CLASS OF ’56 [Year of Sputnik]
David Adrian’s
classmates
[runaway Dad!]
http://website56m.tripod.com/id6.html
47 grads from Class of '56 [half who
went on in internal affairs! NORAD; CIA; DOD; REDCAP; CALSPAN; AMRAAM;
NRO; NGA; NGIA]
http://website56m.tripod.com/id6.html
David
H. Adrian
Luke
H. Boykin
Ronald
F. Boyle
John
W. Brophy
Byron
W. Carell
Thomas
B. Case
Jack
C. Cummings
Tim
T. Daugherty
Donald
E. Elliott
Thomas
W. Fischer
Elmer
Funderburk
Randolph
Galt
Jerome
R. Goebel
Theodore
W. Golder
Fred
Horky
Varnum
B. Irvine
Roland
Brock Jackson
Lou
Karibo
Eugene
F. Kranz
Kirby
A. Krbec
Kenneth
Hood Mackay, Jr.
Delbert
L. Mansfield
Leo
A. Meyer
Ray
Miller
Robert
J. Miller
John
F. Mitchell
Byron
H. Morrill
Charles
F. Paluso
Harry
Pawlik
Charles
A. Pfeiffer
Thomas
B. Redinger
Lloyd
Reeder
Wilbur
L. Robinson
James
G. Ross
Robert
E. Ruppel
James
D. Ryan
Galen
B. Sargent
Carl
B. Schutz
John
A. Sells
Tilden
M. Shanahan
Jack Sullivan
Neil
Tousley
James
Trice
Andrew
T. Vassios
Roger
A. Wert
Howard
F. Wray
David H. Adrian
After
Vance, Dave was assigned to McClellan AFB and the super connie. From there he
was sent to Japan and flew RB-50s'. After separation he flew for Overseas
National Airways [ONA/CIA] flying the DC-9, DC-8 and DC-10. Then he worked as a
trainer of Korean Airline {KAL007] pilots in the 1980s. He retired with
the Arizona Air reserves. Dave has had a minor stroke and it has slowed
him some, but he enjoys talking and easily recalls his flying days. Dave and
Dee live in Tucson and have two grown children. Telephone 520-327-6618. This
Bio taken by John Sells.
John A. Sells
After
Vance AFB several of us were sent to Randolph AFB for a 40 hour introduction to
heavy aircraft in the B-29. From Randolph , I was assigned to the 552nd.
Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing (AWE&C) at McClellan AFB, CA.
flying the RC121 Super Connies. Lloyd Reeder, Ken Rehg and Bill Mauser
were part of the group. The counterpart operation was at Otis AFB, MA. After
separation, I joined the Reserves for seven years and flew the C119 out of
Willow Grove NAS, Philadelphia and Clinton County AB , OH . and the C124 out of
Tinker AFB, OK. Along the way until recently, I flew some general aviation. I
reached the rank of major.
My
civilian career was in the insurance business and financial services. At one
point I earned my MBA from the University of Denver . Pat and I have four
children, eleven grand children and one great g/c.
John F. Mitchell
In
his 28 years at CAL (later named CALSPAN), John was also involved in Human
Factors and Training, with such programs as the Navy E-2C, F-18A, and T-45,
utilizing the Air Force systems approach to training for the B-1A. In addition,
he worked at the Real Time Electromagnetic Digitally Controlled Analyzer and
Processor (REDCAP) Air Force facility, which was built and installed at
CALSPAN.
The
purpose of REDCAP was to simulate the former Soviet Command and
Control operations: from Early Warning, Filter Centers , and SAM sites to
first line aircraft. It included an elaborate hardware and software
simulation of the Soviet AWACS, with four operators making decisions in
real-time regarding US bomber penetration.
During
his tenure in western New York , John took the opportunity to fly the T-33A,
F-100C, F-101B, and F-4C with the Air National Guard at Niagara Falls ,
where his unit had Air Defense Command alert duties with the F-101 Voodoo
interceptor. He retired from the military in November 1982 after 28 years of
active and reserve duty.
