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ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY

SPRING MAGAZINE

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1978

Vol. 7

Editor

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Jim Wheeler, ’64

Ass’t Editor

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Mark Torreano, ’68

Administrative Staff

IN THIS ISSUE

Mrs. Freida Weber

ARTICLES: Change of Command

Mrs. Kathy McCann

Impressions: Part III

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Mrs. Joanne English

“Class Wall” Project

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Ms. Lisa Flynn OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES President David M. Goodrich, ’59

Vice President

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Homecoming 1978

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Assistant Secretary

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Red Tag in D.C

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20th AFA Assembly

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100th Night 1978

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Promotions

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Risner Trophy

21

Bylaws Changes Approved

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Thomas J. Eller, ’61 Executive Secretary James F. Wheeler, ’64

DEPARTMENTS From the SUPERINTENDENT’S DESK Attention in the Area

DIRECTORS To Serve Until 1 May 1979 Donald R. Baucom, ’62 Jon R. Staples, ’62 James P. Tate, ’63

Alfred W. Grieshaber, Jr., ’65

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Sports Shorts Chapter News

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Letters to the Editor

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Class News

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Gone, But Not Forgotten

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Thomas L. Cunningham, ’67 Richard P. Ellis, ’68 Burton C. Andrus, III, ’69

John J. Warner, ’69 Kevin W. Krail, ’71

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ABOUT OUR COVER

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Vincent M. Parisi, II, ’73

To Serve Until 1

May 1981

Gares Garber, Jr., ’59 Hector A. Negroni, ’61

Springtime in the Rockies...a heavy frost and a bright cloudless sky to outline the flagpole in front of the Graduate War

Frederick L. Metcalf, ’63

Memorial

Fletcher H. Wiley, ’65

dens...a constant reminder to the Cadet Wing of the heritage they share with all who have previously worn the AFA uniform.

Mark A. Torreano, ’68 Ronald E. Joy, ’71 Michael J. McCarthy, ’71

which

stands

in

the

Air

Gar-

Leslie J. Haaf, ’72 Frederick S. Knowles, Jr., ’73 Douglas J. Ford, ’76

To Serve Until 1 June 1978

Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the They do not necessarily reflect the opinions, policy or attitude of the Association of Graduates, its authors.

Lynn M. Scott, ’77

officers or the editorial staff.

The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Association of Graduates of the products or services advertised.

ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES MAGAZINE is

published quarterly by the Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, Colorado 80840.

Second-class postage paid at USAF Academy, 1

Colorado.

POSTMASTER: If this magazine is addressed to a member of the Military Service, no postage is necessary for forwarding (see Postal Manual, Section 158.4). If no forwarding address for this military member is available, send Form 3579 to Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, CO 80840.

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from the

SUPERINTENDENT'S DESK In the Fall issue of the AOG Magazine,

I shared with

you my reasons for convening the Academy Honor Review

Committee and explained the entire review process which was

spawned by this action. Since that time the work of the

eight Honor Review Subcommittees has been completed, the Honor Review Committee has submitted a final report for my consideration, and I subsequently have established an

Honor Review

Implementation Committee to oversee

the development of the necessary programs to implement the many recommendations for program improvements which evolved during the initial in-depth studies. My intent

responsible for the operation of his cadet squadron. b. Clearly delimit responsibilities of the cadet chain of command to the implementation and enforcement of policies, with the cadet commanders reporting to their corresponding officer counterparts. c.

Review the cadet rank structure to reduce the number

and dispersion of higher ranking positions. d. Implement a comprehensive phased training program approach to military training and leadership development, including a privilege structure that more closely relates cadet privileges to performance in all mission areas. e.

Implement a more flexible disciplinary system to provide penalties and disciplinary actions more appropriate to the magnitude and frequency of a cadet’s infractions and his record of performance.

To many graduates, some of the “changes” will not seem

in this issue of the A OG Magazine will be to update you on

like changes at all. To

the progress we have made to date, to explain the major

reason

changes that will be introduced in the coming academic year, and to share my thoughts about what we can expect

from the changes which are planned.

It is important to reiterate that the Cadet Honor Code will

a

limited extent this is true. The

for this is

quite simple; that is, after 23 years of practical experience in training cadets for commissioned service, we find ourselves in a position to draw from previous programs in designing a composite program that wi 11 insure we turn out the most effective Air Force Officer.

remain the paramount feature of the Cadet Way of Life.

Turning now to another subject which has been a topic of

However, we, working with the Cadet Wing, have decided to alter the professional ethics training program and the administration of the Code in several significant ways. The following list highlights these administrative changes:

discussion here at the Academy, I will briefly comment on

Merge the existing separate Honor and Ethics training programs into a single coherent four-year program of instruction in Professional Ethics, treating honor and

my

a.

Honor Code administration

in the broader context of

Professional Ethics. b. Merge the existing Cadet Honor and Cadet Ethics Committee to form a single Professional Ethics Committee. c. Expand cadet honor boards from the existing eight to twelve cadets. The twelve members of any board would include two first class members of the Professional Ethics

Committee, plus ten members randomly selected from all upperclass cadets in good standing. d. Alter the requirement for a guilty verdict from unanimity to nine of the twelve cadets.

As you can see, although the Honor Code itself will remain unchanged, we have come to recognize a clear need

for

a

to

the

accomplish the mission of the Academy has led

propose to the Chief of Staff that we make some far-

reaching changes among

development of the Academy’s academic program. specific administrative and managerial positions such as Dean of Faculty or Department Head, which may only be held by Permanent Professors, are by law and custom subject to the decisions of management. the

However,

I have been asked to appoint a search committee to assist me in the identification of at least three candidates from the Permanent Professors. I will forward

a

list of

candidates to the Secretary for his selection of an officer who will be nominated by the President for Senate confirmation as the next Dean of Faculty.

Finally, I would like to commend the graduate communi-

Our total review of all aspects of the training programs

theme

recommendation, the Secretary expressed his full support for the concept of tenure for the Academy’s Permanent Professors. He acknowledged the permanent professor status as specified in law and justified by the need for stability, continuity and academic excellence in

ty here in Colorado for the support of the Academy and our diverse programs. In February, the Colorado Chapter of the AOG and the Class of 1978 in cooperation with the AOG office staged “100th Night 1978.” It was a memorable

cadet involvement in the Code.

me to

tion to appoint a new Dean of Faculty. In concurring with

and

program

improved cadet understanding of, and commitment to, high standards of personal integrity and an increased

we utilize to

Force to announce that he will support my recommenda-

administration of the Code to effect

substantially improved education

revisions

the circumstances which have led the Secretary of the Air

the

in several other

areas.

One

common

major proposals submitted for

my

evening for the 1500 participants and an appropriate way to mark the transition of the

Class of 1978 into double

digit numbers. The success of the Dining Out has been such that after only two years, it has become a meaningful tradition and an event that all future classes look forward to with great anticipation. Additionally,

consideration is the need for firmer institutional control

can

and direction of the Cadet Wing. Past efforts to place substantial responsibility in the hands of the cadet chain of

the AOG again this year worked with the Department of

command, while of noble intent, have produced neither the

Assembly. The event was a great success and the signifi-

desired level of leadership training experience for cadets

cant assistance rendered

Political

Science

to

sponsor

the

annual

Academy

level of commitment, honor, and duty. As a result, the following procedures will be instituted with the beginning

by the AOG is indicative of the responsible role that the AOG has assumed in the affairs of the Academy. The Academy community and the Cadet Wing join me in thanking the Association for its ongoing

of the 78-79 Academic Year:

involvement and support.

nor

sufficient direction of the Cadet Wing toward a desired

Expand the role of the Air Officer Commanding to

K. L. Tallman

function effectively as a unit commander in control of and

Lt Gen USAF

a.

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CHANGE OF COMMAND

B/Gen Thomas C. Richards

Gen Beck reviewed the Wing for the last

Commandant of Cadets at the United States Air Force Academy. He succeeded B/Gen Stanley C. Beck who had served

time during the Change of Command Parade which welcomed the New Com-

On

20

March

1978

became the 10th

man

to

serve

as

since July 1975.

mandant

and honored

the

departing

Commandant after almost three years in the post.

The Superintendent and the new First Lady of CW officiate during the promowhich preceded the tion ceremony Change of Command ceremony.

AOG Vice President, Tom Eller, '61, presented General Beck an AOG Certificate of Appreciation for his support of AOG programs and his contribution to the success of the many AOG projects which are undertaken in conjunction with CW.

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Attention in the Arett

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Jim Wheeler, ’64 Editor/Executive Director 1978 Jabara Award Nominations for the 1978 Jabara Award for Airmanship are being sought by the selection -

Address Correction

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As the busy season for PCS moves

that has distinguished himself in the aerospace field. The

gets ever closer, we would like to remind members of the AOG to send us a change of address notice. You will help us if you will clip and forward the mailing label used on the

nominee may be in service

latest Magazine received. When clipping this label, please

committee. This annual award is presented to a Graduate or

out of

service, alive

or

deceased, and must be nominated for accomplishments

leave the code number, which is printed in the upper right,

related to the furtherance of the aerospace field. All inquiries and nominations should be directed to Capt Ray

intact. This will facilitate

Leopold, Chairman of the

1978 Jabara Selection Com-

processing of your change of we get your forwarding address correct and AOG records updated. address and

will

insure that

mittee, in care of the AOG office. Ray can be reached on autovon 259-3190.

’61 and ’64 Class Rings

Football Games Those Graduates located in close proximity to the away football games on the ’78 schedule who wish to organize a get-together should contact the -

AOG office for coordination and assistance. The away football games are listed below. If you are interested, please

A letter from Jeff Levy, Class of ’64, indicates that his dealings with the L.G. Balfour Company, which is handling the Class of ’61 and ’64 rings originally produced by Herff-Jones, have been quite successful to date. He relays that the prices seem reasonable, and he feels the workmanship was acceptable -

in every respect.

contact us.

September 9 Texas, El Paso September 16 Boston College September 30 Kansas State November 4 Army

Class of 1978

November 18

effective 1 June 1978. This represents an all time record for

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Vanderbilt

The initial membership drive for the Class join the Association of Graduates after their graduation on 31 May, has proven very successful. To date, 775 members of the class have elected to join the AOG -

of 1978 to

the Baffin

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On 7

April, Baffin, the famed white artic gyr-

graduating class, and, hopefully, is indicative of a growing role that the AOG is playing at the Air Force Academy and within the Graduate Community.

falcon who served as the official mascot of the Academy

Cadet Wing for 13 years, passed away at the Academy.

Baffin had appeared at all home AFA football games since

AOG Prints The AOG receives frequent inquiries from Graduates and members of the Academy community as to

1965. He was the second white gyrfalcon to hold the distinction of being the official mascot of the Academy.

the

Baffin, as many Graduates will recall, was also the subject of an AOG print by Don Eckelberry in 1972.

Service Commitment

The

following statement was released by General Tallman on 31 January 1978: “Today, it was confirmed by the Department of the Air Force that initial active duty service commitment for pilot training graduates will be increased from five to six -

availability of the print offered in 1972 by Mr. Don Eckelberry. The Baffin print has appreciated dramatically in value, and anyone in the readership wishing to offer a print for sale or to put their name on a list of prospective buyers should forward their name and requirements to the AOG office where a list will be maintained.

Transit Time

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In response to the request made in the

Winter Magazine for members to let the AOG office know how long it took the Magazine to reach various locations

years.

throughout the world, we can report that it typically takes 4

This

to 9 days within the ZI and seldom more than 10 days to

change will affect officers entering undergraduate pilot and helicopter training (UPT and UHT) on of after June 15,1979. (Members of the Class of 1978 with delayed entries into UPT or UHT will not be impacted).

This change in service commitment is a direct result of the total pilot force reduction which has occurred over the last several years due to retirement of Korean era pilots and a reduction in annual pilot training rates. No longer can the Air Force enjoy the luxury of a pilot surplus.

Therefore, in order to provide a more experienced and stable pilot force, while continuing to reduce personnel costs and flying hours, urgent action was required.

This change should not affect the number of Academy graduates who may enter UPT each year.”

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reach all overseas locations which are mailed through first class channels. We did discover that Hawaii and Alaska take

an inordinate amount of time and in the future, mailings to these places will be done by first class mail.

Additionally, we found that in a few isolated cases, particularly on the West Coast, it took well over a month for mail to go through normal second class channels. While it is impossible for us to influence postal practices, we continue to endeavor to meet our mailing deadlines, which are, for future reference: Spring Magazine, 1 May; Summer Magazine, 1 August; Fall Magazine, 1 November; and Winter Magazine, 1 February. Thanks to all of those who took the time to let us know how long it took to receive our publication.

The Airmanship Division has reAirmanship Duty quirements for Captains with extensive parachuting background. Former Academy parachute team members or officers actively involved in the sport of free-fall parachuting who are interested, should contact Captain Larry Casada, Autovon 259-2497.

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background wishing additional information

should contact the AOG, autovon 259-2073.

GRAD SURVEY

New AOC

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It has been announced that the Academy has

selected the first

Air Officer

lady

Commanding. Capt

Michele Joganic will assume her duties as 2nd Squadron

AOC in June 1978.

Pay and Retirement The AOG Board of Directors has recently debated the question of whether or not the AOG should adopt a position on current compensation issues before the U.S. Congress. Any Graduates wishing to -

projects and duties, both

official and AOG, have lead to the authorization of an additional officer slot in the AOG office. Any Graduate

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In the

near

future the AOG will be

contacting a cross section of Graduates that have been selected for BTZ promotions to collect some data to support an AOG study. A similar survey will be mailed to an equal number of Graduates who have progressed at a normal pace to obtain comparable data. If you are contacted, please give the survey your attention and return it as quickly as practical.

present their views on pay and retirement issues to the Board should write the AOG office.

SPORTS SHORTS Retirement

On 8 April the Academy Officers Club was

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the scene for a farewell dinner for Ben and Harriet Martin.

During the festivities Don Baucom, a Director of the Association of Graduates, presented Coach Martin with a framed AOG “Gyrfalcon” print on behalf of the entire membership.

Speaker It has been announced that John C. Stetson, Secretary of the Air Force, will be the commencement speaker at graduation ceremonies for the Class of 1978 on 31 May. -

Starting with this issue, the AOG Magazine will by a new printing firm. The staff is hopeful that the overall printing quality will improve significantly.

If readers have suggestions or constructive criticisms to offer related to this area, please direct your correspondence Printer

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be produced

to the AOG in

care

of the Editor.

NCAA SCHOLARSHIP— Basketball team

co-captain,

Tom Schneeberger, Class of 1978, has been named one of

fifteen national winners of a NCAA Scholarship for the 1977-78 athletic year. His selection brings to 22 the number of NCAA postgraduate scholarships won by AFA athletes

since the program was initiated in 1964. The leads the nation in scholarships awarded.

Academy

Schneeberger paced the team this year with 374 points points-per-game average. He also was the thirdand maintained the third-best shooting rebounder leading percentage. Tom has earned a 3.25 GPA in Engineering

for a 15

Sciences and finished his Falcon career as number three on the career scoring ladder among AFA basketballers.

He is the first Falcon athlete to win the NCAA award since baseball’s Larry Bryant was accorded similar honors in 1975. Schneeberger is also the fourth Falcon basketball

player to win an NCAA grant. Other basketball winners Cooper in 1969-70, Tom Blasein 1972-73and Rich

were Jim

Niekelson in 1973-74.

Advertising To assist in keeping the publications budget within reasonable hounds in the face of dramatically higher printing and paper costs, the AOG is attempting to expand the commercial advertising carried in the Magazine and the Register. Graduates in a position to place advertising or wishing to suggest potential advertisers to the staff should contact the AOG directly.

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ALL-AMERICAN DIVER —Janet Peterson, Class of 1981, became the first in her Class and the fifth AFA female swimmer to attain All-American honors. She was honored twice for a pair of sixth-place finishes in the one-meter and three-meter diving board events. In addition to her diving, Janet swam the opening leg of the 200 yard free-style relay

and the anchor leg of the 200 yard medley team; both teams Hall of Fame

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The AOG has proposed the establishment

set school records this

season.

During the season, Cadet

of an Athletic Hall of Fame for the Air Force Academy. The

Peterson competed 28 times in board events and finished

Advisory Council of the Athletic Association is considering the proposal. Any Graduate having suggestions related to this topic should contact the AOG office.

first 27 times.

1977

Register

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A limited number of 1977 Registers are

still for sale. AOG members may purchase an additional copy for $5.00, including postage. Nonmembers may

purchase a copy for $6.00.

20-2 RECORD FOR WOMEN’S

BB-Compiling a 20-2 record, the Falcon women’s basketball team dominated teams

and

finished second in the Intermountain

Association

of

Inter-collegiate

area

Athletics

for

Women,

Region 7 Tournament which was held in Colorado Springs.

Top seeded in the regional tournament, the Falcons downed Southern Colorado 65-43 in the opener, and made it three in a row for the season over Colorado College in the

Article

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If you enjoyed reading Richard Head’s articles in

recent issues of the AOG

Magazine, you may want to review an article written by Richard in the April 1978 issue of Foreign Affairs; the title is “Technology and the Military Balance.”

semifinals, 60-59, hut lost to Eastern New Mexico 57-56, in the finals.

Freshman Michelle Johnson, averaging 16.7, and Pat Swanke, leading the Falcons with an 18.8 average in the tournament, were named to the all-tourney team.

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Part III

IMPRESSIONS

A View of Soviet Youth Richard Head 60

The first article in this three-part series described several general impressions gained in a brief visit to the Soviet Union in May 1977. The proposition of that article was that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has institutionalized the memory of World War II for the purposes of maintaining itself in power, thus retarding any process of social transformation. The second article was a general description of Soviet military officer education, noting that the Soviet Union has many more military schools and longer educational programs than does the United States.

Despite this devotion of considerable officer education, the Soviets stress military history, tactics, and technical training to a

resources

to

degree that probably limits rather than enhances the initiative and actual decisionmaking capabilities of their officers. This article will examine the subject of Soviet youth and will develop some perceptions of the

Pravda, “By its very essence, Soviet patriotism is an organic fusion of a feeling of love for the fatherland, Communist conviction, and proletarian internationalism.”* Russian writers stress this ex-

pansion of patriotism is necessary to mold the social character of the Russian people and to create the “new Soviet man” an elusive product of socialpolitical conditioning, completely loyal to the Party, obedient to the regime, collectivist in outlook, and hostile to the outside world.

—

The attempt to mold and direct the character of the

society has been a fundamental tenet of Communism since before World War I. It finds current expression in a centrally-directed, widespread, coordinated program for the political-military education of Soviet youth. To accomplish this task, which has “great national importance,” the Soviets have created a spectrum of extracurricular organizations that sup-

Communist Party’s large-scale program of youth

port and reinforce the educational system. These

indoctrination.

organizations include the Little Octobrists (for small children); Young Pioneers (for boys and girls aged 9-

As related in the first article, the members of our

delegation were surprised by the large number of military uniforms seen on the streets of Moscow, Leningrad, and Volgograd. In addition to the regular military services (dominated by the brown uniforms of the Army) we saw green uniforms of the KGB and Border Guards, black and white uniforms of school children, and the blue pants, white shirts, and red scarves of the Young Pioneers.

Wherever

we

went in

our

14); the Komsomols (ages 14-28); and the All-Union

Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Air Force, and Navy (DOS A Ah’) for young adults (minimum age 14).

little caravan of black

Volga automobiles, people stared and moved quickly to get out of our way. A Soviet traffic policeman even saluted our car. We had no illusions they were honoring Americans; they probably did not even know the nationality of the visitors. What they were doing was reacting to their training and instincts about authority, as represented by the Soviet military. This led me to wonder what the relationship was among the military, education, and youth.

During our first night in Moscow I asked one of our Soviet Army escort officers why Russian schools taught so much military history. He answered, “Of course we teach a lot of military history; we use it to teach patriotism to our young people.” “Patriotism” in the Soviet usage, is somewhat different from that

known in the West. According to a 1971 edition of

Editor’s note: Colonel Richard Head is a Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City. The first two parts of this series appeared in the Kail and Winter issues.

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children placing flowers Piskarevskaya Cemetary, Leningrad.

School

*

on

the

mass

graves,

Cited by Leon Goure, The Military Indoctrination of Soviet Youth (New York: National Strategy Information Center, 1973), p. 5.

The Russians love small children, and they spoil,

protect, and indulge them almost without limit at home. Thus, it must be quite a shock for a Russian

child to enter kindergarten where he is gently, hut firmly introduced to discipline, conformism, and state authority. At this age, the main themes appear

be patriotism and the worship of Lenin. The kindergarten teacher is assisted in these aims by the Little Octobrist organization which attempts to make the political indoctrination more palatable by combining it with games and trips to war memorials.

Young Pioneers are children 9-14 years of age. The organization was established in 1922 and has approximately 25-28 million members (reportedly 80 percent of those eligible). When I asked what kinds of children did not join the Young Pioneers, one of our escorts said that non-joiners generally fell into two groups: those whose parents held fundamental (by Russian standards) religious beliefs and did not want their children to join any political organization; and those children who were unusually gifted and devoted to a sport (music, gymnastics, track and field, ballet, etc.) and saw no advantage in joining.

After all, he said, “Who would not want to join?” to

It

turns

out

there

are

many

reasons

Russian

children want to join the Young Pioneers. Pioneer activities include sports, hiking, hobbies, summer camps, visits to national landmarks, and occasional-

ly trips to Eastern European countries. But accompanying these recreational activities is a heavy dose of patriotism, conformism, and social engineering.

The code of the Young Pioneers is, “A Pioneer is loyal to his Motherland, the Party, Communism.

A Pioneer keeps the memory of the fallen fighters and .

.

.

prepares to become a defender of the Motherland.. .”*

The official hero of the Pioneers is Pavel Morozov, a 14-year-old boy who, in 1932, during the harsh period of

collectivization, reported his own father to the

authorities for hiding grain from the state. Morozov was, in turn, murdered by private farmers who opposed Stalin’s collectivization policy. Later he was immortalized by the Communist Party and continues to be a Young Pioneer hero.

The connection between patriotism and the Young Pioneers is

a

direct one, and the

linkage is main-

tained by the memory of World War II, or as the Soviets call it, the Great Patriotic War. This linkage is reinforced by Young Pioneer acceptance of a civic

acting as honor guards at war memorials. duty Witnessing Young Pioneers changing the guard at the Square of Fallen Fighters in Volgograd was for me an impressive experience. Each guard detail two boys, two girls, and consisted of five Pioneers one leader. The four guards were about eleven years old, with the leader perhaps two years older. The boys —

—

carried authentic army submachine guns, without ammunition. At the sound of taped, mournful music, *

Hedrick Smith, The Russians (New York: The New York Times Book

Company, 1976), p. 162.

Young Pioneers changing guard at the Square of Fallen Heroes, Volgograd.

the leader marched the relief detail into position, his straight legs rising almost waist-high in a miniature version of “parade-step.” The Pioneers changed positions with their comrades in silent, disciplined ritual, dedicated to the memory of the fallen fighters they were guarding.

We were told that these details were competitive

and honored among the Pioneers. Later we witnessed a graphic example of Russian supervision of children.

Groups of Pioneers were practicing close

order drill in a nearby square. One young girl missed a step, and an old woman rushed up and cuffed her on the head!

