John Donahue:  

I guess I really grew up in many different places. We lived in North Dakota when I was born, then headed South when I was 4. I attended elementary schools in Russellville, Fulton, and McCredie, Missouri before moving to to Texas, where I attended junior high and high school in Bay City. During the summer after our Sophomore year my family moved to Seligman, Missouri, where I graduated from Southwest R-5 High School in '67. I stayed in Missouri for a time after high school, began college, married Linda Schmidt from Williamsburg, Missouri in '69, then entered the Army in 1970. We grew up pretty quick in the Vietnam-era Army. I served as an NCO with the 101st Airborne Division and 196th Infantry in Vietnam, then with the 1st Cavalry Division and the 6th Cavalry. Commissioned at Fort Benning in February, 1978, I attended flight school in 1980. I served in multiple Aviation officer assignments, commanding twice, then taught at the Army's Staff College from '94 to '97. I retired in 1999 as as chief of Army combat aviation operational testing. Since Ar...Expand for more