When
the REDCAP facility relocated from Buffalo to Edwards in 1995, John retired
from CALSPAN. Since five of seven children work and live in the Washington,
DC metropolitan area, John and Sue decided to move to nearby Northern
Virginia, where he took a position as a cartographer with the Defense
Mapping Agency (later renamed the National Imagery and Mapping Agency) and
more recently to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). He
worked until his retirement from Civil Service in February of 2003.
Three
years after graduation from flight training, John married Susan A. LaFramboise
of Michigan in 1959. Their seven children include four in the
D.C.-area and one in St. Louis : two work at NGA Spatial
Intelligence Agency, and one each are with NASA Greenbelt, CIA
Langley, and the Navy. Of the two remaining children, one lives in
Rhode Island and the other in Michigan , where he works for Astra-Zeneca.
NATIONAL
GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
2004
Mobile Integrated
Geospatial-Intelligence System
(MIGS II)
The MIGS first appeared after
Operation Allied Force in Kosovo, when NGA
recognized the need for a deployable system able to move with the troops. The
MIGS was equipped with the essentials to maintain life support and easy
transportation and was able to withstand harsh conditions. MIGS II was a leaner
version deployed to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. It resided on a HMMWV
(High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle) and could be unpacked within
two hours. Personnel inside the MIGS had the necessary capabilities to produce
NGA-tailored products to support the warfighter in the Caucasus theater.
EUGENE KRANZ
As
the leader of the “Tiger Team” of flight directors who brought the Apollo 13
spaceship safely back to Earth on April 17, 1970 , Gene Kranz demonstrated
extraordinary courage and heroism. The hit film, Apollo 13, chronicles
Kranz’s struggle to devise the plan that would safely bring the ship and its
crew of three astronauts home after its oxygen system failed. Actor Ed Harris
portrays Kranz in the film, which was directed by Ron Howard.
Kranz
retired from NASA in 1994 after 37 years of federal service, and is
currently a consultant and speaker. “Failure is not an option,” the motto that
carried him through the Apollo 13 crisis, is a major theme of his motivational
message.
After
receiving his BS degree in aeronautical engineering from Parks College of St.
Louis University in 1954, Kranz was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force and flew
high performance jet fighter aircraft, including the F-80, F-86, and F-100. In
1958, he worked as a flight-test engineer for McDonnell Aircraft, developing
the Quail Decoy Missile for B-52 and B-47 aircraft.
Kranz
joined the NASA Space Task Group at Langley , Virginia in 1960 and was assigned
the position of assistant flight director for Project Mercury. He assumed
flight director duties for all Project Gemini Missions, and was branch chief
for Flight Control Operations. He was selected as division chief for Flight
Control in 1968, and continued his duties as a flight director for the Apollo
11 Lunar Landing before taking over the leadership of the Apollo 13 “Tiger
Team.” He was discharged from the Air Force Reserve as a Captain in 1972.
He
contributed his expertise to a number of other NASA missions during his career,
including the Skylab Program. After the Skylab Program concluded, he was named
deputy director of Flight Operations for NASA, which gave him the
responsibility for space flight planning, training, and mission operations,
aircraft operations, and flight crew operations. In 1983, he was assigned the
post of director of Mission Operations, and given the responsibility for all
aspects of mission design, development, maintenance, and operations of all
related mission facilities, as well as the preparation of the Space Shuttle
flight software.
Kranz
has received many awards and honors, including the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, which he received from President Nixon for the Apollo 13 mission, and
his designation as a Distinguished Member of the Senior Executive Service by
President Reagan.
After
retirement, Kranz served as a flight engineer on a B-17 “Flying Fortress” and
constructed an aerobatic biplane. In April 2000, he published a memoir about
his experiences in the space program, Failure is Not an Option: Mission
Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. His book, a New York Times
best-seller, has been selected by The History Channel as the basis for a
documentary on Mission Control.
