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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

USAF Active Duty:1951-1981 (Colonel & Command Pilot)
US Government: 1981-1993 (Political Appointment with the Office of the Secretary of Defense)
Flew the F-86F with the 311th Fighter Bomber Squadron-58th Fighter Bomber Wing at Osan Air Base, Korea as a Flight Commander and at Chinese Nationalist Air Base at Chiae, Taiwan as Squadron Executive Officer: 1957-1958
Shot down in an F-86F by enemy North Korean Ground Forces hostile to the United States over the Korean Demilitarized Zone while on a simulated close air support mission with the United Nations Forces on March 6, 1958 and held captive as a Prisoner of War until released at Panmunjom to United Nations Forces on March 17, 1958.
Flew 68 Iglco White tactical reconnaissance combat missions out of Royal Thai Air Bases @ Korat, U Tapao, and Nakhon Phanom over Laos, Vietnam, and the adjacent waters in 1968-1969 during the war in Southeast Asia.
DSSM, LM, DFC, BSM, AM w/2 OLC, AFCM, ACM, OUA w/Valor, POW, CP Badge, SECDEF Badge, JCS Badge.
BS-University of Nebraska @ Lincoln
MEd-University of Massachusetts @ Amherst
Graduate-US Army Command & General Staff College @ Leavenworth Graduate-US Naval War College @ Newport
Military Fellow-Council on Foreign Relations in New York
Member-Council on Foreign Relations