Two F-100 pilots lost 4 years apart. On this day in 1967, 1st Lieutenant Joseph Daniel “Joe” Adrian flying F-100D #55-3611 was on a night scramble from the Tuy Hoa Runway, Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam. About six miles from the end of the runway over the South China Sea, his aircraft crashed. First Lieutenant
SSS member Robert L. Brusenhan, Jr. headed west March 16, 2015. He was born in Ruston, LA on October 28, 1931 to Robert L. “Bruce” Brusenhan, Sr. and Alice Hammet Brusenhan. He grew up in San Antonio graduating from Jefferson High School. He attended The Rice Institute and was accepted in Baylor College of Medicine […]
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Col, USAF (Ret) Walter E. Carson II, 88, USAF headed west March 16, 2015. Wally served during WWII and the Korean and Vietnam wars. His service was at Community Lutheran Church, with his Eulogy by MajGen (Ret) Neil Eddins. Wally is interred at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Wally soloed in 1943 and was Issued a
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REYNES, (Major USAF Ret.) Joseph Jr., runner, fighter pilot, former Mayor of Gulf Breeze—and beloved husband, father, and grandfather—went to be with the Lord on February 23, 2015. Joe was born in Medina, New York, March 1, 1934 to Joseph and Alice Jay Reynes. Joe began his education in 1940 in a one-room schoolhouse sitting
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