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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • Joe Jackson

    Colonel (Ret.) Joe Jackson served as a career officer in the U.S. Air Force for 33 years and received the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War for a dangerous rescue operation of three American military personnel. On May 12, 1968, then Lieutenant Colonel Jackson, a C-123 Provider pilot, volunteered

  • Chuck Horner

    General (Ret.) Chuck Horner was the architect of the air campaign that launched the Persian Gulf War, serving as the joint force air component commander. He commanded U.S. and allied air operations for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia from August 1990 until April 1991. The

  • Michael Hayden

    General (Ret.) Michael Hayden is an Air Force veteran whose career spanned 39 years of distinguished and selfless service to the intelligence community where he operated under his belief, “You have to show up with what you have and do the best you can every day.” His tenure from 1999 until 2005 as

  • Phil Handley

    Colonel (Ret.) Phil Handley is a 26 year Air Force veteran who served as a cargo and fighter jet pilot, and is credited with the highest speed air-to-air gun kill in the history of aerial combat. While leading a four-ship of F-4Es in a combat air patrol on June 2, 1972, northeast of Hanoi, Vietnam,

  • Gail Halvorsen

    Colonel (Ret.) Gail Halvorsen is known worldwide as, “The Candy Bomber,” and through his selfless actions, he offered hope to children in post-World War II, West Berlin. Then 1st Lt. Halvorsen was an American pilot flying around-the-clock missions during the Berlin Airlift. One day, while filming

  • Mitchell Jenkins

    Senior Master Sergeant (Ret.) Mitchell Jenkins  is a 21 year Air Force veteran who served as a combat videographer from 1968 - 1989.  He served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia as an aerial and ground combat documentation cameraman.  He flew over 5,000 hours,100 combat missions in 10 different

  • Wesley Crosson

    Senior Airman (Separated) Wesley Crosson is a Air Force veteran who served five years as a Civil Engineer Water Treatment Technician.“The most memorable time in the Air Force was an exercise I participated in near Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana.  We were going to rebuild a playground and ended

  • Adan Caraballo

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Adan Caraballo was an Air Force Graphic Specialist from July 1982 to October 2002.  During his time in the Air Force he was able to fulfill a life long dream.  As a young boy, he had an 11-mile paper route and hasn’t stopped cycling since.  Twelve years into his Air Force

  • Sean Halsted

    Sean Halsted, U.S.A.F. Combat Controller (Ret.) went from being an active-duty Air Force combat controller to a U.S. Paralympian in the 2010 Vancouver Games. During a training mission at Hurlburt Field, Florida, he fell 40 feet to the ground while fast roping from a helicopter. As a result of the

  • Richard Cole

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Richard Cole was one of 80 men led by then Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, assembled to execute a surprise attack over the islands of Japan in 1942.  It would be the first time any of them would take off from a carrier.  Armed with enough fuel for a one-way trip to

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