Misty 1 Bud Day became a POW, was awarded the Medal of
Honor and practices law.
Misty 2 Bill Douglass retired and is a nuclear power engineer living in Mt.
Vernon, IA.
Misty 3 Glenn Jones was Gen. Creech's
Executive, retired and died of a brain tumor.
Misty 4 Gary Tompkins retired from the USAF and taught Advanced Placement economics, government, U.S.
history etc. at Rim High School in Lake Arrowhead, California. In 2004, he
passed the equal time mark: 21 years in the USAF and 21 years teaching, then he retired from teaching in 2008 (after 25 years). He says, "Pat and I will celebrate our 50th this year (2010), and we still live in Lake Arrowhead where we've had many years of happy marriage!"
Misty 5 Bill Mayberry retired from the USAF, then Boeing, then his own
consulting firm.
Misty 6 Dick Meyer retired, built the B-1 and B-2 bombers and retired again.
Misty 7 Barney Dalton retired, became a high school math teacher and retired
again.
Misty 8 Maurice McHugh is deceased.
Misty 9 Charles (Chuck) Turner got into
weapons testing, retired and worked for Raytheon. A massive heart
attack took him west on 19 May 2009.
Misty 10 Jack Harris flew the F111 for 17 years, retired and flew for a small
airline.
Misty 11 Paul Magill is deceased.
Misty 12 Bob Blocher retired, was a Arizona corporate executive then a pecan
grower and now is fully retired in Green Valley.
Misty 13 Kipp Kippenhan flies for United Airlines.
Misty 14 Sam Boyd retired as a Colonel and is living in Houston, Texas as
President of an aerospace engineering company building human spaceflight
systems.
Misty 15 Keith Heiniger retired as a Colonel and became a pilot for the State
of Wyoming.
Misty 16 Dick Cunningham retired, became an airline pilot, retired again, and
is now a substitute teacher in grades K-12. He also grows wine grapes
on his property in Napa, California.
Misty 17 Bob Craner became a POW, an Air
Attaché and died of a heart attack.
Misty 18 George Pinney lives in Peoria, AZ.
Misty 19 Nape Miller retired from the USAF and is a farmer in Ohio.
Misty 20 William R. "Bob" Porter
is deceased.
Misty 21 P.J. White started Red Flag, retired, and founded Sandia Airways in
New Mexico.
Misty 22 Charlie Neel retired and is President/CEO of a new start-up company.
Misty 23 Jere Wallace retired from Air Force in 1987, American Airlines in
2001 and resides in Fairfax Station, VA.
Misty 24 After Misty, Jim Mack concentrated his career on working for failing
airlines, and successfully collected 7 different uniforms. Jim
finally joined the "dark side" (FAA) and is "trying" to
retire from the FAA to help wife Penny sell real estate in Colorado Springs.
On his days off, Jim enjoys driving over his head in his vintage dirt
midget race car, referred to as his "old man's F-100." Stay
tuned...
Misty 25 Eben Jones retired and manages a brick factory.
Misty 26 Don "Sib" Sibson retired from the Air Force and is a ski
and sailing bum.
Misty 27 Gene Mooney is deceased.
Misty 28 Ray Wellington retired as a Colonel, flew corporate jets for sixteen
years, and retired again. No longer actively flying, he now stays
informed on current aviation technology advances and issues through his two
professional pilot sons; one an international Gulfstream Captain, and the
other a former navy F/A-18 pilot, currently a MD-11 First Officer with FedEx.
Misty 29 Guy Gruters became a POW, an airline pilot and ran a computer
business.
Misty 30 Mick Greene retired and is an Aerospace Program Manager.
Misty 31 Jim Fiorelli flew fulltime for
the Air National Guard and died of a heart attack.
Misty 32 Ed Risinger graduated from medical school in '73, became a
radiologist, and retired again in Austin, Texas.
Misty 33 Hog Piner retired after 24 years in the Air Force and lives in
Pineville, Louisianna.