When the youth approaches the age of fourteen and

longer be a Pioneer, he or she has the the Young opportunity to join the Komsomol Communist League. There are approximately 35 can

no

—

million

Komsomols in

ages

from

14

to

28. The

Komsomol is more competitive than the Pioneers, but

being a member is a distinct advantage in obtaining entry into university or other privileged positions.

(The young enlisted men who were assigned to carry

bags in Volgograd were all Komsomols, membership being proudly displayed by a red badge on the uniform tunic.) Komsomols have obligatory civic assignments and “volunteer” to work Saturdays and other off-duty hours to demonstrate their devotion and leadership skills. In return they have a series of rewards, including opportunities for trips abroad to Poland, East Germany, and occasionally the West (an unheard-of privilege for an ordinary

our

citizen).

The Komsomol is reinforced

by a paramilitary organization, the DOSAAF. The United States has no equivalent organization, as it combines the activities of 4-H, Boy Scouts, YMCA, Civil Air Patrol, and ROTC. Its members are at least 14 years old and 9

number

somewhere

between

40

and

76

million.

These physical activities are excellent preparation of national

militarized

in

Although the DOSAAF was only formed in 1951, it is

for

the direct descendent of several other Soviet mass voluntary organizations that date hack to 1923. Its purpose was originally to instill in youth an interest

conjunction with the school program but sponsored by the Komsomol and supported by the Ministry of Defense. The games are called “Zarnitsa” (“Summer Lightning”) for young children and “Eaglet” for the older ones. The games begin about age 9 and involve classroom study, marksmanship, small-unit maneuvers, and tactical war games. Huge exercises extending from several hours to several days include infantry attacks across simulated mine fields, capture of “enemy” paratroopers, and even the “execution” of partisans. Soviet commentators insist that Zarnitsa and Eaglet are not mere amusements, but merit (and get) serious consideration in the national press and military journals.

The academic content of the schools is reportedly quite rigorous, with a concentration on reading, mathematics, and grammar (and no sex education).

The instructional techniques tend to emphasize drill, repetition, and memory, with severe discipline being applied to deviations in dress or technique. The strengths of this education appear to he in the

in military affairs and to train members in military-

related sports and organized activity.* After the 1967 decree of the Law of Universal Military Service, the DOSAAF became the central organization in the administration of a compulsory 140-hour program of pre-induction military training

for all students age 16-18. To accomplish the added training, the DOSAAF budget expanded 300 percent from 1966 to 1972, funding some 330,000 individual units across the U.S.S.R. The DOSAAF is directly

responsible

to

the

Ministry of Defense and ad-

ministers the huge training program with the aid of both active and retired military instructors.

The current purpose of the DOSAAF is to continue the military orientation of Soviet youth but also to

provide inductees with many of the precise military skills they will need in the active-duty forces. It is, in fact, a basic military training program. Activities teaching of Marxist-Leninist theory.

Party decisions, military history, military topography, the use of camouflage, signals, civil defense, first aid, the study of military regulations, close order drill, interior guard duty, digging foxholes, marksmanship, and weapons training on submachine guns and anti-tank grenade include

the

Communist

launchers.

a

set

games

run

accumulation of masses of detail and the mastery of fundamentals. The weaknesses of what Hedrick Smith calls this “stifling conservatism” appear to be a loss of spontaneity, creativity, and inquisitiveness.

The preceding discussion has concentrated on both the intent and content of the Soviet political-military education program. The key question is what effect program has on Soviet young people. To generalize in this area is as difficult as generalizing

this

include

The methods instruction lectures, movies, evening conferences, meetings with war veterans, visits to military units, and field exercises.

At the same time DOSAAF members participate in military-related sport clubs such as parachuting, scuba diving, model aircraft building, soaring, light plane flying, radio electronics, and motorcycle and automobile driving. Thus, DOSAAF and Komsomol membership provide excitement and activity, develop usable military skills (for the inductee), and open the doors to avenues of careers, benefits, and privileges not available elsewhere in the society.

At the same time, the regular Soviet elementary and secondary school curriculum has a large military component that is sometimes missed by Western of

observers. Soviet schools often start the year with a

about U.S. youth, but our own observations and those of other professionals provide some comparisons of

attitudes. First among a list of social indicators could be discipline. The Soviet school system and the military services place the highest value on unquestioned obedience, yet knowledgable observers social

self-discipline is lax or absent. Children misbehave behind teachers’ backs, students cheat in class regularly, corruption is rampant among public officials, and many of the economy’s benefits can only be obtained “na levo” (literally, “on the left” or under the table). Discipline, apparently, is not internalized and is generally inoperative except in the presence of direct authority or strong group pressure.

Part of the discipline problem in Russian schools note that

be traced to

disillusionment with the class

general assembly at a local memorial honoring the war dead. (Once again, the 20 million casualties the

can

U.S.S.R. suffered in World War II make this a more

is Union officially a “classless society,” the privileges of automobiles, summer homes, travel, and higher education are much closer to the grasp of than to military and civilian Party officials workers. The reduction in opportunities open to the majority of young people has placed a tremendous competitive pressure on the examination process leading to university or institute education. One Russian writer admits he is worried about a “growing psychological revolution” of young people who have benefited from a sharp rise in living standards, but

personalized experience than would be the case in the West.) The subject of civil defense is introduced by the second year in elementary school. Older students learn first aid, weapons effects, and disaster warning signals. Physical education includes training in close order drill, grenade throwing, obstacle courses, hikes, swimming, cross country skiing, and map reading. *

For an incisive view into the use of these “voluntary” societies, see William

Odom, The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 197.'i)

10

a

nature of current Soviet society. Although the Soviet

—

—

the United States in 1965-73, and the rise of urban terrorism in West Germany, 1972-77, have their

philosophical roots in a youthful rejection of parental materialism. The Soviet generation gap, on the other

hand, seems to be based in the parents’ worries over the materialistic self-indulgence of their children.

A Soviet Air Force colonel gave us his opinion on the causes of society’s disillusionment with Russian

Young Pioneer girl, age 11, standing guard at the Volgograd Square of Fallen Heroes.

also values.

have

The

become

disillusioned

with

traditional

youth. The Young Pioneers and the Komsomol are popular, he said, but more so with farm youth than city youth. The city people, he maintained, are weaker physically and spiritually than farmers. The young people in the cities are less inclined toward the military now than ever before; they are more interested in material goods, rock music, and owning a radio than in hard work and the security of the state.

Their material aspirations are rising faster than the economy can provide consumer goods. Yes, he admitted, this does cause a problem for the country in deciding how to allocate its priorities among the three main claimants defense, the industrial base, and consumer goods. Still, he judged, there was much —

enthusiasm

for

the

Pioneer

and

Komsomol

programs.

fact

that

significant numbers of secondary-school graduates found it impossible to get into an institute spelled a general breakdown in the chain of cause and effect that had long been basic to young people’s understanding of the world.

Suddenly it turned out that the traditional virtues excellent marks, exemplary conduct, respect for —

one’s elders

—

were

no

guarantees of success. A

single error in a written examination could cancel out 10 years’ work.* Russian young people are crazy about Western rock music, pop heroes, and dress. Reportedly there is extensive blackmarket in Western pop records and rock memorabilia, which the regime attempts to control without success. Mod dress is in fashion, and one can see leather jackets, bellbottoms, and blue jeans on any Moscow street. Drug traffic is apparently increasing in volume and distribution. The sexual an

revolution, so apparent in the West, has its counterpart in the Soviet Union with

an increase in the number of children being born out of wedlock. The

idealistic, Puritanical position of the Communist Party is increasingly being contradicted by the reality of a widespread shift in moral values. Still, the public display of affection is frowned upon and is kept within strict limits by strong social pressure. As with the other social indicators, the sexual revolution a cleavage between generations in the Soviet Union.

The “generation gap” extends across the spectrum of social attitudes, but it seems paradoxically to be the reverse of that in the West. The popular movement in France in 1968, the wave of student protest in

portends

*

These Strange Leonid Zhukovitsky, Young Fellows in Jeans (Literaturnoye obozreniue, 1977) as translated in The Current Digest of the

Soviet Press, Vol. 29, No. 36, p. 11.

The optimism of this opinion is not shared by other

observers who

see in Soviet life a moral crisis, a conflict between the righteous posturing of public life and the quiet desperation of private lives. Many of

these writers see a spiritual corruption of Soviet youth that breeds sullenness and cynicism. In the words of a former high-ranking Soviet official: Such cynicism is catching; it has, by now, infected broad segments of the population. Young people begin by believing in the ideals of Communism, taking at face value the official guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press, trying to be creative in their work and in their lives.

By the time they’re 20, they generally come to realize that they are being stifled by an entrenched bureaucracy opposed to any sign of innovation.

They become aware of the unbridgeable gap between what the Soviet regime says it believes and what it really stands for. This widening and ever more obvious gulf is the biggest reason for the growth of dissidence in the U.S.S.R.* In summary, the social attitudes of Soviet youth appear to encompass alienation, but no rebellion; dissent, but no reform. The stern environment of the

school, the patriotic emphasis of the militarypolitical extracurricular organizations, and the dominant present of the state combine to severely circumscribe the innovative tendencies of youth Faced with the centralization of power in government bureaucracy and the lack of alternative social

organizations, Soviet youth

express

attitudes of

* Boris Rabbot, “A letter to Brezhnev,” The New York Times Magazine, November 6, 1977. Rabbot, a secretary of the Social Science section of the presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and advisor to the Central Committee, is the highest-ranking Soviet official to be permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union in recent years.

11

USAFA-AOG INITIATE “CLASS WALL” PROJECT A proposal by the AOG for the establishment of a display of the Class Crests of each Class has recently been approved by the Academy Memorial Board and the Superintendent. The display will consist of large permanent plaques mounted on the east retaining wall of the Cadet Chapel and will be visible throughout the Cadet Area. The AOG-proposed project is designed to provide a daily visible reminder to the Cadet Wing of the heritage and traditions that all

with the ("lass of 1980, each Class will present its Coat-of-Arms during June Week in conjunction with

Graduates have shared while Cadets. The Class of 1968 has taken on the role of project coordinator as

the AOG to enlist their support for this meaningful

part of their 10 Year Reunion this fall.

The Class of 1968 will present its crest

-

more

accurately referred to as the Class “Coat-of-Arms” mounted on a 30 x 36 inch plaque, the heading lettering, and a dedicatory plaque to the Academy during the Saturday morning memorial ceremony at Homecoming 1978. It is planned that Classes which have already graduated will present a gift of their Coat-of-Arms at future Homecomings. Beginning

the traditional Ring Dance. A place of honor on the wall will he reserved for the incumbent First Class

and,

upon

graduation, the Coat-of-Arms will he replaced by the

moved to the graduate section and new

First Class.

The classes now at USA FA are being contacted by

project which will represent the strong bond between all past, present, and future Air Force Academy Cadets.

-

The Class of 1961 already has a fund Committee to organize the ’61 effort to support this new IJSAFAAOG project. Volunteers from other Classes should contact the AOG office for background information and assistance. Our joint objective should be to get the wall up to date in minimum time.

The display of Class emblems will face the Cadet Area. When completed it will served as

a

visual reminder of the heritage of the

Cadet Wing.

powerlessness, cynicism, conformism, apathy, and Despite the many changes in Soviet society wrought by ddtente and increased contact with Westerners, many Soviet citizens privately despair of the possibility of real reform, and most learn to play the game. Worse yet, the regime does not seem to be interested or capable of a constructive dialogue with the agents of change that might produce an evolutionary social transformation.

In a society where reform, revolution, and the law have traditionally occurred from the top, the prerevolutionary heritage of despotism and the postrevolutionary experience of totalitarianism have deeply instilled the principles of hierarchy, infallibility of the state and a militarized view of the world. The role of the military in Czarist days was to provide the fundamental source of political power and was used for internal stability and external

introversion.

12

expansion. In many respects the Soviet state has merely perpetuated these Czarist characteristics.

Thus trapped between a past it cannot change and a future it cannot comprehend, the current regime alienates its own children and embraces a militarism that promises at least security and domestic stability in the short

run.

The long term effects of internal military buildup can only be

and the

repression speculated. Those interested in seeing a liberalization of the Soviet state have been continually frustrated by the slow pace of change and the many crackdowns on dissidents. Although the view of Soviet youth presented in this article cannot be definitive, one wonders to what degree the emphasis on

militarization retards liberalization of the Soviet

society and actually drives it farther away from of freedom, democracy, justice, inconcepts dividualism, and respect for human rights.

it’s time to make plans to attend

HOMECOMING 1978 12-15 October

Classmates

-

Friends

CSU Football

•

USAFA

•

Class of ’68 Reunion

•

Jabara Award Presentation

-

-

Reduced Ai

Fares

Special Motel Rates

-

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Fun for All

-

PLANNING INFORMATION Accommodations

(Subject to change)

Limited VOQ space; reduced rates at local motels Time

Event

Location

Class of ’68 Dinner and Social

Ramada Inn

15 Year Reunion

Thursday, 12 Oct 1800

-

If Class of 1963 is interested, contact AOG ASAP

Fees

prices for AOG

Reduced

Friday, 13 Oct 1000 1130 1200

1600

-

1200

-

-

1245

-

Arnold Hall Registration Homecoming Parade Terrazzo (Floats, Cars, Etc)

Mitchell Hall Cadet Area

1530

-

-

and

advanced

Banquet First Classmen invited to join

1230

Lunch

1400

Attend Classes/

1530

Open House

Dorms

1700

Athletic Team

Gym

cadets, too)

2000

Registration

Officers’ Club

Jabara Award

1900

Social Hour

2030

Buffet/Chorale

Officers’ Club Officers’ Club

Pep Rally/Dance

Gym

Informal Dance

Officers’ Club

grads

Golf Tournament

Seminars 1400

members

registration

Sponsored by Colorado Chapter of the AOG (wives and

Reunions 1700

1730 1900

2100 2100

-

-

-

-

-

For special achievement in aerospace activities Nominations through Major Commands and AOG Air Fare 10 or more on the same flight qualify for 25% discount

Saturday, 14 Oct 0900 0900

-

-

1100

Late Registration

Arnold Hall

1000

Memorial

Dorms

Ceremony

Briefing 1000 1030 1200

-

-

-

1030 1130 1300

1315

Memorial Ceremony/

Terrazzo

Class Wall Dedication Coffee/Discussion Richter Lounge Picnic Area Tailgate Party with Class of ’79 Graduates March on Stadium

from many areas Class Wall Dedicated at Memorial

Magazine,

Ceremony

-

See article in this

p. 12.

Memorabilia

photos, Dodos, souvenirs for display guaranteed Send

-

Return

w/Wing 1330

1830 2000

-

-

-

1630 2000 2130

AFA versus CSU

Stadium

Reception Banquet/Jabara

Mitchell Hall Mitchell Hall

Babysitters Will be arranged if needed

Award 2130

Homecoming Ball

-

Arnold Hall If you have suggestions, need more information, orwish

15 Oct

Sunday, 0900 1100 1200

-

-

-

1000

Chapel Services

1500

Golf Tournament Homecoming Picnic

1500

help with Homecoming planning, call Bob Shumway (’68) Homecoming Chairman, at (303) 472-2244 or write

to

Cadet Chapel Golf Course Picnic Area

him c/o Association of Graduates,

USAFA, CO 80840.

13

JACK HEWITT, ’65

—

Assistant Secretary of AF

John A. Hewitt, Jr., Class of 1965, was sworn in March 10, 1978, by Secretary of the Air Force, John C. Stetson, to be Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management. Immediately prior to this appointment, during the summer of 1977, he served as the acting Executive Director of the President’s Commission on Military Compensation.

Jack, a California native, was a Distinguished Graduate and graduated with a major in Engineering Management. In 1966 he received a Master of Business Administration in Production Management from the University of California at Los Angeles. While on active duty at SAMSO, he was responsible for program management of large military satellite systems; negotiated government contracts; and provided technical management for computer systems development.

The new Assistant Secretary resigned his commission in 1971 and is presently a Major in the USAF Reserve.

From 1971 to 1974, Secretary Hewitt served as the Vice President, Corporate Planning, for the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York. In

this capacity he was responsible to the Chairman for strategic planning in functional areas of production management, industrial engineering, management information systems, data processing and product management. In 1974 he became Vice President and Staff Group Executive, Trust and Fiduciary Investment Department. He

Cadet Hewitt

managed a staff of 75 responsible for financial management, strategic planning, marketing, systems and operations and manpower services.

In

his

new

position,

Jack

will be responsible for providing

direction, guidance, and supervision over all matters pertaining to formulation, review and execution of plans, policies and programs in the fields of finan-

cial management and resources management, planning and

systems. He will also serve as the senior Air Force official respon-

sible for policy and administration of the new automatic data processing program within the Department of the Air Force.

With his recent appointment, Secretary Hewitt becomes the first

USAFA

assume

Graduate

to

star-equivalent rank in

the U.S. Air Force. The AOG

extends

congratulations

behalf of the

Secretary Hewitt 14

Graduate

on

Com-

munity in recognition of this significant achievement. Jack, wife Sheila, and daughter Laura Ann are currently residing in the Washington, D.C. area.

Red Tag Goes to D.C

A former red tag, Randy Jayne, Class of’66, has a

job in Washington, D.C. “So what,” you say, “a lot of guys are assigned there.” Well, Randy is not

new

“assigned” there.

He

is

the

recently appointed Security and International Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a 4-star equivalent civilian job. In this position, Randy reviews the budget requests of DOI), the State Department, CIA, and other related agencies, aided by 86 career Civil Service employees.

It is a job of increasing importance as the Carter adminstration relies more and more on OMB, not only to consider the cost of government programs, hut to analyze and to advise on policy matters.

Perhaps Randy’s present job was preordained when he left the “Zoo” in 1966 and went directly to MIT,earning a PhD in Political Science and National Security Affairs in 1969. Following pilot training at Moody, he spent a year flying the A-l at NKP in Thailand and then returned to Moody as an IP for a Associate Director for National

year.

In 1973 he

was

selected to

serve

as

a

White

House Fellow as assistant to Peter Flanagan, then

President Nixon’s Chief Advisor

International Economic Affairs. During his year in the White House, Randy dealt with many of the issues he deals with in his present job; but, more importantly, he was exposed to the analysis process at the top levels of

Director Jayne

on

government.

From the White House, Randy returned to SEA in 1975 to fly the F4-D with the 34TFS, Korat AFB, and emerged from his two combat tours with 2 Silver

Stars, 5 DFC’s, and 8 Air Medals. After returning from Thailand, Randy served briefly as an aide to then Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and then returned to the White House as a defense policy specialist on the National Security Council Staff.

Later, during the transition to the Carter administration, Randy met Mr. Bert Lance, former Director of OMB, who in due course offered Randy the position of Associate Director. At that point, Randy made the difficult decision to leave the Air Force, though just months away from pinning on his LC leaves (secondary promotions to 0-4 and 0-5). He assumed his present duties in April 1977.

Director Jayne is excited about the challenges he faces daily, playing “a significant role in three of the most interesting areas in the Federal government defense, foreign policy, and intelligence.” Randy is particularly concerned with improving management efficiency to provide more effective use of defense budget dollars, an objective which causes uneasiness -

in some circles. So far he feels that the debates have not been “personal,” and he is very satisfied with his

relationship

with the

agencies whose budgets he

monitors.

Randy’s increasing role in I )OD budgetary matters highlighted recently when he delivered what Aviation Week labeled “a major administration speech,” at the Naval War College. (Aviation Week, 3 April 1978, and Newsweek, 10 April 1978.)

Randy expects to stay in his present job for four years and he, Nancy, and their two children are settled comfortably in Alexandria. However, the experiences of one former occupant of his office, Energy Secretary Schlesinger, has probably not escaped his notice, and we surely can expect to hear was

much more of this RTB. 15

20 AFA Assembly Torn Farrier Class of 1978

The Association of Graduates has

always been

generous in its assistance to Cadet activities, and AOG support for this year’s Twentieth Air Force

Assembly was, in a word, substantial.

The 1978 Academy Assembly, one of the major sponsorships of the AOG, was a series of conferences supervised by the Academy’s Department of Political Science spread over a busy four day agenda. Topics for each year’s Assembly are generated by the American Assembly of Columbia University. In recent years theme topics have dealt with such controversial

issues

as

“Multinational

Cor-

porations,” “Women in the Economy.” and “Nuclear Energy.” This year, college students from across the country gathered to seek consensus on the “Ethics of Corporate Conduct.”

the Cadet Area, after which they entered a whirlwind schedule of meals, meetings and lectures in

...

all of which would be familiar to every ex-cadet!

Senior participants and lecturers were met individually at the Colorado Springs Municpal Airport and escorted to the VOQ. After a relaxed meal and welcoming address at the Officers’ Club, they too

caught up in a rapid succession of events. The Keynote Address (the same evening that the delegates arrived) was delivered by Dr. Arthur Hansen, President of Purdue University. were

Thursday morning, March 16th, saw the first of the “roundtable” discussions, where each delegate could air his or her views on issues relating to corporate ethics in an open forum. Notes of each roundtable’s findings were taken for compilation into a final report, which was amended and agreed upon later in the week. Six roundtables met under the guidance of eminent educators and businessmen.

After lunch, delegates, senior participants, and Academy personnel heard an address by Ralph Nader, the noted consumer advocate, followed by

another roundtable session.

Thursday evening, the Academy hosted a panel discussion by four prominent figures in the field of corporate policies: Dr. Kenneth Boulding of the University of Colorado; Dr. Joseph Collins of the Food and Development Policy Institute; Mrs. Jayne Spain, Vice-President, Gulf Oil Corporation; and Dr. Gordon Tullock, Center for the Study of Public Choice.

Assembly Chairman, Colonel Rokke, moderated the discussion.

Ralph Nader

Preparations for the arrival of over seventy student delegates and thirty senior participants and speakers began last fall, when Colonel Ervin J. Rokke, Head of the Department of Political Science, named Major John P. Casciano as the Assembly’s Staff Director. Officer and cadet volunteers stepped forward to take charge of the complex arrangements, which included coordination with 13 base activities for transportation, housing, finance, and protocol, as

well

additional planning for messing, sleeping and accomodations, special projects, public relations. Valuable AOG assistance was rendered as

throughout with financial hacking and general conference planning.

The student delegates began arriving on March 15th. They were provided with housing in the cadet dormitories and a quick orientation to the buildings 16

Friday was devoted to two or more roundtable sessions, followed by an “evening out” at the homes of various faculty members for the student delegates.

On Saturday, the final report was assembled and voted on, and the highlight of the Assembly, the annual Final Banquet, was held in the evening. The featured speaker was the Honorable Roberta S. Karmel, member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The delegates and senior participants left Sunday morning, taking with them memories of an enriching personal experience, some of which will find prac-

tical

application

in similar conferences later this

year. The staff of the Twentieth Academy Assembly

offers its sincerest thanks to all members of the Association of Graduates, without whose support the

Assembly

would

never

have

educational experience it was.

been

the

great

100th Night 1978 100th Night 1978, the highlight of the Winter social at AFA, was cosponsored by the Class Council of the Class of 1978 and the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Graduates. A Steering Committee comprised of Cadets and Graduates of these organizations conducted the planning under the direction of Mark Torreano, Class of 1968. More than 1,500 Cadets, Graduates, members of the Academy staff, and guests gathered in Mitchell Hall on Saturday, 25 February to dine on a superb meal of filet mignon and lobster and to hear the honored season

guest speaker, Col Charles M. Duke, Jr., an Apollo 16 astronaut, a moon walker, and now a businessman in San Antonio.

