result of brief en c o u n t ers o f t h e

telephone variety or downstairs in travel pay (my offi ce is on t he th ird floor of the fi nance building). I ran into Jack HUMPHRIES on my way out of my building.

Jack is in the building next door to mine working for HQ USAF/ JA in the Just ice Division. He looks the same and has the same Oklahoma a c c e n t A few days later I ran into Roger TYLER As previously reported, he is now involved in learni ng how to be an air at tache for h is assigment to Turkey. He and his wife spend a year in the D.C. area learning t he language and customs of

Turkey. If nothing else, it is a cultural experience.

I was passing through Nellis and gave Dave LUNDBERG a ca l l fo r a r i d e t o

theairport We had a nicevisit on theway to theairport stoppi ng by his house

to visit Vasso, his wife, and the rest of the gang. However, like most of us, he forgot the day was karate lessons so no one was home. Dave and his family enj oy living in a nice house in the hills with a view of the Vegas lights

Well, I can’t believe my good fortune—I received five let ters for t his issue!

You all can’t imagine how easy receiving letters makes my Job. Also, t his issue will be one of the fi rst I’ve gotten in early. I’m leaving for a TDY to WrightPat t erson followed by a three-week TDY to Maxwell. The due date is right in the middle of my TDY. Of course. I’ve known this for a m o n t h an d I ’ve w a i t ed until three days before I leave to start writing this. I ’m a good role model for procrastinators! Larry NOLEN (Maureen) and I have been Jogging toget her t he past few month - trying to lose a little excess “ baggage.” We’ve had some good talks during our runs. Larry has an assignment this summer ret urni ng to

Nellis. Both he and Maureen are excited about returning t o t h ei r h o m e i n L as Vegas. Larry will be going back with a lower golf handicap. He plays a good round, but next time you see him, ask him who paid t he last t i me he and I played! Haha!

The fi rst letter was from Jon ELLER (Debi). Jon left USAFA after four years to go to Annapolis on the Interservice Exchange Faculty program. He’s teaching American literature, literature and science, and plebe English courses. H e also

handles the English Department’s computer acquisition program. Jon received

a Meritorious Service Medal (1 OLC) when he left USAFA and last fal l received

the Navy Achievement Medal for his efforts in supporting the change-of-

cammand ceremony for the chairman. Joint Chiefs of Staff. They left a spacious house in Colorado for a small, three-bedroom, one-bath flat at Annapolis. Jon, where did you put all your books? Jon’s library included floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that lined all available wall space in his family room! Heck, my li brary wi ll fi t i n a cardboard box - a smal l cardboard box. Debi took up the life

of a pampered homemaker- watching soaps, bowling and making friends. Ha ha Debi, only teasing. Their son is involved in sports and Scout ing. He is over

six feet tall- and only 15 yearsold. Defi nitely doesn’t get th e height from Jon’s

side of the family. They all miss Colorado, but have made close fr iends i n Annapolis and are enj oying their stay. Jon is publishing his research on Joseph Heller and Ray Bradbury.

The next letter came Irom Dave SMITH (Rhonda) who is t he general manager of Citibank in Singapore. Dave has worked for C i t i ba n k si n ce h e separated from the USAF in 1978. They have been in Singapore almost fi ve years. They have traveled all over Asia and experienced a l o t o f d i f feren t cultures. Dave plays golf year round and has lowered his handicap to seven.

They were planning a ski trip to Kashmir, India this past winter. How was i t?

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They plan on moving this summer, if not to Europe, t hen back to t he Stat es.

Dave and Rhonda have two sons, 13 and 4- took a little t i m e o u t i n b et w een kids it seems. Dave said to say hi to all his old buddies in “ Evil Eight ”

dragging toward the end of his letter. He told me about his family pets which

tanged from kittens to rats! And you thought I was crazy over my beagle!

Landon also passed on some info on Gary CHEESEMAN (Jane). Gary finished his NATO AWACS tour in January and was looking to be reassigned to Tinker.

Thanks for the book Landon and say hi to Mary Anne.

Sorry for not having change-of-address cards in this issue. I’l l put t he

changes in the next issue. Please keep your inputs coming. You can’t imagine the help they provide in writing this newsletter. Besides, I really enjoy reading about your families and careers. Take care and enj oy t h e su m m er.

M i k e Car t er 3916 M al l ar d Co u r t

Montgomery, AL 36106 Home: (205) 277-0268

AV: 44 6 -48 0 3

Per cen t m em b er s: 4 1

Rhonda and Dave Smit h Rick JOHNSTON (Debi) also sent a letter. Rick is still at M PC b u t h as an assignment to Wurtsmith this year. He said all his competition went to the airlines! Actually, I think he screwed up at MPC and now they’re making him pay! Ha ha, how else does someone who handles rated assignments end up in

Michigan. I forgot, Rick is one of those outdoor types- and has always had a

few loose rocks in his head - he asked for bombers out of UPT! Ri ck’s home is

in Michigan though and thiswill be a niceassigment fo r t h em . Ri ck w en t o n a fishing trip to Alaska last summer and came back with 66 pounds of fish, of course, he never went over the limit, right Rick? Remember t h e t r o u t w e caught at the Zoo and cooked in the dorm on a hot plate? Debi leads a very

hect ic l ife. Ri ck said she doesn’t know how to say no. Hope you’re not complaining Rick, I’m sure there are a few out there who w ish they were in your situation, ha ha! Debi is involved in OWC and AFMPC funct ions, bowls,

plays golf, bridge, poker, softball, and coaches her daughter’s softball team.

The team placed third in the district and fourth in the regionals. Debi also won all-star coach honors. Rick played in the over-35 league and h is team won t he ATC championship. Their three girls are active in sports and school programs.

All three are on the school honor rolls. Way to go, all of you!

The next letter came from Dean HAYLETT (Patty). Dean i s t h e ass i sta n t deputy commander for Maintenance for the 374th Tactical Airlift Wing at Yokota AB in Japan. When they got to Yokota, they lived on t he economy for

two months and experienced a serious cultural shock. Heck, Dean you ought to come to Hawaii if you really want a serious cultural shock! The 374t h fl ies C-130S. They also have C-9As and provide enroute support t o C -5 s a n d C 14 1s.

Dean said “ it gets a little sporty at times.” He passed on his hel los to all t he

Cobra 14ers. Dean and Patty have a daughter and a son.

The last letter came from Landon WESTBROOK (Mary Anne). Act ually, Landon sent an autobiography that took me two days to read! What else would you expect froma lawyer. They are good at writing 20-page briefs. Could never understand why they call them briefs, but then. I’m not a lawyer- ha ha. Just trying to get even Landon for saying I wasso desperate for news. I’d even take a

letter written on toilet paper. Landon, you don’t know how right you are!

Landon did have some good news to tell. He wro te his lett er fr om Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He works for Occidental International Exploration and Production

Company and isresponsible for oil and gasoperations in Bolivia and Paraguay.

Landon said he took that j ob when his law business i n Oklahoma fell along with the oil business. He has traveled all over South America and the Far East Landon tried to convince me that his travels were all work and no play. H e j ust about had me convinced when he told me about the $50 bott les of w ine he

bought in Paraguay for $5.43! His job puts him in contact wit h heads of state—Paraguay for one. He and Mary Anne have a 12-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter and live in Bakersfield, CA now. Mary Anne is trying to

break into the Los Angeles acting market She has been a high fashion and television model for 14 years and has played mayor ro les in the Bakersfi eld Community Theater. She is auditioning for the maj or role in a play “ Mrs. California”. She has great credentials for that ro le- for those of you who didn’t

know- Mary Anne was “Mrs. Oklahoma” for 1979! Landon m u st h av e been

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Starters: Do you remember my plea for someone else to write this quarter’s column and how last issue was the last one I was going t o wri t e? Well, t his time I REALLY mean it Please volunteer or else the column will go empty. If

you ate sitting there thinking, “I could do it but I don’t want t o take away

someone else’s opportunity,” don’t worry, there isn’t anybody else. Just do it! If

you want to write even one column, please call me at t he number list ed above

call Tom Kroboth at the AOG office, AV 259-2067.

Since my art icle was so long last issue, due to all the photos, I have to keep it short this time. So I’ll j ust report on the folks moving around and then wrap it all up, so here goes.

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Change-of-Address Cards: The first card is from A1CLOCK and involves a from Maryland to California, namely Manhattan Beach. B r u c e SM I T H reports in fro m Hawaii. He is thechief, F-16 Stan/ Eval Program at HQ PACAF. Mike LUCCA, a former member of CS-14, is now a cardiologist at Wilford Hall m o v e

Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Bob SAYERS has made a long move

involving a culture change from Suisun, CA to Washington, D C.

Mike GLIFORT is also on the go from Las Vegas, NV to Swansea, I L. Mario DIPRIMO has returned to the contiguous-48. His latest m ov e i s fro m

Elmendorf AFB, AK to Carmel, CA Phyllip HUFFMAN has also returned fro m

somewhere outside the CONUS. His former address, an APO Miami, has

changed to Brandywine, MD. Finally, Eric NEWMAN has m ad e a N o r t h er n T i er

move fro m Burnsville, MN to Redmond, WA Really Final Shots: Don’t forget, if you want to write at least one column, let me know. I’ll handle the correspondence and the deadline if someone else wi ll simply send somecopy. I useWordstar and Enable if anyone would like to send a disk. For those of you so inclined, you can send it by DDN t o carter@usafa.af.mil. If you don’t know what that means, t h en d o n ’t bo t h er . I t won’t hurt you.

That’s all I have to say. Remember that the Class of ’94 a rr i v es t h i s su m m er .

If that doesn’t make you all feel old than 1don’t know what w i ll. God bless you

all and those dear to you. Remember those who are moving duri ng t he PCS season. Keep those cards and letters coming and I’ll make sure t hey get t o whomever is writing the column.

Jef f H ac k et t

1825 E. Jeanine Drive

Tempe, AZ 85284

Home: (602) 831-9439

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PUTTING THE SCRIBE ON SPRING BREAK. You guys (wives, live- ins,

and parents included) have outdone yourselves this t ime . . . one let ter; one stinking letter! But the weather’s beautiful and the basebal l l oc k o u t i s o ver so I’ll take the hint and make this very brief.

DEJA ’VU. (And my 3° German instructor thought I wouldn’t learn a th i ng!)

Hasn’t it been the case once or twice before that the only faithful

correspondent I’ve been able to reference is Jim CARLSON?Nonet heless, Ji m and daughter Jennifer have relocated to the(San Francisco) Bay area. Says he’s been busy with Naval Reserve flying, moving, engagement, j ob change, etc. All that and he still had time to write the scribe; imagine t h at !

CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE 75th KIND. I’m not sure if Rich and Mary CHANICK get credit for searching me out or if weall j ust had a telepathic urge for Mexican food/ Margaritas and gravitated to the same spot They’re doing great, their business is still thiriving (including the “ tough” duties like being sent to Spain for consulting); but, to them, the really big news was that they’re getting a new dog!

T H E CHANGE-OF-A DDRESS CA RD NOVEL ET T E. Don H ENNEY saved

the price of mailing a whole letter by j otting down h is l ife’s h ist ory in t he margin of the COA card! Don and six other classmates (Scott ARNOTT, George COOK, Mike GOYDEN, Rod GUNTHER, Steve PITOTTI, and Tom SKI LLMAN)

are i n t he last six-month (PCS w/ famil ies) Armed Forces Staff College. Don

another BTB (beyond the beltway) type, Mike KELLY has found gainful employment at the offi ce of the undersecretary of defense for Acquisitions (Arms Control). Speaking of BTBs- 1 have it on best aut hority t hat t he very best hosts in the Pentagon are our very own Joe SHIREY (Johana), Rich KING (Mary), and Jack CATI ON (Janet). Any comments guys o r d o I h av e t o sen d

indicates that, based on the good time they’re having, this is not going to be a change for the better. Other things I picked up on t he COA cards: Craig MATT and Nancy are on their way to England for an RAF Exchange Tour, Bob

some more inspectors—or better yet check this out myself?

(Kirt land?), Rick DOUGLAS has returned from the Pacific—now in Newport

Fai rc h i ld.

EATON’S moved down 1-25 (from Colorado Springs) t o Al buquerque

News (Langley?), Marvin COX is on his way overseas (FPO NY), Jim SCH UMAN ’s outa’ Tacoma—into Eagle River, AK ; Randy C H A P M AN h ead ed west to H enderson, NV (Nel lis?); and Randy MASON has moved to Valrico, FL (?).

L E T ’S VA L I DAT E T H E O PT I M I ST I N M E. P u l l o u t t h at o ld typewr iter, PC, pen or Crayola and j ot me a note about what’s happeni ng . . . I h ave t o be l ieve that if I’m bored wri t ing about a handful of folks, you’re probably on t he verge of tears reading about ’em! For now, thanks for the spr ing break; it ’s been a hect ic t i me for Debby, Tiff, and I so a two-page art icle w as a b i t o f a r el i ef. Co m e summer in Phoenix t hough and I ’ll be ready for a del uge of informat ion; come on, give it a shot, i t’s later t han you t hi nk!

