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GMI Alumni Armed Forces Veterans — Classes of 1967–68 Dean Bell: U.S. Air Force/Captain; 320 Bomb Roy Nagel: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve; Wing (B-52G), Strategic Air Command (SAC); Avionics, Avionics: HMM-766 Marine Aviation SQ, OV-10 Bronco AGM28 Air-Launched Hound Dog (nuclear) missile Attack/Observation; SGT/E-5 aircraft; Selfridge ANG maintenance supervisor. The 320 AMMS Squadron earned Base, Mich., – Reservist 1968–75; Parris Island S.C.,– the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award in 1971, for best Basic Training. missile reliability in SAC. Mather AFB, Sacramento, Calif., John Novak (DTD): U.S. Navy/ 1968–72. Lieutenant (O-3); San Diego Calif., 1969-72; two Bill Clark (ATO): U.S. Air Force/Captain; deployments in Western Pacific including Vietnam, R.P.I., Officer Training School – Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, 1968. and Japan aboard the USS Jason (AR-8) repair ship as Damage Control Officer and Main Propulsion Assistant. Steve Cummins (DTD): U.S. Air Force/ Captain; Undergraduate Pilot Training, Williams AFB, Chuck Muir (DTD): U.S. Air Force/ Chandler, Ariz., 1969. Retired Pilot – USAF – Reserve. Captain; SAC - Navigator KC-135 (Boeing 707) Tanker, Plattsburg, N.Y., 1968–1975. Also directed construction of Ford Cotton: U.S. Army/SGT/ E-5; Army a golf course at Kelly AFB, San Antonio, Texas, 1968–69. Electronics Command Laboratories, Ft. Monmouth, N.J. Project Electrical; Engineer for the development of the Otto Phahl: U.S. Air Force/Lt. Colonel; AN/PSN-4, man carried LORAN-C receiver (LOng RAnge TAC – F4 Backseat Navigator/Weapons Systems Officer Navigation), the first application of microchips. He 1969–1994 career. conducted extensive field testing of this device in various Dick Rebhan: U.S. Air Force/Captain, Officer regions of the U.S. LORAN was replaced by GPS in recent Training School, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, 1969. years. Ford met his wife, Vickie, a civilian employee at Ft. Monmouth, where they married in 1971. Dan Smudski: U.S. Air Force/Captain EC-121 (Lockheed Constellation) Warning Star–Radar John R. Dixon (ATO): U.S. Air Force/ Officer, Greenland; McClellan AFB, Sacramento, Calif., Captain; Air Force Space Command, Western Test Range; 1968–72. ICBMs/Space Boosters, testing, development and launch data analysis. Vandenberg AFB, Calif., 1968-1972. Bob Spencer (DTD): U.S. Army/ Major; Schoufield Barracks, Hawaii, 1968-72. Army Tom Doll: U.S. Army; Fort Campbell, Ky., Basic Reservist, Livonia, Mich., 1973–79. Training 1969. Steve Toth: U.S. Army/Spec. 5; 9th Infantry Tom Mast: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve; Avionics: Div.-Combat Engineer – Mekong Delta Vietnam 1968– HMM-766 Marine Aviation SQ, CH-46D Boeing–Vertol 69; Combat Wounded Veteran; Awarded Bronze Star, Helicopters; SGT/E-5; Selfridge ANG Base, Mich., – Reservist Purple Heart, and Army Commendation Medal with two 1969–75. Parris Island S.C.,– Basic Training; Honored for Oak Leaf Clusters (awarded three times); Presidential achieving the highest individual Rifle Marksmanship scores Unit Citation awarded to his organization; Medals among four graduating platoons at Parris Island, 1969. awarded by the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) include: RVN Armed Forces Honor Medal First Class and RVN Cross of Gallantry. 24 KETTERING MA G AZINE