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Ronald R. Fogleman

• Joined the 510th Tactical Fighter Squadron in June, 1968 as a fighter pilot stationed at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam. Fogleman was shot down in 1968 and escaped by clinging to the outside of a AH-1 Cobra helicopter.
• Taught as an associate professor of history at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• Served as an F-4 pilot, instructor pilot and commander of the Laredo forward air controller flight while stationed in Thailand.
• Assigned to the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, in 1976 as assistant deputy commander for operations where his unit became the first operational F-15 aircraft wing stationed outside the continental United States.
• Served as chief of staff of the United States Air Force.
• Amassed 6,800 flying hours in fighter, transport, tanker and rotary wing aircraft, 315 combat missions, and logged 806 hours of combat flying in fighter aircraft.