Bill Brundage 20 E. Wash ington SL Colorado Springs, CO 80907 Home; (719) 634-7040 AV: 2 59 -2 0 9 6

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Hello all —Hope the fi rst half of 1990 has been good for you.

Congratulations and celebrations are in order for our n ew l i eu t en an t co l o n el s.

Upper level management now includes Herman ANDERSON, Bruce DEAN, Mick ERDLE, Marc FELMAN, Mike GOULD, Robert GROSVENOR Jef f HARRISON, Michael HENCHEY, Donald HIGGINS, Rich KING, B r ad MOFFETT, Craig MOSER, Larry NEW, Anthony PRZYBLYSLAWSKI, D av id ROBINSON, Thomas SAWNER, Mike SEVIER James TURNER and Jo e WYSOCKI. Congratulation to you all and best of luck w i t h t h e n ew responsibilities that are sure to follow.

A double dose of congratulations are in order for Mick an d T am ar a E RD L E who got married in the USAFA Catholic Chapel on 21 O c t 19 8 9 .

Wade MCROBERTS (Susan) is in F-16s at Ramstein, Mike BLYTH E (Susan) is

taking a bite out of crime (and promotion lists) at Holloman where he keeps the SPs going, and Jim MARTIN (Sally) is in the B-52 EWO bu si n ess at

Craig and Eileen PUZ wrote from sunny California to pass on t hat t hey are enroute to D.C. on t he DOD " Lets see how fast we can move your” plan. Craig is headed for a tactical intelligence j ob (maybe) with a possi ble st op at ACSC enroute. Congratulations are due Eileen who has completed e n t ry requirements for a psychology PhD. Best of luck to you both and thanks for th e let t er.

My roving European correspondent Kurt KLINGENBERGER—no K urt, 1 never will forgive you and I will get even —reports t hat Dave ANDERSON (Gail) is very much alive and having a great time in Stockholm — h o w a bo u t an update Dave? Kurt also passed on that Ben THORNSON (Norma) has been enjoying Germany fi 'om a sector ops j ob since October o r s o .

My Ivy League contacts tell me that Jeff LARSEN (Kay) su r v i ved h i s P h D orals at Princeton. Gee—j ust think Jeff, now all you h av e t o d o is w r i t e 3 0 0 pages of reasonably relevant and somewhat connected prose and your done!

Best o f l u c k !

An now for news fr om t he civi lian side of li fe. Ran into Jim HOGUE (Micki)

down at the flight line the other day. He is doing wel l and ri di ng sideways in DC-10s out of Chicago for American these days. That fi rst year of probation

does not sound like fun but Jim does not seem any worse fo r w ear . S t u YO UN G is still very much a bachelor, flies for U.S. Air out of Pi ttsburgh and by al l accounts in one • • • of a skier. My knees ache j ust t hinki ng about it ! Bobby

THOMPSON flies for Northwest (Minneapolis?) and is living the good life in Frisco, CO t hese days.

Address Changes: David BERG (Tara) and Mike KIDD are now in Omaha, NE. Hal GETZLEMAN (Marian) is at Langley, Chris HOFFMAN (Denise) is at Robins, Montgomery LEE (Tina) is in Huntington Beach, CA; and Erick LEONG (Tiffany) is in Chicago. Jerry MORRISON (Jennifer) is in Coral Spri ngs, FL; Joseph MARCHINO (Becky) is in Moore, OK; Howard MCCART HY (Lauri e) is in Illinois; Rich MINTZ (Diane)- now there’s somebody I really owe a let t er — is on Vashon Island, WA; Brian SUTT ER (Linda) is in Tacoma WA; and Fernando BURGOS is i n New York City.

Well, that’s about it for this time- keep those cards and let ters coming.

Tune in next time when I promise 50% less misspellings and t he guys in

Engineering promise a truly shocking expose. Hope you and yours stay safe u n t i l n ex t t i m e.

John J. “ Lou” Michels, Jr. 14 0 M el m ar D ri ve

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SOM E PEOPL E CA L L M E T H E SPACE COW BOY: For t he rest o f u s W a l t er

M i k e an d T am ar a E r d l e

Mick passed on that their wedding culminates an 11-year relationship (now that’s patience!) that began at his best friend’s wedding. They honeymooned in

Barbados and are now back at USAFA where Mick keeps the 20th Squadron Trolls in l ine. He was schedu led to go to Naval Command and Staff College in

Newport RI, but the LC board may change that Now here’s page 2 —A little bush-beating produced the fol lowi ng news (many thanks to Joe WYSOCKI). Tom BURGIE (Copper), who is on a year extension at Falcon AFS at t he 2nd Satell ite Control Squadron, j ust helped

take over t he cont rol segment of t he Global Posit ioni ng System. Tom wi l l be joined shortly by Glen VERA (Denise) from Maxwell and Wil ly SH ELTON

(Linda) who is leaving a j ob with the assistant secretary o f t h e A i r F o rce fo r Space Policy to assume command of the 2nd Satellite Cont rol Squadron. Hank KNELLINGER (Jenny) has returned from Italy and now w at c h es t h e h eaven s fr om inside Cheyenne Mountain for the Space Surveillance Cen t er.

Rumor has it that Mark WIL LIAM S is enj oying l ife at SDI J3X(Ops) while

Mittys, 1 have some reasonably-exciting news—the class h as i ts fi r st t w o astronauts. 1 got letters from both Tom JONES (Liz) an d C h u c k P RE C O U RT (Lynne) giving various details. Chuck is at the Naval War Col lege for a year, bu t expects to show up in Houston as a pilot sometime in July. He says t he school is great and he’s getting lots of face time with the family. Chuck reports Steve MUNGLE (Sally) is entering his fourth year with Delta, flying out of

Cinci nnat i. Steve CAMERON (K it), Chuck LOUI E and Curt BEDK E (I na) are al l at Edwards doing excit ing st uff. Steve is wit h t he B-2 program (apparent ly being funded with Stealth dollars), Chuck is working C- 130 programs, and Curt is at tempt ing to improve the B-52 once again. W e’ l l n eed i t i f t h e St ea l t h money dries up. Steve HORTON (Corinne) and Chris SEAT (Deborah) are also in t he desert w ith F- 16 fol low-ons. Jim FABER arrived t h ere last su m m er a n d i s teaching at test-pilot school now. And finally, Mark SHACKELFORD (Kathy) and Ron JOHNSTON (Wanda) are working Advanced Technology Fighter

problems at Edwards. Chuck HOBBS is also at Newport; n o n ew s o n fu t u r e assignments for him yet As for Tom, he’s been accepted as a mission special ist, also report ing to Houston in July. Tom is currently worki ng planni ng planetary exploration at Science Applications International in D.C. My very best to you both and congratulations. If they need any at torneys up t here, even for j ust ballasL give me a call.

IT SHOWS: Got a n ice let t er from Jack CASEY (Lori), now fl ying for Delta out of Atlanta. He and Lori have two children and he’s push ing t he DC-9 51

around t he fr iendly skies of the Sout heast. Jack notes his last assignment was with the F- 18 unit i n Australia. He has a ton of names and places, so here goes:

Vince GUIDA (Louise) is at Hickam flying the C-135 for the VIP airlift group there; Paul DUNDAS (Suzanne) is at Wright-Patterson worki ng on “ developmental proj ects” ; with Jack at Delta, getting us t here—“ H ussy” HASLETT, Rick HOUCK, Wes WEATHERS, Andy KROTT, Steve HAGGERTY, Tom LANE, Chuck SPITTLER, Jim MILLER Dwight HARTMANN, Dewey NOVOTNY, Wes WESLOWSKl, Billy ZINK, Kieth WILLIAMS, an d “ Z” ZAEHRINGER; Brad THOMPSON (Lisa) is flying for Federal Express and t he Georgia Guard in F-15s; Daryl JONES (Myoushi) is an at t orney in Miami and flying F-16s for the Guard unit at Homestead, along wit h Randy SHASTEEN, who is with Delta there; Chip CUMM (Debra) is the Detco fo r t h e Massachusetts Guard alert detachment at Loring; Mike K RESBACH (Judy) is with Ameri can these days. Jack ran into him at the airport bar in Buffalo.

Finally, Jack was walking his dog and ran into a familiar face — S t ev e BA C K who lives j ust down the street in Peachtree. The city, not t he plaza. Thanks a lot for all the news Jack, I’ll look for you the next ti me I ’m flyi ng Delta out of

Mont gomery.

with the 89th MAW flying C-12s out of Andrews. Thanks a m i l l i o n fo r t h e

update, Rick, good luck at Leavenwort h. That ’s what I used to say to some of my former clients, too.

L IVE WI RES: Got a cal l fr om Jeff TOMLI N (Jong Sun) at Ro b i n s. H e ran i n t o K ev i n CA RM I C H A E L d o w n i n F t . L a u d erd al e. K ev i n is at law school at M iami, where he can see a great football program. Jeff is int erested in set t ing up a

newsletter for the former members of CS-13, and asks a l l ’7 7 m em b er s t o

contact hi m at 694 Lakeside Circle, Robins, GA 31098. Marc LI NDSLEY (Patty) called fr om Plattsburg where he’s flying the FB-111 as a right -seater. Marc always makes the best of what others might call a bad si t uat ion, and he notes that getting “ SAC-umcized” isn’t that bad. 1hope to see h im in May when he heads dow n to Maxwel l for some work at t he Air Force H i st o ri c al Resear c h Center. On a more posit ive angle he said t hat Pat ty is one course away fr om her master’s. Also talked to Paul PI ROG (Mary), soon to l eave K eesl er fo r t h e sta ff j udge advocate j ob at Onizuka. I’m sure he’s happy to see t he news abou t a pay fr eeze, given the affordable cost of housing around Su nnyvale. Paul and several ot hers fr om t he class, notably Ben ALLEN (Donna), F r ed SWA RT Z (Carmel), Kevin GARRI SON, and Rob VEAL E (Chris) are a l l sl at ed fo r a Caribbean cruise t his spring. Thanks guys, but I’l l st ic k t o t h e P i ra t es o f t h e Caribbean at Disney World myself.

MAI L BAG: Rick PIALET (Renell) dropped an expanded change-of-addr e s s card to say he’s headed for ’ 15s at Soesterberg. Rick also j ot ted down a few l ines about some ot her folks—Tom DOLLAH ITE (H ol ly) is at TAC H Q, Scot t HARROD (Nita) j ust had a new daughter at Sheppard, and A1VOGEL (Nancy) is on t he staff at Ti nker and st i ll flying ’15s on t he side. Jeff TERRAL L (Valerie) reported to K.I. Sawyer in December and Mi ke ELLIS is now back living i n Monument, CO. And Dave EBELKE (Jan), l iving in Kansas City, was recent ly inducted as a fellow of t he Academy of Ort hopaedic Surgeons. That ’s great, Dave. By t he way, 1 have t his pai n in my lower back that doesn’t seem to go aw ay

Uneasy Riders: Doug and John BORN TO BE WI LD: H ere is my nominee for biker photo of t he year, court esy of Doug EVANS (Gayle) and Joh n KATONA (Carolann). Doug and John

are heading through Wyoming on the way to spend some t i m e at Jo h n ’s father’s cabin near Pinedale. They made it safely, apparent ly, alt hough minus

the bobcat on the seat Doug describes t he ride as “ single sea t fo rm at i o n ” i n a host ile environment, but says it was a great t ime. A n d I bet m o st o f t h e l o ca l s never even saw “ Easy Rider” . Thanks for the update Doug, 1 guess Delta gets you t here more ways t han j ust on a plane.

CA ISSONS: Got a nice let ter from the green side of DoD, namely t he world of Army Command and General Staff School via Rick NEWTON (Kat hy). He and Kat hy are among six from t he class of Fort Leavenwort h (t here may be some more in t he prison, but I’m not aware of any). Rick report s t hat Kevin

KENKEL (Julie) is headed for Washington and the Pentagon t o w o r k i n

Fighter St udies and Analysis. Scot t and Shel ley AN DERSON are on t heir way to Naples and AI RSOUTH t his summer. Don TUROS (Deana) is taking t he tough assignment to H ickman and t he Electron ic Security D iv i si o n t h er e.

Rick notes t hat Don is doing st uff so secret that j ust k nowing his name requ ires a clearance. Bob and Joy DEHNERT are slated for an assignment to St ut tgart and t he Defense Logist ics Agency. Bob was picked up for LC on t he last list, not surprising since 1 saw how Bob operates w h en h e w as at O f fu t t working t he ’135 mai ntenance night mare. Congrats, Bob. Dave and Peggy MURRAY go to Langley to work at HQ TAC i n t he fut ure plans shop. Good luck, I suspect t he fut ure is looki ng a lit tle dimmer wit h t he proposed budget An d Ri ck notes he’ll be staying at lovely Leavenwort h for anot her year of advanced mi l itary st udies. I don’t t hink t hat’s such a bad deal, t he post is lovely and t he sense of history is palpable. I magi ne walki ng around w h er e E isen h o w er learned to play golf.

