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Veterans Alphabetical List

  • 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

  • Jay Hess

    Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Jay Hess is a 20 year Air Force veteran, serving from 1953 to 1973.  Hess was a pilot on the Republic F-105 Thunderchief while stationed in Thailand.  In August of  1967 while on a mission, his jet was shot down.  Hit by enemy fire while pulling off a target, the airplane

  • Jacqueline Gonzales

    Jacqueline Gonzales is a 4 year Air Force veteran who served from February 2006 to March 2010 as a broadcaster.  “One of the things I cherished most while in the Air Force was being close to my family.  While stationed in Bitburg Air Base, Germany, my dad (52nd Operations Group Superintendent) was

  • Sam Johnson

    Colonel (Ret.) Sam Johnson served in the Air Force for 29 years as a highly decorated fighter pilot.  He flew combat missions in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars and was a POW in Vietnam’s Hanoi Hilton for nearly seven years.   He flew 62 combat missions in his F-86, and during his 25th combat

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