Following the reception and 100th Night Banquet in Mitchell Hall, the Cadets, Graduates and their guests assembled in Arnold Hall for an enjoyable dance.

Music was alternately provided by the Falconaires in the ballroom and at the newly opened Cadet Disco in the upperclass snack bar.

Many Graduates will remember the 100th Night that they celebration experienced. They will remember particularly that it was not a Dining-Out. Many will recall returning to rooms that had been turned into handball courts, modified to sleep 18, looked like a shaving cream factory, or had totally disappeared. Many will also recall that they were blissfully ignorant of the circumstances at hand due to the “celebration” which they had participated in during the evening. However, over the years the Dining-In format developed so many excesses that the tradition was abolished in the early 1970’s to be resurrected last year in the current format for the Class of 1977.

The

100th

Night Dining Out is

one

of the

prime

service projects of the Colorado Chapter of the AOG. It has met significant success and acceptance in the two years since its

inauguration, and it is now the

intent of the Academy and the Colorado Chapter of

the AOG to make this a tradition that will be honored by all succeeding classes and participated in by all Graduates in the Colorado area.

Colonel Duke received a Cadet Sabre Plaque from the Class of 1978. He proclaimed it one of his most memorable trophies and promised a prominent place in his trophy room for his prize.

As is evidenced by the smiles of General and Mrs. Beck, all who attended 100th Night 1978 had a good time and went away with many happy memories.

17

PROMOTIONS— Mark Torreano

Promotion board got your number? you approaching a close en-

Are

counter of the

1, 2 or 3 kind? Do you

understand what is happening at the

hoard or do you just hope the force is

you? The following article is

with

intended to clarify what often seems to he an extraterrestrial experience.

beginning, the Air Force creates a year group (YG), composed In

the

of all officers commissioned in a par-

ticular year. Hut every few years, this of

group

“happy-go-lucky guys” is promotion. Because of complications, promotions

reviewed for

several

temporary rank first and a few years later to a permanent rank. A chart of temporary promotion boards for the next five years at

,

’68

right, for only eight in

100 will

he

colonels 25 years from now.” Just goes to confirm that life is harsh; hut

unjust. It’s sort of like Doolie summer, separating the men from the hoys.

To accomplish this “thinning” as (also known “managing the force”), the Air Staff, with the approval of the Assistant Secretary of AF/Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations, establishes a guideline known as promotion opportunity (PO). This is expressed as a percentage and represents the percentage of a YG considered for promotion to a certain

rank

that

will

the beginning, the Air Staff says, “Let

ultimately reach that rank, to include secondary zone (SZ), primary zone (PZ), and “above the zone,” or previously nonselected in the PZ, (ATZ) promotions from this YG. The personnel planners determine PO’s based on projected officer strength, grade authorizations, projected losses/promotions, etc. for a five to ten year period. PO’s are not established by law. Even in the propos-

there he such-and-such a year group.”

ed

Air Staff also says “Year group, you

Management Act (I)OPMA), the grade tables (which parallel present

are

made to

a

bottom: But what, you ask, are my odds for

promotion? How many princes and how many trolls will the hoard create? Am I a probable troll?

Well, as you have guessed by now, the

temporary

answers

are

too

follow. You will recall that in

large. Look

to the left and

Defense

Officer

Promotion

grade strength tables) are for planning purposes and not guaranteed.

Now, taking a PO for a specific YG, Air Staff applies it to a particular promotion board to establish a selection quota for that board. The PO is to the number of officers

applied

entering the PZ for the first time for that board, and the result is the total number of promotions that the board make or the selection quota. In-

can

eluded in the total selections will be

SZ, PZ, and ATZ promotions. The board then makes its selections. Let’s see

how this impacts on the 1967 year

group in its bid for promotion to Major

(listen up, “yellow” boys).

The PO to major has been 80% for several years. The June 1978 Major’s

board will consider about 4,950 officers entering the primary zone for the first time (the 1967 YG). Thus, the board will be able to promote about

3,950 (4,950 x .80) which represents the selection quota. Within this 3,950 selection quota, past experience tells us 150 will be SZ (1968, 69, 70 year groups) and 250 will be promoted ATZ, leaving a quota of 3,570 PZ

promotions, (an actual 72% selection

TEMPORARY PROMOTION BOARDS

Expressed by Year Group MAJOR

LT COLONEL

COLONEI

Feb/Aug

*PZ

June

(Twice a Year)

**sz

March

August May

September

CAPTAIN Board Timing

Jul

1978

-

Jan Jul

1979

-

-

Jan 1980

Jul

-

-

Jan Jul

1981

-

-

Jan Jul

1982

Jan

*l > rimary Zone **Secondarv Zone

18

-

-

-

December

Dec 74

PZ

1967

1963

1958

Jun 75

SZ

1968-70

1964-65

1959-60

Dec 75

PZ

1968

1964

1959

Jun 76

SZ

1969-71

1965-66

1960-61

Dec 76

PZ

1969

1965

1960

Jun 77

SZ

1970-72

1966-67

1961-62

Dec 77

PZ

1970

1966

1961

Jun 78

SZ

1971-73

1967-68

1962-63

Dec 78

PZ

1971

1967

1962

Jun 79

SZ

1972-74

1968-69

1963-64

the 1967 year group). To bring the discussion back to more general situations, the PO’s for various grades are shown in Charts. rate for

promotions to Major and Lt Colonel forecast to reflect the statistics

are

given in Chart 4. Permanent Promotion opportunities are depicted in Chart 5.

The effect of attrition and PO’s on

yield the percentages of

Hopefully the words and numbers

the initial year group which will eventually reach the grades in-

have been informative. The promotion

process is

dicated in Chart 3.

even

obscure

a year group

complicated

it is

-

but it is the only one

have. And, it’s the only way to

we

For the next few years, temporary

-

Chapter News

get into the “Star Wars.”

Colorado Chapter The letter in the Winter issue of the

AOG Magazine titled, “Why a Local Chapter?” by Tom Wilson, enumerated the reasons why each of

CHART 2:

Promoti on Opportunity

CAPT

MAJ

us should participate in AOG local chapters. Also, it pointed out that one of our goals is “to provide

LT COL

assistance

mutual

COL

fellow

to

Graduates.” Very simply stated, the 95%

80%

70%

Graduate Assistance Program is the

50%

way in which the Colorado Chapter

plans to meet this objective.

The initial idea for such a program came

CHART 3:

Year Group Promotions

CAPT

MAJ

LT COL

COL

BRIG ( JEN

87%

31%

19%

8%

1%

as

a

suggestion

from

a

Graduate who will soon be eligible for retirement. He felt that we might provide the retiring Graduates a point of contact for their transition into

civilian

life and

a

new

com-

munity. After much discussion, we realized that every Graduate in our local area might wish to have a way

CHART 4:

Projected Promotions

of locating others with like interests,

LTCOLONEL

MAJOR Board

CY78

CY79

CY80

CY81

CY78

CY79

CY80

YG in PZ

1967

1968

1969

1970

1963

1964

1965

PZ

4950

4200

4250

4000

2860

2685

2285

Opportunity* (SZ, PZ, ATZ)

80%

80%

80%

80%

70%

70%

70%

3570

3025

3060

2880

1660

1560

1325

11-9

11-10

11-9

11-8

16-1

15-9

15-5

YG Size in

YG in PZ

Selected

Average Promotion Point (Yrs-

months)

*PZ first time eligible YG opportunity is 72% for Major, 58% for Lt Colonel.

pursuits, or specific professional expertise. This might range from finding someone who lives in your local community to locating a financial, medical, legal, real estate, or other professional who might be able to aid in solving a particular problem.

To start the Colorado Chapter program, a mailer is being sent to all

common

Graduates in the local area, whether

they are members of the local Chapter or not, inviting them to participate. Each Graduate is being asked to include all the areas they would be willing to discuss with fellow Graduates, such as information about their local communities, and/or interests, special professional pursuits. Once the information is received by the Chapter, the Directors will compile the information and separate into

CHART 5:

appropriate categories.

Permanent Promotions

Each #2

CAPT

MAJ

LT COL

COL

Year of Service Board Held

6

13

20

22

Year of Service Promoted

7

14

21

23

Minimum Selection Rate

80%

80%

80%

None

(Could be Greater)

member

of the

Colorado

Chapter will receive a semi-annually updated copy of the Graduate assistance program participants.

Graduates who live outside the local area and plan to move into the major

metropolitan areas of Colorado may 19

obtain a list of assisting Graduates

sell

in the specific subjects they request

nuals, please call or write me—Maj Ron Taylor, HQ SAC/ADWFA, Offutt AFB, NF 68123; AV 271-5381 or home (402) 292-0960.

Our next big Chapter event is just being planned. We will sponsor a bus trip to the Air Force-Kansas State football game at Manhattan, KS on 30 Sep. It will he open to the base, hut special attempts will he made to

by writing the Colorado Chapter of the AOG at P. O. Box 7817* Colorado Springs, CO 80933.

The assistance lists will include all the Graduates who wish to par-

ticipate on a particular subject and will list only their name, class, and phone number. They are intended as a point of reference only, and any contractual agreements made will he the responsibility of the individuals involved. The Chapter assumes no

any of the assume

statements

liability for the ability of participants nor does it responsibility for or

acts

of any of the

donate any one of these an-

or

invite other alumni and the Parents

addition

in

Association

to

our

Chapter members.

I might add that our Chapter only

has 30 members out of 115 alumni here

Offutt.

We are trying a campaign to persuade more alumni to join theChapter. Our Chapter dues are $3 per calendar at

telephone

members in the program.

The initial stages of this program will no doubt need a few refinements hut the growth potential and demand for such a service appear to be unlimited. It provides a focal point

through which we can continue to associate with individuals who have

that this program will be another positive step in bringing our alumni

association up to the level of a true fraternity of Graduates.

Gary Fedel, ’67 Director, CO Chapter

On 22 April the Graduate Community in the Washington area conducted the annual Spring “State of the Academy” Dinner. The guest speaker this year was B/G Tom Richards, Commandant of Cadets.

'The gathering of 200 Graduates, ATOs, former staff and faculty and their wives enjoyed an evening of seeing old friends, sharing new experiences, and being brought up to date on current AFA happenings.

'The Andrews Club was the setting and a good time was had by all that were able to participate. This annual rite of Spring will he scheduled again for 1979 and Graduates in the area

should make a note to attend.

year.

RON TAYLOR

Editor's Note:

Major, USAF

CHAPTER NEWS will be a

President

Regular

Eeature of the AOG MAGAZINE in the All future.

Chapter Officers and Organizers wishing to have an entry in

the common bond of honor, ethics,

and leadership training obtained at the Academy. We strongly believe

Washington D.C.

the

New Chapters addition

In

to

active

AOG

SUMMER

MAGAZINE

should

forward copy to reach the AOG office NI/T 14 July 197H.

Colorado and Chapters in Nebraska, there are established Chapters at Altus, Ellsworth, and Randolph. Also, several individuals have received organizational information from the AOG office to start to reestablish Chapters in the following locations:

or

MOVING?

Wright-

Nebraska Chapter The

Nebraska

Chapter,

the

Parents Association of Nebraska, and the area liaison officers recently

sponsored

a

dinner for the area’s

USAFA nominees and their parents.

This was the second annual dinner of

this

attended

type. the

One

hundred

dinner.

Our

four

guest

speaker was Col Jack J. Farris, Deputy Commandant of Cadets.

Bill Telford, ’59 Ed Josephson, ’59 Austin Wedemeyer, ’62

Patterson Charleston March Boston/New

LET US KNOW AS EARLY

Flash Wiley, ’65 Roy Miller, ’67 Central Texas Jim Lyons, ’68

England

Phoenix

The

March

AFB

QJ

have its initial function on 3 June.

Liaison

Graduates, parents

are

to

Uj

^

Ct

^

Uj

O

O

to the base library for more books on

Commandant’s Executive for Honor

the General Allen bookshelf. This

and Ethics. Austin Wedemeyer may

■c

shelf was established by the Parents

be reached for details on extension

o

Chapter last

year to provide career motivational

material about the USAF Academy and the US Air Force.

We could use help on completing a set of Polarises on our library shelf.

Graduates in proximity to existing or planned Chapters are urged

to

contact

individuals

52

°

o

—J

a: L>

above. If you need additional information or would like to form an AOG your area, contact the

Polaris for the following years: ’62, ’64, ’65, ’72, or ’76. Anyone willing to

AOG for a

guide which will assist

your efforts.

please

USAF

5 § ^ 0)

o

Name New address

City State

ACADEMY

CO 80840

cited

Chapter in

20

send this form to

4822.

So far we have been unable to obtain a

address,

^

A.O.G.

an

After Col Farris’ talk, the Parents Association presented a $200 check

our

£

S>

„

Uj

organizational meeting which will feature remarks by John Fer, ’62, who is currently assigned as the

Association and

correct your

T3

Officers, and

invited

To change or

CO

Chapter will

AS POSSIBLE

Zip

On 10

February, Captain Timothy A.

Kinnan, Class of 1970, became the first recipient of the new Risner Trophy, to be

presented annually to the outstanding graduate of the Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB. The award was presented by General David ('. Jones, Air Force Chief of Staff, at ceremonies at the National Air and

Space Museum in Washington I).C. Captain

Kinnan,

who

earned

masters

a

degree in astronautical and aeronautical engineering at Purdue following graduation, is presently stationed with the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Clark AB, Phillippines. The award commemorates General Risner’s accomplishments in the and tactical arena recognizes the sacrifices endured by so many members of his profession. General Risner was a Korean War Ace and spent more than years as a POW during the Viet-

seven nam

conflict. He retired in August 1976.

The six and a half foot, bronze trophy will be put on permanent display at the Academy this fall and inscribed with the name

of each annual

receive a small

winner, who will

replica as a permanent

award.

1978 JUNE WEEK SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

DATE

TIME

FRIDAY, 26 MAY

5:30PM 9:00PM

SATURDAY, 27 MAY

SUNDAY, 28 MAY

EVENT/LOCATION 7:00PM

-

12:00AM

-

2:00PM

4:15PM

-

6:15PM

-

9:00PM

-

10:00PM 12:00PM

Ring Presentation and Dining-Out, Class of 1979 (Mitchell Hall) Ring Dance, Class of 1979 (Arnold Hall) Bluebards’ Production of the Stage Play “South Pacific” (Arnold Hall Theater) AFA Outstanding Squadron Banquet (Broadmoor International Center) June Week Recognition Ball (Arnold Hall)

3:15PM-

4:15PM

Baccalaureate (Catholic, Protestant) (Squadrons 1-20) (Cadet Chapel) Superintendent’s Reception (Squadrons 1-20) (Arnold Hall)

5:00PM

-

8:00PM

Buffet (Officers’ Club)

4:45PM

-

5:45PM

6:00PM

-

8:30PM

-

10:45PM

Superintendent’s Reception (Squadrons 21-40, all Jewish cadets) (Arnold Hall) Baccalaureate (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish) (Squadrons 21-40, all Jewish cadets) (Cadet Chapel) Bluebards’ Production of the Stage Play “South Pacific”

-

11:15AM

2:00PM

3:00PM

-

7:00PM

(Arnold Hall Theater)

MONDAY, 29 MAY

10:00AM

Organizational Awards Parade (Parade Ground) (Inclement Weather Alternate: Field House Basketball Arena 1:30PM 2:25PM) Individual Awards Ceremony (Field House Basketball Arena) Organizational and Individual Awards Tea (Field House Basketball Arena) Athletic Awards Banquet (Mitchell Hall) Cadet Chorale Concert (Arnold Hall Theater) -

1:30PM

-

2:25PM

2:30PM

-

3:30PM

5:30PM 8:30PM

TUESDAY, 30 MAY

8:00PM

-

10:00PM

-

-

9:40AM

-

9:55AM

Cadet Drum & Bugle Corps Performance (Parade Ground)

10:00AM

-

11:30AM

Graduation Parade and USAF Academy Parachute Team Demonstration

4:00PM

Wings of Blue (Parade Ground) Open House (Gymnasium, Fairchild Hall, Field House, Aero Science Lab, Cadet Dorms, and Chapel)

1:00PM-

5:30PM

-

8:30PM

Graduation Buffet, Class of 1978 (Mitchell Hall)

9:00PM

-

11:45PM

-

11:45PM

First Class Parents’ Dance (Officers’ Club) Graduation Ball, Class of 1978 (Arnold Hall)

9:00PM

Swearing in Ceremony

WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 9:00AM

-

9:25AM

Cadet Wing March-On (Undergraduates) March-On of Graduates Graduation Ceremony (Falcon Stadium) (Inclement Weather Alternate

9:30AM

-

9:40AM

9:45AM

-

1 1:15AM

11:15AM

-

11:45AM

Field House Basketball Arena)

USAF Thunderbird Team Demonstration (Falcon Stadium)

21

BYLAWS CHANGES APPROVED

-

-

Thomas -/. Eller, '61 Vice President

Thank you, members, for your outstanding participation in the decision process of our Association.

7. Remove implied restrictions on fund

In the balloting that closed on 1 March 1978, 3328 voters, comprising 57% of our current membership,

8. Leave the matter of membership fees

voted on the Bylaws changes recommended by the Board of Directors. With only one-percent of the votes invalid (both “yes” and “no” or nothing marked), all eleven items on the ballot passed with the necessary 2/3 majority. The breakout by issue follows:

raising by the Association.

86

13

90

10

72

27

81

18

79

20

for foreign national graduates to the

Board of Directors. and

9. Create

Associate

Honorary membership categories.

10. Change the requirement for a valid vote by the membership to “A majority of the votes received at the AOG office within 45 days after a matter is

PERCENT YES

language that is valid without regard to sex.

NO

1. Use

2. Enable any

Director present at

87

12

an

Executive Committee meeting to vote on

issues before that body.

92

submitted to the membership shall decide the issue.” (Re: Art V, C and D) 11. Prescribe Bylaws amendment by vote of the Board of Directors in accordance with the corporate Charter.

8

3. Provide that the Vice President be

The full text of the Bylaws, as amended, will be

published in the next edition of the Register. Any member desiring an advanced copy may obtain one

empowered to act in lieu of the President in the absence of the President.

97

2

from the AOG office.

Change the title of the Executive Secretary to Executive Director.

5. Change the title of Alumni Secretary

92

7

As of this summer there will only be six directors stationed at the Academy (five elected plus the Executive Director, who is appointed by our

94

5

directors. Because there

4.

to

agree

with current USAFA ter-

minology.

President). The AOG deserves

6. Provide for the office of Treasurer to

more

functioning

many interested and

capable grads at the Academy, the Board of Directors is considering a revision to the Bylaws to allow a more workable method of appointing Temporary Directors. If you wish to make an input, please

be implemented by the Board of Directors when of AGG the scope Exno the operations longer permits ecutive Secretary to also perform this

function.

are

contact any Director with your ideas. Thanks for

95

4

listening.

INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE OF

SENIOR SCHOOL SELECTEES

ARMED FORCES B. T. Strom, ’59 M. A. Clarke, ’60 T. F. Schutt, ’61

C. O. Westbrook, Jr., ’61 G. H. Canavan, ’65

NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE

AIR WAR COLLEGE

R. R. MacDonald, Jr., ’60

A. A. Garliardi, Jr., ’59

E. N. O’Rear, ’61

J. A. Johnson, ’60

J. C.

C. W. Griffin, Jr., ’62

T. M. Conley, ’61 T. L. Sutton, ’61

B. P. Culberson, ’63

G. B. Harrison, ’62

M. L. Odefey, ’63

G. W. Larson, Jr., ’62

H. F. Wilson, Jr., ’63

J. A. Bavaria, ’64

T. E. Eggers, ’64

J. L. Cole, ’64

M. I). Pavich, ’64

J. C. Sowers, ’64

NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE

ROYAL COLLEGE OF AIR

L. H. Hunt, Jr., ’59

WARFARE

ALTERNATE

W. T. Rudd, ’63

W. F. H. Zersen, '60

Dinsmore, ’62

R. N. Running, ’64

L. P. Farrell, ’65

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AIR WAR COLLEGE

J. R. Goodley, ’61 NAVAL WAR COLLEGE J. C. Giffen, ’60

D. A. Lorenzini, ’62 R. C. Wheeler, ’62

Jitters to the Editor Honor Code’s Purpose

The following letters

.

are

..

reprinted

with permission of the AF Times.

Editor's Note: The recent Honor Code / Frciter-

flourish in

nization controversy at West Point spawned an editorial in the Wall Street

Journal

that

brought

this

from an AFA Graduate teas printed on 20 March

response

which 107H:

It was distressing to read your editorial, “Mission Impossible” (WSJ, 3 Mar 78). As with most discussion of

honor

codes

at

yours,

and

the

service

Academy Cuts COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The mission of the Air Force Academy is to provide instruction and ex-

perience to each cadet so that he graduates with the knowledge and character essential to leadership and the motivation

to

become

a

career

officer in the USAF.

With the cut in the defense budget

academies, federal

the academy has cut its budget. The

judge’s came down far wide of the point. The question addressed by the

academy has cut two of the most motivating programs in the airmanship program, Parasailing and Airmanship 370 (T-37 orientation).

Even though Lt. Gen. Kenneth Tallman has expressed his unending support for the airmanship programs, these two programs will no longer

unnamed

Honor Board was not whether Cadet

Downey fell in love with, fraternized with, or “walked, talked and ate” with a female cadet. It was whether he had lied about these things.

The academies exist to train and educate the officers who will he the core of the armed forces. As such they will hear heavy responsibilities to the

electorate. They will determine at the user our

level the efficiency with which

defense dollars will be spent; they

will he responsible for the lives and well-being of those of our young peopie whom they will lead-possibly in combat; they will be the managers in the only organization that legally holds the physical power to overthrow and replace our Constitution. It is absolutely imperative that these officers carry unquestioned integrity through their military careers. It is to foster this unquestioned integrity

exist.

Without motivation, all that is left the instruction, experience and leadership part of the academy. These three items can be effectively taught at a ROTC college. The only difference between graduation at the academy and at an ROTC college is the Regular commission the academy gives its graduates. Is that really worth $100,000 per academy cadet compared to $25,000 per ROTC cadet? is

If the Air Force wanted to cut the

academy budget, why not just get rid of the academy, keep ROTC and save more

money?

TWO ACADEMY CADETS

that the codes exist. Adherence to the codes therefore does have “.

.

.

academy tries to instill in each cadet.

It is not programs like parasailing, T37, soaring, etc., but pride, dedication and a sense of duty that can only a

cadet if he

or

she is

willing. If the two feel that the only source of motivation provided by the academy is through the two programs, the academy has indeed wasted money on them.

ROTC

is

an

essential

source

of

officers, and the quality of ROTC graduates is not to be belittled.

However, a Regular commission is not the only difference between an academy and an ROTC graduate. The academy provides intense and disciplined training that goes well beyond that of ROTC. The academy has graduated 11,153 cadets since 1959. Of those, 8520 are still on active duty (as of the 1977 Register). What causes those eligible to resign to remain on active duty?

Surely it is not just programs like parasailing and T-37. I don’t know what class the two cadets are in, but I only hope they realize before they graduate what true motivation is. The future

kind of motivation that will send one into a combat zone, launch a missile or serve his

country in the other fields

within the Air Force.