Misty 34 Don Shepperd retired as a Major General and head of the Air National
Guard. He is currently a military analyst for CNN and ABC radio.
Misty 35 Don Jones retired, joined the CAP, became a charter pilot and
re-retired.
Misty 36 Brian "B. Willy" Williams retired from the USAF and lives
in Hailey, Idaho.
Misty 37 Carroll "Bill" "C
Willy" Williams retired and owned a business modifying helicopters.
He passed on 3 November 2008.
Misty 38 Charlie "Whispering" Smith became an evangelical preacher. He retired from the ministry in 2000 and now lives in a secure assisted living facility near his wife Kay.
Misty 39 Elmer Slavey retired and lives in Mexico.
Misty 40 Dick Rutan retired, became a world adventurer (e.g., flew in AN-2
wooden biplane to the North Pole, organized an after-30-years return to
Vietnam, attempted an around-the-world balloon flight, etc), and he's best
known for being the first man to fly the first non-stop, un-refueled flight
by a light aircraft around the world.
Misty 41 Charlie Summers retired, owns an aviation company and flies weather
research in a T-28.
Misty 42 Stan Mamlock retired after 28
years of Air Force service then played golf.
Misty 43 Howie Williams was killed in action.
Misty 44 Lanny Lancaster retired and divides his time between defense
consulting and wine importing.
Misty 45 P.K. Robinson flew a second tour in F-4s where he became a POW,
retired from the USAF after 26 years, retired from banking after 20 years and
now lives in Colorado.
Misty 46 Mike McElhanon was killed in
action.
Misty 47 Don Kilgus retired and died in an
automobile accident on the D.C. Beltway.
Misty 48 Frank Swartz retired from USAF, retired from Honeywell and retired from the consultanting business. Lives in Albuquerque, NM.
Misty 49 George Hanks taught Vietnamese to fly A-37s and became a chemical
engineer.
Misty 50 Wells Jackson became a general contractor and raises coffee in
Panama.
Misty 51 John Overlock was killed in
action.
Misty 52 Charles "Chuck" Shaheen flew for Continental Airlines till
1985, had a construction company in Los Angeles 1973-1977, moved to Fresno
and farmed grapes, mellons, and oranges from 1977-1989, left Continental in
1985, began a career in marketing as V.P. Pepco Extruded Products, and
eventually ended up as an owner and V.P. Marketing for Affiliated Equipment
Financing, Inc. in Fresno, California. Still working!!
Misty 53 Richard Durant retired and died
in 1996.
Misty 54 Steve Amdor retired and works for SAIC on the F-22 OT&E team.
Misty 55 Dave Jenny worked as operations manager and vice president with
SAIC. He's now fully retired and lives on the Flying J, a small ranch
in Central Texas with lots of room for guests.
Misty 56 Ted Powell retired, worked for
NASA in New Mexico and died of cancer.
Misty 57 Bud Bacon retired as a Brigadier
General in 1980. He died at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee on June
2, 2008.
Misty 58 Jim Perry went to medical school
and became an orthopedic surgeon. He died on 30 October 2006 from
cancer.
Misty 59 Don Harlan flew the FB111, served
in USAFE/SAC, retired, and died of cancer.
Misty 60 Roy Bridges became an Astronaut, retired from the USAF as a Major
General, and was director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center from March
2, 1997, to Aug. 9, 2003. He left KSC to become the director of the
Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
Misty 61 Frank Kimball retired, worked for McDonnell Douglas and is now with
Boeing.
Misty 62 Whitey Thompson was a test pilot, retired and teaches in an urban
high school.
Misty 63 Doug Weidman retired and flies for Northwest Airlines.
Misty 64 Robert Lynch is deceased.
Misty 65 Bob Fitzsimmons became an airline pilot and retired from UAL March
2000.
Misty 66 Kelly Irving retired and went on to become an airline pilot.
Misty 67 Rosie Detwiler did second tour in F-4's (Laredo Fac for four
months), joined New York Air National Guard as O-2 FAC, but transitioned to
C-5's where he participated in Just Cause (Panama) and Desert Shield/Storm.