Ri ck reports on t he following folks, as wel l: M ike STAN LEY (Sandy) is at H Q MAC at Scot t ; Steve M ILLER (Teresa) is headed for Tunisia as a n L C sel ec t ee.

Nice j ob, Steve, but no surprise to me. St u WI LLIAM S (Jul i) is on the way to Taegu t o fly RF-4s; Ken PAGE (Joni) is gett ing ready to leave Special Ops Command HQ th is summer Quay SNYDER (Bet h) is a flight su r g eo n at USAFA; Monty MONTGOMERY (Neana) is flyi ng for Nort hwest o u t o f SL Louis; Burn ie PETERS (Jeanne) is at the Pentagon in command and cont rol; Bruce BURDA is also at t he Pentagon; Jeff L EEPER is at Langley working i n the Force Requirements shop at TAC; Woody HOPLER is at Kadena flying F15s; Bill WITHERS (Donita) is out and living in Stanley, NC (Rick notes he’s making his fi rst mil lion, but I don’t know how); and Don DOBIAS (Laura) is 52

RUN -INS: I was up i n D.C. for a few days and ran into Bryon MI LLS (Maryel len) at t he Pentagon. H e’s working, as he puts it, “ cats and dogs airlift programs for MAC” at t he Palace. Bryon is steeling himsel f for t hree years there, but seemed in good spirits, probably because he’s headed for t he cockpit when he departs. And I ran into Curt CHI KOWSKI (Laura) at t he gym at Maxwel l, another of t he ACSC bret hren. The plan is for a group shot of t he ’77 ACSC class someti me in May. Stay t uned for detai ls. The fi rst day of our basic course for new (to t he Air Force) lawyers, a famil iar-looking captain came up and said “ Aren’t you Lou Michels?” I t was Dennis VEARA (Donna), who is an aviat ion law li tigator for a fi rm i n Det roit. Why was he slumming wit h us military types? Dennis is also with the Michigan Air Guard, first as a pi lot but now as a JAG. I was fort unate enough to have Dennis in my seminar for t he durat ion of t he eight -week course, so I spent t he t ime teaching h im t he way of administrat ive law in the Air Force and he spent the t ime writ i ng a law review art icle for me. Al l-in-al l a great way t o spend a course.

Time to close agai n. Many t hanks for t he lett ers and cards (Keep i t up!). Be seeing you.

Greg Post ulka 8 11 Ridgewood Cove West Nicevil le, FL 32578 Home: (904) 897-4476

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Pr omot ion Congratulat ions. Fifteen rahs to Pat QUI GLEY who I forgot to identify as bei ng selected early for Lt Col last summer and to Roger BURG, Steve GOLDFEIN, Tom OWEN, and Steve SARGEANT who all made it ear ly t h is t i m e!

News fr om the Academy Gr oup. Our own USAFA l iaison at the Pentagon, Tim TAYLOR, called w it h updates on t he Washi ngt on DC cr o w d . D o n A L ST O N and Steve GOLDFEIN are bot h performi ng legislat ive liaison to Congress. Don for t he House of Representat ives and Steve to t he Senate. Jeff B RA K E i s st i l l flying 727s for t he D.C. National Guard. Pau l CAPASSO i s t h e ex ec t o Gen era l Fogleman (USAFA ’63) at Ft McNair. Chris CHAPIN is working i n SAF/ XOX. St eve H I LDEBRAN DT is out and working for t he Defense Int elligence Agency.

As I ’ve recent ly reported, Larry JAMES, Greg MANDT, a n d Sam T H E RRI E N are all in SAF/ AQ. Alan THOMPSON is also part of t he D.C. n et w o r k . D a m o n L UM and Doug OWENS are in st udies/ analysis, Dave MCFADDIN is in XOO, and Dick NEWTON is moving from XO to t he Army Command and Staff College at FL Leavenwort h. Ed RI CE is in XOOTW, rated offi cer assignments. M ike RI T C H E Y a n d Sco t t ROGE RS ar e i n X OOT T . K ev i n RO P E R w o r ks fo r

Congressman John McDade working defense matt ers. Glenn S P EA RS i s working in PRP. Sal SPEZIALE is flying for American Airli nes. Finally, Jim WH I DDEN is i n INX, Scott YEAKEL works for t he Stat e Depart ment and Mark ZAMZOW is worki ng i n the Offi ce of Vice President, Dan Quayle.

Space Report Several of our friends were recently selected a s a s t r o n a u t

ca n d i d at es fo r t h e sh u t t le. R ick S EA RF O SS a n d Ji m H A L S E L L are j oining

Curt BROWN in Houston to train at NASA start ing in Ju ly. Rick says that seven of the 23 selected were grads. H e’ll be leaving his position as a Test Pilot School i nstructor at Edwards. He recent ly flew his 50th type of aircraft

including those of the Navy test pilot school and “ qual

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at

Ed w ard s.

Chages of Addr ess. Joh n AL BERT to FL I rwi n, CA; Greg B RE L AN D t o Jackson, MS; Steve CRITTENDON to Cent ereach, NY worki ng fo r D i am o n d International Aviat ion Corporat ion: Jeff FELLM ETH from Alamogordo, NM to APO San Francisco; Kevin FITZHA RRI S fr om APO NY to Haskel l, TX; Lynn HOLLERBACH to Spokane, WA and Fairchi ld AFB as a B-52H a i rcr aft

commander in the 325th Bomb Squadron; Tom KANA to Edwards AF B as a B -2 test pilot; Leo KOWATCH fr om Ellsworth AFB, SD to Abilene, TX; Gary MARTIN fr om Rapid City, SD to Abilene, TX; Doug RODGERS fr om Dayton,

OH to KI Sawyer AFB, MI ; Steve SARGEANT fr om Homestead A F B t o A P O Sa n Francisco: Bob STEEL from Las Vegas to Norfolk, VA; a n d Dave T E M P L E fro m MPC at Randolph back to t he world of acquisit ion at SAF/ AQX and living in Alexandria, VA. Navy News Release. Lt Cmdr Don ROY was selected as t he Outstandi ng Officer of t he Year at Naval Air Station, Dallas. He was cited for his outstanding performance of duty, proficiency, leadersh ip, init iat ive and mil itary bearing. Al l righ t, ’78 is even leadi ng t he way in the Navy.

Ro ber t M . M cGr eal

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Greeti ngs. Let’s start wit h t he i mportan t st uff. Congrat ulat ions t o a l l t h e new maj or selectees in our class. There were a total of 409 ’79ers promoted on th is board. We also had two of our number get promoted t o l i eu t en an t colonel — talk about burn ing up t he program. Our two generals-to-be are Pete BUNCE (Pau let te) and Dave EDMUNDS. Bot h have recent ly completed Armed Forces Staff College i n Norfolk, VA and bot h are F- 15 drivers. Dave is on his way to Bit burg and Pete is on the NORAD IG team at Peterson Field. Congrats to

but st il l on act ive du ty, is Tom STARK (Anna). Tom is a Stan/ Eval pilot and at last count st i ll had only four kids—t here’s always adopt ion Tom. IN CIVI L IAN N EWS. Mark PIMENTEL (Betsy) ow ns “ Horizon Vi d eo Product ion” in Alexandria, VA. Mark’s company produces t raining tapes for businesses, records weddings and does j ust about anything else concern i ng video recording that someone will pay him for. Betsy Pimen tal was recent ly promoted early to maj or—congrats Betsy. Jim REGAN (Tanya) is flyi ng for

American out of the Washington-Baltimore area but still l iv es i n Co l o rad o Springs. Paul DIAMOND (Bonnie) is living in Castle Rock and working for

Mart in Mariet ta. Rex K EESE (Gabe) and their t hree daughters are living j ust outside FL Wort h. Rex works for Delta. We spent a weekend w i t h Rex a n d Gabe back when Air Force played TCU in October. I t was a poor game, we got embarrassed, but Rex brought his friend “Jack Daniels,” so we had a good t ime anyway. Dan MARTIN (Jackie) and Mike HAYS are both working for Del ta and living in Ft. Collins—Mike is an Academy liaison officer. George MORGAN is in the space business in Colorado Springs. He recently came back from a year long remote tour as a civilian to Turkey. Steve STUBBS (Karen) is fl ying for Delta out of Salt Lake. Scot t LARSH (soon t o be or already married) is a Northwest pilot and also flies KC-135s for the Grissom AFB, IN Reserves. Joe

NEWMAN and Scott ALLEN are flying for Delta at undisclosed lo c at i o n s.

IN OT H ER MI LITA RY NEWS. Dale BURTON (Shei la) is flying F - 15 s at

Langley and Pete HAYS (Deena) is still teaching poli sci at t he Academy. Elden

KOCOUREK (Candy) is flying RC- 135s at Offut t AFB, NE. Jo h n SA LVA D O R is a st udent at Armed Forces Staff College. Horse NEICE (Lesl ie) is flyi ng a 707 test aircraft at Patrick AFB, FL Walter DAVI DSON recent ly m o v ed fr o m E d w ar d s AFB to Kirt land AFB, NM. Bruce BI NGL E is st i ll at Wheeler AFB, H I. Steve

SPENCE (Audrey) is working future requirements at headquart ers SA C an d Lindsey PARDUN (Linda) is at Space Command in the Springs. S t eve H OA G i s teaching yanking and banking at Nellis and Guy WALSH is teaching flyi ng low

and slow in t he A- 10 at Davis-Monthan. Rusty ST EWART is a B- 1 test engineer at Dyess AFB, TX. That ’s about it for now. I won’t be wri t ing our spri ng art icle next year. It wi l l be sort of difficult to keep up wit h any of our classmates whi le I ’m in I ndia, but if you’l l j ust send any info you have to t he AOG, Tom Krobot h wil l ensure your informat ion gets to the righ t person. I f you’re passing t hrough I ndia, be sure and drop by!

David (Mat t) Neuenswander Quart ers 4204H U.S. Ai r Force Academy, CO 80840 Home: (719) 472- 1477

Dav e an d Pet e.

This wi ll be my last art icle from Barksdale AFB, LA ; I ’l l be depart ing t he end of April for I ndia (t hat ’s right, I ndia not I ndiana). I’l l be at tending the I ndian version of Air Command and Staff College for one year. I ’ m t h e fi r st b l u e-su i t er to at tend th is school (t he Army has been sendi ng people for about five years).

The school lasts almost one year and I’ll take my family, al t hough I haven’t told my w ife yet —j ust kidding. The school is located i n Wel li ngton, I ndia— not a maj or metropolitan area. I n facL it took me about a mont h to fi nd a map with Wel lington on it The assignment has some unusual aspect to it, like we are allowed to ship 1,500 pounds of food and need rabies shots before we go.

We’l l also have five servants working for us, a cook, housekeeper, nanny, gardener and driver — I thi nk we can get used to t hat T h er e w i l l a lso be o t h er foreign officers t o include Brits, Aust ralians, Canadians, Ger m a n s an d Russians. I t shou ld be a most unusual year t o say t he least Here at Barksdale, Jeff FRAN KLIN (Gerry) is a KC- 10 asst operat ions officer and looki ng for an assignment after over four years here. Steve SAGUE (Barbi) is st i l l fl ying B-52s along w it h Scot t CHI MELSK I (Dayna). Sc o t t w i l l so o n be depart ing for t he “ hallowed ground” — he’ll be an AOC start i ng t his summer.

Jeff GLASS is flying KC- l Os as a SAC Stan/ Eval pilot here in Shreveport, LA and Larry SAN DOVAL (Tammy) is a KC- 10 fl ight commander. F red VAN WI CKLIN is test ing new air-to-ground missiles in a test squadron here. John FAGOT (Ci ndy), Bev BARGE (Mary), Walt PATE and Clint HARPER (Rochelle) are al l flyi ng part -t ime for t he government in Barksdale’s K C - 10 Reserv e u n i t Mike FOUNTAI N (Tricia) is in t he KC-10 Reserves at Seymour-Johnson whi le flying for American out of Raleigh. Mitch DAVITTE (Donna) i s a l so w i t h t h e Seymour Reserves and fl ying for Federal Express. Another ’79er at Seymour,

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Greet ings from Ice Stat ion Zebra. I am wri t ing t his on the last day of spri ng break, but t he word spri ng does not readi ly pop to m i n d w h e n I l oo k o u ts i d e.

Fort unately, si nce I am st il l a new guy my office does n o t h av e a w i n d o w .

