Tidbits. Like the engines on the plane he flies, Rick (Jill) SCHUFF had twins in Jan. Rick is the New Orleans F-15 ANG advisor. John GREEN works at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. Mace CARPENTER is flying F-117s at Holloman and says he sees Mark PERUSSE a lot. Sandy (WAPLES) (Rick '79) WALLACE is back in the States after finishing several years with Mission Aviation Fellowship in Indonesia, where she and her family made a difference.

New eyes and ears. Holly (EMRICK) SVETZ has decided that without Peggy (DENNIS) CARNAHAN (CC at Randolph T-37s) giving me the scoop on the Washington gang anymore, she would take over the job. Both she and Keylor ENG are on the board of directors of the AFA Society of Washington, DC. "It's a great way to find out about the world outside of the AF, job opportunities, and future business for those of us already in the private sector. I've been busy representing government contractors and some private companies. Sometimes I can counsel them to keep them out of trouble in advance, but when that doesn't work, I sue 'em." Since Tonya (SENZ) REGAN was the MCI contracts administrator in a recent case, Holly got to chat with her. Keylor, Anne MOORE, and Holly also got together and worked at a Habitat for Humanity weekend the society sponsored. Anne's at the FAA as a civilian and the DOD liaison to the FAA as a Reservist. Holly's first case was representing MD in their $1.2 billion C-17 litigation. "It was fun working with their engineers, talking about hydraulics, landing gears, and flight tests. So I did get to make use of all that stuff they tried to cram into our heads 20 years ago. Can you believe it -- 20 years!"

Here and there. Mike MCLOUGHLIN's in Tulsa flying busjets for an oil company. He's been there for 10 years now and has "learned to like it." He serves as an LO at 60 schools in the area. Mike has seen Daryll (Patty) KEELING in Evergreen CO (with NWA); Joe (Mary Ellen) BIANCO in Charlotte (US Airways) notes Bill (Carina) NOAH retired and lives in Gaithersburg MD; and Duane (Lynn) DAVIS is still in North Carolina (US Airways) and he lost count after six children.

Joe (Pam) LANNI is going from CC of a fighter test squadron "and will turn in my green bag for service blues as I attend Nat'l War College." He's concerned about getting DTs from not flying, but is looking forward to the challenge. Joe relates Mark GRAPER is doing the same thing, only leaving an F-15 squadron at Elmendorf for the Navy's school.

Mark MITCHELL is a CC at Edwards flying "lots of variants of the '135 and the EC-18. A primary mission of the squadron is ARIA (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft) which deploys worldwide to support satellite launch telemetry collection and relay; and cruise missile chase/command and control." He's also done some flying on the KC-10 for data collection for the AMC Simulator Upgrade Program. Cary (Susan) DAVIDSON will appreciate that he's flying the KC-10 out of Travis -- between trying to figure out what his son is saying; seems the lad is confusing "Mama" with "more, more." Anyhow, Cary says it's a great machine and notes Diane (MOYER) BYRNE is Ops at his squadron.

Another legal beagle in our class is Don (Teresa) NEAL. Don was practicing environmental law for a firm in Texas for eight years and was recently appointed to be the director of the Water Quantity Division of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. He manages the water rights in Texas, oversees reservoirs and dam safety, flood plain management, and weather modification activities in the state. He continues to be a Reserve IMA at HQ USEUCOM, Stuttgart, as an anti-terrorism plans officer. (Sounds like a full plate to me.) The two daughters keep the home near Austin hopping, and Teresa also manages to volunteer at church and the local schools.

Via a letter 17years in the making, according to John (Ronda) JOHNSON, we get: John SKOTNICKI isn't lost; he and Mark REIDINGER are busy flying the last active EF-111s at Cannon AFB. Gene BOND, Tim MORRISROE, and Jim CRUMP (all which would have eventually ended up on the Reach Out list) are "toiling away" at L.A. AFB, engineering for Lockheed-Martin in the San Francisco Bay area, and flies for AA out of Chicago respectively. John is based in San Francisco and flies 767s for AA. The photo shows "some f my favorite people -- Carrie, Steve, Scott, and Rachel. They are scheduled for USAFA classes of 2010 to 2018; they just don't know it yet. I love surprises! I'm also in the picture -- I'm the one with the watch."

REACH OUT IX. Once again, if you know about these folks, let us (me) know: Robert M. SCOTT, Roby L. SCHAFER, Joseph T. SANFORD, Jose RUIZ, John K. RUDOLPH, and Glenn D. ROSENBERGER. Thanks -- and I hope the summer has been full of great memories. If it hasn't been, reach out to a classmate and rekindle some old ones!

Don Myers
AOG members: 40 percent