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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • Richard Toliver

    Colonel (Ret.) Richard Toliver graduated from Tuskegee Institute University in January 1963 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He learned from the Tuskegee Airmen, and proudly accepted their challenge to faithfully serve the nation as their “protégé.” He began his Air Force

  • William Tippins

    Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) William Tippins was in the U.S. Army during World War II and was a POW (prisoner of war). During his 18 months in captivity, he escaped three times from the Germans and once from Russian liberators before returning to American care. After the war, Tippins tried to join

  • Durward Swanson

    Technical Sergeant (Sep.) Durward Swanson was a Georgia farm boy who joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1939. At 18 years old, Swanson's first duty station was Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Swanson was an aircraft mechanic until a sergeant saw him riding a motorcycle and promoted him to buck

  • Jennifer Stone

    Senior Airman (Sep.) Jennifer Stone separated from the Air Force after being shot in a drive-by shooting while on leave. The bullet tore into her arm, ripping through her chest and devastating major organs.  After multiple surgeries and months of recuperation later, Stone returned to duty and

  • John Rosa

    Lieutenant General (Ret.) John Rosa entered the Air Force in May 1973 after receiving his commission from The Citadel, Charleston, S.C. Throughout his career, he served as an operations group commander and a wing commander three times. He also served as the deputy director for operations for the

  • Rogers Porter

    Colonel (Ret.) Rogers Porter, in 1946, took a flight in a surplus Army Stearman, which ignited a passion for flying. A local flying school let him fly for the price of gas, giving him an opportunity to earn his private pilot license. Once he had his license, he applied for the Aviation Cadet

  • Albert "Bud" Porter

    Staff Sergeant (Sep.) Albert "Bud" Porter served in the Eighth Air Force during World War II from October 1942 through November 1945. Originally designated to be a radio operator, “Bud” was surprised when he was assigned as a ball-turret gunner on a B-17. “I told the pilot, ‘I'm a radio operator,’

  • Robert Pardo

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Robert Pardo is known for carrying out the unorthodox aviation maneuver, later coined as the Pardo Push, to save the lives of his wingmen during a bombing mission over Vietnam, March 10, 1967, also earning the Silver Star. Pardo was then assigned to the 433rd Tactical

  • Thomas Newman

    Major (Ret.) Thomas Newman dropped out of high school in 1965, and military service was almost a certainty.It was 1965 and the Vietnam War was in full swing. After making the decision to enter the Air Force, Newman trained as a pararescueman—an elite rescue and recovery specialist. On completion of

  • Dorthy Martin

    Airman (Sep.) Dorthy Martin joined the Air Force in 1950 straight out of high school. After basic training and attending photo school in Denver, Colo., she was assigned to the photo shop at Buckley Air Force Base. At her assignment, Martin met her husband and became pregnant with their child shortly

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