Co l o r ad o i s st i l l m u c h t h e sa m e as i t w as w h en w e w er e cadets, w ith a few exceptions. Where we once were picketed for being war mongers, now t he Academy gets picketed by animal-rights groups t rying t o st op any efforts t o t h i n t h e o ver-2 0 00 d eer h er d h ere. T h e d eer h ave ta k en the place of t he terrazzo falcon (magpie) as the prime nuisance. When you come up for t he reunion, you w ill see what I mean. Maybe my classmates ca n su c ceed i n explaining to my seven-year-old daughter why we can’t bri ng t he “ pret ty baby d eer t h at i s so o o o ta m e i n sid e w h en i t is c o l d .”

Work on the reunion goes wel l, and 1 can’t t hank t hose c lassm at es o n t h e commit tees enough for t he hard work t hey have done, and work th ey wi ll do in mon t hs ahead. I f you cou ld have seen 15 of us st uffi ng envelopes for t he let ters you got in March, you would have died laugh ing. As usual, when you put al l of th ose type “ A” personal it ies toget her, t he sky is t he l imit, and for your informat ion we probably set a new wor ld record for foldi ng let ters. On a different subj ecL Dan REINHART is st il l i n a part ial co m a an d co u l d u se o u r help. Any of you classmates who knew him are encouraged t o w r i t e h i m a let ter, or stop by Penrose Hospital in COS to see hi m. H is ad d ress i s 8 9 0 2 Belcove Cir., COS, CO 80902, and his wife’s name is Suzanne. Get t ing back to th e reu nion, in t he let ters you all received, t here are sevearl Sqs t hat had no part y reps. A couple of classmates have st epped forward t o fi l l t he gaps for 30 and 32 Sqs. Chris REASNER is back fr om Korea and currently at Scot t AFB, and she will be working the party for 30tli Sq. Her home phone is (618) 6245219, AV 576-5553. Mark BRACICH wi l l ru n t he 32nd Sq party and his home phone is (618) 236- 1102, AV 576-5934. Mark is also a t Sc o t L A c o rr ec t i o n t o t h e 27t h Sq rep, Dan WEESE. H is real home phone is (719) 481-2556, rather t han the one t hat was pri nted i n t he letter. Again, if you don’t have a part y rep and want one, con tact Eric RUSSIAN here at USAFA. H is n umber i s i n t h e let t er.

On t he news front, I have heard fr om h undreds of people, b u t i t al l seem s t o 53

On a recent trip to Offutt AFB, I had the opportunity t o v i si t Yv o n n e

H O M EC OM I N G 199 0

CLA SS OF 1980 10-YEA R REUN I ON 13 - 16 SE P 19 9 0

USA FA ' ’s T he CITA DEL

MA K E A RRANGEM ENT S T O AT T EN D NOW ! be i n reference t o t he reunion. Tom RI TCH I E called m e fro m E l l sw o r t h w h ere

he is a B-1 aircraft commander and loving it. Jamie SAIVES stopped by and left

his card on my desk whi le he was here on a USAFA L iaison Of f icers c o n feren ce.

Jamie is now a Reservist livi ng i n Fort Lauderdale, F L . Ro b RE N N E R i s n o w a maj or in the Reserves, and he j ust recently tied the knot to a very lovely young lady. Rob lives in Redondo Beach, CA. Life is good. Jerry SIROTE wrote from down under to inquire about t he reunion. He marr ied a n A u ssi e lass an d i s n ow fl ying for Quantas. Peg DENNI S CARNAHAN wrote me her an n u al fac t - fi l l ed letter with lots of news. Peggy is working in the 3305th School Sq at Randolph fl ying Tweets and writing syllabi for pilot training. At Randolph, Dave BRITTON is a maj or flesh peddler at offi cer assignments, Roy CONRAD is i n ATC Airspace and Airfi eld Mgt and flying Tweets, Scot t WI EBE is in ATC Stan/ Eval on the T-38 side, Mary DALY isat AFMPC doing some sort of analysis st uff and running all sorts of 5 and l OK races, Luke HOWARD is a fl ight commander in the T-37 PIT Sq, Craig SEEBER is chief of Check Section in the same Sq,

(WI LH ELM) SCH I LZ. Yvonne is as gung-ho on Air Force l i fe as sh e ev er w as.

She is present ly t he commandant of cadets for an AFROTC d eta c h m en t an d aspires to a teaching posit ion at t he Academy. Eit her Yvonne loves work ing

with students or she recognizes the promotion potential o f i n st r u c t o rs at USAFA. After all, Joe WOOD and Michelle JOHNSON, two of our BTZers, are Academy instructors. Seriously though, Yvonne bubbles w i t h ex c i t em en t when she talks about her j ob.

The photo t his t ime around is of t hree of our classmates showing off t heir children. Rick and Barb (CHAPMAN) MARTIN are proud parents of H eat her.

Sue (WAECHTER) JANK E and husband Kevin are show n wi t h so n D a n i e l w h o

w as bo r n i n Ja n . 19 8 9 .

and he will soon be going to Travis for a C-5 on the ATC/ MAC exchange

program. Mark AUDISS is the T-38 side chief of 12FTW Stan/ Eval. June (VAN HORN) LI NDER separated t his fal l to be a fil l-t ime mom, and I don’t envy her the increase in j ob responsibility. Lt j g USCG Don MYERS is flying HC- 130Hs for the Coast Guard and living in Shiloh, NC. He will soon be upgrading to aircraft commander and flew a lot of relief missions aft er H UGO i n So u t h Carolina. Greg AUGST is still in England flying TR-l s and he apparent ly loves it Doug OWENS wife, Teresa, and two boys are at Myrtle Beach where Doug is flying A-10s on the ATC/ TAC exchange. Congratulations to Diane (GREEN)

FRANCOIS for winning the AF annual Lance P. Sij an Leadership A w ard . D i an e is presently at Spangdahlem in Germany. I could go on w ith news, but I don’t have room. Unfort unately I must bore you w it h one more l o st classm at es l ist

This list was updated after we got several of our letters back “ ad d ressee u n k ” . I f

you know where any of t hese guys/ gals are, tell them to drop a li ne to me or t he AOG at Associat ion of Graduates, USAFA CO 80840.

Ja r ed As t i n

Joe Sample

K ev i n B u t l e t t

Rudy Jiracek Bo b Kapi tzke An drew K i ng Scot t K i rby

P a t C la r k

J. D . M a l ea r e

Jo h n S i n c e r e

M i ke Duffy

S u e M cA d o o

Ri c k D u r k i n

Jo h n M u sk o

W i l l iam

Robert Singl ton Mary Snyder

M a r k Fa i r ba i r n

M ik e Naye Law rence O’Toole

M i k e Fo rts o n

Jo h n O w e n s

Mark St ephens

Joh n H auser

Loren Pryor

Ri ch Beesly Ri ch Biederstedt

E u k er

M ik e H em m elm an

Dan Randolph

Jo e Sa n f o r d

Fred Sargent

Brian Seggerty

D o n Sta rc k Ro b er t W i ec h er t

Dean Wort hi ngst u n

For those of you who have assisted us in tracking down classmates, t hank you. We have gone from 120 to this number in j ust three m o n t h s. T h i s l at ebreaking news; Chuck and Annette MILLIGAN are the proud parents of a baby boy, Harry Edward, as of Feb. 26. Congrats Chuck. Until t he nest issue, take care a n d Go d B less. M at t

Tony Lorusso 232-B West Craig Place San Antonio, TX 78212 Home: (512) 732-5571

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Greet i ngs agai n! T he big news of t he hour is, of course, t hat eight of our

classmates were selected for promotion two years below t h e z o n e. O u r

congrat ulat ions and best wishes to Ted KNOWLES, Brooks BASH, Joe WOOD, Marv FI SCH ER, Ti m GROSZ, Michelle JOHNSON, Mike LEPPER an d W i l l ia m NELSON. When (or should I say IF) we ever have another promot ion board, I expect we’ll have more names t o add to t his elite group. My sources tel l me there won’t be a promot ion board t his year.

1 want to thank Carol (HODGE) WEAVER for reading Checkpoints an d th en

picking up th e phone to call me. 1 haven’t heard from Carol since graduation, so it was a th ri ll to catch up on the years, (^arol is at Wright-Patterson, and she and her husband, Paul, are proud parents of a baby boy named Michael Paul, Al lison LINDER is also a new mom of a baby girl. Allison is st ill in the Ai r Force and flying on the Looking Glass, Car ol reported that Kermit STERNS is w i th h er at W PAFR 54

From left are Rick, Bar b and H eather Martin and Sue. K ev i n a n d D a n i el ( Waech ter) Janke.

I received a number of change-of-address cards t his t i m e. I t seem s l i k e w e

had a mass migration to Texas. Jeff SEAL is at Dyess, Sam D UGGE R i s at

Schert z; Galen CROXTON is at Krum; Joe and Sarah HAMI LTON ar e i n Houston; and Tom and Denise ARKO are at Dyess; and Brian REPOLE is flying for Delta out of San Antonio. In other moves, Larry H I LLS is at Cannon AFB; Bob CLAYTON is i n Eagan, MN; Gary KONIGSMARK is in Dayt on; Jim VI LLERS is in Tulsa; Mark M URRAY is in Redlands, CA; K ev i n SI LVA i s i n Dayton; Dave HOMBURGER is in Apex, NC; Bryan BLY is i n Tucson; and Dan FARRI SH is flying for Delta in Cincinnat i.

As I’ll probably do for the next year. I’ll wrap up t he art icle by talking about homecoming. For your planni ng purposes, homecoming wil l be 13- 16 Sep 91 (Th ur - Su n). USAFA wil l play and beat Utah. Wit h help from Leona FLORES, we have reserved t he Airport Sheraton. I realize it ’s a l i t t l e far t h er fr o m t h e Academy t han some of the ot her hotels, but it’s t he only one available t hat can accommodat e us. Please do NOT start maki ng reservat ions. The Homecoming Commit tee (assuming someone vol unteers to be t he chairperson — hint, hi nt !) wi ll provide you t he necessary details in t he fu t ure. Meanwh ile, i f you have any suggest ions for class social events other t han t he standard cocktail social,

football game, and Jabara banqueL please let me know.

Keep the let ters and photos comi ng. ’81 Second to None!

Ji m Rat t i P.O . Bo x 4 0

Churchton, MD 20733-0040 Home: (301) 261-9588 Work : (301) 981-4611

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Per cen t m em b er s: 3 3

You know, no mat ter how hard you try, nothi ng ever goes t he way you plan ned. As you recall from last t ime, 1 began w ith an apology to Tracy S. (Wi ley) DICK INSON. Wel l, t his feels l ike dej a vu for me, too. I’m sorry again, Wiley. I swear I typed T RACY and not T RACE. I even checked my copy t o be sure. The editor tel ls me we’re breaking in a new typeset ter, so I ’l l chalk it up to that Anyway, I hope you’re enj oying al l t he attent ion. (Editor ’s note: I t was my fault Tracy —sorry!)

I spent six weeks out at Cast le AFB duri ng February and March at tending sa c ’s I nst ructor Upgrade course. I t was a bit like a reunion, since Cast le is a revolvi ng door for SAC crews I ran into (or heard about) t he following: Kent LUND is a KC- 135 I P. I saw hi m twice whi le I was t here, bo t h t i m es at t h e flight surgeon’s offi ce. I guess both of us were sick t o o m u c h ! Car l a GA M M O N is a KC- 135 nav, transplanted t o Cast le fr om t he WC- 130. She arranged an assignmen t t here t o be w ith her husband who navigates B u f fs. Ri c k

INGALSBE serves as a Buff I P, as do Andy AN DERSON and C h r is A L L E N BY. I didn’t see Chris, but 1 learned that Andy teaches academics m o st o f t h e t i m e and t hat Chris gives crews a work-over i n t he ‘‘fri ght st i m u lat o r ” . D ea n CH RI STIAN is an instructor radar nav. Fi nal ly, " Bucky” QUINLAN was on his way to Cori ng via Cast le, get t ing qual ified in t he KC-135R (t hat’s t he one wit h the big, manly motors).

Ju st aft er E l l en an d 1 m oved i n t o o u r n ew h o m e h er e in Maryland, 1 got a call fr o m o n e M r. F. Cart er P I L C H E R Car t er i s o u t o f t h e Air Force, working as a staffer for Senator Bill Armst rong (R Colo). Cart er does al l the legwork on defense, foreign affairs and veteran’s issues for t he senator. Ellen and 1 spent an afternoon wit h him awhi le back, and we got a great tour of the capitol t o boot Cart er t old me that H eat her WI LSON is also worki ng i n D .C. as a m em ber of t he Nat ional Security Council. She had been at SHAPE HQ in Brussels, then separated to accept t he j ob w it h t he NSC. Lots of st uff here i n t he mail bag Lots of old st uff here in t he mai lbag (t he Christmas letters didn’t get here unt i l after the deadl ine for t he last issue).

First up is Mark BAK ER No yulet ide season would be complet e wit hout Mark’s annual formless form let ter. This year, he i ncl uded “ M A RK ’S O B SE RVA T I O N S ON L I F E ” . H ere are a few : ON CA RS;

- BMW stands for ‘Break My Windows’ (NOW they tell me!).