He
and his wife are the parents of six children, and reside in Texas .
Fred Horky
At
the time of our April 27th, 1956 graduation from pilot training (in my case, at
Webb AFB) Fred hadn’t yet taken the plunge of signing on for USAF career
status, so the first assignment was to Troop Carrier, now known as Tactical
Airlift. This was to Pope AFB in North Carolina , flying the
venerable Fairchild C-119. Flying hours added up fast in those days, so
by mid-1958 Aircraft Commander status had been attained.
Those
were the days of Sputnik and the “Space Race”,
so missiles were the hot ticket de jour. When his engineering degree opened the door, Fred
took the opportunity to go to Europe with the Martin Mace (TM-76A then, later
MGM-13B) system. First there was a year of training, starting with a PCS
to the first officer class on the system at Lowry AFB in Denver . This
was followed another PCS to launch crew training at Orlando AFB, FL. The
system was brand new and training was combined with final acceptance testing,
so his crew was fortunate to have two live launches while on TDY to the desert
test range at Holloman AFB, NM. In July 1959 the unit deployed the Mace
to Sembach Air Base, Germany .
In
Germany working up to operational status with the new system was very
demanding, but there was time for the required “proficiency flying”, at first
in the venerable “Gooney Bird” (C-47). This included excitement like
Berlin Corridor checks (and visits to pre-wall Berlin itself, of course!) and
other treats of those forgotten times of “weekend cross-countries”. For
the last two years Fred was attached for flying to a small, specially-equipped,
mission-coded T-33 unit at Sembach. Their mission was to provide
“simulated missile” training for ground-based weapons controllers
who would guide the older TM-61 “Matador”, then still operational with other
missile units. Considering that these “sim-missile” missions were
flown in very tight airspace confines next to a very hostile border, this
“behind the lines”, additional duty flying was some of the most exacting of
the career!
A
couple of years after retirement Fred hired on with Lockheed at Marietta GA ,
as a reliability/maintainability engineer. The work was on a classified,
“black” program in an informally named “Skunkworks East”. The
project was eventually cancelled, but to our knowledge is still classified, so
nothing more can be said about that. During this period Linda continued
teaching French in Warner Robins High School , so Fred commuted each week to a
condo in Marietta for the Lockheed job. When the Lockheed program
was cancelled, it was decided that all this travel wasn’t really necessary, so
Warner Robins became “home” for good.
In
1974 Fred was selected for Military Assistance advisory duty, which meant first
attending the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey,
California; followed by assignment to Caracas , Venezuela as the aircraft
maintenance advisor to the Venezuelan Air Force. This was a most
interesting assignment, but when in 1977 the assignment orders back in the
states was to a SAC northern-tier base, it was time to turn in the blue-suit in
favor of civilian life.
There
followed many adventures and deployments with the “Herk”. Among them was
with a 1964 deployment with a
TDY “rotation squadron” to Europe , from which the squadron further suddenly deployed to
Africa on “Operation Dragon Rouge”. This was the combat airdrops in the
former Belgian Congo of a battalion of Belgian “Paracommandos”
that the Pope crews had flown from Europe to the Congo, the task force being
sent to rescue a couple of thousand multi-national hostages that had been held
for months and were being threatened with massacre by rebel forces in a very
vicious civil war. Among other awards for that mission, the parent 464th
TCWg won the Mackay Trophy for 1964.
Lloyd Reeder
Class 56M - 2006
He
played a critical role in getting the Apollo spacecraft approved for flight
after the disastrous fire on
Apollo
1, and then went on to play a leading
role in the successful training of astronauts for Apollo 11 and Apollo 13.
His promotion to Lt. Colonel was due in part to an evaluation written by James
A. Lovell, Captain USN, for his work on Apollo 13, which was endorsed by
Thomas R. Stafford, Colonel USAF, and Apollo astronaut. The last big bang in
his post Air Force career, with Lockheed Martin, was leading the launch
team for the 1st Titan IV Centaur/Milstar launch on February 7, 1994 .
