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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • Mark Tillman

    Colonel (Ret.) Mark Tillman was the 12th presidential pilot and commander of the Presidential Airlift Group during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He swiftly coordinated and executed the successful evacuation of the President and his staff during the extremely volatile security environment.

  • Harry Stewart

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Harry Stewart is one of the U.S. Air Force’s most decorated Tuskegee Airmen. At the age of 17, after voluntarily passing an exam designed to identify potential pilots, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet. After completing training at Tuskegee Air Field,

  • William Smith

    General (Ret.) William Smith was part of the first group of West Point graduates commissioned into the newly established U.S. Air Force. After pilot training, he was assigned to fly the F-84D at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. Later, Smith was assigned to the 49th Fighter Bomber Group at Taegu

  • Bernard Smith

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Bernard Smith enlisted in the U.S. Air Force shortly after graduating high school in 1958. As soon as the U.S. was getting involved with Vietnam, he was volunteering to go. So the Air Force sent him … twice. While there he did everything from working on transit aircraft to

  • Brian Shul

    Major (Ret.) Brian Shul is one of the few pilots to fly the Air Force’s premier spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird. During the Vietnam conflict he flew 212 covert, close-air support missions in Laos and Cambodia. “That period of my flying career was a great educational experience,” Shul said. “I was

  • Carl Shepard

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Carl Shepard stands in front of an F-4 Phantom at the Hill Aerospace Museum in Riverdale, Utah, May 30, 2011. This specific F-4 is one of several planes Mr. Shepard flew during his Air Force career. He flew F4s, F-100 Super Sabers, A-10 Warthogs and various other models.

  • Jack Schofield

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Jack Schofield is a veteran of World War II and a member of the famous Flying Tigers. He served as a B-25H Mitchell bomber pilot for the United States Army Air Force. Schofield was a member of the 22nd Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group, and the 14th Air Force based at

  • Cesar Rodriguez

    Colonel (Ret.) Cesar Rodriguez served 25 years in the U.S. Air Force, racked up more than 3,100 fighter flight hours, 350 of which were combat hours during Desert Storm and Allied Force. He said his most memorable Air Force experience is, “going into combat and shooting down MiGs. Nothing compares

  • Walter Richardson

    Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) Walter Richardson said he never forgot the tension in the Tuskegee Airmen’s aircraft hangar the day retired Lt. General Benjamin Davis read Executive Order 9981 at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1949. Those 1,500 deemed worthy to remain in the service would continue

  • Norberto Ramos

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Norberto Ramos is a World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veteran. Ramos served in the Army after the draft and later chose to join the Air Force, where he worked in Security Forces. Private First Class Ramos served in the 86th Infantry Division during World War II from

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