USAFA Class Heritage Class of 1963

Retired Lt Col Air Force 22: GP (Command Pilot Rating): 

89-92: Instr JvyTechCo/1;

82-89: PiperLance LnOto/NWg CivAirPatro/ Grissom AFB;

78-82: T-38/T-37 OpnSo 64FTSq/35FTSq/WgSched/ChiefOpnSDiv64FTWg Reese AFB (Air Force Base);

77-78: Stu (Student) AirWC (Air War College) Air University;

74-77: ProjOJ-3 Opns (Operations) OJCS (Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) HqUSAF (Headquarters US Air Force);

74: Stu (Student) ArmedForcesSC;

72-73: ActionO DCS (Deputy Chief of Staff) P&O (Plans and Operations) HqUSAF (Headquarters US Air Force);

70: CmdSpokesman/O HqMACV Saigon SVN;

69-70: OV-10 FAG 19TASSq/1AirCav Bien Hoa AB SVN;

64-69: T-33/r-38 lnstrPlt (Instructor Pilot) 3617PltTngSq Craig AFB;

63-64: PltTng (Pilot Training) Craig AFB; 

3MSM (Meritorious Service Medal)-4-AM (Air Medal)-1AFCM (Air Force Commendation Medal)-1JSCM (Joint Service Commendation Medal)

35th Reunion (1998): Immediately following graduation I entered UPT at Craig AFB, AL with Class 65B. Married Diane S. Miarer over 1963 Christmas Break in Fremont, OH. Served as T-33 and T-38 IP with the 3617th Flying Training Squadron until 1969. Spent 12-month tour in Vietnam as OV-10 Forward Air Controller with the 19th Tactical Air Support Squadron supporting the First Cavalry Division in Tay Ninh and MACV press spokesman in Saigon. Returned to Florida State University under AFIT for a master’s in Business Administration with directed duty in 1972 to the Air Staff in Operations, Command and Control Division in the basement of the Pentagon. Following Armed Forces Staff College, moved to the Joint Staff in 1974 as a staff officer in J-3, WMMCCS ADP Division. Attended the Air War College graduating in 1978. Served as operations officer for the T-38 and T-37 squadrons and chief of Operations Division of the 64th Flying Training Wing at Reese AFB, TX from 1978 to 1982. Served as AF Liaison Officer to the Indiana Wing, Civil Air Patrol, at Grissom AFB, IN from 1982 until retirement in 1989. Following retirement at Grissom in 1989, was adjunct instructor at the Indiana Vocational-Technical College, Loganport. In 1991 was awarded a Doctorate in Education at Ball State University. In 1992 returned home to Fremont, OH to care for parents. Presently teach at Terra Community College, Direct Leadership Sandusky County, and consult on community development projects at WSOS Community Action Commission. Other affiliations include First Presbyterian Church elder, board of directors of Youth for Christ/Sandusky Valley and Share and Care clothing bank, Inventing Our Future and North Coast Men of Integrity conference steering committees, Fremont Christian Business Men’s Committee, Air Force Association, Order of Daedalians, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Ohio Historical Society, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Air Force Academy Alumni and Athletic Associations. Parents, Robert and Frances Roush, still live on the homestead in Lindsey, OH. With wife of 34 years, Diane Sue, have two married sons. Andrew is an account manager for Universal Flavors International in Indianapolis and has two children. Matthew (USAFA ‘90) is a captain and C-141 special operations instructor at McGuire AFB.