Details:
Flying and the Air Force were a very important part of his life and fortunately
they were both good to him. After graduating with you, his classmates in 56-M,
Lloyd went on to San Antonio where he flew B-25's and B-29's during
multi-engine training. The next stop was McClellan AFB in Sacramento and his
first date with an RC-121 Super Constellation. After a quick trip to
Montgomery for Squadron Officer's school, he returned to Sacramento and
drilled holes in the sky over the Pacific until he was transferred to Yakota
AFB outside of Tokyo. At Yakota he kept current in
a T-33 (becoming an instructor pilot) while working as an Operations Officer,
where he honed his skills in planning and logistics that would help him
succeed at NASA and Martin Marietta.
Three
short years later Lloyd was back at McClellan for his second date with
"Connie". He participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis; flying
over the ocean, right on the deck, in an RC-121 (with the radar pointing up)
providing critical radar coverage for reconnaissance aircraft over-flying Cuba
.
In
1963 the Air Force took Lloyd out of the sky and moved him underground as a
Minuteman Missile Launch Crew Commander and Instructor at Whiteman AFB in
Knob Noster, Missouri . At Whiteman, Lloyd earned an MBA from the University of
Missouri , and actually got to launch a Minuteman from Vandenberg AFB as part
of a test. The warhead landed in an atoll in the South Pacific, close enough to
the aiming point to have vaporized it with a real nuke. To keep current, Lloyd
flew a U-3A between stints in the capsule and a graduate school classroom.
In
November of 1967 the Reeder family moved to Friendswood , Texas as Lloyd traded
an inground capsule for one designed to fly to the moon. His original
assignment at NASA was as a liaison between NASA and USAF. However, he
immediately got bored and volunteered to participate in a test of the Apollo
spacecraft to monitor and evaluate redesigned components. Along with two other
Air Force pilots, Lloyd completed a few months of Astronaut training, donned a
spacesuit, headed into the vacuum chamber and climbed into an Apollo spacecraft
that was sitting on a turntable, surrounded by sun lamps on one side and
radiators filled with liquid nitrogen on the other, to simulate the rigors of
spaceflight. He was the first person to open the new escape hatch in a "space"
environment. The 2TV-1 test went so well it was halted ahead of schedule and
the spacecraft was approved for flight. A picture of Lloyd in his spacesuit
made it into a "Look" magazine article about Apollo's race to the
moon.
Participation
in the 2TV-1 program brought Lloyd to the attention of the astronaut office,
and an assignment as Mission Training Coordinator for Apollo 11. He coordinated
all training and travel activities for prime and back-up crews. Demand for
their time was incredible. Right before the launch he even coordinated family
visits and scheduled haircuts. Some demands on the crew came from unexpected
places. For example, since both of their sons were Eagle Scouts, Ruth Ann
worked on Lloyd until he promised to ask the crew (also Eagle Scouts) to say
hello to the Boy Scouts at the 1969 Jamboree in Idaho . The crew agreed, and
their greeting was written into the flight plan and delivered during a
television broadcast on their way to the moon.
As a
side bar: Deke Slayton's (Mercury astronaut) and Dave Lowe's (Director of NASA)
sons were in the same troop, at the Jamboree, with Lloyd's two sons, Mike and
Lloyd. However, his two sons (Lloyd and Mike) were chosen to welcome Frank
Borman (Gemini and Apollo 8 Astronaut) to close the Jamboree; a task typically
reserved for the President. Nixon was busy welcoming the Apollo 11 crew back to
Earth, so he appropriately sent an astronaut in his place.
