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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Richard Wigglesworth, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret.), served in the United States ^Air Force during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1985. A distinguished AFROTC graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Colonel Wigglesworth's ensuing tours of duty included Chaumont and Toul-Rosieres Air Bases, France; Manzano Base, NM; Hill AFB, UT; Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He earned BS and MS degrees in aeronautical and aerospace engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. His master's thesis, "A Numerical Model of Surface Recession Phenomena of Metals Subjected to Laser Radiation in an Aerodynamic Environment", was subsequently employed by the Air Force's High Energy Laser Weapons Program. As a senior Air Force officer, he led various reliability engineering, test and evaluation, foreign technology assessment, and international cooperative R&D initiatives. His last USAF assignment was as the US Research and Development Coordinator at the SHAPE Technical Centre, The Hague, Netherlands. Then, with the Northrop Corporation in California (1985 to 1993) and in Arlington, Virginia until retiring in 1996, he contributed as a systems engineer to advancements in unmanned air vehicles, mission planning systems, and B-2 stealth bomber smart weapons. Colonel Wigglesworth and his wife, Barbara Jean, have three children: Sue Ann Vorherr, Sharon Kay Barclay, and Mark David Wigglesworth.