- Flashing your l ights at rabbits does not get them t o m o v e .

ON W O M EN :

- Never make general statements about women.

ON PA R EN T S:

- When t hey say t he’ll get even for t he fi rst 18 years, bel ieve t h em .

Brendan CLARE wrote a long letter, dropping quite a few names. He’s spent the last two and one half years with the 21st SOS at RAF Woodbridge, flying the MH53J. For those of you who don’t know, that’s 1,000 moving parts, bought from the low bidder, all going in different direct ions (read: helicopter). He says his wife of three years (Cheri) is a saint for putt ing up with 200+ days TDY per year. I wonder if guys like this have to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary at about the 60year point to compensate? Brendan says that; Chip and Laura LINDENLAUB are out H ighlights of his C-21 career at Ramstein include aborting at high speed after taki ng a b ird w i t h Chancellor Kohl on board, and shut tling Who’s Who to Moscow duri ng all the arms negot iat ions. Chip will fly for an unnamed a ir l i n e an d beco m e a Guard type.

Dan “ Swoop ” and Carrie PI KE eire at RAF Upper Heyford w h er D an is an F- 111 W SO. D an w a n ts t o k n o w W H AT EV E R H A P P EN D T O K ev i n

CRENWELGE. (Dan, the Register says he’s doing something w i t h t h e airmanship program at USAFA Also at Heyford is my old roomie Jeff “ CJ” MULLETT. Just up the road at Lakenheath are Bob WATKINS and Doug DUNBAR All are i n th e F- I U .

Gone fr om Heyford, now at Moody, is Paul “ Thruster” T H O M P SO N . H e’s an F-16 driver who, rumor has it, left a nurse (and long-term plans) behind at Heyford.

Steve ATKINS and wife Leigh Ann are at Wurtsmit h, where St eve is a Buff I P and both are gett ing used to their “ instant ” family —TRI PLETS. Two girls and a boy to go along with existing son John.

Brad DODD, t he PACAF Rat, is back fr om the PI and is n o w an I P at H o l lo m an .

From the “ Did You K now This Job Existed?” department: Tony “ Wessely” ROATH is a T-38 I P in Chile! No details, so let your imaginat ion

ru n w i l d Jo n SUTT E R is o n t h e en d o f h is seco n d F- 15 t o u r i n Alaska/ Holloman, and is working on gett ing passed over for maj or so t h at h e ca n be a career

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The Fabulous Baker Boys Mark sent th is picture of (from left) himself, Chris H AAVE an d M i k e RYAN havi ng a good time at some El Swanko restaurant in B ru sse l s l ast su m m er. I couldn’t read Mark’s wri t ing well enough to get the full scoop, but he said that Chris is spending two years in France on some sort of scholarship. Mike is at Baumholder, Germany, along wi t h his wife. Glor ia (MONTOYA). Mark has j ust completed a two-year tour as AOC to General Beckel. The general has moved on to command 15t h Ai r Force (SAC), and Mark moved to Pope to resume his

j ock. Brendan has confi dence that Jon wi lt succeed, ’cause John managed to out-j ink the SOS missile in th is “ SOS for everyone” w o r ld .

Stan FLEMI NG is at the Pentagon doing something important I t m u st be important because Stan never writes.

Ralinda (BOZELLl ) GREGOR is a maintenance offi cer at H u r l b u rt Bre ndan says she won “some kind of awand” for her AFIT m aster' s th esis, “ Colonel” (well, almost) Jeff BEENE is upgrading to I P i n t h e B- 1 af ter successfully recovering a B- 1 at Edwards without a nose landing gear. You may have caught him on CNN. Brendan says, “ And to th ink I u sed t o dri n k beer with that guy (but not in the dorms . . .)!”

The old STALAG AOC, “ Snake” , is flying for United out of Chicago. Says he will serve a complimentary dri nk to any STALAGMight w h o fl ies t h e fr iendly skies and so identifi es himself.

Steve WILLIS (F- 15, Tyndall) will be an ALO in Korea. Brendan says he sh o u l d n ’t h ave tak en t h e bo n u s.

Mike “ The Damiac” DAMAL is at RAF Brize Norton flying t h e VC- 10 as an exchange offi cer. Their unit flies the Queen, but I understand they’re somewhat sensitive about let ting “ a colonist” have t h e co n t ro ls w h i l e royalty is on board.

Fi nal ly, W HAT EVER HA PPEN DED TO Kevin “Rock ” McDONAUGH ?

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Kim CORCORAN (71611,1133) checked in via CompuServe t o fi l l m e i n o n a little class news. She says that Stu RODGERS is flying Eagles somewhere (Holloman?) and that Dave RI CKARD is in the A-10 at so m e u n k n o w n l oc at i o n . I th ink I’d be guessing correct ly if I said t hat both had previously been PIT I Ps at Randolph wit h Kim. Kim said that lots of Redtags are at Wilford Hall. Among them are Tom and Joyce (ROTH LEDER) GRI SSOM, Dave IGELMAN (residency in dermatology), Eric MAI R Steve TOPPER and Ted PARSONS. Joyce and Tom had a litt le girl (Rachel) about a year ago. Joyce is a neurology resident, and Tom is doing his in anest hesiology. Kim told me that Sally D UGGA N , a m ai n t en a n ce offi cer at Nellis, is planning a 30 June wedding. Finally, sh e se n d s w o rd t h a t bo t h Gail (FRANCIS) TARLTON and Nancy (ROBINSON) DURANT have separated and are concentrating on raising their children. Gail is w i t h h er h usban d an d t w o boys (Jessie and Matthew) at SAC HQ. Nancy, husband John, and children Lacey and Alex enj oy daddy’s j ob with American, flying out of DFW. For her part, Kim is stat ioned at Randolph as a T-38 PIT I nstructor. Al though not selected, she was the fi rst woman to interview for the U-2/ TR-1 last December. She said she really enj oyed her 4.6 hours of U-2 time.

Jon and Tricia (RI LEY) K IMMINAU sent a Christ mas let ter and pict ure of Germany. I wish I could have printed the pict ure, but i t w as t oo dar k T h e ca t s they are holding look most unhappy . . . At any rate, Tricia resigned her commission in January, but not befoe completi ng a BS in German languages.

Sh e w i l l rem a i n ac t i ve i n t h e Reserves w h i l e Jo n is working a May assignment to RAF Milden hal l. They say that th is past year has been an excit ing one to spend in Europe, consideri ng all t he change t hat has taken place.

T he Ever-Expanding Vogt Clan I got t his pict ure fr om proud parents Steve and Gina VOGT . St eve n o w si ts sideways for Nort hwest Ai rlines, and t hey l ive near Mi nneapolis. They had anot her daughter, Kel ly Ashland, on 23 Feb 90. Their ot her daughter (St ephanie) is a typical two year old, accordi ng to Steve. Kel ly’s arrival was somew hat i l l-t i med, wit h Steve flyi ng h is fi rst trip i n ab o u t t w o w eek s. F ri en d s and fami ly intervened, Gina made it to the hospital okay, but Steve got back abo u t 17 m i n u t es t o o l at e. O h w el l . St eve ra n i n t o Dean VOGEL, who was 55

interviewi ng wit h Nort hwest H e also spied Dave FROHMAN’s n a m e Nort hwest reserve l ist so I guess Dave is up t here t o o .

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our airplane, adding (among ot her t hi ngs) a CRT to display engine i ndicat ions, wam ing/ caut ions/ advisories and checkl ist items. We should be through w it h ground testi ng and beginni ng fl ight test by t he t ime you read th is. Wish us l u ck !

Thanks so much for al l your letters this t ime. I t makes i t a l o t easi er t o w r i t e

the column when I have stuff to work with! As always, you can leave E-Mail for

me on CompuServe (72477,1255) or Genie (J. RATTI). Unt i l next ti me. Be Safe.

RAT M A N

T.G. KYRAZI S fl ying Tyndall F- 15s, Bob BELETIC also at tendi ng FWS, Rick RAGAL L ER wi t h K irt land’s H H -3s, Brian SCH ULTE w it h h i s OA - 10 fr o m Davis-Mont han AFB, and Phi l DI SMUK ES on leave from K o rea.

Currently at or recently departed fr om Nellis include M i k e M EY E R w i t h t h e F-16 aggressors. Rich CLINE fl ying something out at Tonopah, Jessie MORIMOTO who recently departed to be an Intel officer at Alconbury, and Devin CATE who is a resident fl ight test engineer.

Well, I would love to keep writing, but that’s all the poop that came my way for this issue and 1 left my tap-dancing shoes at home. I also regret to report that this is to be my last column for Checkpoints, so we wi ll be looking for a new spri ng scr ibe. Any budding j ournalists out there who would like to t ry their hand at writing one column a year, please send your resumes to Ray BLUST, PSC Box 346, APO San Francisco 962 13. Al oha!

Andy Sizemore

2 0 9 E . 2 n d St r eet

Frankl in, OH 45005 P er cen t m em ber s: 3 3

Is it spring already? Well I guess it’s t ime again for my instal lment as spri ng scri be. Right now I’m soaking up the rays in sunny Ca l i fo r n i a w h i le o n o n e o f my many TDYs for the 4950t h Test Wing. Being on t he ro ad so m u c h w o u ld normally make writ i ng t his col umn difficult, but I’m part of t he high-t ech wor ld of Systems Command where lapt op computers, modems, an d fax mach ines make t he office Just a push-but ton away. Not bad for a computer i l l i t era t e! O f co u r se t h e d o w n si d e i s t h at i t i s h ar d t o get away fr om t he offi ce when you want to. For t hose ’135 drivers out there who haven’t already exercised “ ot her opt ions,” t his is one of t he best-kept secrets for fl yers in t he Air Force. We fl y numerous variants of the C-135 worldwide in support of various Depart ment of Defense research, development, t est an d eva l u a t i o n missions. If you’re interested, give me a cal l at AW 87-6834 fo r fu t h er d et a i l s.

But enough of the commercial interrupt ions!

The following news comes courtesy of Keith BERGERON fr o m t h e O N E

let ter I recieved for class news. Amy WI MMER recent ly competed in the Air Force Cross Country Championsh ip at Pope AFB where she placed 5th in her category. She went to the Interservice Championships where she placed 12th.

Way to go Amy! Glad to see you st il l have it in you. Andy HOWES was marr ied on March 10th to Daphne El len Davenport at Randolph A F B . M ar k RE I N EC K E and fami ly recent ly sold t heir house for a healt hy profit ; h is wife is current ly

lf ying for United and I hear he is having similar inclinations. K ev i n CA RR E N O is currently doing Reserve duty as a legal officer up in Denver. Kei t h ran into him whi le Kevin was down at the Zoo helping out as an asso c iat e A OC . I

wonder how many stories Kevin has told his squadron of h is cadet years, or maybe that wouldn’t be setting a good example for these i mpressionable yout h?

Brent and Sylvia (BEATTY) RICHERT are both now instructors fo r t h e dean after having completed their PhDs. I believe he’s physics and she’s chemist ry.

In their spare time (when they’re not working on superconductors and grand

uni ficat ion theories) they are assist ing t he USAFA Track Team. As for Kei th, he is busy teaching in the Math Department and loving it H is w ife, Ellen (CRAIG), is teaching her last semester of physics as she w i ll be separat ing this su m m e r.

During my last visit to Edwards AFB I ran into Inocencio O RTA - FA RGA S Oust Orta to most of us) where he is tra ining officer and C- 135 pilot for t he

65 10t h Test Wi ng. H is wi fe, Kat hy (DAMSCH RODER), is also t here as a fl ight test engineer. They’ve been there for a couple of years and are start ing to look

for new assignments with Wright-Patterson high on their l ist

1 had a chance to swing by Beale AFB in February where I ra n i n t o S t ev e

KNOBLOCK. He has j ust been accepted into Test Pilot School wit h a stop at AFIT on the way to pick up a master’s in aero. That is a pretty maj or accomplishment as TPS tends to favor people with more t han one maj or weapon system, and Beale and KC-135Qs were Steve’s fi rst assignment I n other good news for the Knoblocks, Melanie is expecting t h ei r t h i r d ch i ld t h i s summer. The only other Beale Bandit I have news of is Jerry VARNER who, unlike Knobs, turned down an extra $12,000 a year to t ry h is hand in the fr iendl ier skies. Good luck Jerry!

NEWS FLASH ! NEWS FLA SH! I j ust recieved a frant ic phone cal l from my wife, Kathy, informing that —1 can’t believe it —ANOTHER let ter arr ived j ust in t i me to make t his column. Thanks go to Mark PRI CE for the followi ng i nfo.