I’m

disappointed and saddened at

the attitudes these two cadets have learned at the academy. Their im-

pressions tend to degrade the 11,153 cadets who are proud to say they are USAF Academy graduates. The only comforting thought is that their attitudes are in no way typical of the other cadets.

CART. RICHARD J. KARVOSKY

some

Class of 1973

relevance to some legitimate military

purpose.” It is unfortunate that the judge’s finding to the contrary was based on the wrong questions. And it is doubly unfortunate that the editors of The Wall Street Journal, who are so seldom guilty of such things, failed to see the error of his reasoning.

Academy Mission who wrote in April 3 correctly stated

the mission of the academy. However, it is

truly a shame that they do not

believe

in

programs

James Patterson III

Class of ’66 USAF Academy

Alamogordo, N.M.

‘The Zoo’

SYRACUSE, N.Y.—The two cadets

it. were

I

am

sure

that

the

highly regarded and

will be missed by the academy. The two implied that with the termination

☆

☆

plained of the loss of two motivating airmanship courses at USAFA (April 10 issue) should examine both the academy’s mission and their own priorities more closely.

of the programs went the motivation The mission of the academy is not

the academy provides.

Obviously, the two cadets have no ☆

RUNNING SPRINGS, Calif.The two academy cadets who com-

idea

of

the

motivation

that

the

spoon-feed motivation to the cadets, although I can understand to

23

they got that impression. Fun they are, parasailing and T-37 orientation are hardly necessary to a how

as

future

officer’s

dedication

to

a

demanding career of service to his country.

Having obtained a commission through ROTC and having taught at the academy, I can safely say that there is a world of difference between

ROTC and IJSAFA. Being immersed in a military environment under a

workable

honor

code

and

under

highly motivated full-time military professionals will do much more the toward development of character and knowledge, leadership than being a part-time airman at a civilian university.

There, discipline and integrity are openly sneered at by many students and some segments of the faculty.

Any cadet at the adademy who doubt the veracity of this argument and find little or no motivation from the remaining assets of “The Zoo” should

probably be elsewhere—for everyone’s sake.

MAJ. JAMES M. BRUNER

Mottoes and Slogans

1977 article on the rent, buy decision

the past, the subject has come up and presently the AOG has a “motto committee’ being formed.

Can any of you name a motto of any

school, state, or service academy?

Listed below is a selection which has been collected in years gone by and some from other schools and institutions.

feel

I

motto

a

should

reflect

a

fellowship among graduates, high standards of behavior and integrity, and reflect to the best possible degree one’s contribution as a resource to our nation.

It should be

simple, short, and easily recognized, especially by non-graduates. It should also be something the Cadet Wing can identify remembered and

with.

My own personal feeling as to what meets the above criteria, the only school motto I know without

looking up, and

by the Power of his Knowledge Aspire to Peace Endure with Confidence Beyond the Call Truth, Honor, Integrity We Accept the Challenge Power Through Knowedge and Integrity Patriotism, Valor, Fidelity and Ability To Shield, with Honor, Freedoms Skies

and

-

Pro Nobis Astra (For Us the Stars) Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve

Pride in Self and Country

Knowledge for Strength, Strength for Service

Committed to Excellence Man’s Flight Through Life is Sustained

by the Power of His Knowledge, GuidHonor Service With Honor No Challenge Too Great; No Duty Too Small We Do Our Part Above All Nations is Humanity

Wrong My Country Right We Had it Tougher Last Year (WHITLY) Knowledge, Character, and Leadership Unity and Strength on Wings of Integrior

-

ty

Leadership through Knowledge Strength Faith, Duty, Trust Courage, Conscience, Cooperation

and

All for All

Knowledge, Leadership, Airpower Freedom, Valor, Service Wisdom, Integrity, Service God and Country Service Above All

information

will

be

forthcoming in the Summer AOG Magazine or under separate cover.

Concerned Graduate

24

in the Winter

I feel it must be pursued further.

Captain Russell’s analysis has a of shortcomings which readers Hoyle, Brush and Seltzer adin dressed part.

Unfortunately, neither their comments nor Captain Russell’s reply were sufficient to clarify the issue. The only way to sort out the errors, omissions, and involved is assumptions questionable number

to start

over

from square one.

Life and Honor

Eternal Freedom

an

investment

$24.3 per month BAQ, and goes downtown to buy a house. Buy purchases the house described by Captain Russell: $50,000 total, 10% down, and a 9% mortgage. His $6100 is spent as follows: $5,000 for down payment and

$1100 gone forever in closing costs. (I had

problem following his exCaptain Russell’s worksheet only shows $400 in closing some

ample

costs

here.

yet the text indicates $1100 in

insurance.

sellout are normally returned to the seller.)

Later discussion between Buy and

Excellence in Virtue and Service to our Country is the Only Reward We Seek Our Country! May She Always he Right.

But Our Country, Right or Wrong Tridens

(US

Naval

Academy) Academy Scientiae Cedit Mare (US Coast Guard

Academy) Upward ☆

stashes his $6100 in

with a 6% return compounded annually. Captain Buy signs in, takes his

lost since it goes to pay taxes and Balances remaining at

Duty, Honor, God, and Country Courage, Integrity, Loyalty Valor, Honor, Fidelity Soldier, Scholar, Stateman Duty with Honor Character, Courage, Victory

Scientia

Let’s rework the entire problem again using the numbers from Captain Russell’s example (where valid) and solve the problem with a different approach. Let’s assume that Captain Buy and Captain Rent report to a new base with $6100 cash each. Captain Rent signs in and opts for base housing. He moves in and immediately

closing costs and impound accounts.

Money in impound accounts is not

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Captain Russell

issue have so confused this topic that

ed by His Duty, and Made Safe by His

nothing more fitting; can you?

Send your suggestions and thoughts to AOG.

military families and the subse-

for

Ex

the

Fall

quent comments by several readers

I would suggest is West Point’s “Duty, Honor, Country.” I can think of

what

Russell’s

Mans’ Flight Through Life is Sustained

Motto)

Does the USAF Academy need a motto, and if so what should it be? Again, as in

Stephen

Captain

Devotion Above All

America First, Last, and All the Time Either Free or Not at All

Dear Editor:

.

Gentlemen.

☆

Do We Need a Motto?

.

Strength through Knowledge and Integrity Honor, Knowledge, Fellowship

(Cornell University)

☆

.

Above and Beyond

All for Our Country (Nevada State

☆

One More Time

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Rent reveals that Buy is paying $307 per month over his $243 BAQ for his

housing for a total of $550. (Again, there

some inconsistencies in Russell’s His numbers.

were

Captain

worksheet indicates that Buy’s total

outlay is $553: $362 mortgage principal and interest plus $141 upkeep, insurance, and utilities plus $50 property tax. The difference monthly

is negligible, however, and I elected to

use the $550 figure to follow the given example.) Since Rent’s total pay is the same as Buy’s, he should he able to

invest the $507 differential. He does this by putting it in an investment

which yields 6% compounded month-

ly, the scenario Captain Russell used for his final comparison.

Captain Rent, at this point, has his $6100 making money, $507 per month making money, and base housing to

ON BASE?

Captain Buy has seen his $0100 disappear into his house and has his $245 BAQ plus an additional $507 going into his house each month.

Buy’s house is also his investment, an important point to remember. live

in.

Four years later, Buy and Rent depart PCS. Captain Rent clears base housing, liquidates his investment, and departs with $24,509 in his pocket. This is the total of his original $6100 plus the $1601 interest itearned plus $16,608 from his $507 monthly investment. The move out problem for Captain Buy is slightly more complicated. He sells his house for its appreciated value of $68,024. The

mortgage company takes $45,586 to pay the balance of the note. (Captain

makes the difference $264 per month

by his logic. That is still substantially more than my figure of $61. Where’s the error? As well as ignoring principal paydown. Captain Russell forgot about Captain Rent’s rent. In assigining Captain Buy’s four year home ownership costs totally as investment expense, he forgets that some of that money also provided a home for his family so it’s not all

a

relative

Captain Russell initially indicated the difference was $528 per month. Ms Brush

out an pointed (acknowledged by Russell)

error

which

of

his

house

or

by adjusting the price

basis of the house. Finally, the monthly $245 taken in cash can he counted as spendable income for figuring the

This is a small item hut a plus non-

his house on his own, which is not as

subject to appreciate with his house.

At some {joint Buy may pay off his house mortgage completely and have

difficult as a realtor would have you believe.

He could probably save $4,500 of the realtor’s fee.

That is $94 per month savings over four years and this makes his position

around

$55 per month

more

favorable than

Rent’s. Let’s say both individuals can

when computing federal tax liability.

etheless.

The whole process can be repeated

several times throughout a military career. During this time, Buy’s position changes slowly. As he builds

equity in his home, his interest costs decrease and

more

of his money is

interest expenses. When Buy finally retires and purchases his retirement home he can effectively shelter many years worth of capital gains for the remainder of his life. During this no

get an additional 2% on their investment, i.e., Rent invests at 8% and

more

Rent. This is

expenses

some

combined, and liquidated completely with Captain Rent $2,921 or $61 per month ahead of Captain Buy. This is a good point to digress momentarily to test the sensitivity of the analysis to a couple of variables.

Let’s say Captain Buy is able to sell vestment

principal paydown.) Buy must now pay a 7% realtor fee ($4,762) plus selling costs ($500) from his house proceeds. He now has $19,576 in his pocket as he stands on his suburban sidewalk. as However, Captain Russell noted in the winter issue, Buy has paid about $505 per year less in plus for him, and can be added to his cash position, or subtracted from Rent’s. By adding in the $2,012 four year tax saving, Buy’s final cash position is $21,588. Captain Rent’s cash position is $2,921 more favorable than Captain Buy’s or $61 per month gain over four years.

off

deduction for state and local sales tax

four years while Buy would make $4,818. Since Buy’s investment base is larger than Rent’s, he is more sensitive to a rate change. This is a two-edged sword for Buy since he is

taxes than

write

dividuals started with $6100, spent $550 per month for housing and in-

double counting. $507 differential between Buy and Rents’ housing cost is based on Buy's $562 monthly mortgage payment which includes was

Russell’s

on

rollover costs on his taxes as moving

Buy’s house appreciates at 10%. Rent

so.

capital gains from the sale repurchase of a primary residence. Additionally, Captain Buy ment

and can

would make an additional $1,589 over

that she

This is due to the favorable tax treat-

investment expense after all. Since

Ms. Brush pointed out. Russell’s reply

Not

point. On the other hand, Captain Buy can immediately shelter all his capital gains for the time being by buying another house of equal or greater value, a likely possibility.

Captain Buy’s housing costs and investment costs are not separable and must be treated together, Captain Rent’s housing and investments must be treated together also. Both in-

Russell ignores principal paydown as was

found a way to shelter all his gain or profits are still on paper at this

his

sensitive on the downside also.

Buy’s mortgage interest rate also reflects this sensitivity hut he knows what the mortgate rate will he going

OFF BASE?

not he very liquid when they are all in a

home. He could take a loss, or face a

delay, if he must cash in unexpectedly. Rent probably has more flexibility in this area, hut that can be highly variable depending on the nature of Rent’s tax shelters and the possibility

into the deal and it generally remains

that he had to go to riskier ventures to

constant once the mortgage is made.

maintain a decent return.

Going back to the central issue, Captain Russell probably would say,

I think the value of looking at the rent/buy decision over a longer period of time is now obvious. Captain

even

with our numbers, “Now is not

Russell’s

four

house if this analysis reflects his most

ignores

several

realistic assumptions on property ap-

which

predation, utility costs in the civilian community, house selling expenses,

meaningful analysis. The option to take the BAQ payment, which comes tax free initially, put it in an investment which: a) yields immediate same period, Rent has built an impressive portfolio, however, he may take a capital gains tax hit when he liquidates to buy his retirement home.

This is difficult to analyze because

the time for this

etc.”

That

would

Captain

be

to

true

buy a

if

the

analysis were complete, but it’s not.

On the way to his next base, Captain Rent would have to stop by the IRS office to pay taxes on his interest income. Actually, he probably has been doing this yearly unless he has

must he

year in-and-out

look

significant factors

considered to make a

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there

many factors involved.

are

It

should he noted that Buy’s assets may return by reducing annual tax liahili-

ty, h) allows potential sheltering of all capital gains, and c) provides family

1979 AOG COLORADO SKI-IN

housing usually of higher quality than base housing, can be very attracThe response to the Winter Magazine announcement of a proposed

tive.

Captain Russell’s analysis has one which is probably the most serious. Readers Hoyle, Brush and Seltzer correctly pointed out that a major unstated assumption is that equal value housing is being compared. Captain Russell dismissed this argument by stating that the analysis was done from a “strictly financial standpoint’’. Really now! If the financial analysis is done with no reference more flaw

value, then the use of numbers is meaningless. The analyst can select to

AOG Ski Holiday was of such a magnitude that serious planning is now underway to sponsor a 1979 AOG Colorado Ski-In for the AOG

membership.

In response to the

preferences expressed, the location, dates, and

duration of the 1st AOG Ski Holiday have been changed. The AOG ski package will include lodging, a cocktail/dinner party, and transportation from the lodge to the slopes. Transportation

options, including

airlines and rental cars, will be available. Group rate lift tickets will be

available for separate purchase.

any numbers he likes and can make any outcome

equally likely. By this

line of reasoning, I suspect that if I

buy 100 square feet of Nevada and house my family in a surplus tent, I could use the preceding analysis to make a pretty spectacular case for living off base. If by “strict financial standpoint’’ Captain Russell means that his analysis was designed to illustrate the proper manipulation of all factors to make a knowledgeable decision, then it is wiser to do the discussion in algebraic were to

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desert

terms. The use of numbers which may may not reflect real world values

or

may

cause

erroneous

the reader to draw

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really the bottom line.

Most people strive to earn dollars not for the sake of earning dollars but to

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get dollars to exchange for valuable

goods and services. Even today’s inflated dollar is grossly overpriced if viewed as a paper commodity. Its only utility is its exchangeability for value.

So, when the financial analysis is completed using the best guess at realistic dollar values for all factors and the dollar differential favors one

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should he thus, “This is/is not the time to buy/rent if this is your best guess of all the real world factors and

the dollar differential

between the

options does not accurately reflect the value differential.” More simply put, make sure you’re getting your money’s worth! To avoid the value issue completely can make the whole exercise questionable.

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Space has been reserved. Final arrangements will be made after all interested parties have an opportunity to respond to a mailing which will be made in late June to those requesting information. ALL RESPONSES ALREADY RECEIVED OR FORWARDED TO THE AOG PRIOR TO 10 JUNE 1978 WILL BE ANSWERED THROUGH A SEPARATE MAILING. A liberal refund

policy is being designed to accommodate short notice PCS or TDY complications. A deposit will be requested upon confirmation of your reservations.

Wayne Pittman 2000 S. Eads, # 927 Arlington, VA 22202

Editor’s Note: Joe DeSantis has been in touch with the AOG and

will be contacting 59ers on the subject of the 20 Year Reunion. Joe has started the ball rolling and is putting together a team to plan

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Well, it finally happened! This quarter I didn’t even get any changes of address or press releases to huild a column on. A few frantic phone calls elicited a bare minimum of news—it follows.

Jim REED has left the Air Staff for a hardship tour—Air Attache in Hong Kong. 1 asked him just before he left if he thought that was a good assignment after his high responsibilities here at the Center of the Known World, but he couldn’t seem to answer through the grin.

We lose one, we gain one. I understand that Joe MORGAN will be coming to Washington in the Office of Scientific Research over at Bolling. Our other scientist here in the area has changed jobs.

can

Jack HOWELL has moved from the Scientific Board to R&I)

As this is written a “spring buck-up” is underway here at the Academy. Last week the cadets were upset because they had to clean up their squadron areas before signing out on Friday evening privileges. There was little sympathy from me. I told them about the “brown shoe days” when we spent every Friday night preparing for classes as well as SAMI and IRI. Saturday academics passed into history long ago, parades occur about once a month, and a “triple threat” Saturday (SAMI, parade and IRI) now happens only once or twice a year. Nevertheless, the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same.

Congratulations to our new colonels! Bill GOODYEAR, Bill KORNITZER, Mike LOH, Dale THOMPSON, Dean VIKAN, Andy BIANCUR, Howie BRONSON and Earl Van INWEGEN were on this year’s Full Bull list. They join our fast burner classmates already wearing eagles: Tony BURSHNICK, Leon GOODSON, Richard HEAD, Ralph MILLER, Tom SEEBODE, Fred WALKER, and Ron YATES. Richard HEAD, who is completing a year as a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, gave a party for ’60 grads at his Virginia home in February. Among those attending were Ken and Judy ALNWICK, A1 and Gale JOHNSON, Howie and Linda WHITFIELD, Charley and Linda HART, Buck and Louisa CONGDON, Dean and Phyllis VIKAN and Bill GOODYEAR. Richard, who sent these photos, will be joining the Air Staff this summer, Ken is already there in Force I )evelopment, while A1 is Exec at Legislative Liaison and is going to Air War College in the fall. Howie is at Marine Corps Headquarters.

where

he’s

National

Coordinator for International

R&I)—or

something like that. He describes the shift as changing responsibility from domestic to international R&I). Says it really means that instead of TI)Y to Wright-Patt, he now goes to Paris.

Out West, Kent MONTAVON will be taking over as Deputy Commandant for the Cadet Wing, you know where. Expected to arrive in July. A little further north, at Ellsworth, Jerry GARBER finally got the squadron for which he’s worked so hard. That was effective the first of April.

I heard through a mutual acquaintance that RL PENN will be going to Homestead and a flying job. The acquaintance was a civilian and she didn’t know what exactly he’d be doing. Maybe RL will write and tell me. (Maybe somebody will write—Please!)

As I write, the cadet appointment process has not fully run its course, but we do know already that the second generation of 59ers at the Academy is on its way. Jim WEAVER’S daughter, Kathleen, has been appointed to the Class of 1981.

Congratulations to our new colonels. They were listed in the last Quarterly, hut the list came out after my column was submitted.

Contrary to popular belief, we in Personnel rarely get an advance look at those lists. The accompanying photographs will give you an idea of the celebratory party here in Washington.

If this column’s dissatisfying in its brevity, you can help meout.

I need news! I know some of you are doing exciting things—that your wives are accomplishing things and gaining recognition— that your sons and daughters are on their way to college. What’s happening out there?

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will be a student as National War College next year, and he better

bring an apple for the teacher visiting professor at NWC.

—

because that’s gonna be me,

So far none of you guys has stepped forward to take over this

column—the offer stands. Meanwhile, I have listed my future address and phone number. Please do contact me, especially if you are changing jobs this summer. If you’re not ready to be News Secretary full time, how about volunteering to write a “guest column”? Jim GLAZA and Ralph LALIME have done that in the past, and Les HOBGOOD, from down at Air War College, is my

benefactor this time. Take it away Les...

“The sabbatical of 78 is over in Alabama, and we are all looking forward to our new assignments (some rumored and some firm as

Ralph and Darlene LALIME are headed for Ralph hopes to compete for an F-4 squadron commander job. Jerry and Betty DeLACRUZ are headed for Norfolk where Jerry will be on the Armed Forces Staff College faculty. Don and Joannie STEVENS are PCAing here at Maxwell where Don will be on the AWC faculty. Mike and Barbara LOH are headed for England AFB, Louisiana. Mike has been offered the ADO slot in the A-7 wing. Of all the troops here at AWC, Mike has done the most to alter his situation this year—he took up jogging, ran over 400 miles, went on a diet and now he’s in better shape than this is written).

Alaska where

CAN YOU SPOT THE MARINE IN THIS PICTURE? Bill

Goodyear, Howie Whitfield, A1 Johnson

Denis WALSH, CO of the 528BSq at Plattsburgh, was here a

he was the summer of ’56. As a result of his 1976 auto accident, it

month or so ago on a squadron visit. We held an impromptu 6th

looks like Hardy LEBEL will retire from the Air P'orce as soon as

Cadet Squadron (circa 1956) mini-reunion which was attended by Denis, Jack BRUSH and myself, plus 59’rs Curt COOK and

the Medical Evaluation Board renders a decision. He and Joani

Charlie MEIER. Conclusion reached: all those guys may have been sadistic SOBs 22 years ago but they’re not so had in middle age

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for 59’rs.

I was also in 12th Squadron as a cadet, and last month a young

learn the story behind the design of the 12th Squadron patch. I consulted with Jack BRUSH here at Seiler Lab, Charley HART at the Pentagon, and George FRIES, who is Chief of Analysis and Programming at Langley AFB. All of us remember the patch being adopted but can’t recall why. Any help man came to see me to

out there?

QUICKIES. I 'ony BURSHNICK has just left his job as DO at Altus to be Vice Commander of the 63rd Military Airlift Wing at Norton. Gary SHEETS recently received his fourth MSM for his outstanding performance as a B-52 AC, special assistant to the base commander, and deputy base commander during his last tour at Kincheloe AFB. Sid NEWCOMB, back from Chile, is the new

plan to hang it up in Destin, Florida where they hope all you passers through will give them a call. Gary and Sylvia SHEETS are headed for “Fort Fumble” where Gary will run papers on the Air Staff. It might be worthy to mention that Gary and Sylvia captured a trophy in a 50’s dance contest at the AWC spring party.

George and Evelyn ELSEA are headed back to Germany where George will be on the USAFE staff at Ramstein. For all you antique airplane buffs out there, Gorge has his Tiger Moth up for sale due to the overseas move. And Marilyn and I are headed out west to Lubbock, Texas where I hope to compete for a squadron at Reese Airpatch. The “Woekin’ Winnie” of Atlanta trip fame is going westbound and down. Last, a word of frolic for all you aspiring DG’s (distinguished graduate) at AWC next year—they have done it to you by instituting testing in the Air Force’s Senior school.”

Chief of the Aeronautical Test Division at Holloman AFB. Dale

MAYO, a pilot with Pan American, has just moved from California to

Ottsville, Pennsylvania. Walt FUTCH has PCS’d from

Thomas L. Sutton

McClellan to Scott AFB, while Ron SANDHOLZER has moved

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The voting appears to be unanimous. You may recall that in the last issue I suggested that you might be growing weary of my quarterly bantering and offered to pass the newsletter job on to a fresh mind. All one needed to do was to write me and volunteer. The results of that pool were that I received absolutely no letters since the last issue hit the streets. So I deduce that you are satisfied.

Beware! Some sage no doubt said it, but if not you may quote me, “The apathy of the masses breeds tyranny by the few, especially

by those who write the news.” And so, in the inimitable style of the creative author seeking to create something readable out of next to

nothing, I offer the following profligacy.

This summer’s senior service school list has surfaced and I

noticed that there are three times as many 61ers going to small National War College as big Air War College. Tom CONLEY and I will meet again

on

the Maxwell AFB campus in August. I don’t

know who among our colonels may be there as my small base is not

privy to such information. Besides that, the Air Force Times is not Buck & Louisa Congdon, Charley Hart, Bill Goodyear & Friend

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delivered by Pony Express, so we don’t see many copies of it either.

Speaking of the Pony Express, the U.S. government may be in

John W. (Jack) Jamba

for a real shock if the class of 61 hits the big time. Did you know

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that one of the larger aspiring candidates for the United States

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Senate from the great state of Kansas is the Honorable Samuel A.

