USAFA Class Heritage Class of 1963

Retired Col Air Force 93: CP (Command Pilot): 

03: Principal/ Adjunct, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc/Rand;

97: Adjunct/Principal BoozAllenHamiltonlnc/ Rand McLean VA;

94-97: DptyAsstSecDef Rqmts&Plans WashingtonDC;

89-94: AssocPgmDir TheRandCorp: 90-91 :UnivMI-MS (Mississippi) AerospaceEngr;

87-89: Cmdr (Commander) NortheastAirDefSector GriffissAFB; 84-a7: V-Cmdr (Commander) (Vice Commander) 50TFWg (Tactical Fighter Wing) HahnABGW;

84: DptyCmdrOpnsF-16 50TFWg (Tactical Fighter Wing);

81-83: MemberCStaffAF StaffGp HqUSAF (Headquarters US Air Force);

78-81: USAF Studies and Analyses, Hq (Headquarters) USAF;

76-78: Operations Officer 334th TFS;

75-76: Pit (Pilot) 80TFWg (Tactical Fighter Wing) KunsanABSK;

71-74: Instr EngrMech USAFA (US Air Force Academy);

68: Pit (Pilot) 22TFSq (Tactical Fighter Squadron) BitburgABGW;

67-68: PltBTFSqSpangdahlemABGW;

64-67: Pit (Pilot) 389TFSq (Tactical Fighter Squadron) HollomanAFB/PhanRangABSVN/ DaNangABSVN;

63-64: PltTng (Pilot Training) WilliamsAFB; 

2LOM (Legion of Merit)-1 DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross)-2MSM (Meritorious Service Medal)-13AM (Air Medal)-2AFCM (Air Force Commendation Medal); 

7871 Rolling Woods Ct Apt 401 Springfield VA 22152-3615: Dianne Huges

35th Reunion (1998): Fred Frostic is currently (1-20-97) the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Requirements and Plans. He joined President Clinton’s Administration in July 1994. After retirement from the Air Force in 1989, he became a Senior Engineer and Associate Program Director at RAND in Santa Monica, CA. During his time at RAND, he published 9 studies in strategy and force structure. His last assignment in the Air Force was as Commander of the Northeast Air Defense Sector. In his previous flying career, he served in six operational fighter wings in the CONUS, Europe and the Pacific accumulating approximately 3200 flying hours primarily in the F-4 and F-16. He flew 225 combat missions in SEA in the F-4C. In addition, he was the Deputy Director of the Chief of Staff's Study Group, a Deputy Division Director in the HQ USAF Center for Studies and Analyses, and an Assistant Professor of Engineering Science at the USAF Academy. He received a MS in Aerospace Engineering and nearly completed his doctorate from the University of Michigan, was an Honor Graduate from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and a Senior Research Fellow at the National War College. He was chosen as one of the Outstanding Young Men in America in 1970 and is included in Who’s Who in America, 1997. He has been married to the former Linda Kay Snelson of Midwest City, OK for 33 years, and has two grown children, Melda Ann Thaler and Capt. Fred Frostic, Class of 1990, and two grandchildren. He currently lives in Falls Church, VA. {Editor’s note: Fred’s was the first biography I received. As busy as he was then and is now, I figured getting a biography from all the rest of you would be a snap. Thanks, Fred. }