Mark is current ly at Nel lis AFB where he has seen a number of ’83 types. He

recently ra n into Kim BENTLER, Mark AMIDON, Norm RENNESPIS, an d M i k e D UN N a t t h e 0 - C l u b. K i m w as d o w n fo r SA C A i rc r ew T ac t i cs Sc h o o l an d

Mark was attending Fighter Weapons School. Norm and Mike had brought

their A- 10s into town for Red Flag. Ot her sight i ngs i n c l u d e B o b SH A R P w h o i s fl ying A- 10s out of England AFB, Tom BEALE, fl ying F- 16s out of Luke AFB,

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Car l t o n P . W i c k l i ffe

2801B Quay Loop Hol loman AFB, NM 88330-8108 Home: (505) 479-2937 AV: 876-7733/ 7793 Per cen t m em ber s: 3 0

I am sure t hat seeing my name on the byline is no more a surprise to you as it was to me, consideri ng t hat I had 24 hours between t h e t i m e 1 cal l ed t h e AOG looking for our favorite scri be on Apri l 3, and being asked to submi t an art icle before t he Apri l 4 deadline. Thank heavens for word processors and fax machines! So it looks like I got thej ob—at least tempora rily—by default . I ask for your patience while I figure out what’s going on and t ra ck Mike down, who by the way was diverted fr om his Torrej on assignment to Osan AB, Korea.

(Don’t envy the man one bit !)

Anyway, before I start down t he list of who’s where, let me i nt roduce myself, as I am sure many people are aski ng, “ Who’s Carlton Wick liffe?” (pronounced WI K-LI F) Wolfpack 5 the fi rst two years, Knights of 30 t he last two. The AC pro board and 1 practical ly knew each ot her on a fi rst-name basi s. So n eed l ess t o say, I wasn’t ou t and about much. The last t ime I was i n t his column, I was the newly-arrived QIC of security, coming in from Floren nes, Belgi um, w here I was sta t i o n ed as a d efen se fo r ce c o m m an d er w i t h W ade H A RL A N . I ’ m st i l l at

Holloman (and may be t rapped here if the powers-that-be don’t give up that PCS money), alt hough I ’m now the QIC of Law Enforcement I ’m m arr i ed w i t h two boys and anot her food st orage tank on the way (must be in the water). I’m gett ing ready to travel to Alabama to become a member o f SO S C l ass 9 0 - D fo r seven weeks, and boy, am I thri lled.

Now t hat I ’ve completely lost your at tent ion, let’s get to t he good stuff.

Many t hanks to that wealt h of informat ion, Maria (DURAN) JACK, who after a hasty phone call t o her at Offut t AFB, gave me t he poop on a number of people.

Heading for ot her past ures outside t he Ai r Force: Jul ia (PH I FER) STREET is out and spending her t ime being a wife, mother to two boys, and maki ng big money sell ing Mary Kay cosmetics (anyti me you can wi n t h e u se o f a P o n t i ac Trans Am for a year, you can’t be doing bad); Leon SCOTT married and got out in December and is in Atlanta gett ing h is master’s degree in computer programmi ng; Perry NANG also got out in December, last k n ow n l o c at i o n — Colora do Spri ngs; Beth (JENCKES) GUTI ERREZ is st il l at Offutt, but as a civil ian (come on folks, is t he AF t hat bad?).

As for the diehards (or hard heads, depending on your poi nt of view!); Melody BELL is st i ll at H i ll; Grady ELLI OTT recently cam e o u t o f A F I T an d i s back at Peterson wit h his w ife, Carol l (ROSADO), who by the way, is at SOS; George GLASS is at Peterson, while his brother Robert (could anyone ever tell the difference between t hose two?) was last reported at L A. AFB; Ralph SEI LI US arrived here at Holloman a few months ago and is already mak ing a name for himself i n t he Tact ical Cont rol Squadron. D av e P E T E RSE N w en t through the tact ical fi ght er lead-i n course here, and I occasionally see him around as one of our Eagle drivers; Myron FREEMAN, a fellow SP, is st i l l at Davis-Mont han, but is current ly TDY to Ft Dix, NJ at t h e A i r Base Gro u n d Defense Command Course. By t he way, Myron and I were do w n a t H o w ar d AFB, Panama, last summer and ran into Delise (MCFARLANE) ROHRET, who was wit h ch ild at t he t ime, and st ill had a lot of fun (never did fi nd out what she had). Myron left before all t he excitement wh ite I caught the “ fu n” t i me associated wi t h the fai led coup at tempt (it was a j oke, t hough).

H E L P B U I L D A H OM E

FO R YOU R A SSOCIAT I ON Send your tax-deduct ible donat ion now.

OK folks, enough extemporaneous wri ting. Let’s get t hose letters and phone calls in, even if it’s j ust to let us know where you are. Needless to say, a lot of people left after the five-year commitment and I’m su re w e’ l l see a l o t o f o u r rated classmates head for ot her past ures in May. But it doesn’t mean you need to be a stranger! Let the rest of us know how you’re gett i ng along. By t he way,

for those people who come through Holloman, the fi rst d r i n k i s st i l l o n m e.

After 1 get back from SOS in June, if anyone is interested in goi ng on a weekend raft i ng tr ip, give me a cal l and I’ll see what I can set up (I’m a guide for the Outdoor Recreat ion Depart ment here).

M ik e Ot t

130 Pembroke SL, # 1 Boston, MA 02118

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H i to al l of you. I’m comi ng to you fr om Hanscom AFB, M A w h ere o u r biggest treat is either combati ng the li berals from Harvard or decidi ng w hat to do during out two-hour lunch/ workout period. Since t he last issue many folks have either PCSd or got ten marri ed. Ti m DERUYTER and K ara n ow l i ve i n C. Springs where Tim is coaching for t he Falcons. Dan JORDAN recent ly fi n ished UST to Lowry and PCSd to Turkey for a one-year remote, w i t h a fo l l o w - o n

assignment to C. Spri ngs. Chaz MORRISON is going through t h e B E ST

program as an intel ligence officer. He fi nished his MBA from Boston College and got marr ied to Kit ty all with in a few mont hs of each other. They hope to get to the D.C. area once he completes his training. Chaz and 1 along wit h two other guys j ust sold our house near Hanscom and took a bat h . T h e m ar k et h ere

is hell. CFC is going to make a special alottment j ust fo r u s. P l ease be

g en ero u s.

Dave BURNS, Doug WELLS and Dave DIMARTINES and others fro m t h e

Boston area skied out in Vail. Apparent ly t here is more to do than j ust ski in Vai l based on t he stories circulat ing around base. No surprise wit h t hose guys.

Terry COOLEY is worki ng program management here at H an sco m w h i le

From left are Tim Wi lliams, Sh ep Sparks, Brooks Freeman, M i k e Ot t a n d B r i a n S ch a a f

After Luch’s wedding, Shep returned with me to Boston fo r t h e H an sc o m Airshow. The airshow was great because we were able to recru it many ’85ers. 1 worked on pilot recruiting and got the following guys up here for t he activities. Pete JAHNS, F-15s at U ngley; Brooks FREEMAN, T -3 8 s at Columbus: Tim WILLIAMS, T-37s at Columbus; Joe SCHINNICK, T -3 8 s at Col umbus: and Bri an SCHAAF, T-37s at Columbus. These guys and more were here for t he 4t h-of-Ju ly weekend. We t urned t hem onto some super lobsters and great bars. Joe SCHINNICK recently received an assignment to F- 15s at Elgin. J.D. VAN HAVEL got an assignment to A-10s. He apparent ly is somewhat of a legend down at Columbus, logging more hours than any ot her I P. They call him t he “ Flying Whore” .

playing lots of tennis for the base team. Pat STONEHAM, D eb b i e a n d t h e i r

daughter Meagan have been at Andrews AFB for about a year now and had a huge new house built Pat is busy with OSI stuff, his stamp col lect ion, and t he local church glee club.

Pet e and Patty Jahns, Mar r ied 2 Mar ch ’90 Pete JAH NS, t he man who has never missed a party i n his l ife, decided recent ly (like two weeks ago) on 2 March to t hrow a part y of his own and get married to Patty, FINAL LY! Smart est t hi ng he ever did. I t w as a sm a l l an d

elegant affair as well as a blast He’s psyched. Unfortunately h is OA - 10 assigment fell through so they gave him the next best t hi ng, a T-37 t o Vance i n

Frank (wi th moustache) and Wendy Lucci and their wedding p a r ty .

Frank LUCCI was marri ed last June. He marr ied Wendy, a n u rse an d accomplished musician. After a few more years in Rome, Luch wi ll ei t her fl y for a remote fi shing tour airl ines i n t he Yukon or get i nto t he NASA space program as a scientist or payload specialist. Also in the wedding party were John WI L LIAMS, Eri c DEARDORF and Mi ndy, and Shep SPARKS. Jo h n i s n o w at March AFB flying KC- l Os. We always knew he’d fi nd his way back to California.

He bought a house (after attending my home ownership seminars) four blocks from t he beach in Oceanside, CA. H e’s nearly done wit h h i s M BA an d h as been seen on t he beaches wit h some hot nort hern Californ ia woman. Probably j ust some innocent girl he’s been giving swimming lesson to. Eri c and Mi ndy

recently had their first child, a baby boy named Breton K e l. H erm es is a T -4 1 at

the Zoo. Shep SPARK S graduted fr om Drake Law School in May ’90. He’s been busy with work and his other activities, which include honing h is Unarmed Combat Skil ls and wri t ing poetry. Rumor has it t hat he’s going to specialize in divorce settlements, palimony suits and any litigation t hat usual ly involves women. Bren t KI NG, T-37s at Columbus, and Carr ie drove up fr om Mississippi to attend Luch’s wedding.

Ju n e.

I j ust returned from Dallas after standing up in Scott BOREN’s wedding. He married Jan, a fl ight attendant for American. They m et w h i l e h e w as a t P I T .

The wedding was great although Scotty had a tough time sit ti ng dow n. He was sore because of the tatoo we had put on his behind t he n ight before t he wedding. It was only his wife’s name! It was all Craig K I N G’S i d ea. H e w as t h e best man and in charge of the entertainment He’s the wi ng exec at Columbus and hoping for a fi ghter or a career ATC slot! Also in t he wedding were Pete JAHNS, Chri s McCAAN (’88) ’141s at Charleston, Bret DREH ER (form er ’85 and F-15s at Elgin) and Tom LOKEY. Also some more Columbus I Ps: Mark TODD, Duane FLETCH ER and Tim NEWT ON. Mike LAWLESS left Wri ght-Pat for gobd. He’s out of t he AF and deciding now wh ich j ob offer to accept H is date of separation was 29 May 1990! Not a day more than required. Mike recently earned his master^s i n experi mental

psychology, too. Todd MALONE (MUGS) is still protecting t h e n o rt h er n

if 'ont ier at K.I. Sawyer in Buffs. H is is st il l compet ing and placi ng i n tri at halons all over t he states. No more Saab though, h e d ro ve t h e i n fa m o u s car into the ground. Many of us are awaiting the expected photo of him

sprawled out naked on top of his new car’s hood!

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If any of you were at the AF vs. Navy game last fall, you probably saw t he “ Happy Hanscom” van. Twelve Falcon fans drove down fr o m B o st o n i n a Chevy Van. A rout ine 7!^ -hour ride took more t han 12 h o u rs. W e’re su r e i t h as nothing to do with Mike (everyone thinks I’m ’85 fr om t he Zoo) Neuner’s microscopic bladder. There was a huge tailgate party in the parking lot

News from Fred (sorry 1couldn’t read your last name): h e P CSd fr o m C lar k AB to Yokota AB and is still in the 21 TAS (I assume C- 130s). Mark NAUMANN is a nav instructor j ust in from Alaska. Ken BAI LEY an d B r u ce GI B SO N are

both A/ Cs. Tim O’BRIEN and his wife, Denise (SENN), are sta t i o n ed at C lar k also. Denise is in the Comm SQ and Tim flies helicopters. Perry WI LSON recently left Clark for George in F-4s, probably for W i l d W ease ls. A r t RO SS an d Marc KORNMESSER are also at Yokota AB i n the 345 TAS. Tim GAI TH ER and his wi fe, Helen, now have two ch ildren, Gregory Michael

and Tahnee Kae. He’s leaving Del Rio and going into F - 16 s. H e’ l l be at L u k e A B

in August for training.

Received some i nformat ion from Warren SPARK S on ot her c lassm at es.

Doug WELLS is not at Onizuka AFB, CA and is not married, as report ed i n t he last issue. He is a space operations officer at Falcon AFB, CO and yes, has been befr iended by a gorgeous lady from California. Mark MULLANEY is in Systems

only have one ot her let ter to add. K irk L EAR wrote me j ust before Christ mas, “Well, it’s another frigid day in North Carolina and I t hought I’d take some

time to write you as I’ve been meaning to do for some time. [Now is a great

time for anyone else who’s been meaning to write!] I m arr i ed a Sac ra m en t o

(California) girl, Susan, on the 16th of September i n Sacramen to and promised

all t he ’86 grads and pals t hat were t here t hat I’d t ry to get t he i ncl uded photo into Checkpoints. Not much going on here—Susan’s got a good line on a j ob at base contracting, doing much of what she used to do for fi ve years as a contract negot iator at McClellan AFB. ’86 grads at Pope? What was once four is now t hree — pilots Cecil MEDI NA and James DYE. Tom W I L L A RD w as h ere for two years and PCSd last week t o a T-38 I P slot at Va n c e.”

