Ralph Anderson:  

Went to Ohio University, joined ROTC and upon graduation in 1968 I was commissioned in the Air Force and went to Moody AFB for Pilot Training. awarded Pilot Wings upon graduation in November of 69 and immediately sent to South East Asia to Fly the Antique A-1E Skyraider. The trip to Nakon Phanom Thailand took six months and included travel to The State of Washington and Florida for Survival training and Water Survival Training then to Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach Fla. for quick check out in the A-1, then off to the Philippines for more Survival school. Made it to Nakon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base in June of 70 and survived a year there. All those schools must have worked. Left in June of 70 for an assignment to Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta Ga. (same place I went to in 68) to be a T-38 Flight Instructor. Summer of 74 I transferred from USAF to the Ohio Air National Guard (A reserve of the Air Force). I was stationed in Springfield Ohio where I still reside. I spent 27 years there in the 178th Fighter Wing. Flew the F-100, A-7D, and the F-16 , I attended the Air War College and The fighter Weapons Schools during my tenure there. I spent the last five years as the Wing Commander, retiring in the summer of 2001 with 33 years of service. I worked for Lockheed- Martin a...Expand for more