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  • Lt Col Thomas A. Neal USAF
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    Wall of Honor Level:
    Air and Space Friend

    Honored by:
    Andra Neal

    USAF Combat Fighter Pilot

    101 Combat Missions over enemy territory, North Vietnam

    Major Decorations include: 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses
    The Bronze Star
    11 Air Medals

    Aircraft Flown:F-4D Phantom II, F-106 Delta Dart, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-100 Super Sabre, F-86 Sabre Jet, T-34, T-28, T-33 Shooting Star, L-20 Beaver, T-39 Sabre Liner Executive Jet.

    Aircraft Flown as: Combat Fighter Pilot, Instructor Pilot, Flight Examiner Pilot, Operational Flight Test Pilot

    Civil Aircraft Flown: Piper Cub and Piper Family Cruiser
    Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot and Instrument Pilot Rating.

    Positions, Air & Space related include:
    * Public Information Officer, 48th FIS Langley, Virginia.
    * Assist "Shorty" Powers, NASA, documenting the original Freedom 7 Astronauts: Glenn, Grissom, Shepard, Garpenter, Schirra, Cooper, Slayton

    * 68th FIS Itazuke Japan, 8th Tac Fighter Wing, Facilities Engineering Officer
    * 95th FIS Dover AFB, Delaware
    * 539th FIS McGuire AFB, New Jersey, Flight Operational Test & Evaluation
    * Air Defense Command, Major Aircraft Accident Investigation Officer
    * 433rd & 435 TFS, 8th Tac Fighter Wing, Flight Operational Test & Evaluation, Ubon Thailand
    * HQS USAF R&D, Program Implementation Manager, Pentagon
    * Chief of Engineering for Test and Evaluation, OSD, Pentagon

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