I did get a call from Don RAINES in December. Don is going to Los An geles AFB to take over t he chief of police slot t here. Don w as a t Gr een h am Co m m o n s in Security before he PCSd. Don’s looking forward to t he change in l ifestyles but will miss England. I also talked to John MASSEE in March duri ng an outand-back I was on. John is at RAF Bentwaters as an A- 10 pilot and real ly l ikes

the j ob. He is hoping to extend a year if possible.

Acquisitions at Los Angeles AFB, CA and is making waves o n S o u t h er n California beaches, tennis courts and wherever you fi nd “ California Girls.” Jeff FARMER recently married to Kathleen Cassiddy of Detroit, is i n Systems acquisition at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (Midwestern pool shooters beware!), as is Mike MURRAY, who is also recently married to M e l i ssa W i l lard o f Southern California. Mike and Missy are expecting a new . . . lit t le rugger? (“ Murph” is still “ hurting” people on worldwide rugby fields.) Mark MELCH ER

is an instructor at Lackland AFB, TX and he and Andrea are t he proud parents of a new baby boy. Tom GEOGHAN has moved fr om t he Air F o r ce P lan t Representative Office at Northrop Corp. in Los Angeles to Systems Acquisit ion at Los Angeles AFB, CA. Here is a list ing of new addresses that have been forwarded to me. George E. DAY to Sheppard AFB, TX; James D. TAYLOR to Victorville, CA; Barb WENZEL to McConnell AFB, KS; Randy ORNE to Carmichael, CA; Jerry VAUGHAN (t he “ CAPTAIN”) went from Alaska to Germany; Paul VANCE to Fayet tevi l le, NC; Scott GREGORY from Offutt AFB to someplace across the Pacific; Mark RYDELL to Fairborn, OH ; Price OSTEEN to the Camden Mi l itary Academy i n Camden, SC; Curtis HENRY fr om Altus AFB, OK, to Williams AFB, AZ; and

Ron MARSELLE fr om Dyess AFB to Grand Forks, ND.

As a reminder and on a more somber note, a trust fund h as been esta b l i sh ed

for the wife and child of our classmate, Ivan MCKNIGHT. Donations may be sent to the 1911th Comm Sq, Langley AFB, VA 23665-5009, A T T N : DO .

Gary L. Burg

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As promised, t he big news i n t h is summer release is the update of the Trolls

of Twenty and what many of them are up to. As a matter of fact, besides that I

Dave Tuck, Bob Schaab and Jeff Frankhouser serenade at Jon Ortega ’s weddi ng on Oct 21, 1989.

The last order of business is the Troll update. Back in September, Rich LECLAI RE dropped me a line with some interesting news. (By the way. Rich is at Tinker AFB, OK as an AWACS officer.] He got engaged last Memorial Day to

Karla who he has been seeing si nce about the end of August 1988. No dat e yet !

I t seems Kar la is a high-school sweet heart She lives in Baton Rouge, LA and is a chemical engineer for DOW Chemicals. It’s a long-distance relat ionship deal but he gets to see her about every two or t hree weeks and with airfare being relatively inexepensive, it’s not breaking them. Rich fi nally completed SOS by correspondence after 16 mon th s of effort and is now t rying to take a few engineering classes at Oklahoma University. He is also trying (and probably

has) to swing a PCA over to the training squadron as a n i n st r u ct o r.

Igor “ Beau” BEAUFI LS dropped me a line in November saying he is doing

pretty well at Kirtland AFB, NM. He enj oys his 27XX career fi eld and hopes to fi nish his MS in industrial engineering by the time th is is pri nted. H e is st i ll a

Rugby-playing fool and loving it Beau has also been bit by t he love bug. H is most recen t let ter sent t his past February stated he is engaged to be marr ied on the 22nd of September to his longtime sweetheart, Ronna. Congrat ulations Beau and best of happiness to you and Ronna.

Nex t Kevin YEOMANS dropped me a li ne j ust before Christ mas. Except for some mi nor edit i ng I ’ll send his letter i ntact “ Krista, Kennet h and I are doing fi ne. Kenneth is our 16-month-old bom 27 Jan 89. After gradut ion, I spent 18

months at N.C. State University in Raleigh, NC during w h i c h t i m e I o bta i n ed a master’s degree studying mathematics. It was an enj oyable t i m e fo r bo t h K r i sta and me. My follow-on assignment was to be Alamogordo, NM (Hol loman AFB).

A ttendi ng the Lear weddi ng in front from left are Ed Chavez, T-3 7 1P, Vance AFB; M ark Crosby, Mather AFB; Susan and K irk Lear, C-130 nav. Pope AFB;

and James Hawkins, somewhere in northern I taly. In th e ba ck r o w a r e M i tch

H anscom, M ather AFB; H ugh Vest T-3 7 I P, Vance AFB; M ike Pietryga, Los

Angeles AFB; Alan Batts, contract negotiator, McClellan A F B; a n d Cu r t is Green, Onizuka AFB. Not in thephoto but also attending th e weddi ng was Tish Mooney, UH -I N pi lot Edwards AFB

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Wit h a few weeks t o go before I was to PCS, my orders were changed and t he day before I left North Carolina we picked up my orders to Eglin AFB. We are very t hankful t o be here, and we are close to bot h o f o u r fa m i l i es. I h av e been working in Munitions Systems Division, specifi cally Concepts and I nitat ives Branch, Deputy for Development Plans. What t hat is i n plain language is that we come up wit h ideas for fut uristic weapons systems. My j ob is to look at some of th e payoffs of new systems to the overall mission ef fec t i v en ess o f t h e AF. Wh ile i t may sound i mpressive, I spend most of t he t i me doi ng odds and ends, whatever I ’m told. I work wi th most ly civil ians so i t is qu ite a different

Don’t m i ss your magazi n e Sen d you r new addr ess n ow !

If you are not a member

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environment. I have t ried to apply for an i nstructor assignment at the Academy but no word yet I would like the experience it would offer my family and me.

However, I must admit t hat my intent ions are not to be a career o ff i cer. T h at i s somet hing we wil l leave in the Lord’s hands. 1 am current ly teaching mat hemat ics to some boys w ho are being home-schooled. I t h as been a real learning experience for me. 1 saw Betsy (COLEY) ZIEGLER, Derek BROWN, Pebbles HOLMAN, and Bill PAGE (’87) at WPAFB in Ohio last April. All of them are doing fi ne. Betsy, Pebbles, and Bil l are all stationed t here; Derek was taking a class. Glen MOORE and Steve TREMAI N were at Col umbus AFB, MS, last t ime I heard about t hem. Tony AMADEO and Dean N I FAK O S w ere at Hanscom AFB, MA. Ji m SHOFF is married and doi ng fine as a helicopter pilot at Minot, ND. I t hink Dave and Vicki PRATH ER are st i ll in Germany. Dave is fl ying t he F- 15.

Karen CLARK dropped me a quick line sayi ng, ‘To bring you up to date. I’m flying t he RC- 135 out of Offutt AFB, NE and we go TDY to Athens, Greece; Mildenhall, England; Okinawa, Japan; and Eielson, Alaska.”

Joh n PETERSON wri tes, " We are fi ne and dandy here in Alaska. 1 recent ly became the OIC of t he MAC Passenger Termi nal and really enj oy t he j ob. My fi rst year up here I was a duty offi cer in the Aerial Port Squadron. (We load t he cargo and people on t he C- 130s, C- 141s, etc.) We real ly love Alaska. My wife got a j ob i n her degree area so she is very content We don’t have any kids yet — they are sti l l several years away. We do have a dog and two cats t hough and that’s plenty for now. We’ve added another dog since Christmas (family planni ng). We have taken up cross-country skii ng (almost ou t of necessity) and spent the summer wit h bot h of us get t ing pretty i n vo l ved i n t r i at h a lo n an d ru nni ng races. Of course, we squeezed i n a l i tt le fi shing too. I t’s mandatory up h er e.”

Derek BROWN dropped me a Christ mas card saying, “ You can rest easy i n th is world for a wh ile knowing I’m not ready yet for t h o se k i n d s o f responsibilit ies and challenges married life has. Dat i ng is a bo u t a l l 1 ca n handle at t his point. I assume you k now I’m at Malmstrom A F B . I w o r k i n C iv i l Engineeri ng as t he chief of Contract Management 1 basically oversee a huge sum of const ruct ion proj ects ai med primari ly at beddi ng d o w n t w o n ew squadrons of KC-135s. 1 can’t begi n to explain it in a short let ter, but j ust be advised, never take my j ob if offered t he opport uni ty —it ’s one of t hose j obs that is j ust way too much for any one guy to effectively d eal w i t h w i t h o u t going nuts. I ’m al most glad I don’t have a family —I ’m n o t su re I co u l d successfully share t ime bewteen my j ob and fami ly. Si n c e I d o n ’t h ave t o d o th is, I fi nd it very easy to engross myself i n work, and t hat makes me happy.

Recent ly however, I found anot her reason to be happy . . . she’s about 5'6" , beaut iful, a st udent, and ext remely intel ligent We get along great and are having great fu n. Who knows, maybe!”

Matt RATH SACKS checked in last wr it i ng, “ Theresa and I are current ly stat ioned at K.I. Sawyer in Michigan. I am st i ll flying tweets on ly now I am flying wit h copilots. 1 was at Vance AFB for two years w h en I recei ved t h e opport uni ty to get into t he Accelerated Copilot Enrichment program (ACE) here at Sawyer. I t was t he opport unity for Theresa and I to get closer to home.

Bot h of our parents are only six hours away. That makes i t n i ce fo r t h em t o visit t he twi ns. Yes, twi ns! Double t he fun. Theresa an d I w er e b l essed w i t h a girl and a boy. Je.ssica Lynn was bom on 20 Oct 89. She weighed 5 l bs 15 ozs and Zachary Thomas (Zack the Sack) was bom on t he 21st o f Oc t 8 9 . H e weighed 5 l bs, 11 ozs. Not only were t hey bom on di fferent days but they were bom duri ng our first maj or snow st orm and the power in the hospital went out momentari ly between birt hs. Everyone here is doing well. We expect to be here unt i l Dec ’91. Then I am hoping for a C- 130, preferably t o F l o r id a.”

I hope everyone has a great summer and drop me a line if you get a chance!

Un t i l t h e F al l .

Gl e n n L St rebe 3 9 5 3 T h u n d er c l o u d D r i ve

Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Home: (719) 531-0122

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Boy, t ime sure does fly. We are now wi t hin two years of ful fi l ling our fiveyear commi tment. Wit h t he budget cuts as they are, it will be interest ing how many opt to pursue a civi l ian career.

Spanning t he globe, I heard from John WI LLCOCKSON out at C l ar k. H e h as been sending me nastygrams and t herefore I decided t o ac co m m o d at e h i s wishes. John, here goes! Scot t ATCH I SON is flyi ng a C - 14 1 o u t a t M cC h o r d.

John HARRIS is stat ioned at Elmendorf where he is doi ng rad ar w o r k fo r t h e Alaskan Air Command. Wayne FISH ER is at Yokota along w i t h Jo e RI VE RA flying C- 130s. Mark “ Lefty” ARLI NGHAUS is flying an Eagle out of Kadena.

Rich MOON is at t he Areial Port Squadron and Jeff QUIGGLE i s i n t h e

Communications Squadron out at Clark. Butch PISANI an d M ik e T RI N CH I T EL LA are both stationed at Clark flying F-4s. Finally, congra tualtion s are i n o rder for John WI LLCOCKSON and his wife, Martha, on the natural ch i ld b irt h o f a “ w e’re talking about a large child” 9 lbs. 14.5 oz. baby girl.

1 also received some informat ion fr om the Depart ment of t he Navy not ifiying me t hat Rodolfo LLOBET has completed Naval Fl igh t Training and is now designated a Naval A-vi-a-tor after some 18 mont hs of fl ight training.

The Navy also wrote a let ter stat ing that Greg TESCH recently returned from a six-mont h deployment to t he Mediterranean Sea whi le serving wi th Bat talion Landing Team 3/ 8, 22nd Marine Expedit ionary Unit, Camp Lej eune, NC. He got the opport un ity to serve wit h some French, Italian and Spanish units. I n addit ion, a surprise visit was made by President Bush in Net t uno, I taly. If you remember t he last issue of Checkpoi nts, does t he pict ue of Greg indicate that h e rat es a v i si t fro m P r esi d en t B u sh ?

An o t h er let t er 1 recei ved w as fr o m Dave AM I N o u t o f Los Angeles AFB, CA.

