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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Ms. Pamela C. La Vallee

On November 20, 1944, Robert W. Casey graduated from flight school at Eagle Pass, Texas in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He was assigned to B17’s at Boca Raton, FL and later to C-46 training in Arkansas. Then it was on to C-47’s in North Carolina at Pope Field. He was discharged in January 1946 but stayed in the Air Force Reserves until he was recalled to active duty in September 1950. He was assigned to Perrin AFB as a Flight Instructor.
In 1952 he was sent to Good Fellow AFB in San Angelo, TX. In 1953 he went to Foster AFB in Victoria, Texas where he was a flight instructor in the T-33. Then on to Clark AFB in the Philippine Islands in April 1954 as an F-86 pilot in the 44th Fighter Bomber Sqdn. In 1955 he was assigned to the 67th Fighter Bomber Sqdn. in Okinawa where he became Operations Officer. From there he went to the University of Iowa as an Assistant Prof. in ROTC after months of training at Selma AFB in Alabama. In 1959 he was sent to Tyndall AFB in Florida for training as a weapons controller radar operator.
Then in November 1959 he went to McClellan AFB in Sacramento, California to fly the EC121 radar planes. About 1961 he was sent to St. Anthony, Newfoundland Radar site for one year of remote duty. In 1963 he returned to McClellan as a pilot in the EC121’s. In 1965 he went to Colorado Springs, Colorado and was assigned to the Air Defense Headquarters as a Staff Officer. He was in the Think Tank at the Chidlaw Bldg. In 1968 he went to Ft. Walton Beach, Florida for training as a fighter bomber pilot in the AIE/H planes then on to Nakon Phenom in Thailand. After that he went to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. then back Naha, Okinawa to run that Base over to the Japanese Air Force. Finally, he went to Hickam Air Force Base Hawaii, where he retired in 1974. He flew for a commuter airline in Hawaii known as Royal Hawaiian Air Service after he retired from the Air Force.