Lloyd's
responsibilities with Apollo 11 wound down during the crew de-briefing. He
claims that he was only a glorified tape recorder operator. Isn't that exactly
how you would expect him to describe the once in a lifetime thrill of sitting
next to one of the original seven astronauts, Deke Slayton, while listening to
an analysis of the first landing on the moon and the flight there and back? By
the way, he was present for the debriefing of the Apollo 13 crew after their
fateful mission.
His
work on Apollo 11 was greatly appreciated by the entire crew, so Michael
Collins wrote a letter of thanks, which he signed along with Neil Armstrong and
Edwin Aldrin. Lloyd's achievements were also recognized by the Air Force, who
awarded him the Legion of Merit, which was presented by Colonel Aldrin.
As
an encore, Lloyd was appointed Mission Training Coordinator for Apollo 13. The entire family played a role in this mission.
Lloyd's sons (Lloyd and Mike) mowed Ken Mattingly's yard so he could
concentrate on training and the older of his two daughters (Ruth Ellen) exposed
Ken to measles. His youngest child (Susan) played a role by keeping him
entertained in the evenings.
Like
others in your class, Lloyd participated in the South East Asian War games.
In 1970 the Air Force ordered him on a third date with "Connies", so he returned to McClellan for a refresher course
before heading to Korat RAFB, Thailand in October. He flew EC-121's that were dressed in camouflage and
loaded with electronic gear, up and down trails in Laos and Cambodia as well as
North and South Viet Nam . Technicians in the back monitored sensors and called
in air strikes on trucks and combatants. One unfortunate evening they called in
a strike on elephants that had escaped from a logging camp. He also flew a
"special" mission out of Saigon . The task was tracking a VC carrier
pigeon, loaded with electronic tracking devices, back to its headquarters.
Strike aircraft, soldiers, and Marines were staged and waiting for a target.
The operation was scrubbed when the pigeon died of a heart attack while trying
to climb to altitude with a load that was significantly above his max
designed/rated takeoff weight.
Ultimately
Lloyd accrued nearly 7,000 hours in various versions of the Lockheed Super
Constellation, which proves that he truly is a "Real Man"; because
everyone knows that only a "Real Man" can handle three pieces of tail
at once.
Back
stateside in October of 1971, Lloyd began working with NORAD at the Cheyenne
Mountain facility in Colorado Springs , moving through a variety of staff
and leadership assignments. His final command was as Chief of the NORAD
Space and Missile Intelligence Center.
Lloyd
retired from the Air Force in July of 1976 to join Martin-Marietta to work
on Space Defense Command and Control Systems. He later worked on the
military space shuttle launching complex at Vandenberg AFB before the program
was cancelled. Lloyd retired from Martin in January of 1995, batting 1000,
after the successful launch of the first Titan IV Centaur/Milstar combination
on 7 Feb 94 .
After
retiring from a second successful career, Lloyd settled into his woodworking
shop and garden. He also became an avid bird and wildlife watcher in the
comfort of his own back yard on Denver High-Line Canal . Currently Lloyd
resides in an Alzheimer's assisted care facility in Littleton , Colorado . If
he could remember you, he would laugh and joke with you, and enjoy sharing
stories. Thank you for allowing me to tell you his story in his place.
Respectively
prepared and submitted to Class ‘56M by your classmate's son, Lloyd R.
Reeder, with the help and support of the entire Reeder family.
Luke H. Boykin
Initial
and Founding Director of AMRAAM initiated in 1976 by DOD
Last
Position was Director Joint System Program Office, Advanced Medium Range Air
to Air Missile
Retired
as Colonel USAF in 1980
Became
southeastern consultant for Alliant TechSystems when they were bought out by
Hercules Aerospace. Retired again in 1998 .
Tim
T. Daugherty
Colonel
Tim T. Daugherty (Red) was born in Desloge , MO
on 18
October 1932 . He graduated from the University
of
Mississippi in 1954 and entered the Air Force as a
2nd
Lieutenant on 15 March 1955 . He completed
primary
pilot training at Spence AB , GA and basic
pilot
training at a combination of Williams AFB, AZ
and
Laughlin AFB, TX, receiving his pilot's wings from
Laughlin
in April 1956 (Class of 56M).
