15 July 1967 – T.H. Herndon was flying F-100D #563275. Enroute to a target of 150 Vietcong in a treeline, he was hit by 57mm AAA during a climb. He ejected and was recovered by USAF Helo. Herndon was serving with the 531st TFS out of Bien Hoa AB.
Roger Weller “retired from the Air Force Reserve after 30 plus years of service, mostly in air operations, command positions, and the flying business for the ANG and the USAFR. I was a fighter pilot for 10 years at the Springfield ANG Base, flying F-84Fs and F-100s (yes, the airplane crash story is true!) I was the sole survivor of that F-84F crash in December of 1968……OK, the rest of the story…I was alone in the plane (of course….that’s what we fighter pilots do best) and ejected successfully (some may disagree with that opinion….). I got squeezed out of the Ohio Air Guard at 24 years (they didn’t like Wing tri-deputy [Ops, CSS and CMS] commanders (commuting from Maryland) so I got into the DLA IMA program in 1989 at Cameron Station, VA and made O-6 after three years there. Retired as the IMA to the DLA Chief of Operations …….neat job …..at Ft Belvoir, VA in 1996..”
“I concurrently worked as a civilian at WPAFB for 17 years (the last 7 years were in the Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) business—-fun!) before coming to Maryland. I retired as a GM-14 with a CSRS pension on the last day of the millennium from DoD as Director, Center Services in December 2000 from The Joint Spectrum Center, located on the Naval Station in Annapolis. I have worked seven separate weeks in 2006-2008 as a volunteer in a work camp in D’Iberville, Mississippi. We rebuilt and renovated old homes and built new homes for the residents there displaced by Hurricane Katrina.”(1)
See more about Roger at https://www.69-03.org/pages/rog_weller.html
