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  • Charles Duke

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Charles Duke is a 29-year Air Force veteran who served as a fighter pilot, instructor pilot and was the 10th astronaut to walk on the moon.  Duke commissioned in the Air Force as a 2nd Lieutenant upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1957.  He was then stationed

  • Lorenzo Downing

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Lorenzo Downing enlisted in the Air Force immediately following high school during the height of the Vietnam War. After he finished his enlistment, he went to the University of South Carolina where he joined the ROTC program, earned a degree in business administration and

  • Charles Correll

    Colonel (Ret.) Charles Correll began his Air Force career in June 1953, entering as an Aviation Cadet where he served as a navigator and radar observer for eight years. He later commissioned as an officer. A master navigator with more than 4,000 flying hours, Correll initially flew on the KB-29--a

  • Alice Coffman

    Airman 1st Class (Sep.) Alice Coffman joined the Air Force on June 19, 1951, from a small town outside of Dayton, Ohio. For Coffman, attending basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas was a thrill compared to living a lifestyle with no running water back home. That, coupled with meeting new

  • John Carpenter

    Technical Sergeant (Ret.) John Carpenter served in the Army from 1935 -1936 and re-enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II in 1943 as a logistician. He was honorably discharged from service after the war ended in 1945. During his service, Carpenter was invaluable to the 9th Air Force’s

  • Julius Budelis

    Major (Ret.) Julius Budelis was first stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base in 1955. When the base first opened, it was one of only four newly constructed Air Force bases in the entire country. All other Air Force bases at the time were originally built for the Army. The main mission for the 125

  • Robert Brown

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Robert Brown was a military family member during World War II. Brown was born and raised in Sumter, S.C. He then reported for navigator training, but ended up retraining as an electronic warfare officer when the demand for the career field increased. His first assignment

  • Dana Born

    Brigadier General (Ret.) Dana Born graduated with distinction from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo., with a degree in behavioral sciences in 1983. She then completed her master's degrees in experimental and research psychology. As her career progressed, Born completed her Doctor

  • Bertie Beavers

    Airman 1st Class (Sep.) Bertie Beavers grew up in the Houston area and went to high school in Pasadena, Texas. Falling in love with the allure of wearing a military uniform and idolizing her aunt who served in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, she joined the Air Force after high school. Beavers had

  • Sherrill Arvin

    Major (Ret.) Sherrill Arvin joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 when World War II was raging across the globe; he was 18 years old. "I knew when I was in high school that all I wanted to do was become a pilot," Arvin said.His flight training pipeline took him to San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center,

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