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HARDAGE, president of Hardage Enterprises, Wichita, Kansas?

We hope you do well Sam and that you are favorably disposed to a

strong military posture. Some of us are feeling very much like a lion tamer surrounded by a new class and armed with little more than a tight gut and a wet noodle. Sure would like to have a big

stick.

By the way Sam, hope you and all the other 1958 star football players have a good time at the 20 year reunion of the 1958-59 Cotton

Bowl team.

be anxious to get a report and photographs from that prestigious occasion.

I’ll

unable to reach some of you because you couldn’t get through the to your offices in Washington or New England. I’ve been getting a few more phone calls and a few more letters for you. I hope the fad catches on and more of you call or write soon. Just 50 snow

100 words from you would be great.

or

I talked to Minter ALEXANDER in

some

January.

He is at the

National War College after just finishing a tour as the Sq Cmdr of

I understand that two members of that record-setting football team are presently upgrading to second pilot in the big wide body;

the 717. Boh BRICKEY is flying for Pan Am and Jim HINKLE flies with Continental.

Mike

Redtags! The winter storms and blizzards are hopefully behind us for this year. There were several occasions when I was Hi

QUINLAN, another of the famous football few, reports

that he is leaving the shadow of the everlasting hills on theshores of the Great Salt Lake for the remote regions of Kunsan, Korea where he will fly F-4s along the DM/. He has secret hopes of

getting a command there, but is not taking any bets.

Another of the great 61 athletes. By THEURER, known throughout the Ramparts for his superior mental gymnastics, is managing the entire computer software program for the F-15 SPO and is continuing to recover his physical adroitness as well.

J.C. CARLING, F-15 Director of Test and Evaluation, also

an

Air Refueling Sq at Warner-Robins. He and his wife, Vicky, and

Robert (13), Kirk (10), and Eva (3), are adjusting to the scene in Alexandria, Va. A couple of weeks later, Minter was selected for BTZ promotion to Colonel. So I called him back and he said he was very surprised and very happy about his selection. It looks like he has been tentatively selected for an assignment to Hq. USAF/DP, Plans and Programs, Air Force Academy Group. It seems that anything at all that happens at the Academy will be tracked by his office. I asked Minter fora recent picture for inclusion in the mag hut he modestly declined.

Congratulations for selection to Colonel!! ('ongratulations are also in order for Paul LANDERS, who also was selected for BTZ promotion to Colonel. I was not able to reach Paul. I'll he contacting him soon and should have info on him for their three children.

the next column.

stationed at Wright-Patterson, is launching his F-15 this spring for

1 also talked to Dave WHITMAN at Pease. He recently became

long range trip to describe the attributes of the F-15 to fighter pilot audiences throughout the CONUS and Europe. If you see a sky blue F-15 in your back forty in the next few weeks, don’t

the Ops Officer for the 715th Bomb Sq. taking Len WRIGHT’S job

a

hesitate to stop and see if Clair is at the controls.

Although I received no letters in the last three months, I did receive one newsy letter written in January in response to last fall’s issue, but it arrived too late to make the last newsletter. Hank Howe wrote all the way from Stuttgart,

Germany to relate his

recent experiences:

Peggy and I moved from Greenville in June and arrived in Stuttgart, Germany 20 years to the day from when we all arrived at Lowry! What a difference. I’m not sure any of the class who were on the field trip would recognize Germany. Certainly not the exchange rate. It is down to almost 21 )M per U.S. dollar. A long way from the 4 to I of the field trip.

I’m

now

the Chief of Plans and

Resources, at the European

Defense Analysis Center—also a lot different than my last job. I haven’t figured out what the job is yet, hut being the only Air Force in the office with 3 Army, 1 Navv, and a civilian, I take a lot of

flack.

While TDY at Ramstein a couple of weeks ago I saw Dean JONES and his family—they are all well and enjoying the life

here. (At least they were last December) Ed XOMPA was also there

showing off his AWACS plane.

The welcome mat is always out here at HQ LJSEUCOM—Patch Barracks, and we would enjoy seeing anyone who comes through.

We appreciate hearing from you Hank. Hope your tour in Europe is enjoyable and rewarding.

I notice that among those who have recently made a permanent

change

of

station, (have

you

ever

wondered

why they

say

permanent change of station when nothing could be less permanent than a change of station?) John and Shiela MAY and Jim and Judy TULIS have moved to Hickam AFB, Hawaii. John is becoming the Chief of Standardization

Evaluation at the 6594

Test Group while Jim is a staff officer in

HQ PACAF/XPK.

I xui awaits PCS orders. I )ave is very happy to be off alert crew.

as

I le pulled alert duty every three or four weeks; seven days on alert

followed by four days of crew rest. For flying time, he ususally logged about five flights per month on non-alert duty days. He’s

living in “new” base housing hut doesn’t seem to have enough to move around anymore. His wife, Ann, is taking ski lessons once a week. Dave couldn’t talk too much longer; his area had already had eight inches of snow and two feet more was expected that night. As you all remember from news and weather reports.

New England got hit by a record snow fall and blizzard around the 19th and 20th of January. 1 haven’t been able to get a call through to Dave since then. So, Dave, if the mail is getting through to you room

now,

call me when you read this article.

a quick conversation with Jim DENTREMONT in January. As I previously had reported, Jim is at SAC HQ now. It is his first assignment in SAC. He is the Division Chief for Systems Integration. His division uses the big computers (Honeywell 6000 and IBM 370) to support the SIOP for aircraft. He’s living off base now in South Omaha and it’s a bit of a change after having spent five years at Scott. His wife, Lynn, is from Sacramento. They have three children, a nine year old son and two daughters, seven and

1

had

five.

Talked to Mike BUTCHKO in April. He is doing very well at the Pentagon in his current assignment as the Program Element Monitor for Strategic Bomber-Enhancement. He reviews programs for current and future bombers. Among his areas of concern are the Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM) and the Advanced Strategic Air Launched Missile (ASALM). Mike says it’s a hectic job because he uses two days supply of energy for every day on the job. He came to this assignment from Edwards via the Defense Systems Management School. Mike has a photography hobby for which he has time between midnight and 2 AM (if he’s not asleep by then). He resides in West Springfield, VA wdth his wife, Kay and his children, Benjamin, 11, and Katy,4. By the way, his wife, Kay, is licensed to sell real estate in Virginia. So any of you who will be moving to the DC area can call Kay BUTCHKC for some help in locating property for sale or rent.

The summer should be full of news and new activities. We look

Talked to Boh ANDERSON in March. He has transferred from

forward to hearing from you about your lives. Some of you who

the SALT negotiations office to the Deputy Director for Mission

have not seen your names mentioned here are missed, and we want

Planning for all cruise missiles in the Joint Cruise Missile Program Office. Bob was very pleased to get his new job. His

to hear from you.

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previous work on SIOP force application was a critical consideration both for the SALT and Cruise Missile assignments. Bob and his wife, Judy, have four children: daughters, Shawn (13) and Crystal (3), sons, Wade (12) and Seth (9). They have been at the new assignment since last August and are settled into a home in Burke, VA. Bob said he enjoyed teaching in USAFA’s Mech Dept so much that he taught night school on his recent assignment in Omaha for the University of Omaha. It looks like he’ll be in the Cruise Missile Office for two or three

more

years. But when his time is up he

wouldn’t mind a follow-on ROTC assignment.

I got a change of address card from Gary HAMRICK. He is now residing in Saratoga, California, and works for IBM, San Jose, as a Market Requirements Analyst. His previous assignment was in Sindelfingen, W. Germany, and he lived in Gartringen. (Boy, those names are

real tongue twisters). He indicated that he returned to

the U.S. in July, 1976, but that his previous change of address card must have gotten

lost. He has five children now. He said he does

private flying when he has the time. He listed his branch of service as Taxpayer and his rating as Civilian First Class. Gary, it’s good to hear from you and I hope you like it back home in the States.

I received a very impressive invitation recently from Hawaii. I

quote: “The Commanding Officer of Patrol Squadron Twenty-two requests the honor of your presence at the Change of Command

Colorado. Phil MERKEL left PCS recently to go to Clark as the a remote tour. He said Willy GRAY was outprocessing on a PCS. The next time Dave, Herb WEATHERHEAI) and Jack HAUSER get together, Dave will try to get a picture for the grad’s magazine.

After I talked to Dave, I called the La Junta Radar Bomb Site at night to get Cliff FALLON’S phone number from the military locator. A Lt. Col. answered and connected me directly to Cliff. It turned out that an ORI was in progress and Cliff was on duty to supervise some of the activities. He is the Ops Officer for the site which is in Colorado about 120 miles for the Academy. The site

Chief of Safety,

gets

its

support from

Peterson

Field.

There

are

60

enlisted

personnel assigned and Cliff is second in command. So when the site commander is TDY, Cliff has the whole ball of wax. The site is on the SAC Training Range and scores bomb runs for B-52’s and FB-lll’s. Cliff likes the job because it’s a good leadership and management opportunity. The site has only one autovon line (and 1 thought I had problems with autovon) so we had to cut the conversation short so he could phone the bomb scores into the SAC IG evaluators.

If everything goes well, I should be the new Wing Safety Officer

here in June. I’ve already started my cross-training and am enthused about the new job. So after 1 June you can reach me at AV 481-3849, 3162, 73.

will be relieved by Commander Ceremony at which Cmdr Michael B. HUGHES, United States Navy at 9:30, Friday, 24 March 1978 Parade Grounds, U.S. Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii. Uniform: Tropical White Long.” Mike, congratulations on your new command. It’s good to see that Redtags do well both in the Air Force and the Navy. It was good getting your card. Keep me posted on things in Hawaii. ....

I received

.

.

APO San Francisco 96334 366-3106/373-2967

compliment, Bill. a

Not that I

am

lazy or anything, but I have been writing this

column on the road and Bob DONOVAN wrote such a comprehensive letter full of hot news that I could not resist using Bob as a

“guest columnist.” Bob, you’re on

....

.

Chet GRIFFIN will be in ’79 class.” Thanks for the card and the

I received

Anderson AFB, Guam

letter from Bill O’ROURKE in which he said he

a

enjoyed the grad’s column. (Thank you; I like a paton the back). He also said, and I quote, “NWC is a great year and I strongly recommend it to all Red Tags. However, expect Air Staff Duty after (I will be in PRP after graduation) just learned last week that

ROBINSON

Skip Lee 1021 Rota-Drive

HTNR from the Academy saying that Paul K. received the Meritorious Service Medal at

had

Bentwaters. He was cited for outstanding duty performance while assigned to the Systems Liaison Division with the Directorate of Legislative Liaison, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon. Congratulations, Paul.

I talked to Mike TIETGE in April. He is an F-4 instructor pilot at Luke, and currently is the Operations Officer for air-to-air combat

“It’s hard for me to believe I’ve almost completed my last semester in the English Department. I finally finished my Doctoral dissertation in medieval literature just last July and now its time move on.

Actually I’m being curtailed to meet my gate requirements. I waged a long, unsuccessful letter campaign with the Board of Corrections for Military Records to get credit for all

to

the T-29 time I flew in support of the cadet nav program. So far two

pilots—Tom ELLER (’61) and Larry THACKER (’63)—have gotten full credit from the board, but it seems nav time isn’t

simulators. His unit is a detachment of the Tactical Air Warfare Center at Eglin

and does Operational Test and Evaluation using a special air-to-air simulator and an F-15 simulator. Mike, his wife, Terry, and children, Mark (14) and Jill (10), live near Luke on an acre of land. His wife works part time as a veterinarian’s helper and the whole family helps take care of 4 Arabian horses, which they proudly display at horse shows in the area. Mike will be leaving on a new assignment in June, to an Army base in Germany, at Maurice-Rose’, north of Frankfurt. He will be assigned to the 601 Air Support Operations Sq as an ALO with the Army. E.C. NEWMAN stopped by to see him several months ago on his way to Point Mugu NAS, Calif. Mike expects to see John DINSMORE who will be coming to Luke soon for a visit simulation

with some relatives.

Talked to Dave BOCKELMAN in

April. He’s stationed at the A-10 SPO Project Director. Dave says he handles all kinds of special projects for the general. He and his wife, Sylvia, and children Shadra (11) and Alix (6) reside in the Forest Ridge area around Dayton. Sylvia is an executive secretary for Pioneer Standard Electronics (that’s not the same Pioneer that builds stereo speakers). Dave likes the change from his previous job flying FB-lll’s at Plattsburgh. Right now his big outside activity is running. I )ave said Cliff FALLON is now the Ops Ofcr for SAC’s Radar Bomb Site at La Junta, Wright-Pat as the Special Assistant

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to

Meritorious service at Nellis AFB Nevada, has earned the second ,

award of the U.S. Air Force Commendation Medal for Delbert F. Miller.

Major

“operational.” Sour grapes. So I’m due to PCS. I’ve heard just how nav picture is worldwide, so I consider myself particularly fortunate to have gooten just what I wanted—an HC-130 rescue slot at Woodbridge, England (67th ARKS). #!$&%* (editorial comment for Skip on Guam). Only one slot was open this summer, and I wrangled it. The old country is going to be quite a change from Colorado. 1 go unaccompanied until I secure housing, undoubtedly on the econmy. But that will give Ann a few weeks extra to finish her M A in Art History at D.U. The only bad part of the PCS is survival at Fairchild. Yup, the system finally caught dismal the

up: I’ve been truant ever since ’63. Even volunteered once in my

salad days after ’Nam, but I got turned down. What the hell—the fresh air’ll be good for me. I also have two months of upgrade at

Kirkland in

HC-130 lore.

Hope

to

see

Henry and Etta Jane

CON ANT, who are there now.

“I haven’t seen many grads these days around the Academy.

Drue DEBERRY passed through recently—just couldn’t stay out of the History Dept—on his way from Exec job at Travis to Armed

Forces Staff College. He warned me that flying in MAC now “just ain’t like the old days.” Sigh.

“Larry THACKER is working on his PhD dissertation now (Univ of North Carolina). He’s at Peterson Field flying T-39s to catch up on gate credit. Larry lives just across the street in Bill POVILUS’s old house. The THACKERS are anxious to get back

Major Jerry D. Adinolfi has received the Meritorious Service Medal at Norfolk, VA.

into academia—starts

teaching English again in the fall. The POVILUSES visted neighbors a few weeks ago enrouteto a skiing

holiday. (Guess he doesn’t get enough snow at Duluth??) Anyway, he never got to ski because his Mercedes cropped out 75 miles outside of Colorado Springs and limped in. He was a little put out having to spend his vacation here getting it fixed.

“Shirley HALL came to visit us a few weeks ago to help Ann recuperate after delivering a daughter, Megan Marie, 81b 1 lozon 4 Feb. Meg’s our second after Quinn, our 5 yr old son. Anyway, Shirley hasn’t changed a bit. I talk to Bob HALL periodically on the Eglin autovon. He’s in theTAC Safety Office there but expects to PCS in about a year. Bill GABEL drops us a line from time to

time. He even called one Saturday from Pete Field on a T-39 turn-

around from Andrews. Jean and the kids are fine. Bill is eyeing a

job but now he has some alphabet-soup office symbol at Andrews AFB handling budgetary matters, among other things. new

Gary and Sue SABAN wrote around Christmas tfiat Gary resigned his commission to enter dental school. Larry SEVP1RSON called this weekend. His Continental 727 was refueling at Peterson. Larry’s still co-piloting, but has ever-increasing seniority. I expect him to be captain every time I see him. He reports all are well at home. Says they survived the rain/mud slide problems in California—they are a bit involved there in P'ountain Valley. The only way I seem to see our classmates, Skip, is to go TDY. I’ve been traveling as a member of the Executive Writing Course. The Pmglish Dept has picked up the slack in the Air University’s “Effective Writing Course” by taking two-man teams out of our classroom and sending us to wherever. The unit that invites us gets to pick up the TDY bills, a good deal for us. We go 1-4 days to places like Wilford Hall in San Antonio, SAC HQ, the Pentagon, etc. and show staff level and general officer audiences how to economize and improve everyday correspondence. Last year our 13 team members taught over 5,000 people, and the count is up again this year. On my last trip (to Scott AP^B) I bumped into Curt PRESTON in one of our AP’CS audiences. He had just moved to Scott from Richards-Gebaur with the Comm Service. Curt is with their IG team. The next day, while teaching a HQ MAC audience the

base, I ran across George PASQUET’s smiling face.

He’s paid his flying dues and now has a staff job at HQ. Locally, morale is up. The cadets “bought” the Supt’s briefing recently, in which he told them his committees were recommending a lot of changes—like 12 man honor boards (composed of cadets who aren’t Honor Reps), and AOCs to have more teeth, the cadets to have less say in “running” the Wing, etc. Sounded to me like a return to the saner days of 1960-63 (comparatively speaking).”

Bob said it, I didn’t! Thanks Bob for all the great info. I have very little to add so without further ado: Larry MCLAUGHLIN has a new job as a Wing Command Post Controller for the 320 Bomb

across

Wing, Mather; Ben P'REDERICK has moved from SAMSO to

Wright-Patterson; A1 WOLP'can now be found at McChord—check and see if Joe COATES is still in the holding pattern. While TDY I into George Cl .ARK who is with the TA WC at Eglin. At Scott I bumped into Dean HP1SS in the Club. Dean is holding up in MAC Current Ops as a “Barrel Master.”

The following Golden Types did themselves proud this time around: Del MILLER made Aerospace Safety by losing two (all of them) engines in his PM 11 while flying a training mission from ran

Mt. Home. Del also received

a

2nd Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air

P’orce Commendation Medal. Jerry ADINOLPT was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for duty performance while assigned to the office of the DCO, 351 Strategic Missile Wing, Whiteman, Mo.

BORLAND also received the MSM for outstanding duty performance as a cost analysis officer with the Cost and Economic Analysis Division, Directorate of Cost and Management Analysis, HQ ATC, Randolph. Mel has since moved from San Antonio to the Canal Zone—Howard. Congratulations to the new 0-6 selectees: Bill ARDERN, Sam WESTBROOK and Rog SORENSEN. That’s it for now—one more year at Guam and counting.

Mel

Rod Wells 490 Allegheny Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Home: (303) 599-7966 Autovon: 259-4510

Well, spring is spongin’ here in the Rockies, and it’s sure nice to lay back in the evening and watch that ol’ sun splash down into the gold and purple fire of the range maybe a little Colorado Koolaid in your hand makes a fella want to take stock of things once in a while, maybe step off the treadmill and ask himself what’s important in life oops, sorry, waxing a little too philosophical there beginning to sound like a “homesteader,” I guess but there’s a little twinkle left in my lady’s eye and a little flurry of excitement when we talk about that next possible assignment so I guess we’re not really ready yet to pack it in but no harm dreaming, eh? Actually, things are cooking here spring semester winding down, preparations for ’82 winding up (God, ’82 believe it), the cycle repeats itself, spinning on, can you but somehow never changing a little here, a little there changing. But, how about us? Are we? Well, some of us certainly change jobs and locations. Bill BODE has moved from Arlington, VA, to D.C.; Will STACKHOUSE has returned from the land of -

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congrats. The other photo by the way is a rather rare

darts and warm beer and after a long Oxford sojourn now resides

Sierra stick

in the Mech Dept (they have mellowed considerably over the years,

shot of a peculiar bird

stand during their in-class fingernail inspection); A1 FREATHY is driving F-4E’s for the 33rd TFW at

cadets

no

longer

must

Eglin (Boh HALEY is there too); John HEIIMAN moved crosstown in Cincinnati; Joe DRISCOLL now calls Fair Oaks, CA home

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John QUIGLEY, now a Yale econ prof, lecturing to a seminar group here at the Zoo-not a bad shot, the air brush took out his thick glasses and gravy-stained tie.

Well, that’s about it for now keep both those cards and letters coming in, eh?

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instead of Hanscom; and Billy GARRETT has moved from Houston to Woodbridge, VA. WHODATHIJNKIT: that Don GRAHAM would he flying, that Mike Ryan

Ron BUNCH would be at the same place in a Div Eng Sqd, F-4E’s in Kunsan, that Ray RODGERS would be working on the Space

117 Lee Avenue

Transportation System at SAMSO, that Ed KURZ would he flying for Eastern out of Boston’s Logan Airport, that Bob KERN would he flying C-130’s out of Elmendorf, that Jim GRAHAM would finish AFSC and go to D.C. in logistics management, that Mitch

Poquoson, Virginia 23662

COBEAGA would still be alive?

Home: (804) 868-8164 Autovon: 432-2719

Spring is full of life’s adventure in Virginia. Wrestling’s almost League has just begun, gymnastics never stop, and mother nature, with the help of Ortho, is nagging us to cut the grass. Actually, Jane and I don’t cut it anymore. Our kids do over, Little

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which frees us to build basketball courts and drive the kids to and from

wrestling, baseball, and gymnastics. We’re also thinking

about putting a screened-in porch on the back of our house; but,

realizing that indecision is the key to flexibility, we are still analyzing such factors as how much longer we will be here and how much the materials will cost versus the average gross weight of Poquoson mosquitos and the availability of plasma. (The welcome package here includes a Red Cross blood drive sticker for the window which says “We’re Giving.”) and speaking of donors, there are several within intercept range of here going through Armed Forces Staff School at Norfolk.

Both Dave NOLTING and Tom PILSCH are attending Armed Forces Staff

College. Dave is looking for a C-5 assignment, hopefully to the West Coast. He and Margie have spent the last four years at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. I’m not sure where Tom is headed after school. Moving west, I talked to Mike Muldoon

C-Springs. Mike is working in the ADCOM DO weapons shop. He said he’d seen Charlie THOMAS, John SELLARS and Dave COOPER while on a trip to Nellis. Pete BRACCI is working in the Childlaw Building in Safety. Both he and Mike, while suffering the rigors of the MAJCOM staff tour, keep their sanity by flying T-birds out of Peterson. Mike said he was responsible for a new procedure in the old Bird. Where in the past the scientific procedure for assuring the gear handle was down was to “jiggle” the handle, the same procedure is now required for gear up checks.

Apparently on one sortie, Mike experienced a gear extension at 400 snorts giving him the speed record for airborne tricycles. Mike also mentioned that Joe and Kay Kolec were headed for helicopters at out in

Ed Machenbier KUDO DEPT: Brett DULA has earned the Meritorious Service Medal for duty as flight commander and ass’t officer at Cannon;

Barry BARNES has won the MSM for duty in Studies and Anal (Airlift Division) at the Puzzle Palace; Bob THOMAS won his for Pentagon duty too (second prize: expense paid tour to Keflavik).

Yes, it’s time that Joe BAVARIA has been the Commander of the

Fairchild.

336th Tac Fighter Sqd for awhile; hut hold it folks, coming up fast

Tad OELSTROM, who is TAC HQ’s air-to-air missileer, relayed

is our own “Stevie B” CROKER, just named to command the F-l 11

that he had heard Tom GORGES is leaving Norton AFB to work in

Ed MECHENBIER (see squadron at Pease. And check this glassy-eyed photo above) was just named “Fighter Pilot of the Year” by the Ohio Nat’l Guard’s 178th Tac Fighter Grp; the Andrew C. Lacy Award recognizes him as an all-around Hotel

JCS. He also heard that Fred BOLI is on his way back to the States

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from his Russian Attache post looking for a job in fighters.

