CLASS NEWS Dyess); Otis Jones (19 OG/CC, Little Rock); Chris Lambert (19 AW/CV, Little Rock); Dave LeRoy (305 AMW/CV, McGuire); Harmon Lewis (3 WG/CV, Elmendorf); Robert Nance (436 OG/CC, Dover); Lisa (Varacins) Nemeth (6 OG/CC, MacDill); Renae (Bartalone) Hilton (4 Field Investigations Gp/CC, Randolph); Chad Davis (SIGINT SPO SML, Chantilly); Kevin Sellers (Galaxy Division SML, Robins); Rich Carrell (58 OG/CC, Kirtland); Shawn Cochran (449 Air Exp Gp/CC, Dijibouti); Scott Grundahl (811 OG/CC, Andrews); Mike Jackson (27 SOG/ CC, Cannon); Scott Trinrud (OG/CC, Buckley); Jen Grant (50 SW/CC, Schriever); and Scott Cain (AEDC/CC, Arnold TN). If I inadvertently missed your name my apologies—it was a long list! Thanks for allowing me the privilege of being your scribe these last two years. I have enjoyed hearing updates on all of you, and I am sure in the future I will be back to write again next time it is my turn. Hopefully by then I’ll be living in Tahiti on a beach with a margarita in my hand. Until then, remember to send Becky your updates and Keep the Pride! Andrea –Andrea Themely, andrea.themely@gmail. com New scribe: –Becky Fox, 646 SE 37th Ave., Homestead, FL 33033; beckyfox73@hotmail.com; rebecca.fox@us.af.mil; cell: (928) 302-8989 So much has gone on in our country since our last update; we’ll take a few minutes to focus purely on our classmates. Lots of good news for our class this past quarter—I’ll start with a few Reserve promotions to colonel: Tracy (Dupree) Coyne, Eve Douglas, Kristin (Peterson) Ader and Rosadel (Dominguez) Hoffman. Quick update from Rose: she has been in the NCR as a reservist since she separated from active duty in 2003. Most of her time has been in the Reserve GO Management Office overseeing senior leader career management, but she escaped the Pentagon in 2015 and is currently working on JB Anacostia-Bolling as the program manager for all AF IMAs in the NCR assigned to SAF/HAF, OSD, JCS, and Defense Agencies. She has two kids, Krysten (15) and Daniel (13) and her husband, Louis Hoffman, just retired from the AF in December 2016. With her upcoming promotion, the entire family is anxiously awaiting news on her next assignment and looking forward to new adventures away from D.C. traffic.
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And we had a few of our Medical Corps members promoted to colonel as well: Ed Anderson, Rob Eller (San Antonio, TX), Jeff Skinner, Shea Brannan (still in Florida), J. Beard (Dover AFB, DE), and Colleen McBratney (recently married and stationed at Davis Monthan AFB, Tuscon, AZ). We’ve had a few new additions to the TAB family this past quarter. Kara (Parks) Fontenot and her partner, James Vander Salm, welcomed daughter, Majorie Parks Vander Salm, on 12 September. Natalie and Nicole, Kara’s daughters with Morris “Moose” Fontenot, now a senior and junior in high school are welcoming their baby sister and deciding which colleges to attend. In December I got a chance to catch up with our newest legacy, Timothy Cunningham, son of Fred (’94) and Melissa (Davidson) Cunningham. Timmy was born on 6 December shortly after Fred landed in DC. Mom is doing great, managing three kiddos and getting ready to PCS to Tinker AFB as the 38 Cyberspace Group commander. Also headed to Tinker is Gavin Marks, who is headed there to be the 552d Air Control Wing vice commander. Brandon Parker was selected as commander of 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess AFB, TX. Mark Robinson is headed to the sandbox as the vice commander of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing at Al Dhafra. Hall Sebren will be commanding the 8th Maintenance Group at Kunsan AB, ROK. Randy Oakland will be joining a large San Antonio contingent as he becomes the vice commander of the 12th Flying Training Wing at JBSA-Randolph. We will have a couple of vice wing commanders in USAFE: Ron Cheatham at the 501st Combat Support Wing (Alconbury, UK) and Tad “TC” Clark at Spangdahlem. Tony Babcock is headed out to Joint Base Lewis-McChord as the 62nd Maintenance Group commander. Dave Owens will be the commander, 317 Mobility Wing at Little Rock AFB, AR; Cameron Pringle will be the vice commander at Beale AFB, CA; Chad Schrecengost will command the 82nd Mission Support Group at Sheppard AFB, TX; and Dan Walls will be run the 51st Operations Group on Osan AB. I apologize if I missed someone—just let me know and I’ll push it out to the group. Pat Ryan checked in from Minnesota where he has been living with his wife, Elise, and two daughters since separating in 2004. He works for Depuy Synthes Joint Reconstruction on the sales side the last 13 years.
