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of you who have recently joined our TAC Tanker
Association seem excited. To date we have 596
members and growing! Let your friends know about
us. Next major reunion will be at Langley AFB in
May 2002. Tango in Tampa mini reunion in 2001.
FRIEND'S
DOINGS This entire issue will be entirely
comprised of information that I have received
from your buddies. If you get bored reading it,
just trash it and if YOUR bit is not
satisfactory, fire the editor or send me an
update.
Terry
O'Neill (427) is in CA and wants to buy a
computer.
Richard Ames (420) ret AF is in ND.
Ernie Sellers (421) ret AF is in
MO.
Ariel Robinson (420) ret AF is in
MD.
Bob Peck (420) is retired from the USPS
in AZ.
Roger Knealing (420) is in MN and retired
from Honeywell.
Pete Adair (431) is in NM after retiring
from the atomic business.
Bill Slay (421) ret AF is a retired
construction foreman.
Sleepy Conner (27) is retired from
Eastern Airlines.
Harold McAbee (622) ret AF retired from
the insurance business and now plays lots of
golf in KY.
Bob Binish (622) ret AF is in MN.
Vernon Zehms (421) ret AF is retired from
corporate management and FEMA in TX.
John Hendrix (420) ret AF is a retired
Boeing flight engineer in Seattle.
Tom Cossi (427, 421) ret AF is retired from
the USPS in CA. Norm Kelley (421 three tours)
ret AF will be at the next reunion unless we
have it at Wake Is. He's in CA.
Ward Bryant (431) is also retired from
Eastern AL and now a steel estimator.
Ron Carford (420, 427) is retired from TWA
and handles reptiles (snakes etc) for a local
zoo in FL.
Al Reed (420) ret AF is a retired banker in
WA.
Bill Wolford (429, 421) ret AF spent 13 yrs
in Israel in a Christian Embassy.
Bob Gregovich (622) is living in Juneau,
AK.
Bobby Catoe (421) has a trucking company
in SC.
Clyde Mathe (420) ret AF was the first
Flt Eng assigned to the 420th in Alexandria. He
is now retired from a Brewery in GA.
Gary Hickman (429) is still fixing
airplanes but making more money now. Working for
Delta in NY.
Gene Crosby (622) is in Florida. Found
Leonard George ret AF (429) right up the road in
Westerville, (Columbus).
Herb Crone (622) ret AF is in
Indiana.
Bob Whittier (429,421) ret AF is living
in Maine. Only enlisted Navigator I have heard
of.
John Halm (421) is living in GA after
retiring from Reynold's Metals.
Darrell Grapes ret AF (431) is living in
Ohio and keeps in touch with Szanyi.
Walt Larimer (420) ret AF is also living
in the Dayton, OH area and is writing for our
newsletter.
Dutch Fugate (622, 421) ret AF is in FL.
He misses the AF and tried to go to Desert Storm
but guess what; they told him he was too
old!
Dave Gruneisen (429) is up the road in
Ohio and in the loan business; now owns the
company- how about that!.
Rufus Willoughby (421) ret AF is going to
be close in May '01. He is working for USPS in
Tampa.
Don O'Brien (421) ret AF is planning on
going to the mini in Tampa. He lives close
too.
Don Weidenbrenner (421) is retired from
Dow Chemical in MO.
Keith Michal (429) is a retired professor
from Ohio State and now living in TX -- and he
didn't even tell me he was leaving Ohio!
Chuck Callier (421) ret AF is in
Nebraska; retired from Civil Service and really
enjoying retirement!
Jack Boehm (429, 421) is part of our
merry band of retired airliners having retired
from Delta and is living in FL. Jack's son Chris
also flies for Delta.
Wm. (Rip) Collins (431) ret AF retired
from his own business in 1990 and now doing
volunteer and benevolent work.
Archie Kirkham (421) is a retired master
carpenter in Florida and now enjoys lots of
fishing.
Sid Genaux (431) ret AF is now living in
NY after traveling Australia for a year.
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