While I was TDY, Jeff SILLIMAN called Jane on his way through Langley. Jeff is Ops Officer for the CT-39 unit at Wright Patterson. After seven years at WP, Jeff is expecting to go to Ramstein in June. He relayed that Armond TURNER is at Shaw; Doc Bill DOUGLAS is working the business end for babies at the Wright Patterson OB clinic; and Brent BOWEN is with the Federal Reserve System in DC as a Senior Analyst.

Talked to Bruce GROSSETTA who is planning to attend one of the staff colleges enroute back to fighters. Bruce collected info from guys at the ZOO: Warren LANGLEY may be moving from Special

Assistant to the Supt into research at Seiler. Warren passed on,

through Bruce, that Harry DOERER should be returning from USAFE to ACSC. Barry Blackman, who has left his 1st Sqdn AOC job for a Cadet Wing staff job relayed through Bruce that Earle MONROE would be leaving Dyess for ACSC and that Tom HAMILTON would be heading for Alaska after AFSC. Tim

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ANDERSON, who’s teaching law at the Academy, will one man legal show at Torrejon for procurement. A1

a

Ramblings: Ed BAILEY took Ron MOREY’s place as our man in the Academy Group at the Pentagon. Ron is resting from the

“Washington Wars” at AFSC. Also at AFSC are Bruce SHARER, '

Art SURO, Lacy VEACH, and John McBROOMK is at Al Reserve 1

fighter staff officer. Gary VAN VALIN has moved from Hq OSD to AF plans in Strategy and Analysis. Bill RANKIN is in AFKRA (Is that a disease, Bill?) on the Air Staff. Terry as a

Toni

Pilsch

is

O’DONNELL

a

member

of

the

“small

and

unknown”

Washington law firm of Williams, Connolly, and Califano. Vic ANDREWS is in the TAC Division of XDO. The Pentagon basement is a charming place isn’t it, Vic? Do you work near the purple water fountain? Jim AINSWORTH has forsaken the AF to be an Army civilian employee at Ft Rucker. He is a Research Psychologist in Army Aviation. Ron ANTHONY swapped his SOS Den Mother badge for a chance to fly B-52’s at Wurtsmith.

I )ick BOROWSKI is a test pilot at Edwards. Ron BRACY is out of the Air Force and studying for the ministry in Fort Worth. Milt SANDERS writes that he is leaving the Flight Dynamics Lab at Wright-Patterson to fly the A-7 at England AFB. (Good show, Milt!) Jerry CALLAHAN is a T-38 IP at Columbus. Donnie STEWARD is an Eastern pilot, living in Boca Raton, Florida.

Jim MEADOWS had moved from “colorful”Colorado totheTexas hill country near Austin. Jim is the vice president of Resort

Dave

Development; if you’re moving to Austin, give Jim a call. Joel

Nolting

CARROLL escaped from the supply business in Germany to be a T-37 IP at Sheppard. Spence I)ANIELS is an engineer at SAMSO.

Bob DUNHAM has returned to 12AF Hq after his tour with the Army Rangers. Bruce McBRIDE has gone to F-105 Wild Weasels at George after a tour in Civil Engineering at England AFB. (Good

show, Bruce.) Tom MUNCH is a Procurement Officer in ASI) at

GRIESHABER just finished tiis Phi) in English, and will return to operational duties before going to USAFA in 1981 to teach. Mike

WHITEHORN and Tom MURAWAKI, English instructors at the Academy, have been galloping around the USAF teaching clear, concise writing. They may he playing at a base near you. 1 understand it’s a good show and message. In view of that and notwithstanding previous correspondence to the contrary, and considering my tenure at writing this article and how long Fve been at it, Tom and Mike, perhaps, now or in the future, maybe one of you might consider the possibility of wanting to explore new horizons in literary expression, prose and/or poetry with a mind to volunteering to assume the duties, and attendant responsibility, of continuing the authorship of this august epistle/scam sheet, but not before you have listened to your own lecture so you can write as

Wright-Patterson. John CASPER is a test pilot and ops officer in the 6513th Test Squadron at Edwards. Bill RYAN is at Ramstein flying F-4E’s with the 526th TFS. Also at Ramstein is Lt Colonel Nick KEHOE, ops officer of the 512 TFS. (Congratulations, Nick!)

Rick PARSONS is an F-15 flight commander at Langley. He took the Flagle to Korea, and after his return, related his experience on local TV. It’s nice to have a TV star in the class, Rick! Don CRAIGIE is an acquisition project officer with Systems Command at Wright-Patterson. Terry WORK is a development engineer assigned to Buckley ANGB in Denver. (Tough luck, Terry.) Bob McNAMARA is an ops staff officer at KI Sawyer. Gregg SWANSON is an IP at Bitburg. Ed PETERSON is an information (propaganda?) officer at USAFA. Glenn PERRY is an Air Ops Staff officer at Patrick, Bob ESTIJS has traded his B-52 for a I )en

Mother (AOC)

job at USAFA. Bill EUBANK is a flight com-

mander at Mather. Sorry we missed connections in Shreveport last summer, Bill. Speaking of flight commanders, John FALhasan F-

1111) flight at Connon. Ed FIGUEROA has a job some of us dream

clear and concise as me.

about

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F-4 test pilot at Taiwan. (Good show, Ed.) Jack JANECKY

is a lawyer in Mobile. Pete MORRELLI is in the Security Police at

('arswell. Dave OAKES was rewarded for his frigid year in Alaska

by being assigned to AFTEC’s Air-to-Air Division. Gary PALMER

Eddy Shirley

is an instructor at the I )efense Intelligence School in Washington.

5 Fir Court Pease AFB, NH 03801 Home: (603) 436-2280

Duty: 852-1718/2610/2171 Several of our classmates have attained “lost soul” status with the AOG. Anyone knowing where we can locate Tommy THOMP-

SON, Damon RICKARD, Jr., Dan PATRICK, Bryan STUART, Bill WALLACE, Gary JOHNSON, Paul BRADLEY, Ed BIELO, Larry LUNDHOLM or Ron URNER, please notify Jim WHEELER or me.

Decorations: Charley KOSTER was awarded the Meritorious

plans. Ken HACKER is the Chief of STAN/EVAL for the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale AFB. He received the MSM for duty with SAC’s 1st Combat Evaluation Group. Dan CECILescaped Wright-Patterson in

USAFA

Service

Medal

with

AT-38 to Holloman and an MSM. Norm RATHJE

an

(MSM)

for

his

work

was

awarded the MSM for revealing the mysteries of Civil Engineering to USAFA cadets.

Rick Parsons

•

Eagle Driver

•

TV Star

SPENCER is also in the intelligence community in Washington; he’s on the Air Staff. Frank SALAT is the Headquarters Squadron Commander at Reese. Our returned lawyer, Morrie TANNER, made the highest grade on record in the legal Paul

procurement course. Lou TURPEN is an engineer in l)es Plaines, IL. John VAN DUYN is helping Jerry ALLEN uphold our class

reputation at Navy Command and Staff. Chuck WILKINSON is hack in Jackson, MS, in investment banking. Dave WILLETT is flying the F-4E at Osan. Rumor has it that Harold ICKE will go to Castle in the F-106 after ACSC. Lt Colonel Sid WISE is the (Ihief of

Safety at Eglin and in line for an F-15 checkout. (Congratulations, Sid, ole 22nd Sq is doing well!) John MARSHALL has done so well at the Pentagon, that he was selected as the aide to the new TAC Commander, General Creech. (Best of luck, John!) Charley SARFF has moved across town from TAC Hq to AFSC. A recent issue of Newsweek quoted Randy JAYNE chastising the Navy for their shipbuilding program. Careful, Randy, the Admirals won’t like a IISAFA graduate pinging them. Jim MURPHY is in the C-5

AFB (flying?) where he was awarded his second AFCM. Glenn

LUND has left the DC area to fly the E-4A at Offutt. My main of hearsay, Jim GEORGE, reports that Greg LOSER has

source

completed an RF-4 assignment and is now an AGOS instructor at Hurlburt Field. Pat FINNEGAN is upholding “Fighting Fourth’s” image by serving as a USAFA AOC extraordinaire. Jim GEORGE called for info about the possibilities of getting a hop on a T-39. He recently completed 0-2 training at Patrick AFB on his way to a PCS in Panama. Good luck Jim... I areas

can

think of less turbulent

of the world to visit. Lloyd (you never can be too militaree)

DUNCAN has left

Randolph to become an A-10 jock at Myrtle

Beach. The attached picture portrays that same staunch, steely-

eyed

guy

we

all remember. Another member of the 6th, Jim

WHITE is down at MPC pushing bodies around in C-9 and C-5

assignments.

business at Travis enroute to ACSC this fall. Jim was unable to write so Patt substituted for him; thanks for the letter Patt! Butch

SCHRECKER is teaching math of reluctant cadets, while Mary sells real estate in Colorado Springs. If you are relocating in the area, call

Mary.

going to Nellis in late June to put the SAC Aardvark through its paces in “Red Flag.” I look forward to seeing all the I’ll he

guys in

Las Vegas.

Until next time, good luck and Godspeed.

Tom Griesser 132 Stacy Drive

Fairview Heights, IL 62208 Home: 618/632-4718 Autovon 638-5009

Greetings from Scott airpatch and the Gateway to the west!!

Before I get into all the class news that’s fit to print, I would like to caution the medical world about the impending arrival of one

Lawrence WILSON. If the upstart doctor/intern(?) is as deft with the scalpel and clamps as he was in the smooth maneuvering out of writing the class news, we all can expect future medical miracles.

Seriously, on behalf of us all, I’d like to thank Larry for his efforts and for a great job of writing our class input for the last five years.

His last article was certainly newsy and it will be a hard act to

follow.

Please bear with me if I should reiterate some previously reported items and pardon me if I should report anything erroneously. The sources for my first column are change of address cards, Hometown News Releases, telephone conversations, and one real letter for which Doug BRAZIL gets the Nino Baldachi ’67 writing award. In my efforts to maximize our class information, I’ve attempted to mention at least one individual from each one of our 24 cadet squadrons. At times I really had to search, so please for the future, start the flow of those cards, letters, and pictures!

I received a news release which reported that Gene LUPIA graduated from AFSC at Norfolk. He and Dianne are assigned at McConnell AFB where he is the chief of operations and maintenance. Rubyen CHAMBLESS reports that he is a civilian student at Emory University Law School. Good luck with the studies! Second squadron’s Jack MCCOMB is in TAC at Cannon

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keeping fairly close contact with my 7th squadron provided much info. Yes, my old roomie Pat BADELL is still the same but my lawn in Dayton OH wasn’t, after he drove his Mercedes up to the front door as his grand entrance to a party Beth and I had. Ven HAMMONDS called today and snowed me with this job title: Asst Project Officer for Presidential Flight Support. He mentioned a big graduate get-together in the Washington DC area in late April. Ven reports seeing Bill KORNEMANN (Plans), Wayne PAAJANEN (Programs and Resources) at the Pentagon and has worked with Dick MIDRIFF who is assigned at Randolph but works Presidential Support as an additional duty. Ken SPROULgraduates from med school in a few months and I hope to be able to attend the ceremonies. Gerry WENNER is at Wright-Pat in the F-16 training branch trying to keep tabs on Jim ROBERTS and associates in the Simulator SPO. Alas, big John HOLLSTEIN keeps battling academics and will complete DU Law School soon. Pete MILNE is breezing through AFIT in residence. He, Roger COFFEY, and I have been discussing a thesis topic utilizing their “Strategic and Tactical Studies” expertise (actually Ops Research) in an effort to improve MAC CT39 mission planning and efficiency. One of the first familiar faces I saw at Scott was smiling Vic WILLIAMS (Hq MAC INTELL), who reports that Gary SCHEIMER recently got orders as an AOC at I’ve been

cohorts who have

USAFA. He also mentioned that Jim HAGEY is a whiz kid at Hq SAC in JSTPS and Larry and Dee BECK are serving their first

All Class News Secretaries are reminded that inputs for

CONUS assignment

the Summer Magazine are due to the AOG NLT 14 July 1978. Articles being submitted for inclusion are also due

enclosed a new C Springs address where he was flying T-33’s at

by this date. All material should be double spaced and proofed.

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“Dune" is presented his second award of the AF Commendation Medal.

ever

at

Holloman AFB. Paul DIMMICK

Pete AFB. What are you doing now Paul? Dave PRIZNER supposedly has left Patrick AFB for Kadena and F-4’s. Otis BRENDE in the Specialized Systems SPO at Wright-Pat is finally able to see his Pave Low III project blossom. I think it’s fitting to

our class congratulations to Roger CARLETON for winning the Jabara Award, which got a nice writeup in Thunder, the Worldwide Report on the Fairchild Republic A-10. George NOLLY administered (I didn't want to use “gave”) Jim GEORGE his final 0-2 checkride at Patrick AFB and according to J.G. has separated from the AF in search of an airlines joh. Bill STRAW’S wife, Elizabeth writes that they have departed “beautiful Colorado” for La Mesa, CA (San Diego) where he is the Asst to the president of the R. L. Burns Corp. Gerry HARTLEY has left Test Pilot school at Edwards and is now at Wright-Pat where I think he is assigned to the 4950 Test Sg.

Mark A. Torreano

renew

I received a change of address card from Ronnie LANIER who

have just enjoyed the heck out of this past winter at Plattsburgh AFB. Fellow ex-New Yorker Bill KOZMA is serving on the TACOPS Staff at Langley AFB. Again Jim GEORGE reports that Chip WAKEFIELD is out of the AF and has landed a “super” procurement job in Washington DC. “The Braz” wrote about enjoying his Ops Analyst job at AFTEC, Kirtland AFB and likes those rent-a-cars on TDYs. Most importantly, however, is the news that he and Mia became proud parents of a baby girl on 1 Feb 78 and that mother and baby are doing fine. Congratulations!!

(Doug, too many questions to answer here hut give me a call and we can discuss all the procedures involved.) must

I've run into Stump SOWADA many times. He’s a Hq MAC Stan Eval weenie and expert in the Herk. Seems to be doing real well and looks very fit. Charlie DENHAM was awarded a masters’ degree from the U of Nebraska at Omaha. He and Carolyn are

stationed at Offutt AFB where he’s

a

SAC computer systems

analyst. Jav TERRY is another (the other?) '57 A-10 jock at Myrtle Beach where he and Dune can shoot the hell out of tanks.

Qtrs. 4409G USAFA, CO 80840 Home: (303) 472-0713 Autovon 259-4513

The big news here this winter was the women’s basketball team, which had a 20-2 record. The team almost went to the nationals, but lost a closeone in the regional finals. June Week is almost upon us, even

change-of-address cards. After six years here in the Springs (1 at ADC, 5 at USAFA), I am joining the transients and will PCS in July to 1)1 A in Washington D.C. Although the location was not my first choice, I am looking forward to my job as a Chinese Missile Analyst. Mimi and I leave Colorado with a lot of good memories.

Of the 10 years since graduation and our marriage, she has been in Colorado 8 years; I’ve been in the state 7, and both of our children have been born at the Academy Hospital. This is the end of my third year writing the column. I really enjoy doing it, but don’t want to be piggish. If any of you would like to take over writing,

please let me know. I’ll be glad to continue if there are no takers, but don’t hesitate to volunteer if you have a burning desire to see your words in

hospital here at Scott is probably no more than a quarter mile from the headquarters building. Since we don’t have kids and because I’m not up to running five miles a day, I haven’t seen Jack ZAJA( yet to see if he looks as well as Larry WILSON reported in the last column. Progress and confirmation report to follow. ’

Rumor has it that the 20th’s own John WINGFIELD is going great guns at

Patrick AFB. Are you still in the AF Eastern Test Range

job John or are you doing something else? I found Bill (Wink) EAS T alive and well as a Hq MAC! Ops Staff Officer in the Ops Support Airlift Div. He and his wife JoAnne have two cute daughters and are expecting the third addition in May 78. Bob M l LI) ROW, we’re all kind of interested in your next/present job now that the B-l just took its final chop. Clarence HOWERTON has left APO SF 9(1857 (Kadena) for a new assignment with the 21st TFTS at George AFB. Buddy SAMS is another recent graduate from AFSC and is now newly assigned to the 4th MAS, McChord AFB. Conrad HAUSER and family now reside in New ’

(’anaan, ( ”1’ where he is working for Mobil Oil, hut I have no other particulars about the job.

Bill BOISTURE is still at Langley AFB and pilots theT-39 with

the TAC command section summer

thesis

on

mysterious (“UNK”) trips. Last

I stayed with Clay and Susan MAGEE while doing some

research

work

at

USNA.

Man, that

guy

never

stops

studying or going to school.

Well folks it’s getting late and I’ve run out of little slips of paper filled with any info so I’ll conclude this for now. If the wives feel somewhat slighted I apologize but Hometown News Releases and so let’s change of address cards don’t add much of a family touch rectify that problem. Congratulations to all of our ’67 classmates chosen for B.Z. 0-5. Hope all is well with everyone. HEALTH! —

Double Your Fun! Come early for the 7 Oct Navy Football Game and enjoy a week’s vacation in

Colorado before Homecoming!!

print.

In other local news, A1 BLUMBERG has left the AF and the

USAFA Admissions Liaison Office to take a job as an agent for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance in Colorado Springs. Jerry and Candy WYNGAARI) are the proud parents of another boy,

David Paul, horn 28 March, and now have two of each. Bob LUSHBAUGH will transition into A-7’s at Davis Monthan, and then to

The

though with revisions in the schedule, most of it will now

be in late May. PCS season is coming up, so be sure to send in your

England AFB

in

January. Art MOXON and Charlie

COOLIDGE leave for Command and Staff this

summer

(to be

joined by Mike BOOTS and Bruce GERRITY). Steve POLK will upgrade into F-l 1 l’s at Mt. Home and PCS to Upper Heyford in December. Craig BAER is leaving the Astro Dept after five years...and going back to school at CSU in July for a PhD in Energy and Control Systems, and then returning here to teach.

Dick ENGEL will go to Hq 15AF at March for an Ops job and possible part-time T-39 pilot. Coming in this summer to the Econ Dept is Henry JOHNSON and Denny MCCLAIN. I’m going to revise my prediction when our Major’s board will meet. After talking to several very reliable personnel types, it is pretty definite that our board will be in June 1979, one year after 67’s. So this

coming OER is important. See my article in this Magazine on the promotion system.

The Class Fund Drive is exceeding all our expectations. So far,

about 80 of you have contributed around $2,600, and more comes in

day. Plans for the class crest display are developing smoothly and we expect its dedication to he the highlight of our Reunion. We are presently trying very hard to come up with an appropriate name or title for the display which can be used as a header. Some suggestions are “Graduate Wall,” “41st Squadron,” “Rejoin,” as well as quotes or excerpts from well known songs, poems, etc., with relevance to graduates. We encourage your suggestions. And speaking of the Reunion, we are getting a very good “Yes, I’m coming” response from the flyer Bob SHUMWAY sent out. Ninety have responded and 67 indicate they will come. Be sure to send yours in soon. Boh will compile all the inputs and send you an update in the near future. We especially want to remind you of the Reunion Committee’s plan to produce a yearbook. To do it right, we need a photo (individual or family) from each of you and a biography (narrative) to print. Make it interesting and send it to Boh SH UMWA Y now. We also need pictures and publications that can be used to “take us back to the good old days.” We have to receive inputs by 1 September, so don’t put this off. Thanks for your picture, Jay FERRON. Good looking wife and kids. An interesting addition to this year’s Homecoming is the possibility of coming in early enough to attend the Navy game on 7 October, and vacationing in Colorado during the next week until the Reunion.

At the very least, we hope everyone in ’68 can arrive on Thursday, 12 October, so we can have an initial get-together before the rush of every

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Homecoming is upon us. Finally, if any of you former “Cadet rock

Address Changes/News Releases —Joe BARNES is flying

and roll hand” members are coming back, call Bob about a possible

C-141’s out of Charleston; Sam BOLE flew his F-4 from Seymour

gig on Friday night. And look around for guys to nominate for the

Johnson in Red Flag 78-3 held in Utah; Rayford BROWN is an F-4

Jabara Award.

Letters: Candi BALAZS tells me that Skip has completed F-4 RTU and is now on a remote, one-year tour at Kunsan AFB, Korea.

I guess

things aren’t so “remote” over there, because his first

weekend there he saw live broadcasts of the NCAA basketball

tourney. Cindi and the girls (Larissa and Erin) are living in Ann Arbor, MI, near the grandparents, and looking forward to an exciting fall of Michigan football. Cindi proudly noted that Skip was

awarded

an

Dick

MSM

for

his work at USAFA

PERRY sent

as

a

math

FTD at WrightPatterson, where he has become an expert on Soviet fighters, and travels frequently on briefing trips. Dick is hoping for a fighter instructor.

a

letter from

assignment when he PCS’s this fall, and encourages anyone interested in his aero engineer (2855 AFSC) position to contact him at AV787-3342 to discuss an enjoyable and challenging job.

Thanks for the nice words, Dick. Enclosed in Dick’s letter was a flyer from the WP Credit Union advertising their upcoming Board of Directors’ election and listing Bob NORTON as one of the candidates. Bob flew the C-141 and was a financial analyst for the

RTU weapons instructor at Homestead; Dick COLT received a Medal; Glenn GILLETTE has relocated to Hud-

Commendation

NH; George KRAMERisin Denton,TX; Frank MARTIN is a pilot with the 6594 Test Group at Hickam; Gary McDONALI) is a First Officer for Ozark Airlines, flying out of O’Hare; Ed MERIDETH is an A/C with the343Strat Recon Sq atOffutt; Mike MOFFITT’s C-130 was in Empire Glacier ’78, a Redcom exercise at Ft Drum, NY; George ROBERTS (F-4 at Bentwaters) and Pat RUSSELL (F-15 Maintenance at Bitburgjwere both involved in a recent NATO exercise, “Artie Express,” at Bodo, Norway, 50 miles north of the Artie Circle; Dr. Karl SMITH is OB’ing it at WrightPat; Dr. John TODOR is vet’ing it (as in veterinarian) at Alconbury; and Jim TERRY has finished his MS in Astro Engineering at AFIT and is now in the laser shop at Kirtland’s AF Weapon’s Lab.

son,

Miscellaneous —Saw a photo of Jack SAUNDERS in the February issue of Airman Magazine. The accoompanying article on the NATO F-16 buy discussed, in part, his job as F-16 program coordinator in Norway.

cruise missile program before he left the service. He now has an MBA and is

president of the Resource Group, Inc. in Dayton.

Armando CASTRO, our only foreign national classmate, sent a nice letter along with his donation to the Class Fund. He is a Major in the Philippine Air Force, permanently assigned to the Corps of Professors at the Philippine Military Academy in Baguio City, and is presently the Assistant to the Dean there. Armando says he is only a 2 1/2 hour drive from Clark and would really enjoy visits

Give me a call in D.C. starting in July. Have a good summer, and

send your photos now.

Gerald I). Luallin PSC Box 979

from classmates. So you guys in the PI, get in touch. Armando is

hoping to return for the Reuinion and closed his letter with “Mabuhay ’68” (long live ’68). Thanks for the letter, Armando. Bill WOOD received a letter from Greg VARHALL who will go to the Air Staff in August as a Military-Political Affairs Officer after completing his PhD work in International Relations at Notre Dame.

