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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • Anthony L. Warner

    As a young man, Staff Sgt. (Sep.) Anthony L. Warner had a fascination with languages and aimed to become a professional interpreter. After joining the military in 1987, he traveled to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. for Russian and Italian language training to serve as a Russian

  • Phillip E. Peterman

    Senior Master Sgt. (Ret.) Phillip E. Peterman joined the Air Force in June 1974; just a month after graduating from Bowdle High School in Bowdle, S.D.Peterman was a C-5 Galaxy crew chief and was later chosen to become a flight engineer. As a C-5 Galaxy flight engineer, he deployed in support of

  • Robert Rupp

    Master Sgt. (Ret.) Robert Rupp joined the Air Force in 1984 where he spent his first 12 years as a medical service specialist. Rupp then retrained into radiology until becoming a first sergeant for the last three years of his enlistment. While in the Air Force he was stationed in Florida, North

  • Daniel Schaeler

    Master Sgt. (Ret.) Daniel Schaeler is a 24-year Air Force veteran who served from July 1987 to August 2011. Schaeler learned to speak fluent Japanese while stationed in Japan for more than 13 years at Yokota, Kadena and Misawa Air Bases. While at Misawa in March 2011, he volunteered to use his

  • Alex Slocum

    Born and raised in Michigan, Master Sgt. (Ret.) Alex Slocum signed up for the U.S. Air Force in December of 1978 and entered basic training in July 1979. He completed Law Enforcement Specialist Technical School at Lackland AFB, Texas and had assignments at all over the world to include Kwang Ju AB,

  • Bill Schwertfeger

    Lt. Col. (Ret.) Bill Schwertfeger was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps June 30, 1967.After completing undergraduate pilot training at Vance AFB, Okla. in September 1968, Schwertfeger became an F-4 Phantom II pilot systems operator,

  • Robert Whalen

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Robert Whelan began his 20-year Air Force career as a second lieutenant in 1956, training to become a pilot.  Throughout his career, Whelan was stationed at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas; the Philippines; and Edwards AFB, Calif.  While serving in Vietnam, Whelan flew 142

  • Stewart Van Deusen

    Corporal (Ret.) Stewart Van Deusen enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 at 19 years old.  A few months after he graduated basic training in Florida, Van Deusen found himself aboard the Queen Mary II, headed for war in Europe and his first duty station at Bodney Airfield, England, with the 486th

  • John Udy

    Colonel (Ret.) John Udy was born March 20, 1921, in Plymouth, Utah.  At 21 years old, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Udy enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving as a B-17 bomber pilot during World War II.  He flew 35 missions over Germany while on active duty.  Udy and his crew embarked

  • Herb Trimpe

    Senior Airman (Sep.) Herb Trimpe enlisted in the Air Force in 1962 as a weather observer.  After graduating from his technical training, he was assigned to Fort Benning, Ga.  In 1965, he deployed in support of U.S. operations in Vietnam.  Trimpe would provide valuable weather data, which helped U.S.

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