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J.R. Dallas
11048 Candlelight Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
Has anyone noticed the ancient or out-of-date addresses in the AOG Register? With two years until our 20th reunion, we need to find those lost souls...tell your LCWB buds to update!
'79ers the world over are doing a great job, and I hope you enjoy this compilation of news items.
MILESTONE I saw in Airman magazine that our own Mike Brill has flown the F-16 more than any other pilot (3,700 hours at press time) and he is the first U.S. pilot to break 3,000 F-16 hours. Mike's at Hill AFB with the Reserves (couldn't fly this much on active duty). Mike's not an AOG member - so someone let him know we are proud of him.
Chuck Franceschi reports that child number five arrived Dec 96 and all five are great. Kids range from 16 to newborn.
Byron Calhoun is doing a joint assignment with the Army in Tacoma, WA near McChord AFB. He spent 10 years getting med school done, specializing in OB/GYN, and most recently maternal-fetal medicine - high risk obstetrics. His wife and five kids love Washington. Have you and Chuck priced colleges lately??
Steve Lepper wrote from Adana, Turkey where he is still a JAG. He will enter National War College this summer and will move the family back to Stafford, VA in May.
Received a postcard - cheapskate - from Gary Curry postmarked from down under in Australia. Seems he spent Christmas in Australia for some reason, but he's now back in Colorado.
Ken Impellizzeri is still with Delta Airlines in CVG, and upgraded to the 757/767 in December.
John Salvador is still the Director of Ops for the CAP out of Maxwell. With three boys in braces, wife Deb had to start a Salvador Orthodontic fund with Merrill Lynch.
Mark Fish is at Edwards as CC of the F-15 Combined Test Force. Went from GPS satellite research in L.A. to the desert. Says he's really glad to be in the cockpit again.
Mark Buechter (Ops Officer) and Ed Wilson (MacD test pilot) are also at Edwards. Ed also flies with the Test Pilot School for kicks.
C.R. Davis is the CC of the F-117 Cockroach test force - new and improved F-117 name, Mark?
Brian Galbreath is the CC of the U-2 test sqdn. Looks as if '79 owns Edwards air patch.
Randy Meyer was enroute to Pope AFB but diverted to Cannon (Clovis, NM) last summer. He finished Air War College as an outstanding graduate. He's now Ops Officer for the 524FS (F-16s). Made the CC list and waits -- good luck, Randy!
Steve Mueller is the CC of the 522FS there, with Ed Zanowicz (HI ED!) as his Ops O.
Kurt Weiger is the Ops O for the OSS.
Walt Wright is the Director of Plans and Inspections and flies with the 522. Came from Turkey with wife and three boys - "from Roman ruins to the grain silos along Highway 66".
Jeff Franklin is CC of the 92ARS at Fairchild. He is deploying to Saudi (Feb 97). He hopes to see Bruce Rember (F-15s) there.
Gene Stone is CC of the 92 OSS. Gene is passing on his zoomie car to his daughter - lower deductibles for antiques?
Brian Kelly is the CC of the 97ARS, bound for Air War College this summer.
Gary Burg is the chief of Wing Q.A. at Fairchild and keeps busy with the local Exploring Scouts Aviation post.
Steve Spence is the CC of the 912 ARS at Grand Forks and is off to Air War College also.
Bob Cusanelli is flying T-38s at Columbus.
Randy Fullhart is now the deputy ops group CC at Grand Forks. Seems he keeps deploying to southern France and Saudi with KC-135s just to miss a little of the cold weather in Grand Forks.
Ken Koehler is living in a little medieval town near the Dutch border - Kalkar, Germany, and works at the NATO Reaction Force Air Staff - a multinational staff which plans the assets needed to apply rapid reaction to NATO. Ken's in the CIS (Comm and Info Sys) section and works for a British group captain. The job has light working hours and excellent travel opportunities - send resumes now!
Ken says that Russ Towe is also there with the Interim Combined Air Ops Ctr.
Steve King is at MacDill as the CC of the 91ARS flying KC-135s. The entire squadron moved from Malmstrom, MT and Steve now lives 200 ft from the water - not the frozen type. He still runs, swims, and bikes (Triathelon material??) and probably has a tan. He is also off to Air War College in July - someone needs to organize a photo op. Steve, you're right when you said that "this Air Force is just a temporary job. Family is first."
Dale Bradley is Steve's next door neighbor and works his tail off in base CE. He's off to Robins AFB in April '97.