Visits: Phil PIGNATARO was on leave in the Springs from his

Plattsburgh AFB, NY 12903 Springtime is here and buds are budding, the bees are beeing, well, we all know what seagulls do. I have been here in the BOQ room on the shores of Lake Champlain since July of 1977, and as of yet I have not flown in my assigned aircraft.

It has been very interesting, however, having time to study some and the seagulls are

habitants of this earth.

C-135 assignment at Yakota, and dropped in to say hi. He’s on a two year tour, and is enrolled in the USC Systems Management

Program. Phil has seen Jim MADSEN and John SWANSON (stationed at Beale) and Jim “Cuffy” KELSO (RF-4'sat Kadena.)

He also admitted to receiving an MSM for his Athletic 1 )pt duty. 1 le invites all classmates passing through Japan to contact him at X 57742 at Yokota. Another itinerantsoul, Steve MISH, popped in on

day, while serving as escort officer for a group of Saudis from the King Fisal Air Force Academy, who were in the U.S. for a tour of military installations. Steve is an advisor to the Saudi F-5 Squadron at Taif, where his boss is Lt Colonel “Nails” Knight, CSme one

17 AOC when

we were

Firsties. Tom O’BEIRNE is an advisor at

Khamis, Saudi Arabia. I ran into John TOOF at a gymnastics

CU, where he is a law student and runs around with a comely co-ed. Bob MARKS attended a recent meeting of the Colorado Chapter. He is now a lawyer with Anaconda, which is moving its corporate Headquarters to Denver this summer. meet at

....

Speaking of earthlings, Doug SCHOTT, who is back in KC-135's, his wife June, and son Christopher (3), are stationed at Fairchild.

He thinks Spokane is the finest city around. I guess he does not miss Ellsworth AFB and missiles very much. John SHINOSKIE decided to help me with the newsletter, as you all should, and

writes that he is a C-5 aircraft commander and an Airlift Liaison Officer to the Army during their excercises. Bob SUTTER and

Tom EVANS are also C-5 aircraft commanders at Travis AFB. Barry CLINE, Dick HEFNER and Bob VAN METER are copilots in C-5’s. Bob TOTH is driving the smaller,

more

maneuverable

version of MAC’s super cargo carriers, the C-141. Crossing the country, Tony DELCAVO is in Denver flying for Frontier; ithelps to

have

a

soft western

voice.

Barry CREIGHTON is

a

C-5

instructor at Altus. I wonder what he teaches those monsters; how to

kneel

for

supper,

I

guess.

Randy

HERBERT

and

Bill

1 ,EATHERBEE are flying C-5’s out of I lover; out of Dover is not a

bad place to be. Thank you John for your inputs.

Wimberly, TX

Chip SUMMERS took time out from his guitar lessons at Castle

(between Austin and San Antonio) where he is a salesman with the Woodcreek Resort, which is in his words a “beautiful, planned community with everything.” Jim is interested in starting a Central Texas AOG Chapter serving Bergstrom and the San

AFB to tell me he is enjoying his guitar lessons. I wonder how the

Calls: Jim LYONS jingled from his “estate” in

Antonio area, and encourages anyone interested (in the Chapter or

land) to call him at 512-847-2228. Hal HIGLEY called while in town on a

TDY to A1 )C( )M enroute to his new exec job with the Air Base

Group

at

Sondrestrom

Barksdale, where he

was

Greenland. Hal has just left Hq Sq Cmdr, and left Kathi there

AFB, a

during his one year remote. While in the area, Hal interviewed with ('W for a possible A()(] job next year. Mike “Duck I ,AWSON and I talked a bit about my upcoming PCS, since Mike is right across the street at Arlington Hall working as a photo interpreter in the Soviet Missile Section. Mike and Pete are expecting their second child any day now, and have one son.

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dog is taking it. Steve CARTER departed Mather AFB about the same time I did and is now touring Europe with his American sports car, a 1970 Corvette. He is flying in C-130E’s out of RheinMain Air Base. He heard from Larry and Barbara WISEBIJRN. Larry is in Norman, Oklahoma through AFIT and working on a computer science masters degree. Blair and Kathy STEPHENSON are also there; Blair is out of the Air Force working on a doctorate with the goal of going into his own business. Steve, please take it easy in that Corvette; we don’t want too many heads turning towards that “Dry Look.” Mike BECKER sent me an old picture, which is at the end of the column; guess what it signifies and I’ll buy you a drink of your choice at the Plattsburgh AFB O’ Club. Mike is in OC—ALC at Tinker AFB. He would like to greet you if you come down his way.

ROSETTI at Edwards. Paul’s in the F-16 development program

there.

Steve also spoke

to

Denny FUNNEMARK who’s

at

Williams as an IP. Denny’s headed foran exchange tour up to Cold

Lake this summer. Denny said Gerry SHAW was just finishing up F-4’s at George and headed to Kadena. Steve had also run into John REDMAN. John's at March and at that time was working in the command post. John’s headed to the Zoo

as

an

instructor.

Steve said he had run into Greg WOODHEAD at Logan. Greg’s

teaching high school in Lewiston, Maine. Steve closed by saying he hoped to be getting an assignment soon and would let us know.

After chiding Dick O’CONNOR about never answering his phone, he called me. He’s in some kind of int’l logistics school at WP and headed for a MAAG job in Venezuela (he was born in Chile for those who don’t remember). He’s still a bachelor and temporarily giving up 130’s. He said he had run into Tom STEIN there at Wright-Patt, didn’t say what Tom was doing. Dick had heard that Chip TERRILL is a lawyer in the D.C. area, George KEYS and Rudy ARAGON are in the Yale law school, and Willie SCHEPENS is an instructor there at AFIT. Dick also said that Ric MANN and Dave GALICH are at Dyess and Mike WILEY is at

Williams and Jim O'NEAL (Linda) is a student at AFIT. Best of

luck on your hardship tour, Dick.

Jim SHIRLEY called on his way through. He’s on his way to L.A. and a job at SAMSO. Also had a call from John DEFILIPPO.

He’s now marketing analyst for DM. He said he had heard that The Good Old Days!!!

John STRINGFELLOW

Being my shiftless self, I was shifting through change of address cards again. Glory be, the rock of rocks, H. OWNBY, was married on

28 January 1978. He married the former Carol SNOWDEN. “H”

was a financial analyst for Beckman Company out in Costa Mesa, and Greg KOEHM was in Alaska with Merrill-Lynch. John said, if you have an MBA, he could probably help you get a job. Just call him in Minneapolis.

HOMETOWN NEWS RELEASES: Bill OLDENBURG, named outstanding JO at Azores; Jay PELZER recently assigned to

is an attorney in Dallas, Texas. Don FENNO is going to work for

Proctor and Gamble Paper Products in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as a

team manager. We were once a good team.

Hey, Don, do you

remember the summer that we.. ..! SteveSOTEROPOULOSisan AFIT student at Arizona State University. Robin “The Heart” HANSON is going to work for IBM in either Phoenix or Honolulu, his

choice. Want to borrow my golden dart, Rob? Chuck JACKSON is a section commander in the 437 FMS at Charleston AFB. News Flash J. Stephen HUNTLEY Has been promoted to -

vice-president by the North Carolina National Bank in Charlotte.

Steve, ole’ Buddy, I’ve had my eye on this $105,000 cabin on the lake and 1 was wondering if Charlie BALDWIN has received his Master of Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist

Bill

Oldenberg

Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Taylorsville, Indiana. He is awaiting his acceptance as a Chaplain in the Air Force. Another person with an Adonis complex, Roy REED, ran in the Athens Marathon.

He learned his lesson, I hope. Thank you for the letters and cards; don’t stop.

Louie

Skip Penny

70

1018 N. Weber

Colorado Springs, CO 80903

(303) 632-3658 Autovon 692-3355

By now everyone has heard that the first winner of the Risner Trophy is our Tim KINNAN. The trophy is awarded to the outstanding graduate of the Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons School (Nellis). Tim completed the school (F-4’s) in June of last year. Congratulations to you, Tim. (Editor’s note: see article and photo in this issue.)

Had a note from Jay TOBIN. He’s out and working for ORE-IDA Foods in Boise, Idaho. He said he and Tom STUART are in the Idaho

Air

Guard.

Tom

teaches school.

Had

3

pages

■Jake Holmes

from

HEYROTH. He’s in tanker stan/eval up at Coring. Steve said he’d run

into Tony DESANTIS who is now flying out of LaGuardia.

Mike and Nancy ROSENBLATT had stopped by Coring. He was

about to be hired by American. Steve said he had run into Paul

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Offutt as a computer systems analyst; Sid AUBOIS, an AFCM at

Bentwaters; Roger HILL, an MSM at Mather, Mark COBB graduated from NFS, headed to Moscow as an assistant attache; Hank MIRCHKLL an AFCM at Offutt.

CHANCE OF ADDRESS CARDS: Bill CAVIN to Alhurquerque; Phil KRASNICKI to Spangdahlem; Boh MACK to Las Vegas,

flys for Hughes; Joe MCCLELLAND to Edwards as a flight test engineer; Gary FINLEY to Pocatello, nuclear engineer with Westinghouse; Harry ARNOLD to Houston flying for Continental; Craig JOHNSON to Tucson; Cookie VILLAREAL to Barksdale (Plattsburgh mailing address); Bob WELBAUM to ASI); Dan Murphy to Denver, 727 pilot Continental; A1 WURGLITZ to Bethesda, MI); Jeff HUMPTON to Ft George Meade, MI); Jake HOLMES to the Boston area.

Let me wish you all a pleasant summer and here’s hoping you call on your way through. See you in the August magazine.

Skip

Dave Frostman Dave Icenhour receives the Management Engineering Award foe

2007-A Mercury Drive

Professional Excellence.

Kirtland AFB, NM 871 18

(505) 262-0845

professional student is Andy GARRISON, who got a graduate

Autovon 964-5807

degree while flying F-4’s in Germany, then got out of the Air Force, Hello from the Land of Enchantment. Yes, I turned out to be the

and is

now

in

a

dual

degree program offered by SMU and the

“volunteer” that Ron Joy mentioned in the last column. I recently

American Institute of International

arrived at Kirtland for a rated supplement job with the Air Force

(Paula) is flying T-38’s at Holloman, Bob MANNING (Jan) is at

Weapons Laboratory. Patty and I and the girls (four and one) are

Elmendorf in

looking forward to enjoying the clear air and warm sunshine after

Sheppard. Ted SCHOFIELD is flying theT-38 and running ATC’s

the T-33,

and

Mike

Management. A1 BRYANT Keahy

is

flying T-37’s

at

18 months at AFIT and Wright-Patterson. We are also enthused

Safety Program at Randolph, and John KRAMER (Mary Grace) is

about the opportunity to hear from classmates and to contribute to

at Lackland where John works on the academic syllabus for basic

this column for the next year or so. Thanks to Ron and Patty for the

training. Finally, Wayne and

excellent job they have done with the column over the last year.

Collins, Colorado where Wayne is working for Water Pik. Mark

Kris

BROTHERS

are

at

Fort

Ron passed on the letters and cards which he received over the past

relates that he'll be flying 0-2’s part time for the California ANG

three months and I'm including them below.

out of Ontario International

Airport and invites anyone out that

stopped to visit for an evening last

way to look him up. Thanks for all the news, Mark. Bob and Cindy

month. He recently got married to an Air Force nurse (Sundae)

BROWN sent news of their new arrival, a boy, Eric Michael, born

Visits: Bill BRADFORD

who is presently stationed in Greece. Bill more recently got out and

February 24 th. Karen LAUGH LIN wrote from Dayton to say that

his way to San Diego where he has a job flying for PSA. I

Henry is finishing up his Master’s Degreein Computer Systems at

into Bob HEMM here at the Weapons Lab the other day. He is

AFIT and will be going to Sunnyvale AFS in California. Karen

was on

ran

working in the Laser program and has been here for five and a half years. Sal CUSUMANO

(Carolyn) recently arrived from AFIT

included

a

delightful picture of their two children. As for other

news of those in

Dayton, Dave BROWDER is working at ASI), and

into Mark

Bob FRETZS (Peggy) is a navigator in the C-135 with the 4950th

BECKER on the base golf course. He’s out and working for Merrill

Test Wing. Also, Mike HITE (Jo), George BOYD, I )aleTIETZ, and

Lynch in Albuquerque.

A1 MCCLELLAN

and reports

a

new

addition (their first). I also

ran

Letters and Cards: Mark WITMAN (Sue) wrote from Luke AFB as he was preparing to leave for southern California to take an

were

at AFIT when I

was

there. Mike is now

working in the Advanced Tanker Cargo Aircraft program and has a new

addition to the family, Ryan, to go along with his two girls.

airline job with Continental. He reports that he ran into Jeff

Jim NANCE wrote from Las Vegas where he is now flying for

DOTUR (Lisa) and Bill GROSS during the hiring process at

Hughes Air West after a year of flying a Twin Otter in the Alaskan

Continental and that Jeff will be based in Denver. Classmates at

bush. He’s also flying C-141 ’s for the Reserve out of McChord. Jim

Jim

reports that Dan HARDESTY is flying the Convair 580 “Bionic

SANDSTROM, and Sam SNIDER Flying the F-104; Greg ROCCO

Buzzard” for Frontier and is based either in Denver or Kansas

and Carl STEGMAN, F-4 IP’s; and at Luke for training in the F-15

City.

prior to going to Holloman, Bob DROWLEY (Nancy) and Phil HOFMANN (Chris). Mark reports that while he was at Bergstrom

John

Luke

include:

John

BARRINGER,

Ken

MORRIS,

in the 0-2, Tony CANN, Chuck BROCKWAY, and Joe QUIGLEY were there. Joe has since moved on to the F-4 at

Eglin. Rick CROSS

News Releases: Nate BARD is flying A-lO’s at Myrtle Beach.

BUGNER (Linda) is

an

F-4 WSO at

Spangdahlem AB,

Germany. Schuyler FOERSTER (Janet) received a second AFCM at Washington, D.C., and is now at USAFA as an instructor in the

(Janet) finally got out of the T-38 at Columbus after six years and is

Political Science

flying F-4’s at Clark. Terry Weimer (Diane) is at Reese in the T-37, but by the time this column is printed, he should be on his

Ramstein AB, Germany as a circuit trial counsel. Phil HUNT is at Tinker AFB. Dave ICENHOUR (Aria) is a manpower manage-

Wright-Patterson and AFIT. Mark’s nominee for class

ment officer at Kapaun Air Station, Germany. Boh LIVINGSTON

now

way to

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Department. Eric HOWELL (Mary) is now at

is a squadron weapons and tactics officer at Elmendorf. Tomas

MCFARLAND (Janet) is TFW at Lakenheath

(Patti)

was

named

a

Bob Bell Box 65

social actions officer with the 48th

RAF Station,

Outstanding

Ellsworth APB, SD 57706

England. Michael OONK

Instructor of the

Home: 605-343-6897

Quarter at

Autovon: 747-2877

Vance. Norm PONDER (Carol) graduated with honors from the

Hello, ’72! It’s that time of year again when the mail slacks off a bit, but the column must go to print, so we’ll give it a try anyway.

Up here at Ellsworth, the group is increasing with the recent influx of people from Kincheloe and other bases, some to include Don CHEESEMAN, Bill HEMPHILL(Sandy), Larry JACOBS (Vicki), Dave TUMINO, and Neal COYLE (slated for ASTRA in the near

USAF Missle Officer’s Course at Sheppard and is now at DavisMonthan. Larry SCHAEFER (Kathleen) received the AFCM for work at Fairchild and is now stationed at Ramstein as a UH-1N

helicopter pilot. William SMITH (Pamela) is an Air Traffic Control operations officer at Bergstrom. John STUBBLEFIELD (Ber-

future.)

nadette) received the AFCM at Randolph where he is a T-38 IP. Mark SUCHER (Linda) is now at Andrews as an assistant staff

judge

advocate

(Christine) is

an

with F-4

HQ

AFSC.

Roland

VANDENBERG

aircraft commander at Elmendorf. Ron

WEILERT (Geri) is now at SAMSO as a program analyst.

From the hometown news releases, come the following recent inputs. Larry HELGESON (Judy) is back at Malmstrom in choppers after doing his SOS in residence. Mark STUBBEN is now assigned to Holloman from Hill flying choppers. John JARECKI (Claudia) has finished F-4 flight training at George to be assigned to Torrejon. Bernie BARRIS (Rosalind) is at Andersen with a MAC unit as a WC-130 Navigator, and Mike NELSON (Charlene) has left Reese for duty in the C-141 at Travis. Steve FRANKLIN has been moved from McConnell to Pease in KC-135s as a navigator.

Bob WALLER (Susan) is at Travis now from a recent assignment at Ramstein. Ralph ALLEN (Janice) was presented a AFCM for his time at Craig. Now at Clark, Ralph is in F-4’s.

Skip VAN ORNE was recently cited for the part he played in a rescue effort flying his Langley F-106 on TI)Y at Charleston. He and a fellow interceptor pilot were instrumental in recovering two Persons after the ditching of their private aircraft off the East

Coast.

Bill LOVELL (Arden) flew recently in “Giant Thrust”, a SAC flying exercise. Bill is a B-52 co-pilot at March. Ken ARCHEY (Marilyn) and hid WAITTE both took part in “Midlink ’77” a

CENTO maritime exercise held in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. They’re both F-4’s at Hahn AB, Germany. Another exercise, “Empire Glacier ’78” was held at Ft. Drum, NY, and Shaw helicopter pilot John GAWELEK (Mary Ann) participated in that exercise. Greg JONES (Pat) is at the Pentagon now after SOS in residence. Ken ENGEBRETSON (Jeri) is at HQ USAF/SG in D.C. spending his TDY’s at Wilford Hall, and running into Bill WALSH, John DUKE, and Tim EMHOFF all doing residencies there.

John Stubblefield receives the AFCM.

Brett BERLIN is doing his present hitch in D.C. with computer systems procurement, having finished an AFIT tour at U.T. Austin and SOS in residence. Paul GONYEA has left Clark AB in

Change of Address Cards: Glenn ANDERSON to Layton, Utah; Rod BATES to Clark AB in fighters; Tom CURRY to San Antonio, Texas. Bob CUTUP is out and joined an engineering consultant firm, Technology Research and Development, in Oklahoma City, and is a Capt in the USAFR. Derek DAWSON to Belleville, Illinois; Dan DOUGHERTY to Davis, California; Thomas FOX to Canton, Michigan; Mark HEILMANN to East Tawas, Michigan; Rich MARTENSON to Enid, Oklahoma; Frank MORGAN to ASTRA at the Pentagon; Loren STILES to the US Navy Test Pilot School at Lexington Park, Maryland; Charlie SYLLING to Nellis AFB, Nevada; Lawrence WEST to Rolla, Missouri. Richard WIRTH has completed an A FIT tour at the University of Arizona in Computer Science and is now at Scott

130’s for SOS as a Section Commander. Jim JOHNSON has left and is now flying for Braniff International out of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Floyd STALL is an IP in T-37’s at REESE, Bob BROWN is a B-52 navigator at Anderson, Steve HOYLE is a C-141 co-pilot at McChord, and Bob MARSTON is a C-130E USAF

aircraft commander at Rhein-Main AB. Some address

change cards also came in: T. J. MORAN Arlington, VA; Ed PAINTER Pope AFB, NC; Warren SCHEID Mt. Holly, NJ; Joe CONNELL Savannah, GA; Jim CERHA Williams AFB, AZ; Kensington, Ml); Paul KNOWLTON Bruce HOSEA O’Fallon, IL; Temple, TX; Jim LIVINGSTON Bill COTTINGHAM Alamogordo, NM. —

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AFB, Illinois.

Have also received two letters since the last column came out.

I thank those who sent letters to Ron and encourage everyone

From

Dave WILKINSON

comes

word that he’ll be

with news to drop me a line, call, or stop by if you happen to be in

Harvard Graduate Business School followed

the Albuquerque area. Till next time.

career.

Also

winding

up his

USAF

career

going to by a new civilian

is Bill BAKER at

1978 SCHEDULE

'78 AIR FORCE FOOTBALL

NOTRE DAME

El Paso

‘Oct.

21

College

‘Oct.

28

HOLY CROSS

Nov.

4

at Kansas State

‘Nov.

11

GEORGIA TECH

NAVY

Nov.

18

at Vanderbilt

Sept. 9 Sept. 16 Sept. 23 Sept. 30

at Texas

Oct.

7

Oct.

14

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at Boston

KENT STATE at Army

COLORADO ST.

(Homecoming)

‘at FALCON STADIUM

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Holloman in T-38’s. Bill SWETTMAN is in 0-2’s at Bergstrom and Fritz RADEMACHER is at Moody in F-4’s.

RF-4 pilot, Shaw, SC; Donald OUKROP, F-4E pilot, Moody, GA;

Dominick PAPARELLA, Space Systems Ops Officer, Buckley,

And from Dave PRAHLER and Mary is news of the increase in

family and the fact that Dave goes to AFIT this Having been to Hawaii for R & R and seeing his folks, it must be tough to get back to the treadmill In his grapevine is word on Mike MCNERNEY (Jan) now PCS to Tyndall on their way to Elmendorf in F-4’s. And Jerry MARTIN goes to USAFAas an M.T. instructor. Jim GORMLEY (Georgianna) is said to be so much for hitting his books again, not studying, just hitting Marquette Law School, right, Jim? Hey, thank you to both Daves size of their

summer.

....

....

for the letters. We can use all of those we can get.

And so, in closing I will add that Terry and I expect our first baby by the time you read this, and both of us wish you all the best in

Summer ’78 and for years to come. Till next time, remember, FPA.

CO; Earl RICHARI)SON (Kristine), AFCM,Student, UPT, Vance, OK; Russell ROTH (Louise), T-37 IP, Sheppard, TX; Randy VAN SCOYK (Carolyn), pilot, Hahn, Germany;Tris SEVDY (Lesly), F-4 pilot, Hahn, Germany; James SIENICKI, C-5A Nav, Dover, I)E; James SKALKO (Kimberlee), KC-135 pilot, Pease, NH; Stephen

(Elizabeth), T-37 IP, Sheppard, TX; Stephen WALLINGFORD, KC-135 pilot, Griffiss, NY; Linn WILDE (Barbara), F-4 pilot, Bentwaters, England; David WILDMAN, Weapons Controller, CP^B North Bay, Canada.

On 17 Feb 1978, First Lieutenant David Grant BURDICK was killed in an aircraft crash near Scotty’s Junction in Nevada. The

STERNE

Class of 1974 salutes him.

Good luck with your careers and families. I’ll see you again in the 74 FOREVERMORE.

summer.

Willie J. Cosby III Fred Knowles

5902 Glenhaven PI.

1702A 9th Street

Sherwood, AR 72116 Home: 501 835-0678

Langley AFB, VA 23665

Autovon

AV 432-2116/2532

731-6822

People:

Editor’s Note:

Fred got caught on TDY and the AOG information packet didn’t find him in time for the

printing deadline. His new address is recorded above...everyone write and insure his column in the Summer issue is long and newsy.

You may or may not know, but Mike WISLOSKI is now in the LIS

Marine Corp. Since graduation from basic, he has commanded a weapons platoon, been as assistant Operations Officer, an Intelligence Officer, and a Supply Officer. He is now a Series

Commander at Parris Island. What a career!

Don HENNEY is now at Fairchild AFB. Stationed there with him

are

Mark HOLMES, Bob ALLEN, Mark WELLS, and Mike

REESE.