He retired as B/Gen in 1997. Currently, chief pilot of Citigroup
Corporate Aviation at Westchester County Airport, White Plains, New York.
Misty 68 "Bones" Kretz retired, returned home and is a rancher in
New Mexico.
Misty 69 Jerry Edwards is deceased.
Misty 70 Bob Konopka retired after 23 years in USAF, plus 22 years in the
Aerospace Industry with Ford Aerospace, Lockheed Sanders and ViaSat.
Misty 71 Chris Kellum earned an M.S.E.E., retired, worked for ITT, and
retired again to Hatteras, NC in 1997 where he keeps busy doing light
maintenance on homes and cottages.
Misty 72 Roger Rice was killed in a
military aircraft crash.
Misty 73 Clyde Seiler was killed in action
a few days after leaving Misty.
Misty 74 Norris Hanks died on Monday July
26, 2004 at his residence in Hollywood, Maryland.
Misty 75 Chuck Holden flew his third tour in F-4's, retired from the Air
Force as a Colonel at Nellis AFB and STILL runs a couple of corporate flight
departments (jet qualified) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Misty 76 Stanton Smith retired from the ANG in 1981 and from Northwest
Airlines in 1998.
Misty 77 Bob Bryan served a second tour flying F-4s at Korat RTAB.
Retired 1989 as O-6. Currently flying the 747 for United Parcel
Service waiting for a second retirement.
Misty 78 Don Masuret worked for the D.C. ANG, retired and lives on a yacht in
Florida.
Misty 79 Al Winkelman retired, moved to Salt Lake City and is a ski
instructor.
Misty 80 Greg Parker is now a stevedore superintendent at the Port of
Savannah, Georgia.
Misty 81 Matt Husson retired from the USAF,
retired from a second career as an engineer where he was also an active
paramedic, and is now working as an RN in an emergency room.
Misty 82 Jim Sue retired from the ANG and retired as an airline pilot.
Misty 83 Bob Cassaro flew fulltime for the ANG and still teaches F-16
academics.
Misty 84 Richard Hepworth retired as
colonel and is now deceased.
Misty 85 Roger Winblade went to NASA,
retired as the Chief of the General Aviation Division, and passed away at his
home in Temple Hills, MD on 11 January 2008.
Misty 86 Ron Fogleman attained the rank of General (4 stars) and became the
15th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.
Misty 87 Gerrit (Jerry) Walhout returned
to the National Transportation Safety Board as an Air Safety Investigator and
also rejoined the DC Air National Guard as a part time jock. He retired
from the DC Air Guard in 1985 with 22 years of fun flying. He retired
from the NTSB on Jan.1, 2000 as the Chief of the Human Performance Division.
Jerry claimed to have been the only "foreigner" in Misty,
complete with Dutch accent. Col. Creech questioned him closely about
his loyalties after they flew together at one time. He passed.
Jerry amused himself by being on the Board of his Condo in Fairfax, VA.
and writing the Condo Newsletter. He lived by the "no more than
one task per full day" motto, and Jerry passed away on 6 September 2008
from complications after surgery. He was interred at Arlington
National Cemetery on 16 December 2008.
Misty 88 John Grathwol retired, went into
industry, fully retired in 1998, died in 2000.
Misty 89 Arnie Clarke retired again on 1 Jan 2004. Currently working on
building a Glastar on amphibian floats. In September '05, flew 66.5
hours to commemorate Canada's first Atlantic crossing. Visited major
aviation museums in Canada and flew in the Toronto airshow. Go to
www.airic.ca and Classic Aircraft to see photos over Toronto.
Misty 90 Bill Wallace left the Air Force and became a philosopher and
software guru.
Misty 91 John Boles flew with the ANG, retired, was president of a chemical
company, and is now retired and living in Florida and Maine.
Misty 92 Dennis Hlad retired and lives in Florida.
Misty 93 Lacy Veach became an Astronaut,
flew twice on the Shuttle and died of cancer. He's buried at the
National Cemetery at The Punchbowl, Honolulu, HI.
