Preferred Name: Joe
Nickname/Call Sign: Irish
Date of Birth: 05-21-1940
Highest Military Grade Held: Colonel, O6
Hometown: Washington, D.C.

Civilian Education
• BA, Univ of Nebraska
• MA State Univ of NY
• Senior Fellow Mershon Center, Ohio State Univ.

Units Assigned
• Lots of 'em...one third of my career was spent outside the Air Force assigned to other agencies. (see comments below). Flew the Hun one last time in May 2016-55 years after the first flight and 50 years since the last. What a gift to fly her again!

Military Education
• SOS
• Armed Forces Staff College
• USAF Senior Fellow
• Language Training (French, Thai)
• Multiple flying training courses CCTS (TAC & SAC), IPIS, etc.

Comments
- Aviation Cadet Class 61-D/F. Checked out in T-37 at age 19.
Commanders Trophy as the top graduate 61-F.
- F-100: Luke, Nellis, George, Homestead. Checked out in the Hun at age 20.
-Forward Air Controller with the VNAF 1963-1964. 800+ hours VNAF L-19A. 640 missions.
- 1964-1967 Flight Instructor/Group Training Officer (T-37/T-38)
- 1967-1971 Pilot/IP RB-57F Project, Kirtland AFB, NM
800+ hours worldwide extreme altitude reconnaissance in Europe, South and Central America, the Arctic and Pacific Regions. Logged combat missions in Europe.
- 1971-1972 Foreign Service Institute US Dept of State. Thai Language and other training
- 1972-1975 Asst. Air Attaché, US Embassy Bangkok, Thailand.
Operated in Laos, Burma, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and throughout Thailand.
- 1975 Armed Forces Staff College. Graduated "With Distinction"
- 1975-1978 Pilot/IP, Sq Ops Officer, Sqdn CC Plattsburgh AFB, NY (The AF called this "career diversity." Great crew dogs, but the SAC system was NOT my cup of tea (understatement!)
- 1978-1978 USAF Research Associate/Senior Fellow The Mershon center for National Security Policy Studies, Ohio State University. Published award winning article in the Air University Review.
- 1979-1982 Director, Strategic and Energy Issues, Studies, Analysis and Gaming Agency, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon.
For the Chairman, JCS, developed and directed sophisticated politico-military war games for the executive branch from the cabinet assistant secretary to the vice-president level. Personally represented the Chairman, JCS, at the combatant commands and US embassies in Asia, Europe and South/Central America.
- 1982-1985 DO 305th Air Refueling Wing, Grissom AFB, IN. Operated KC, RT, EC-135s worldwide. Multiple Special Ops TDYs in Central America.
- 1985-1986 Training: Department of State and other Executive Agencies.
- 1986-1989 Senior US Military Representative to France. Defense and Air Attaché, US Embassy, Paris.
- 1989-1991 The Inspector General for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Extensive travel worldwide, close coordination with CIA, NSA, etc. Represented DIA in testimony before congress (you KNOW how much fun that was!)
Ended the AF career with 5,000+ hours in 36 types and models including the Mirage 2000 and Jaguar (courtesy of the French AF. It is a fighter pilots' air force and they were great about flying with them!)
Awards: DFC (V device), 15 AMs, Defense Superior Service Medal (2), Legion of Merit, Medal of Hai Chi (Chinese gov't), Royal Order of the White Elephant (Thai), Ordre de Merit (French President), Medaille de Paris, Thai and Vietnamese pilot ratings, etc.
After 31 years of AF service, I went with the US National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council for 15 years, managing and directing programs and studies for the DoD, NASA, FAA, etc. Initially in the military science and technology area, then in aeronautics and space engineering, and finally civil aviation. During breaks and when fully "retired" I traveled worldwide with a former National Geographic photographer (Google SteveRaymer.com) helping on books on Vietnam, Islam in SE Asia, the Indian Diaspora, Calcutta and currently on "Heritage Pubs of the British Isles." Guess which one is the most fun?
Was a docent at the Air & Space Museum in DC, until I moved back to New Mexico in Spring 2014. Great people there and that is the thing I really miss in Washington.
Did, and am doing, a lot of solo photographic travel worldwide, including eleven trips to Bhutan, multiples to Burma, Nepal, Laos, Ireland, Russia, Estonia, and such. Most recently a month with tent and sleeping bag wandering 5,000 miles and camping in Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. January crossing Tibet, June covering Mongolia, and August in India's Jammu-Kashmir. As we all know, that gets tougher as the years pile up. For 2017, a trip to the Antarctic in February-March and co-leading a tour across Bhutan is on the Spring calendar.