biography
First and foremost, I want to Welcome Home and Thank All of our Vietnam Veterans. You have my deepest respect and gratitude!
After Basic Training, I completed the Air Intelligence Airman course at Lowry AFB, Colorado in Sept 1970, and had the following assignments as a photo interpreter:
• 32nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, RAF Alconbury, England
• 460th RTS/9th TIS, Langley AFB, VA
• Intelligence Center Pacific, Camp H.M. Smith, HI
• Avionics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
• Intelligence Center Pacific, Camp H.M. Smith, HI
I was honored and humbled to have my retirement ceremony on the Arizona Memorial on March 16, 1990.
After my Air Force retirement, I worked for MTL Systems, Dayton, OH, evaluating flight test imagery; MSE Corp ( Now ASI), Indianapolis, IN, Digital Mapping; and the United States Postal Service.
Non-Profit Organization Involvement:
• Hancock County Veterans Park, Inc – Assisted in the development and creation of the HCVP, and former Board Member and Officer.
• Greenfield-Central School Foundation – Alumni Hall of Fame Selection Committee, Grant Selection Committee & former Board Member.
• Indiana Military Veterans Hall Of Fame – Current Board Member and former Hall of Fame Selection Committee member.
I have been honored to help bring The Wall That Heals to our hometown in 2005 and 2019, and for the past several years, I have been a volunteer researcher helping find photos for Putting a Face with a Name/Wall of Faces program, and have attempted to promote several of the many programs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