Dan Felix 7200 E. Evans Ave. #601

Denver, Colorado 80224 (303) 759-9645 This column should reach you shortly after you have your new captains bars. The new rank and paycheck certify us as USAF Officers. Congratulations Big Red! The last three months have been slow. I guess you are so busy changing your uniform insignia that you have forgotten to keep this writer updated on your careers. Please drop a note this way when your life changes. Without your inputs there is little more than address changes to write about. We have gone through too much together to not keep in touch.

It seems like everybody just keeps moving: Charles ANDERSON, F-4 WSO at Elmendorf, AK; Alan BARKER (Lynn), F-4 pilot, Hahn, Germany; Mark BELL (Lida), decorated with the US Combat Readiness Medal, Missile Combat Crew Commander, Malstrom, MT; Lowell BOYD (Jeannine), F-4 WSO, Seymour Johnson, NC; Robert BROOKE, Reliability/Maintainability Eng, AFCM, Wright-Pat, OH; Robert BURNSIDE (Patricia), F-4E WSO, Moody, GA; Kelvin COPPOCK (Deborah), decorated with the US Combat Readiness Medal, Missile Combat Crew Commander, Malmstrom, MT; Jack DURAN, pilot, Rhein-Main, Germany; Robert EVANS, C-9 pilot Scott, IL; Fred FEDEWA, Instructor-Tech Tng, Chanute IL; Ron FLY, F-4 pilot, Hahn Germany; James FURFARI (Amy), Outstanding Instructor Pilot of the Month (Jan), Vance, OK; Albert GLOCK, Student (French), Defense Language Institute, Monterey CA; Stephen GRESS (Marietta), T-41 IP, USAFA, CO; Terry ‘Hawkeye’ HENRICKS (Kathy), F-4 pilot, Bentwaters, England; Lawrence HUBER (Betty), T-41 IP, USAFA, CO; Scott HUDDLESON (Joanne), Missile Combat Crew Commander, Francis E. Warren, WY; Phyllip HUFFMAN, pilot, Mather, CA; Philip INSCOE (Kathleen), AFCM, Acquisition PO, Wright-Pat, OH; James KEAGLE (Karen), Poly Sci instructor, USAFA, CO; Patrick LYNCH, procurement officer, Rhein-Main, Germany; Sherman MCALPIN (Abbye), Missile CCR Cmdr, Francis E. Warren, WY; Brian MCLEAN, F-4 WSO, Bentwaters, England; Ross MILES,

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Last month, while out practicing the defense of our country, I happened to run across several familiar faces. I saw Jim P’ELLOWS at the Norton AFB Command Post. In the appealing base ops cafeteria of Langley AP’B, I ran into chopper jock Phil KENDALL, and met with T-33 driver Jon NOETZEL. At Pope AP’B, where we spend a lot of time, I did a little running around with Bill TAYLOR. Moves:

Jim

MARSHALL

P.

completed EWO training and

moved to F-105’s at George AP’B. Phil BETHARDS is stationed at Altus AF’B. Another

EWO, Don GUNTHER, is now at Loring

AP’B. Eugene HOLLEY has finished training at Homestead and

has gone to Ramstein AB, Germany. A1 STODDARD, a civil engineer, moved from PDglin AP"B to Pllmendorf, Alaska. Two weapons controllers recently moved from Korea: Scott ARNOTT to Clark, PI, and Dave KEENE to Tinker.

Milestones: Richard E. SARVP1R earned the USAP' Commendation Medal for meritorious service at Beale AP^B. He

serves

at

Ellsworth AP’B as an EC-135 co-pilot.

Also receiving

a

USAP^ Commendation Medal was Robert C.

HICKCOX. He was decorated for meritorious service as deputy chief of data automation division at Anderson AB, Guam. He is now

stationed at Hanscom, Mass.

Mike LISCHAK and

Rudolf ROTH

Uniformed Services University. They medical schooling.

are are

now

attending the

in the first year of

Last, but certainly not least, this is my last article. It has been fun and I would like to say thanks to all those who kept me informed so I could pass the “news” on to everyone. Your new

writter will be “Duck” LAYMAN. His address: Lt. Rick LAYMAN 133 White Birch Dr. Pease AP’B NH 03801

Autovon 852-2121 KEEP SMILING! -COS Editor’s

Note: Rick Layman informed the AOG that Jim Simonitsch was in an aircraft accident on 15 April in California.

He was subsequently moved to

Wilford Hall. He has reportedly

been medically retired and at last report was in critical but stable condition.

Craig Manson

ADDRESS

307 St Anne #4

Rapid City, SD 57701 Home: (605) 343-2682 Autovon 747-2426/2049

CHANGES:

A1

GRANGER,

Luke;

Hal

GETZELMAN, Tyndall; Steve MCNAMARA, Phoenix; John WAITES, Panama City, FL; Mark HUGHES, APO San Francisco; Bill BIRTELL, Atwater, CA; Bruce WITHERS, Steilacoom, WA; Chris CURRY, McChord.

THE REAL SPIRIT OF ’76: Mike COKER was the co-pilot on a

Thanks to all who sent cards and letters about the Today show!

C-9 crew credited with saving a man’s life in the Philippines. One

For those who missed it, my missile crew was interviewed on NBC

of the security alert teams Bruce GUINDON supervises at Warren

26 as part of a Today special on the Strategic Air Command. It was a lot of fun and we were glad to give a little

days.

January

found a little girl who had been lost in the wilderness for several WINGS: This almost closes out the regular feature.

insight about the missile business. Ellsworth lived up to its billing the “Showplace of SAC.”

T-37: Steve LARSH, Ray WILD, Mike RIATT, Don HENAGER,

ONWARD: Last issue, I said I’d beTDY at Carswell for awhile,

all Sheppard; Dan FOSTER, Laughlin; Arnie ROMOHR, Vance;

as

but SAC changed its mind and I didn’t get to see any of the Grads in Texas. But one day at the base service station here, I ran into

Barry GAMBLIN. He and his wife Heide and a young one had just arrived. That same week, I saw Bill STARNES, also a BUFF CO, in a restaurant in Rapid City. He’s still single. A few days before I

started writing this. Bill MIJSICK brought Don PICKETT into my office. Don was the nav on STARNES’ crew at Castle. He spent a

few

days

in

the

Springs visiting in-laws before heading for

Homestead’s water survival course. Finally, one afternoon as I was out jogging, I spotted Don Kocian gunning his Firebird down

Rapid City’s

famous

Eighth Street with the rest of the high-

compress hoodlums (give me a call at home or work, Don). There

will soon be about fifteen ’76ers at Ellsworth.

CALLS: I said hello to Craig PUZ when I called Bryan ECHOLS in

Cheyenne. After a brief furlough, Bryan has returned to the Training Division at Warren. Debbie DAVIS (Steve) called from Homestead where Steve is training in F-4s. Their daughter Kyndra Mychelle was born in October. I also talked to Bob GARDNER, but he didn’t have any news.

THE WATCHDOG’S MAILBAG: Rich LUHRS dropped a line from Wright-Pat where he’s with the Air Force Flight Dynamics

Lab.

He and

Mike KEANE (UPT, Williams)

graduated from

Princeton in the fall. Rich reports that Charlie COMBS “got rather

secretly married,” and that Tom BOWIE (B-52 nav, Fairchild) is engaged. Rich also says that Jeff FORD is flying I06’s at Seattle and Dean FLOWER is in aircraft maintenance school at Chanute.

Stef EISEN wrote and said his wedding would be April 29 to a

“southern belle” he met at Columbus. He’s in PIT at Randolph with Mike MCGINTY and Danny ACOCK. Jane SALAZAR (Jerry) wrote from Shaw where Jerry is upgrading in the RF-4.

Jerry added a note that Chuck PRIBYL and Hal FRENCH are at Tulane Med. Bob SHERIDAN, a civil engineer, is also at Shaw.

Bernie GOLDBACH sent some assignments which appear below.

SPORTS: Jeff STEIG and Greg SCHNEIDER played on the Air

Rob PETERSON, Williams.

T-38: Cliff SMITH, Joe SHIREY, Laughlin; Kirk BELL, Joe EVANS, John HILDEBRANDT, Roger YAUCHZY, all Vance; Mike BEAUCHAMP, John FLOERSCH, Tim LEWIS, Joel PALANDRO, all Willy.

F-4: Jerry ALLISON, Scott ANDERSON, MacDill; Tim BROWN, Larry LEE, Charlie MORAN, George BURNETTE, A1 DICKINSON, Tim SIMS, Eric COPPIN, all Luke; Monty LEE, Ken ENGEL, Homestead; Jim HUNT, Larry DOWELL, George.

C-130: Glen DORMAN, Kurt KAMRAD, George STUDOR, all Pope; Rich KOHL, Dyess; Mike BANASZAK, Dave CORL, Little Rock.

AC-130: Mike WILSON, Mark WILDERMUTH, Hurlburt.

WC-130. Chuck MITCHELL, Norm WEINBERG, Guam.

Dash 135: Joe MARCHINO, KI Sawyer; Steve BERGER, Kadena; Bob TRIBOLET, Travis; Bob FISHER, Minot; Mark SCH WING, Barksdale; Gary SCOGGINS, McConnell; Chris Hoffman, Offutt; Jeff CROSS, Beale, Phil SCHLENER, Fairchild; Aaron GOLD, Loring; Chris MILODRAGOVICH, Fairchild.

Dick C-141: SCHROEDER, Norton; Ken MCKINNIS, Charleston; Dave TATE, McChord; Bernie GOLDBACH, Travis; Andy PIJOR, base unknown.

B-52: Lance KJELDGAARI), Griffiss; Roy MATTSON, Mather; Kevin OTOOLE, Blytheville; A1 SINGH, Minot; Greg WHALEY, Wurtsmith; Jim VINCZE, Dan PRICE, both Ellsworth.

C-9: Warnie MEISETSCHLEAGER, Scott.

A-10: Mazel PIRICKSON, Davis-Monthan.

F-15: Stan KASPRZYK, Brad P’AGOT, Luke.

RF-4: Doug KNOX, Kadena.

T-33: John KANE, Tyndall.

EPILOGUE: We’re planning a “June 2nd” party in Rapid City and I understand there’s going to be a big one in Cheyenne. I’d appreciate news and pictures of other “June 2nd” parties. Send money to the Craig MANSON Typewriter Fund and help make Namedrop Journalism a curable disease!

Force basketball team in the interservice tournament at Treasure

Island, California. Check out the color photo in the April 3 Air Force Times.

Lt Lynn M. Scott

FILM AT ELEVEN: John HAZEN, Roger KONTAK, and Scott

4319 N. Chestnut, Apt. 13

VANTONNINGEN, all in C-13()s at Little Rock, participated in “Empire Glacier ’78,” a USREDCOM exercise in New York state.

(Ever wonder how I find these things out?) Dave PYSHORA has turned up (lying HH-3s at Elmendorf. Bill MONROE is a weapons controller in Korea.

WEDDINGS: Roger and Ruth RECHSTEINER were married in the USAFA Community Center Chapel in December. Women in

Rapid City are lamenting the imminent nuptials of Bruce SMITH to a Fayetteville, NC, belle.

HOW TO WIN FRIENDS: Darrell MASTIN and I are the wing project officers of the Air Force Association membership drive here. So the other day while I was on alert, Darrell had to brief the membership drive to the Wednesday wing stand-up. Darrell had never been to stand-up before and it was a bit different than his preconceived notions. He began his briefing saying, “Gosh, I though this would be a smoke-filled room,” whereupon a colonel quipped, “That depends on what you have to say.” (You had to be there, I guess). Darrell has recently been upgraded to instructor missile officer, in one of the shortest times in our wing.

Colorado Springs, CO 80907

Home: 303 599-8917 Autovon 259-2233

“The time has come,” the walrus said, “to speak of many things.” The Walrus is right. Our time as “new Second Lieutenants has quickly passed and we’ve become as seasoned as a pot of homemade vegetable soup. From the cards and letters that I’ve received, things really seem to be moving for ’77.

WINGS AROUNG THE WORLD me

-

“Dee” DEWILLIS informed

in mid-January that the first rated ’77 grads were none other

but himself and ten other gentlemen who had validated the first six weeks of UNT. “Dee,” after completing training, has decided to

look for the RAP’ at Nav-Bomb school. Joining him in his quest are Lonnie BOWMAN, Doyle GAGE, I.B. MALTZ (the only guy in this column who gets his entire name in capitals), Rick PERRAUT, and Scott HUTT. P’ollowing the signs marked EWO were Steve PETERS and Ken SEARS. There are also a few “Riders” who took the road less traveled. Those feeling that it made the difference are

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Jay FAWCETT, F-4 MacDill; Stan HINOKI, C-130 Yokata, Japan; and Joe HUGHES, F-l 11 Cannon. Breathing on the heels of this first group were more Mather EWO’s, Jim MEYER, Rick TURNER, John MICHELS, Jim SKY, Jim MCCARTHY, Joe FERRARA, and Chuck GILL; the Mather Nav Bombers: Bob MCNEIL, Jeff PERKINS, Dan JARKA, Tony DRONKERS, and

USAF ACADEMY GRADUATES DOMINATE CRYPTOLOGIC PROGRAM

Bob BATCHELOR. Marc LINDSLEY and Dave EDGINGTON decided to look for the Holy Grail at Upper Heyford in F-l 11 ’s. Curt

TAYLOR, on the other hand, will be enjoying the Homestead AFB sunshine through an F-4 canopy. Speaking of sunshine, George BALLINGER is at March in KC-135’s and speaking of KC-135’s, Jim TYLER is flying them at Altus.

Ken DAVIS, H-l FLYING WINGS AROUND THE WORLD McConnell, dropped a line to let me know that he; Bob DONNELLY, H-l Hurlburt; Jeff WALLS, H-l Cheyenne; Flip FEELEY, H-53 Sembach, Germany; and Rick SEARLE, H-3, Philippines, received their wings on 31 March.

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In a moment, MONEY.

a

about how you

message

CARDS AND LETTERS

-

can

make lots of

Randy LIEFER (Deborah), Jim

SINGLETERRY, Dave DIMIDUCK, and Bob PATERSON are all

engineers at Wright-Patterson and give their regards. Steve QUAN, Ed RYDER, Dave SWIGER (Rhonda), Irv HALTER (Judy), Bill WELDE (Judy), Kurt YELKEN (Pam), Bruce PRNNINGTON (Monica), and Glenn KENNEDY (Sue) say hello from Enid Oklahoma. ...Mathieu DALRYMPLE, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Weapons Controller, Luke; Walt HERN, Munitions, Suffolk, England; Mike EBERLE, student, Univ of Washington; Ron ALFORD and Ed THOMAS, Security Police, Misawa Air Base, Japan; Ron LYLE, OMS, Norton; Jake SIMONS, OMS, Camp New Amsterdam; Bob DEHNERT, OMS, Offutt; Tom UREN, OMS, Grand Forks; Ed VORNBROCH, OMS, Eglin; Dave SWANSON, OMS, Mather; Jeff TOMLIN, OMS, Myrtle Beach; Rich SCHIKORA, OMS, Bitburg; Tom TOOLE, OMS, Dover; John HERD, OMS, Davis-Monthan. .

AND

NOW, THE MESSAGE College costs are steadily increasing with each passing year. By the year 1982, a graduate degree will probably cost more than a 1953 DeSoto. Have you thought about the G.I. Bill? Maybe you should think about robbing a bank instead. If you’re an independently destitute person (who isn’t?) who’s upset with the new G.I. Bill package, then read the following words carefully: Each of you should have received or will be receiving a form letter in the mail. This letter is designed to request your Congressman’s support for the restoration of the old G.I. Bill benefits to ’77 Service Academy Graduates. If you like the letter, simply sign your name and drop it in the mail. If the letter isn’t quite your style, use it as a guide for your own letter to your Congressman. Please don’t procrastinate. Hopefully, we’ll have the assistance of West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard Academy Graduates. The greater the support, the better our chances. Remember! This Bill has a very good chance of dying in committee so if you want some money, act immediately.

THE

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POCKET

ROCKET

REPORT

F.E.

-

Warren:

Jeff

DIERKSON, John MCNULTY, Steve SIMON, Stan SPRINKEL, Larry SHAFER, and Tom ATKINSON (Pam). Ellsworth: Steve OPEL (Debra), Mike MULLENNEX, and Richard KARULF. Grand Matt SMITH. Forks: Davis-Monthan: Greg COATSWORTH (Elizabeth) and Dan KILB (Jean). Whiteman: Ted HINESLEY, Jim DENT, Tim HAGAN, Steve JONAK, Bill LEE and Larry IJ\W.

Of the ten authorized Air Force billets in the Junior Officer

Cryptoligic Career Program (JOCCP) at the National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, Maryland, six are graduates of the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. The JOCCP is a three year joint service intern program for selected junior officers assigned to NSA. This specialized program provides participants the opportunity to gain a wide range of work experience in the operational offices of NSA while amassing over 1000 hours of technical and

management training

at the

National Crytologic School. The

officers are, from left to right, 11/1' Neal '1'. Robinson (74), CAPT Patrick S. Moon (72), CAPT Alfred C. Maurer (73), 1LT Lawrence L. Strag (74), CAPT Christopher L. Sebald (73) and CAPT James A. Jaeger (72).

Editor’s Note: The following appeared in the 24 April issue of the AF Times:

No GI Bill for ’77 Academy Grads WASHINGTON

—

A hill to give GI Bill education benefits to

graduates military academies probably will not be enacted, congressional sources have said.

1977

of the

The bill (HR9783) is before the House Veterans Affairs ComStaffers told Air Force Times that no hearings are

mittee.

scheduled or expected.

Congress terminated the GI Bill education benefits for persons who came on active duty after Dec. 31, 1976. It did allow coverage to those in the delayed enlistment program, people who enlisted

before the cutoff date, but came on active duty later. However, the

A.J. GIPSON, Mario

class of 1977 at the service academies, members of which had

(Bev), Mike CROSS, Craig ADAMS, and Ros STAPONSKI (Connie), have concluded their extended USAFA

signed up for active duty years earlier, were prohibited from receiving the benefits. The bill would allow them to use these

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH

-

GARZA

tours and

are

at Nav

training. T.G. PARKER is at Willy for

advanced racquetball lessons and Chuck DELICH (Lisa) is on his way to Aircraft Maintenance School. Charlie CHUNG has decided to stay at the Academy for another year and I’ll be going to Brooks

in San Antonio to work in the Occupational Research

Until next quarter, Happy Trails to You.

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Dept.

benefits.

Congress replaced the GI Bill education package with a contributory scheme involving member and government contributions.

Gone But Not Forgotten M. Gilchrist, Class

David G. Burdick, Class of 1974, was killed in an F-

of

4E

On

March

6

1978, Major Robert

1963,

was

declared KIA after

having been listed MIA since 7 October 1966. Ma-

as

jor Gilchrist was the pilot of an F-4C aircraft which was

reported

missing

crash

near

Scotty’s Junction, Nevada, on 17 February 1978. He was promoted to the rank of Captain posthumously. He is survived by his father, Mr. G.

Bur-

while on an armed

Richard

reconnaissance mission in North

dick, 2820 Raleigh,

Vietnam.

Survived

He

is

by

his

Mrs. mother, Mable Gilchrist, 7877 East Mississippi Avenue,

Denver, CO 80231.

As a member of the 23rd Cadet Squadron, Major Gilchrist was a member of the Fishing Club and the Professional Studies Group.

Upon receiving his pilot’s wings at Laughlin AFB, Major Gilchrist was assigned to the 431st Tactical Fighter Squadron at George AFB. He was on temporary duty to the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Ubon AB, Thailand at the

time of the crash.

The Association is sorry to inform the Graduate Community that Mrs. Lucille Waddelow has recently passed away. Mrs. Waddelow will he remembered fondly by many former Cadets who were ably assisted by her

during their quest for a scholarship or acceptance at a particular graduate school. Those wishing to express their sympathy may write Mr. Vernon Waddelow, 10311 E. Evans, Apt. 131, Denver, CO 80231.

Denver, CO 80212; and by his mother, Mrs. Barbara J. 3796 Burdick, South 2nd East, Salt Lake City, UT 84115.

As a member of the 36th Cadet Squadron, Captain Burdick was on the Dean’s List for three

semesters

and

majored

in

Electrical

Engineering and Mathematics.

Captain Burdick received his pilot’s wings at Reese AFB. He was assigned to the 59th Tac-

tical

Fighter Squadron

at

Eglin AFB, with

temporary duty to the 4440th Tactical Fighter

Training Group at Nellis AFB, at the time of the crash.

As the Magazine was being prepared to go to press, there was an unforrash of Graduate deaths; tunate further details on the following will appear in the Summer Magazine: Joe Mandel, ’61 Morris Ward, ’72

Kendall McKinnis, ’76 Tim Conway, ’77

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(expensive single items— lewelry. furs. art. etc.)

sports equipment, etc.)

Pleasure Boat

Household Goods—Worldwide

□ Personal

Liability Insurance

□ Insurance for Renters (combination Household Goods and Personal Liability

Insurance)

Personal

Catastrophe Liability (Umbrella) Homeowners

(State) Mobile Homeowners

(State)

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Officers esroblish membership in USAA by raking our a policy while on active dury while a member of the Reserve or National Guard or when a Retired Officer (wirh or without reriremenr poy) OCS/OTS/Advonced ROTC also moy apply

AIR ACADEMY NATIONAL BANK P. O. Box 8

U. S. Air Force

Academy, CO 80840

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR ACADEMY GRADUATES

The Air Academy National Bank at the United States Air Force Academy is your bank.

A bank with you in mind.

Your

continuing support permits us to meet your worldwide require^ ments for hassle

free service.

If you don’t try.

already have an AANB account

Inquires welcome.

—

give us a

Thank you for your consideration.

FOR FREE BROCHURE CONTACT 303-472-1094

Member: Federal

Deposit

Insurance

Corporation

Accounts Insured to $40,000.00

Stay with us the “rustic” Inn At Woodmoor closest to the Academy Campus .

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Professional real estate service by an Academy graduate’s wife who can anticipate your moving needs. Call me collect.

Spacious view rooms. Fine dining in our Point Of View Restaurant. The P.O.V. Pub— pour favorite drinks and great entertainment.

Golf, tennis, swimming, horseback riding, boating. Meeting facilities. Happy Hour Monday thru Thursday with complimentary hot hors d oeuvres. Sunday brunch.

Organized tours. Airport pick up. Military rate.

Leaders in Real Estate

Mrs. Walter Schrecker t

Res: (303) 598-6596 Office: (303) 598-5599

Major Credit Cards Honored.

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Budget 'Woodmoor ^

Rent a Cm*

Langford-DeLay & Associates Best West#"

215 West Rockrimmon Blvd.

Colorado Springs,

Colorado 80919

A REMINDER PLANNING TO ORDER THIS BEAUTIFUL METAL ETCHING, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS OFFER MAY BE LIMITED TO ONLY THOSE ORDERS POSTMARKED BY MAY 31,1978.

IF

YOU’RE

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All

Graduates, Cadets and parents of Graduates and Cadets should have received our

announcement of Reed & Barton’s Damascene Insculpture pictured above. If you have not

received your Damascene mailer, you can write for information to Reed & Barton Silversmiths Taunton, Massachusetts 02780.

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