Misty 94 Tony McPeak attained the rank of General (4 stars) and became the
14th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force.
Misty 95 Rowland Stanley was a USAF test
pilot and an exchange instructor at USNTPS when he was killed in an A-3 crash
on 26 Jan 1980.
Misty 96 Bruce Brown retired and is an executive in the financial securities
industry.
Misty 97 Bob Wilson retired from the USAF, was a consultant, retired again
and plays golf.
Misty 98 James Osgood left the Air Force and is a Captain with Northwest
Airlines.
Misty 99 Ron Standerfer retired, was a corporate aviation executive, and is
now a novelist and freelance writer! His recent book The Eagle's
Last Flight (www.theeagleslastflight.com)
chronicles the life of an F-100 pilot and his family during the Cold War and
Vietnam years.
Misty 100 Gib Ahl retired as a Colonel in 1987 and still lives near Tampa.
Took a five year sabbatical after retiring from the USAF rebuilding
MG's and renovating the family residence. Started and owned two
different Mortgage Companies for 12 years. Retired again in 2003. Plays
Golf, sails and helps care for two growing future fighter pilot sons... Chad
(10) and Nathan (7) while wife Maria works as fifth grade teacher at local
Catholic School.
Misty 101 Jim Nugent retired from the USAF in 1990 as a colonel; worked for
E-Systems, Raytheon, and L-3 Communications as Operations Director; retired
again in 2007 and lives in Lexington, KY.
Misty 102 Mike Cummings flew for Delta
Airlines and is deceased.
Misty 103 Andy Christensen flew 111s, retired and is in the financial
services business.
Misty 104 Dave Skilling retired from the Air Force, worked for the Lockheed
Skunk Works, retired again from Northwest Airlines cockpits in 2006, and is living in Marietta, GA when he's not traveling the world.
Misty 105 Jack Dickey retired as a Major General.
Misty 106 Laurent Gourley was killed in
action.
Misty 107 Rufus Edwards retired from the Air Force in 1983, opened a
construction company from which he retired in 1995. He currently lives
in Crestview, Florida.
Misty 108 Ted Kroese retired, became the Boeing simulator site manager at
Eglin AFB, and is now fully retired and lovin' it in Forida.
Misty 109 Michael Martin's location is unknown.
Misty 110 Jefferson Dotson was killed in
action.
Misty 111 Robert Seabury was killed in a
T-38 crash after Viet Nam.
Misty 112 Vic Macomber retired and is a stockbroker for A.G. Edwards in
Keene, New Hampshire.
Misty 113 George Buchkowski flew for Delta Airlines and retired in July 2000.
Misty 114 John Hammar retired and lives in Montgomery, Alabama, where he
flies corporate aircraft through lightning, heavy rain, and turbulance, but
the temporary minimum approach conditions (he says) keep the blood pumping
and the checks coming in.
Misty 115 Wayne Chaffer died of cancer in
2003. He was V.P. of International Marketing for Magnavox.
Misty 116 Norm Lutz retired and was a director of wastewater treatment for 15
years.
Misty 117 T.K. Egan flew for Eastern Airlines and is retired in Florida.
Misty 118 Jerry Hallman retired as a Colonel and married a Lt. Colonel
("We both loved the Air Force.") He briefly flew for American
Airlines. He and his wife, Bonnie, worked in real estate where he was a
broker/manager of about 100 agents. He moved to Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina and has a home warranty company. He loves it in
paradise.
Misty 119 Don Muller retired as a Colonel and is an F-15 instructor at
Tyndall AFB, Florida.
Misty 120 Gerry Van Riper retired as a Colonel and became a real estate broker. He died 15 December 2009 at his home in Scotia, NY.
Misty 121 Robert Putz retired, became an airline pilot and lives in Houston,
Texas.
Misty 122 Dennis Campbell retired and flies for Southwest Airlines out of
Phoenix, Arizona.
Misty 123 Bill Teske retired to Idaho and is a fulltime foster dad and
pro-life advocate.