West JACKSON was married on May 4, 1990 to the former Candy Bryant of Orange County, CA. Trish (RICI LLO) KENNEY was in a car accident and laid up for a while. We al l hope she is feeling better. She and her husband, Tim, live in Pomona if you want to call her. Larry GRAHAM is an engineer in the DSCS Satellite SPO and wi ll fi nish his MBA from Pepperdine in August Brian SMITH is an orbital operations specialist in the DSCS Satellite Program and is practically to his third (and bigger yet) motorcycle. He moonlights as a motorcycle riding and handling instructor part t ime. At Eglin AFB, Chuck CI UZIO and wife Chung-how recently had a baby girl named Stephanie. We all hope her looks came from her mot her. Otherwise . . . Chuck is thinki ng of getting a master's degree in engineering (four years and now he wants more).

Murf CLARK is at McConnell AFB fl ying KC- B 5s. The best thing about ’135s is the ACE program which he has nearly completed. 1 guess h e w o r ks o u t a lo t o n alert and “ is gett ing real big” . Tom VICHOT, who is a T-37 I P at Reese, recent ly got the opport unity to fly in formation at a local air show wit h a P-51, an A-7, and his TweeL Out at Willie, Stephen DASI LVA, also a Tweet IP, was getting married to Monica on May 26. As for Dave AMIN, he is gett ing married on Sept 23, to Loren Kaye Levy of Palos Verdes. The wedding will be i n So u t h ern Ca l ifo rn ia. As an aside, Dave is nearly fi nished with a commercial pilot’s license and instrument rating and hopes to be a part-time fl ight instructor.

Finally, the news you have been waiting for! Steve HENDRICKSON “ pledged marriage vows January 20th, duri ng candlelight ceremony . . .” I n at t en da n ce from ’87 were Bruce O’CAI N and Marc MUNAFO. If you don’t already know, Steve in at Lakenheath flying F-l l l s. Congrat ulations to Steve and his lovely wife, Sh aro n .

St eve an d Sh ar on H en dr i ckso n For those of you wondering what I am doing, I am still i n CO S as an au d i t o r with t he AF Audit Agency (yes, 1 am here to help you . . . and you’re glad to see me). 1 have been here for seven years and will probably be h ere tw o m o re beca use the agency has decided to replace all military auditor slots wit h civil ians . . . yes, 1 will be unemployed. Does anybody know somebody in a Fort une 500 company, as 1 will probably opt to cross-train into the civilian se c t o r .

Once again, thanks for your support and have an enj oyable s u m m e r .

Godspeed.

M ar k V. P et er s P SC B o x 13 5 3

Carswel l AFB, TX 7612 7- 1353 (817) 782-5205

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I t looks like I may have j umped to concl usions last i ssu e w h en I c l osed w i t h ’. . . remember, in j ust a few short mont hs we’l l get t h at m assiv e fi r st

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lieutenant pay raise!” The way things are looking, we may all be selected

“ above t he zone.” I ’m sure I wasn’t th e only one planni ng on t he extra dollars;

let’s hope everything gets worked out before the first o f Ju n e.

Steve and Jennifer DION wrote to update me on our classmates a t Sh aw .

Steve was working at Shaw’s CPBO awaiting his medical c l earan ce fo r ai r traffic control officer training. That came through and after training at Keesler he’s back at Shaw where he’l l be i n upgrade trai ni ng u n t i l D ec em b er. A l so at Shaw are Vicki BESECK ER and Tracy (JONES) FRAMPTON i n m a i n ta n a n c e.

Ri ch FRAMPTON (in yet anot her j oint spouse success!). Art ANDERSON, Ed de la PENA and Kirk JOHNSON are all part of the 507th TAC Control Wing

(OV-l Os). Cliff LANE is in Accounting and Finance and D an ST RE B L E i s i n Civil Engineering where he helped make sure Hurricane H ugo’s visit didn’t

become an AOC, etc.), let me hear from you. Along the same l ines, if you have any good pictures of these new and exciting events, se n d t h em t o o . T h e m o re imput the bett er.

Mary HOWRY (0‘BRIEN) dropped me a line in January. Sh e i s a t i n t e l sc h o o l

at Goodfel low AFB w it h several ot her grads, all get t ing ready to leave for t heir new assignments. These include: Mary HOWRY, Carswell AFB, TX; Carol NORTHROP (STUART) Minot AFB, ND; Angela THORNHILL, H urlburt AFB, FL; Rondall RICE, Myrtle Beach AFB, SC; Rebeca LEANTE, Torrej on AB, Spain; Carl LONG, Ramstein AB, Germany; Spiros FAFALIOS and Kat hy

GAGNE, Key West, FL; Kevin DURDEN, Elmendorf AFB, AK; a n d Jen n i fer ROOKE, Kelly AFB, TX. Mary also said that Nancy BAERWALD is at Wright-

Pat terson AFB as an informat ion systems officer and real ly li kes it I n addit ion,

Marlon and Angie CAMACHO dropped me a line fr om Wright-Pat w i t h n ew s

Sue WOJSZYNSKI is coaching volleyball at USAFA, and w i t h t h e r ec en t P CS cuts she may not get to leave after a year. Thanks for wr i t ing Mary!

caused me to off icially introduce the First Fabulous F o t o co n t est H ere ’s t h e

University of Maryland with John BIRD, Ralph JACKSON, an d M i k e MCKINLEY. Mark says that they all have declared National Security Pol icy as

Mike TERNEUS are hoping to get everyone at Wright-Pat together for a picture. I hope they’re successful since I’m desperate for pics.

between the two years. Mark also had some info on some o f o u r o t h er classmates. John BIRD and Megan COLWELL were married i n June, and Megan is a personnel officer at Bolling AFB, Washington, D C . M i k e HORNITSCHEK is studying hard at Stanford in Palo Alto. P h i l ROS E i s burning up the skies in Del Rio, TX and is enj oying marr ied l ife w ith his high

leave a last ing impression.

of t heir new beaut iful baby girl, Lauren Grace, bom on Aug. 1, 1989. Much t o my chagrin, they failed to include a picture! This maj or transgression has deal; the first five lucky ’88ers who send me a photo of t heir baby wi ll have t he distinct pleasure of having their baby’s mug printed i n a magazi ne wit h WORL DWI DE dist ribut ion! Just thi nk of how impressed your in-laws wi l l be!

And you’ll probably even get the picture back in a few mont hs. H urry!

Marlon is a program manager in the F-15 SPO and he’s havi ng a great t i me trying to fi eld the F-15s with all the trouble Congress is giving t hem. He and Cliff WESTBROOK called fr om Dyess where he and a few other ’88ers j ust if nished B- 1 training. Cliff s going to Ellsworth, Brent BAYSINGER and Craig GOODRI CH to Gra nd Forks, Jim HAI LEY to McConnell, and Sh an e P ET E RSO N to Ellsworth. Wh ile he was there. Cliff found a few classmates stat ioned at Dyess:

Bill BROWN, Tony GIANGIULIO and Marty WINKLER are all C - 130 n av s an d i t appears that Marty may be the fi rst (and hopefully last) member of our class to

have seen actual combat He was a member of the JUST CA USE i n vat i o n o f Panama. Dave DEBORGER is also at Dyess as a C- 130 pilot Cliff th inks he may have heard Carl BUTTS’ distinctive dra wl over the ra dio while talking to Albuquerque Center. Carl is at Cannon as an F-111 pilot Lastly, Mike and Janelle MURPHY are at Plattsburg where Mike fl ys the KC-135.

The following changes of address have recently arrived: Kristopher AL DEN is in Yokota, Japan as a C-130 copilot; Chris BEODDY is at Fairchild; Alex DeFAZIO is at Luke; David DICKSON is learn ing to fly t he F-16 at M acD i l l w i t h t h e 72 n d TFTS; Richard DOLS is flying C- 141s with the 4th MAS out of McChord; Timothy GRONDIN has left Castle for Minot Mike KI RCHOFF is at McChord; and Chuck

KOWITZ is flying the OA-37 with the 24th Tactical Air Support Squadron out of

Howard AFB, Panama. He’s trying to fi nd our classmate Jorge (George) LASSO who returned to Panama after gra duat ion. I f anyone has any Intel please drop Chuck a line at PSC 4199, APO Miami, FL 34001.

David LANGE is at Cast le; Mike and Cindy (GROVE) LARAMEE w ere m arr i ed on Nov. 11, 1988, and are at Seymour-Johnson where Mi ke is an F-4 WSO; Phillip LaSALLA is an Intel analyst with the 9 SRW at Beale; David LYNCH is an I P wit h the 85 FTS at Laugh lin; Tom McDANI ELS (USMC) i s a st u d en t naval aviator in (or wit h?) the VT-6 at Pensacola, FL; Mat t hew MI LLER is at

I also received a let ter from Mark CZEL USTA, who is i n sc h o o l at t h e

their concentrat ion i n t he masters’ of public management program. They are “ maxed” out at 15 credit hours for the spri ng semester. The program covers two full years with a summer internship at a maj or govern mental agency

school sweet heart M ike WI LLIAMSON cont i nues t o st udy history at Chapel Hi ll in Nort h Caroli na. Shaun PERK OWSK I and Tiffiany RO D G E RS w ere married in June, and are both stationed at Laughlin AFB. Thanks for your let t er M ar k !

I received a card fr om Reb BUTLER, who is at Mi not AFB wai t ing t o go t o

missile training. Reb wanted me to put a note in this art icle concern ing t he Calvin and Hobbes T-shirts. Anyone who ordered a Calvin an d H o b bes T - sh i r t rf om either Reb or Joe ODER and did not receive it ca n w r i t e t o Reb B UT L E R at 152-3 Sirocco Drive, Minot AFB, ND 58704 to get ei t her t h e T - sh i r t o r t h e i r

money back. From the change-of-address cards, Charles P E T E RS w r o t e t h at he is working at Rockwell International Corporation, w h er e t h e t o t a l v a l u e o f the Rockwell contracts under his review is $12 mill ion!

By now everyone should have received their yearbook. I f you haven’t, you can write to t he Cadet Wing Media office at P.O. Box 6066, USAF Academy, CO 80840 to get one. Their phone number is AV 259-4644. I f you writ e, be sure t o include your current address.

Our pilot training class here at Willy has j ust started T -3 8 s. W e are becoming one with all the new pubs. Christy KAYSER told me t hat Ant hony

LASURE and his w ife, Rachelle, recent ly had a baby gir l, Samat ha Renee.

Anthony is at pilot training at Vance AFB in class 91-01. My roommate, Ken THIELE, recently got engaged to Michelle Sharon, with weddi ng bells set for September. And for all of you CS-39 grads, Ken and I ran i n t o D a l e A n d er so n a couple of weeks ago at Davis-Monthan. He is in CS-03 w i t h t h e c l ass o f ’9 1. H e wanted us to say hello to all t he ’39 has-beens.

Dyess; Alex ROSSANO spent some time traversing the Y u k o n at 50 be lo w w i t h

his father recent ly and is now at Elmendorf as a C- 130 pilot ; and Mike ROT H ST E I N i s at M ac D i l l i n t h e F- 16 RT U.

David SMITH (Navy) was “ recent ly designated a Naval Flight Officer upon

gra duation fr om the Overwater Jet Navigation Phase of Tra i ni ng. Duri ng the 15-week train ing period. Smit h underwent i ntensive c l assro o m an d a i r bo r n e

training in the T-47A ‘Citation 11’ and the TA-4J ‘Skyhawk’ aircraft Tra ini ng culminates wi th t he presentation of t he covet ed ‘Wings o f Go ld ’ o f a N av al Flight Offi cer,” or at least t hat’s what t he Naval press release says; and Ancel YA R B RO UGH i s i n F - 111 RT U at M o u n ta i n H o m e.

Thanks again to Marlon and Angie CAMANCHO, Steve and Jen n i fer D I O N

and Cl iff WESTBROOK for t he info. Keep me posted w i th what’s going on in your corner of the world; the next deadline is probably a week or two after you recei v e t h is issu e.

Paul W. Tibbets, IV 1710 S. Gil bert Road, Apt 2032 Mesa, AZ 85204 Home: (602) 926-4 190

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Welcome to yet another edit ion of the ’89 Class News. I hope t he Ai r Force is

treating everyone well. If there are any new and exciting t hings happening i n your life (engagement/ marriage, kids, new assignments, a longing desire to

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Willy class 90-14 enj oying the end of Tweet Fi nal ly, si nce I don’t have any ot her pict ures t o pu bl ish, I t hought t his one of 90- 14 here at Wil ly would be a good one to print Th is is a shot of part of our “ Tweet -complete” party. We are in front of the hanger at our auxi liary fi eld, which we al l love and look forward to never seeing again!

T h at ’s a bo u t al l fo r t h i s i ssu e. T h e n ex t d ead l i n e is Ju n e 15 . L e t m e h ear f ro m

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