After
graduation, Tim was assigned to B-47s and
completed
training at McConnell AFB, Wichita, Kansas.
He
was assigned to the 3rd Bomb Squadron, 26th Bomb
Wing
at Lockbourne AFB, Columbus , Ohio and joined the
squadron
in September 1956. He flew as copilot until
1960
when he upgraded to aircraft commander and in the
same
year was promoted to Captain.
In
April 1964 he was assigned to the 301st Bomb Wing
at
McCoy AFB, FL. He completed B-52 training at
Castle
AFB and reported to McCoy in September 1964 as
an aircraft commander flying the
B-52D.
In
September 1966 he deployed with the bomb wing to
Anderson
AFB, Guam for a six-month tour as part of the
Arc
Light operation, flying bombing missions during
the
Vietnam conflict. Over the next four years, he
completed
three six-month tours and one three-month
tour
as an aircraft commander and as the squadron
operations
officer, completing a total of 193 combat
missions. During this period he was promoted to
Major.
In
1971 he was assigned to the Training Directorate at
Strategic
Air Command Headquarters. He was
promoted
to
Lieutenant Colonel in 1973.
In
October 1973 Tim was assigned to the 319th Bomb
Wing
at Grand Forks AFB, ND as Assistant Deputy
Commander
of Operations. In 1974 he became the
Squadron
Commander of the 43rd Bomb Squadron. In 1976
he
was promoted to Colonel and assigned as the
Assistant
Director of Maintenance.
In
1977 he was transferred to the 22nd Bomb Wing at
March
AFB, CA as the Director of Maintenance where he
served
in this position for the next two years.
Tim
retired from the Air Force on 1 August 1979 after
24
years and four months of service.
After
retirement from the Air Force, Tim worked for
the Convair
Division of the General Dynamics
Corporation
in San Diego , CA for 13 years. He was
primarily
involved in requirements planning for the
Tomahawk
Cruise Missile and the Advanced Cruise
Missile
systems. He retired from General Dynamics in
May
1992.
Tim
and Patricia Hansen of Saint Paul Park , Minnesota
were
married in 1960. They have three daughters, two
live
in Temecula , CA and one in Los Angeles . They
have
three grandchildren, two boys and one girl. Tim
and
Pat have lived in Escondido , CA since 1980.
Elmer Funderburk
Elmer
assumed command of the 307th Air Refueling Group at Travis AFB, California in
May 1978 and held that position until retiring from active duty in August 1980
with 26 years of service.
Elmer
then accepted a position with Lockheed Missiles & Space Company in
Sunnyvale , California in September 1980, where he performed various management
and staff duties in a black program until accepting an assignment with the
Lockheed Austin Division in early 1984 with the PLSS program. He
continued his work on the PLSS Protected Underground Facility until
completion and accepted a one year assignment in Las Vegas in August 1986 as
manager of Operations and Maintenance Support during PLSS flight testing. Upon
returning to Austin , Elmer performed various assignments until retiring from
Lockheed in January 1992 with 12 years service.
Randolph P. Galt
Randolph spent a year in the Australian outback and lived in New Mexico and
Hawaii before settling in Los Angeles .
Randy
was married to Anne Baxter, the famous movie actress, who was also the
granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect. Their marriage lasted
from 1960 to 1969 and produced two daughters, Melissa, a nationally acclaimed
interior designer and Maginel, a Roman Catholic nun living and working in Rome
, Italy .
Melissa
said her father was quite a character. "My father really was an 'Indiana
Jones" type." He tried his hand at cattle ranching in Australia , he
did something else in Japan , he would boat to Tahiti , work for Signal oil for
a bit. He did pretty much what he felt like."