Misty 124 Mario Peraldo retired and is a farmer in Fallon, Nevada.
Misty 125 Michael Stone's location is unknown.
Misty 126 Bill Gabel retired, became a CPA and owns a tax and consulting
firm.
Misty 127 Patrick Carroll was killed in
action in 1969.
Misty 128 After Misty, Gary Nophsker flew the SLUF at Myrtle Beach,
taught 3 yrs at the Army Command and General Staff College, then back to the SLUf. Next came 8 years in Korea as executive to three successive ACC/USAFK Cmdrs, then as CC 314AD Det 1 and 7AF Dir of Spt Ops. In Oct '89, he completed 28 years in the USAF, worked for another 17 years at Texas Education Agency, and is now retired in Austin fooling around as the Misty website guru.
Misty 129 George Cranston "downgraded" to the F4E after Misty.
He flew the F4C&D (19 1/2 years) and the A10 in the AF Reserve
until he retired as a colonel in 1997. Operated a family-owned truck
parts business in Tampa (go BUCs) until 1987, and now owns and operates a
truck and RV repair business in Jacksonville, Florida. Hosted Super
Bowl XXXIX in 2005 (Just kidding, but nice OER material).
Misty 130 Jim Cruson retired and runs a Grand Canyon tour airline from Las
Vegas.
Misty 131 Dick Rice retired from USAF and Lockheed; now demos/sells Pilatus
PC-12s.
Misty 132 Jack Clapper left the USAF, went to law school and is a trial
lawyer in California.
Misty 133 Rich Reitan flew fighters his whole career, built his own plane and
still flies.
Misty 134 Josh Merrill's last known address was Eastham, Maine.
Misty 135 Troy "Rex" Morris is a power company engineer in Gilmer,
Texas.
Misty 136 Lawrence Whitford was killed in
action in 1969.
Misty 137 Al Robinson joined the Hawaii ANG and became Chief Pilot for an
airline.
Misty 138 Harry Scott lives in Tallahassee, Forida.
Misty 139 George Lapham retired, ran a credit union and lives in Biddeford,
ME.
Misty 140 John Nystrom's location is unknown.
Misty 141 Jerry Ryder retired, worked for the Social Security Admistration
for 20 years and retired again.
Misty 142 Dick Robbins retired, joined Civil Service as an engineer and
retired again.
Misty 143 Dan Brown flew F-111s, F-5s in Yemen, and FAC'd with the Army.
After the Air Force, he has flown 8800 contract military flight
training hours in MU-2s for Weapons Controllers, ECM Learjets in Air Defense
training, and T-47s, T-1s, T-39s in Joint and Allied Service NFO/WSO
training. He continues contract flying.
Misty 144 Hank Buttleman retired, lives in Las Vegas and plays golf.
Misty 145 Jack Doub retired, formed a Piper Dealership, retired again in San
Diego, flew Lears in NATO Threat Simulation out of Holland, retired for the
last time, now lives in Valdosta, Georgia... spoiling grandkids and honchoing
the Misty Reunions!
Misty 146 Lynn Farnsworth became an airline pilot, flew with the ANG and
AFRES, and retired from airline flying in 2002. His wife and he owned
several corporations, but have started divesting themselves of them so they
can completely retire. He is building, with the help of a
builder-assist facility, a Lancair Legacy for racing in the Sport Class at
the Reno air races. He had hoped to have it ready to go for this year
(2004), but it looks like it won't be ready until after this year's race is
over. It's modeled after Darryl Greenamyers race plane. He also
follows the activities of his son Kyle, who is a pitcher for the Chicago
Cubs.
Misty 147 Robert "Mike"
Armstrong flew the U-2 for a while after Misty then became a teacher in the
Tennessee prison system and the head of aviation at a small college. He
passed away on 8 December 2003.
Misty 148 Paul Tackabury became a test pilot, retired and became a V.P. with
Northrop.
