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Memorial Day, now the last Monday in May, is a designated federal holiday to honor members of the military who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. With the COVID epidemic, we are reminded that many other Americans are important and deserve recognition – first responders, firemen,

Written to The Wall Street Journal May 24, 1996 I visited with three old friends recently at a park in my town. It seems like only yesterday that we were all together, but actually it had been 28 years. There was a crowd at the park that day, and it

  After a bit more than a half-century, I should probably tell you how each Memorial Day, every one of you has been front and center in my heart. As a young single lieutenant, I could not believe that those of you who were married, many with children back home,

1st Annual Golf Tournament for former SSS Charter Member Bobby W. “McDuck” McClinton. Bobby ‘Headed West’ during the summer of 2018. He battled cancer for nearly a decade before his body was broken from the damage done, and God called him home. He is deeply missed by his family. The

The Super Sabre Society received the following information from Bill Fowler, son of F-100 Pilot Mel Fowler. My father, Lt Col Mel Fowler commanded several F-100 squadrons in Europe and Vietnam. His last command was the 531st TFS Ramrods at Bien Hoa AB, Vietnam, from 1966-67, where he joined the

The last F-100 left Vietnam for the U.S. Its departure ended the F-100’s combat employment which began in 1964 and produced 360,283 combat sorties with 243 aircraft losses. On 16 April 1961, six Super Sabres were deployed from Clark Air Base in the Philippines to Don Muang Royal Thai Air

With direction from the previous survey of the important factors in choosing a Reunion location, we requested members to recommend a place for the 2021 Reunion.  The results are as follows: 341 members voted. Here are the results: Las Vegas – 116 Colorado Springs – 82 Phoenix –  48 Myrtle Beach

Another 4th of July is here and many of us remember that Independence is what we fought for, sometimes in the most difficult of circumstances and with great sacrifice. I just spent two wonderful days in Yellowstone National Park with my grandson, and it caused me to reflect on this

Photo summary of our F-100 Memorial Rock Dedication Ceremony at Nellis AFB, on Friday, March 15th

The National Air and Space Museum Wall of Honor representative has agreed to import about 600 of our most complete SSS website Biographies during the next few months.  We currently have about 1000 bio’s online, and this project is expected to continue through 2019.  Our SSS biographies are the most visited area of our website with hundreds of visits daily.

The SSS website membership renewal link is not currently working. Hold off on your dues payments for a few days and we’ll have it running again.

Win Reither
SSS CIO

We have to start this New Year with a huge “Thank You” to Don Shepperd.  Several of you have already done so, but I want to add that we owe him a huge debt of gratitude for all he has accomplished while he was president of the SSS.  What an

Leo Mansuetti is truly one of us, a fighter pilot in heart and soul. He started out as an Aviation Cadet in 1959 as an RO in F-89s and then F-101s.

Congratulations Tom Griffith Total ballots cast – 568 Tom Griffith  297 votes – 52.3% Les Frazier  138  votes – 24.3% Bob Herculson  133  votes  – 23.4% The final numbers may change by a couple of votes when all the paper ballots have been returned but the outcome will not change.

In accordance with our organizational mission to ”preserve the history of the F-100 Super Sabre and the men who flew it,” the board has approved the proposal for a rock monument to be placed on the walk to Waxman Hall at the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB, NV, “Home of the Fighter Pilot.”

Join the National Aviation Hall of Fame at the 2018 induction ceremony to be held in the breathtaking National Building Museum in Washington, DC on September 28th.  On that evening we will again proudly present an event worthy of the title, “The Oscar Night of Aviation.”  Surrounded by the grand columns within the facility built to provide pensions to America’s Civil War veterans, the NAHF Board of Trustees and staff are planning the most spectacular Enshrinement to date.

The Summer 2018 edition of our journal went to our printer on 29 June and was delivered to our mailing contractor on 6 July.   It is now winding its way through the process of getting your copy to you … wherever you are. It should go into the USPS First

A A week-long flying the F-100 at The Fort Wayne at the Aero Center with Dean Cutshall and Super Sabre Society members. Photo credits …Cathe Johnson

Medal of Honor Recipient Bud Day Posthumously Promoted Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein posthumously promoted former prison of war and Medal of Honor recipient retired Col. Bud Day to brigadier general during a summer concert series at the Air Force Memorial on Friday evening. Goldfein used the stars he had received

Half our daily website traffic reads Biographies…about 150 each day.

Much has been written about the war – who won, who lost; whether we should have been there at all. We tried to stop the supplies coming south; we supported our troops on the ground; we fought with and for our South Vietnamese allies. We did it day and night

The 50th Anniversary of the TET Offensive at the  Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum
This event was managed by the Bob “Hoppy” Hopkins from start to finish: the concept, the artist, the financing, getting Udvar-Hazy approval, dinner, et al.  The airplane, the lightbox, the airfoils, the now-enshrined and engraved Wall of Honor are all a fitting SSS monument to our legacies and heritage.

The Misty Pilot’s bank account was used to buy a pig-in-the-poke, just trusting the Smithsonian staff with $10,000 and a couple of concept sketches rushed into production. The museum came through and the lightbox dramatically enhances the painting!