David Early:  

Life Hello Old Friends! I've been a little out of touch during the last twenty-eight years. I'm afraid duty called. Upon graduation from Walton, I attended Southern Tech for a year then decided to join the Air Force ROTC and attend Georgia Tech. I graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984 earning a pilot slot along the way, and it's been a fast-paced life ever since. I finished pilot training in 1985 and was selected to teach students to fly the T-38. I instructed for four years before being assigned to fly the F-15C. That was a dream come true! I flew Eagles for the rest of my 21-year career all around the world: Europe, Asia, the Middle East and all 50 states. I retired in 2005 and became a defense contractor in Colorado Springs working air defense issues for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). I left Colorado in mid-2006 for the fertile fields of northern Italy. ...more on that in a moment. One of the highlights of my life since Walton was meeting my lovely bride. Billie was a recent Penn State grad when we met in 1989. She was a brand new lieutenant in the Air Force, and I knew right away that I'd met my match. We were married three years later. Billie has had an impressive Air Force career so far culminating in her current position as a squadron commander at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy. Italy has some strange work rules when it comes to being a military dependent (as I am now), so we decided that I'd take a break from the work force. That's right, I'm retired and living large in Italy, but not for much long. We'll be heading back to Colorado in the summer of 2008. I never made a class reunion, and I'm disappointed about that. It seems that every time a reunion came around, something significant was happening in the Air Force that kept me ...Expand for more