USAFA Class Heritage Class of 1963

35th Reunion (1998): I attended navigator school at James Connely AFB, TX, and graduated in 1964. I went to Mather AFB in Sacramento, CA to attend bomb/nav school, then to Castle AFB for B-52 training. While at Mather, I met my future wife, Marge, who was an AF Nurse at the time. We will celebrate 32 years together this July 1997. Our first assignment together was at Grand Forks AFB, ND in 1965 where I flew as navigator and radar navigator for the 319th Bomb Wing in the B-52H. After three years as a crew dog pulling ground and airborne alert, I moved into the Bomb/Nav office as the unit’s Hound Dog missile specialist and target study officer. In 1969, I participated and helped win the SAC Bomb Competition. In 1970. I was selected to attend SOS enroute to AFIT at Wright- Pat. In 1972, with a master’s in Nuclear Engineering, I was sent to Danang to fly as a navigator in the EC-47. After a short time at Danang, I was transferred to NKP where I continued to fly the “Electronic Goon.” I flew 110 combat missions over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In 1973, I was transferred to the AF Weapons Lab at Kirkland AFB, NM, where I had “parked” my family (a boy and a girl, both born in ND) while overseas. I worked in the missile branch on the Nuclear Safety Division doing studies on the Minuteman, Titan, and MX missiles. After three years at Kirkland, I was called back to the cockpit at March AFB. Once again, I was a radar nav in the B-52, the D model this time. After a few years flying and pulling alert duties, I was picked to work in the command post. In 1979, I was requested to take command of a small Weapons Lab operating location in Germany. At Ramstein, my office acted as engineering liaison between the USAF and the German, Italian, and Royal Air Forces who were cooperating to build their first post World War II fighter, the Tornado. During this assignment, I was able to visit many NATO facilities while providing guidance on the Weapons systems on this aircraft. In 1982, I was transferred to Cannon AFB, NM where I served as the Director of Operations and Training for the 27th Combat Support Group until my retirement in 1984. From 1984 until the preset time, I have been employed at Tech. Reps., Inc., a small company that provides technical documentation to Sandia National Laboratories and the DOD, among others. I was involved in the planning and documentation of several underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site until testing was halted several years ago. Iam currently head of a department that produces nuclear weapons technical manuals for the Air Force. I’ve been president of my neighborhood association; on the Albuquerque mayor’s task force on recycling, a docent in astronomy at the UNM observatory. Marge and I camp, bike, hike and canoe. My wife, Marge, is a registered nurse working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque. she is originally from Milwaukee, WI. My daughter, Kirsten, is 30 and holds a master’s degree in social work. She lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. She is single. My son, Steven, is 28, is an Electrical engineer and works for Honeywell’s Avionics Defense Division. He holds a black belt in karate, and he paraglides. He lives in Albuquerque, and is single.