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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Born 1959 into an aviation family with his father, Harry C. Stutts, flying FJ-4s for the US Marine Corps (USMC) during the Korean War.

Tony Stutts enrolled into Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Upon graduation in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Science and earning a commercial/instrument multi-engine land aircraft pilot license he was commissioned a 2ndLt in the United States Air Force (USAF). Upon earning his wings in 1982 Tony became an OV-10 Bronco pilot performing forward air control duties at Sembach AB, West Germany.

During his 20 years of dedicated service to the USAF Tony accumulated over 2800 hours of flight time with 2000 hours flown in the F-16/A, B, C, D, J, and K models from blocks 1, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 32, 40, 42, 50, and 52 and he flew as an acceptance test instructor pilot at the F-16 factory(General Dynamics/Lockheed) in Ft Worth, TX. "Bond" flew 53 combat missions over the former Yugoslavia, and northern and southern Iraq, and is credited with a straight flush radar (SA-6) kill with an AGM-88 (High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM)) on 1 May 1999 just north of Pristina Airport, Kosovo in support of a US Navy strike package.

Tony retired from the USAF at Spangdahlem AB, Germany on 31 July 2001 and moved with his wife, Kathy, son Kenny (born 1998) to Ft Worth, TX. Tony works for Lockheed-Martin on the F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)) international pilot concept of operations team with Kathy working at Lockheed-Martin's Recreation Association as their marketing manager.