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2023 Colonel Michael Martin Miller began his aviation career in 1955 while attending US Air Force basic training Geneva, New York. After completing flight training on several aircraft, Col. Miller returned to Columbia and the SC Air National Guard (SCANG). Deploying...
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2023 Ira Ellis “Bud” Coward, II, started his aviation career early at the age of 17; he was active in the South Carolina Wing of the Civil Air Patrol through high school and was appointed the Cadet Commander of the Aiken Composite Squadron. Coward obtained a...
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2021 Born in Columbia, South Carolina, William O. “Bill” Kendall, Jr. enlisted in the US Air Force in 1950, where he served as a mechanic on B25s, B29s, F-86s, F-80s, F-84s and P-51s. Upon his discharge from the military in 1953, Kendall began a civilian career in...
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2021 Darwin H. Simpson began his 39-year military career in the Arkansas Army National Guard in 1964. In 1967, Simpson graduated from the Army’s OCS program and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. Throughout his career, Major General Simpson has held numerous staff...
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2019 Walter Ingram “Walt” Johnson Born in Fayetteville, N.C. on August 28, 1945, Walter Ingram “Walt” Johnson began his aviation career at age 15 when he took a part-time job as a line boy at the Sumter, S.C., airport. He soloed his first plane, a Piper...