Theodore W. Golder
On
April 27, 1956 , immediately after receiving my
wings
and commission, I was married at the Laughlin
AFB
chapel. Subsequently, I went to “Aircraft
Observer
Training for Pilots” school at James Connally
AFB,
Waco, Texas and graduated with
Navigator/Bombardier
ratings. I was then assigned to
the
98th Bomb Wing at Lincoln AFB, Lincoln , Nebraska
where
I flew the B-47E until May of 1963. My next
assignment
was a three-year Air Force Institute of
Technology
(AFIT) undergraduate Industrial Engineering
program
at Arizona State University in Tempe,
Arizona
which
was completed in January 1966.
After
receiving my degree I was sent to Sheppard AFB,
Wichita
Falls , Texas as Chief of the Management
Engineering
Detachment. This job entailed measuring
the
productivity and cost efficiency of the various
base
activities and studying the overall need for
military
manning or the cost effectiveness of using
Federal
civilians versus contract civilians to provide
base
support services. My “secondary job” was as a
C-54
base flight pilot flying some 400 hours in 40
states
in just eight months.
Received
orders assigning me to Hurlburt Field, Fort
Walton
Beach , Florida in January 1967 where I received
training
in the C-123 for cargo hauling and the “Ranch
Hand”
Agent Orange Program. After
training
I was assigned to Nakom Phanom RTAFB,
Thailand
in an unique CIA program called ”Candlesticks” –
flying
night missions as a forward air controller
(FAC)
logging 200 combat hours in 50 missions over
Laos
and North Vietnam . Five months into my tour I
was
sent TDY to Bangkok ’s Don Muang RTAFB to instruct
Thai
pilots in C-123 combat tactics. During my year,
I
logged 900 hours in the C-123.
Back
from southeast Asia in March of 1968 I returned
to
SAC with B-52 training at Castle AFB ,
Atwater ,
California
and subsequent assignment to Barksdale AFB,
Shreveport
, Louisiana . While at Barksdale, in July
1969
I returned to SEA on one”arc-light” tour
(Anderson AFB, Kadena AFB, U-Tapao
AFB) logging 300
combat
hours in 40 missions. Returning to Barksdale,
I was
assigned to Command Post duty which led to a PCS
as a
controller at Castle AFB , California in January
1971
and a secondary job as base flight pilot flying
the
T-29B.
In
May of 1972 I was again selected for AFIT at
Arizona
State University receiving my Masters Degree
in
Engineering Management in August
1973. Next
assignment
was to the Pentagon as a Manpower Temp Agency
Management staff officer regulating and directing to
Command
and base level manpower offices the need for
military
manning and the cost effectiveness of using
Federal
civilians or contract civilians in base
support
functions. I elected to retire from my Air
Force
career in August 1977.
Retired
in Merced , California and remain here today.
After
a year of loafing, I joined other Air Force
retirees
in the Curtis Mathes retail television
business
until February 1996. Since retirement from
the
Air Force in 1977 much of my time has been devoted
to
travel and golf.
Personal
data includes two children:
Daughter
Linda Anderson
Central
Intelligence Agency Headquarters, CIA
Congressman and Lt.
Governor Kenneth Hood MacKay, Jr.
Married
4 June 1959 to Anne Selph MacKay
four
sons, seven grandchildren
Completed
single-engine training at Del Rio , Texas
Assigned
to Sewart AFB, TN Flew C119s and C123s 1000 hours
Graduated
from Law School June 1961
Florida
House of Representatives 1968 to 1974
Florida
Senate 1974 to 1980
US
Congress 1982 to 1988
Lt.
Governor of Florida 1990 to 1998
Governor
(serving remainder of term) 12/1998 to 01/1999
Presidential
Special Envoy to Latin America 02/1999 to 01/2001
Currently
adjunct professor at Univ. of Florida College of Law
Co-founder
of Center for Rule of Law in the Americas
Juvenile
dependency mediator
Tilden M. "Bubba" Shanahan
First
I was flying B-25s on Shoran Training then T-29s for Navigator/Bombardier
Training. While living in Sacramento I met and married Barbara Brower who was
working for Aerojet General. She is still my wife after 46 years, four children
and siix grandchildren. For most of that time we have lived in Atlanta with
some long commutes in between. We still call Atlanta home.