Rick Hernandez is CC of the 60SS at MacDill.
Mark Ross is up the road at Patrick - CC of a detachment there for the AF Technical Applications Center.
Jan Jouas is still CC of the 422 Sqdn at Nellis - PCSing soon.
Curtis Johnson is working for a high tech telecommunications firm in Research Triangle Park, NC. He's biking and hiking, and the family took a week off to backpack in the Rockies. Even took a tour of USAFA to see the changes.
Mark Reid reports that he is at Kirtland running a modeling and simulation shop - finding ways to spend money on computers.
Mike Mullady is there running the C3 Ground Test Division.
Randy Gricius is also off to Air War College.
Pete Hughes retired early and lives in Albuquerque, NM.
Stu Maxon also retired early and went straight to a great job with Ball Aerosystems in Boulder, CO.
Geoff Mulligan is in Colorado Springs working for Sun Microsystems.
Brian Koechel sent news that he and his clan have taken a transfer, to Seattle. He's director of Washington's Academy Liasion Program.
Cal Kemp was ordained a minister in the Lutheran Church last Aug and is now a pastor of a church in Williamstown, VT.
Bill Gregory has no news yet on his next space shot. Still running marathons.
Paul Schubert has settled in Columbus, OH working with Bank One. He heads their Corporate Finance Group. Had worked for Merrill Lynch in New York City and then a Dutch bank in Chicago before this position.
Paul reports that Mark Pimentel is still living in Montana, and Joel Maynard is doing C-17 work at the Pentagon.
Pete Bergamini (HI PETE!) is flying 767s for American Airlines in Miami, and moved to South Florida in '96. Gave up commuting.
Pete says that Steve Dickman (HI STEVE!) is studying at MIT in a grad program.
Larry Sondoval flies for SWA and lives north of DFW. Wife and 3 kids love "Da Boys" and Ranger ballgames.
I (J.R.) saw Rob Dunphy (AAL 767 DFW) in Sao Paulo, Brazil while on a layover. I never saw him in Dallas, now he moves to Washington state, commutes to ORD, goes TDY to New York, and I see him in Brazil. (What are the odds, J.R.?)
Mike Englebrecht is flying 767s for Delta out of JFK, and just began flying long hauls. (HI MIKE! Glad to see you got what you wanted!)
John Susalla (NWA 757 DTW) and his bride are keeping NWA safe. They did the ski trip 'thang to Colorado and the dice 'thang in Vegas in '96.
Mark Cutkomp (AAL A300 BOS) and Nancy have their hands full beating back the high school boys of prey. Is Mark the first wide-body captain of our class?
Gary Nemeth is with AAL.
Tom Quasney is getting his Ph.D. at U of Maryland.
Mike Steffen is flying NATO AWACS in Germany.
Ernie Haendmorre (UPS 727 FO) wrote from Louisville after moving from Vegas.
Mike Leggett (see Mike's comments above) is branch chief of the Advanced Technology Requirements at Langley doing that crystal ball kind of thing.
John McCormack works in the same shop with Leggs.
Mark Turberville is the CC of the Joint Employment Tactics School at Nellis.
Mark Sveska is the Ops O for the German AF-4 squadron at Holloman.
Keith Troberst is the branch chief of the test directorate at Nellis.
Jeff Liedenbach, Irv Bennett, and Mark Kleinheksell are all flying 757s at FO for Northwest.
Jeff reports that Doug Robb will be married May 31st somewhere. Congrats and best of luck.
Steve Looney is now flying with FedEx on the 727, as is Bob Brown and Mike Fox (MD-11).
Brian Flood (AAL MD-80 DFW) flies on the side with the D.C. F-16 Guard.
Brian Dobbert writes that he is now the active duty advisor at Grissom AFB for the Reserves there.
Jon Fagot (DAL) is still in Lincoln, NE flying Reserve KC-135s.
Gordie Gregory does investment banking in Chicago (HI GORDIE! Say hello to your brother, Gary for me. Tell him that Randy Rushe got married last year...he probably won't believe you.)
Marty Bredenstein (NWA) is also at Grissom.
Mike VanHoomissen is practicing law in Portland and is also JAG for the Oregon ANG unit there, hoping for an O-6 slot.
Mike reports that Ken Barker heads the Ethics/Honor Dept at school.
Bob McGreal is now Ops Grp CC at Andrews.
Pete Hays is running a fellowship grant program at school.
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