Misty 149 Dave Thomson retired in 1989, went to work for Boeing as a Division
Safety Manager for 5 years, then moved to Colorado when he accepted a
teaching position with the Southern California Safety Institute (the old USC
Safety school that many of us attended while on active duty). He fully
retired as of the first of 2004 to Canon City, Colorado, and is enjoying travelling, golf, and
boating. They have a winter place in the Rio Grande Valley and are enjoying the weather--not as warm as last year, but no snow either!!.
Misty 150 Vince Cattolica retired from the ANG, is now a CFP and
Retirement Planning Consultant, and is planning to be fully retired as of 1 July 2010.
Misty 151 J.P. Richards left the Air Force and is a captain with Delta
Airlines.
Misty 152 Moose Millard retired after 20
years, and then flew for Southwest Airlines. Cancer took him from us on
3 February 2009.
Misty 153 Mike Hinkle retired as colonel and is now a wood sculpturer living
near San Antonio, Texas.
Misty 154 Jim Davies retired from the Air
Force and became a Captain with Delta Airlines. Leukemia sent him west
on 2 July 2008.
Misty 155 Jerry Marks lives in Minden, NV.
Misty 156 Dave Robb is deceased.
Misty 157 Dave Samuel flew fighters, did ROTC, retired and is a realtor in
Boulder, Colorado.
Misty A 1 Ray Lee retired, formed a consulting company and an oil exploration
company.
Misty A 2 Don Snyder retired as a Lt Gen, USAF, and currently lives in
Western Pennsylvania.
Misty A 3 Tom Tapman lives in Belton, Texas and is President of Tapman
Investments.
Misty A 4 Preston Hardy served after Vietnam with HQ 9th AF and HQ AFROTC. He retired in 1972 and returned to his hometown of Dillon, SC where he landscaped his retirement home and planted over 5000 Azaleas, served as a South Carolina Land Resources Commissioner, and was Chairman of the Dillon County Historical Society. He was a prolific runner and competed in full marathons until diagnosed with lung cancer in late 1983. He began his final Heavenly flight on Mar 28, 1985.
Misty A 5 Ted Hascall retired and returned
to Texas A&M for a Ph.D. He died in 2001.
Misty F 1 Dr. Dean Echenberg traveled the world for a few years after Vietnam
before coming home and setting up a Medical Practice in San Francisco.
He then attended Cal Berkeley for a MPH and PhD in public health and
worked as head of Infectious Disease Control in San Francisco during the height
of the AIDS epidemic. (Obviously he could have done a better job.)
He has also been involved in international health, heading up Project
HOPE Europe, consulting in the Caucasus, the Balkans and more recently
helping to deal with the results of the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. Currently, he lives at home in Tiburon CA with Shirley and has become the happy bum he always meant to be.
Misty F 2 Dr. Bob Gordon is practicing gynecology at Scripps Clinic in La
Jolla, California.
Misty I 1 Ray Bevivino left the Air Force and started an international
jewelry import business.
Misty I 2 John Haltigan rotated to Hickam AFB and would include BDA on Misty
directed strikes in briefings at PACAF Hdqs. He currently works for the
Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC.
Misty I 3 Roger Van Dyken owns a boating firm in the San Juan Islands,
Washington.
Misty I 6 Jim Titus taught for 18 years at the U.S. Air Force Academy, became
Dean of Research at Air University, and is now back at the A.F. Academy as a
professor.
Misty S 1 Joe Caruso returned to the states in Apr 68 as the Administrative
Supervisor for the Deputy Chief of Staff/Personnel, Hq, Hq Command, USAF.
Retrained into Personnel in 1969 and was the NCOIC Airmen and Officer
Assignments, Andrews AFB. Served a tour at Rhein Main from 73-77 as the
Athletic Director before going back to Andrews and retraining again this time
into the Club Career Field. Retired in 85 from the AF and currently is
the Chief, Community Support Flight at Goodfellow AFB, Tex where he oversees
the operations of the Collocated Club, Bowling Center, Outdoor Recreation,
Marina, Skills Development, ITT ticket and tours. Joe currently has 45
years federal service.