After
discharge in 1958 we moved to Phoenix where I worked in sales for a year before
joining Frontier Airlines as a copilot in Denver and Omaha . Frontier downsized
me out of a job (this was 1959; sound familiar?) so we moved to Atlanta with
the late Southern Airways, later Republic Airlines. I flew DC-3s, M-404s, and
DC-9s as copilot and then captain. I also flew as a Check Airman and for a time
I was Vice President of Flight Ops. After retiring at age 51, I went
into the business of starting low cost and commuter airlines (Jet Express, dba
Midway, Bader Express) and ended up as Vice President Flight Ops for Atlantic
Southeast Airlines in Atlanta . I finally retired in 1998.
I
stayed in the Reserve and finished 28 years with two recalls. In the Cuban
Missile Crisis in 1963 we were to air land the 82nd Airborne flying C-123s.
That was a short recall when the Russians backed down. When the North
Koreans captured the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo in 1968 we were recalled
flying Ole Shaky, C-124s. We ended up flying all over the world, starting with Viet
Nam and Tet. But in the last year we were part of a provisional Wing out of
Mildenhall RAFB , UK . We flew Europe and the Middle East and some downrange to
the Caribbean and South America . Except for low and slow it was fun flying.
As I
said above, I retired from the airline business in 1998 with a brief return to
work in 1999
Jack Sullivan
On
January 1, 1956 , I was enroute to Laughlin AFB
in
Del Rio , TX . I was married three days prior on
Dec.
30, 1955 to a beautiful Swedish blonde, Alice
Carlson,
so we were on our honeymoon. We
rode in
style
as we had bought a new red and white Ford
convertible.
After several months of basic training I
made
a decision not to sign indefinite but to serve
out
my specified time contract of three years on
active
duty. Between graduation from college and
going
in the Air Force, I worked for Procon, Inc.
which
hired me out of college and I promised to return
after
three years. If I had it to do over again, I
would
have stayed on active duty. So I was given a
choice
of bases, either Larson AFB in Moses Lake, WA,
where
they had C-124s or Pope AFB in NC where they had
C-119s.
Since I didn’t like the C-word in front of
airplane
types, I chose Larson for the simple reason I
had
never lived out west. There I flew out of base
flight
in C-47s and got four to eight hrs. per month
flying
time. I was assigned as group maintenance
officer
as I had a BSME degree from GA. Tech. The
work
and flying was rather uneventful and I chose to
serve
out my time on active duty. In 1958, Alice and
I
left and returned to Chicago where I started work
with
Procon in Des Plaines . I was to be a
construction
superintendent trainee in building oil
refineries
and petrochemical plants. However,
at the
time,
construction jobs were few, so I worked in the
process
design department doing more chemical
engineering
than mechanical.
I
immediately joined the
AF
reserve at O’Hare Airport flying the C-119. (the
Air
Guard was full). After several years the future
of
the company looked dim and the construction in the
industry
had slowed down immensely. So in 1961 I was
hired
by the AF as a civilian engineer to work on the
Titan and Atlas missile systems at Norton AFB, CA. I
joined
the C-119 reserve unit at March AFB. After a
few
years I worked for TRW, Inc. in San Bernardino , CA
in
support of the missiles at Vandenberg AFB. In 1965
they
had few new contracts with the AF and many of the
engineers
were leaving for greener pastures. Some of
my
fellow pilots in the reserve were being hired by
the
airlines. So one day while passing through the LA
airport,
I saw a United Airlines sign. I picked up an
employment
application and after an interview and
check
ride in a simulator I was hired. I started in
the
spring of 1966 and flew for 30 years until I
retired
in the spring of 1996. I flew out of O’Hare
my
entire career.