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SECRETARY:CMSgt (ret) Terry Fergusonserved 27 years in the United States Air Force in the Security Police/Security Forces and the past eight years as the Secretary for the Billie Renfroe Chapter. During his 27 years of Defender experience, he was stationed at Spangdahlem Air Base, West Germ...
Our son, Richard, was between his junior and senior year at Auburn that summer. Some of his buddies were in ROTC programs and he had developed an interest in possible military flying. I asked Kurt if I could bring him along and he said that would be fine, he could probably get him a...
Taking a senior officer to the Air Force facility at O’Hare International, and being stepped to four different runways inside ten miles. Rolling out and turning off the active and getting a call from ground, something like, “Little fellow, just listen up and I’ll get you to the Guard...
surplus dealer (“By the time I joined the Air Force I’d been to 21 schools”) now settled in San Bernardino. “The only subjects being offered were engineering and nursing so I took industrial engineering at the University of Portland and as a requirement became involved with ROTC. ...
class having been entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. In class I teased Todd that while the Navy had me present mySecret History of Silicon Valleytalk in front of 4,000 cadets at theNaval Post Graduate School, I had ...
At Edwards, NASA and the Air Force were flying the fast movers such as the X-15, the XB-70, and the F-111. My new organization, the US Army Aviation Test Activity, had no fast movers but we did have a fully restored two-place P-51 Mustang to be used as a chase plane when our...
Never a dull moment at the flight school. One of my fellow CFIs, an older and I thought wiser former US Air Force fighter pilot, took off when a massive thunderstorm was just about to hit the field. On board were a father and his 11 year-old daughter. I was looking out the first ...