2022

Henry John “Perk” Pirkkala, Maj USAF (Ret) “Headed West” on January 22, 2022. “Perk” Pirkkala, 82 Headed West after a protracted illness. Perk was commissioned at age 20 after Nav training and first flew as a Radar Intercept Officer in F-89’s and F-101s. He retired from the USAF at age 40! John Pirkkala flew the […]

Will C. Hendrix, Major USAF (Ret), “Headed West” on January 17, 2022. Will Clayton Hendrix Jr., age 86, of Austin, Texas passed away on Monday, January 17, 2022. Will was born July 26, 1935, in San Antonio, Texas. Will flew the F-100 in 1961 at Luke and Nellis, and then with the 79th Tactical Fighter

William Kirk James, MGen USAF, (Ret) “Headed West” on January 13, 2022. How do you condense 86 years of a grand life into just a few simple paragraphs? A start and an end as bookends to a litany of accomplishments? It hardly seems satisfactory. A whole book may not even be able to contain this