Pat Ryan and family at the reunion.
Matt Tieman is one of the growing number of retirees from our class. He is enjoying life as a contractor at Holloman AFB, NM, teaching F-16 academics and running the simulators at the new Viper school house. He is enjoying his new mountain paradise located at 7,000 feet and, while it’s not quite COS, he loves his job and the quality of life. Devin Traynor is a test pilot flying a desk at the Pentagon in the AF F-35 Integration Office. Matt Van is a regional manager for FedEx Supply Chain in the Nashville, TN, area. Brandon Stadel is flying for Delta from Iowa and is in the Battle Creek, Michigan Guard “flying” the mighty MQ-9 Reaper (I know, I know, don’t send me hate mail, those were his quotation marks). Matt Linnell and his family (wife and three kids) are living in Mesa, AZ and he flies for SWA. Jeff Hansen works as the VP of investor relations for Marriott Vacations Worldwide in Orlando. He maintains and grows the shareholder base since the company spun off from Marriott about five years ago. While he lives in Orlando, much of his work is in New York. Sounds like a good guy to stay in touch with if you do Members much traveling. Noel Lipana 69% retired from California ANG in October 2016 and he’s currently a doctoral candidate at USC’s Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and doing work-study for USC’s Center for Innovation for Veterans and Sabre Society Military Families. He and his Donors wife are expecting a baby in 7 May. At a recent retirement he ran into Joey Gower (“Huzzah!”) and is hoping to link up with Jason Hoskins when he PCSes to Travis AFB this summer. Ike Williams retired from the AF last August and currently instructs at the B-1 schoolhouse at Dyess AFB (classroom and simulator instruction). He and his family (wife and four kids) have a house on Lake Fort Phantom near Abilene, so there has been lots of swimming and fishing. They are also working through the adoption process to adopt a sibling group from Columbia in thr fall of 2017. Just as I was sending this off to the AOG an active duty colonel promotion list was dropped on my desk. Congrats to the following TAB colonel selects: Jeff Allison, Kevin Allred, Juan Alvarez, Shawn Anger, Michael Artelli, Jason Avram, Lisle Babcock, Christopher Barber, Clayton Bartels, Kevin Beeker, Derek Blough, Elizabeth Boehm, John Boehm, Kenneth Boillot, Donald Brunk, Michael Cabral, Maurizio Calabrese, Christopher Clark, Will Clark, Dominic Clementz, Carolyn Coleman, Ted Conklin, Jasin Cooley, Shawn Covault, Martin Daack, Sara Deaver, Doug Distaso, Jonathan Downing, Brad Downs, Harry Dyson, Mike Fellona, David Ferris, Steve Fino, Jesse Friedel, William Fry, Jay Gibson, James Hall, Tiaa Henderson, David Henshaw, Darin Hoenle, Jeff Hogan, Merna Hsu, Jared Hutchinson, Ann Igl, Chad Igl, Jonathan King, Christopher Lanier,