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PANAMA CITY Tuesday, November 12, 2019 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Dad: Airman’s life ‘a country song’ Air Force Staff Sgt. “He wasn’t afraid of any- to Alaska. Cole Condiff presumed thing,” Todd Condiff said “He loved God, family and dead as Coast Guard from the family’s Dallas country,” Todd Condiff said. suspends search; Air home, recalling the early life “I know it sounds like a coun- Force, Navy continue of 29-year-old Air Force Staff try song, but that was Cole.” recovery eff orts Sgt. Cole Condiff of the Hurl- “He was a good kid, he burt Field-based 23rd Special was a good man,” his father By Jim Thompson Tactics Squadron. continued. “He had a good [email protected] “He was always a crazy heart.” kid,” the father added. Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff HURLBURT FIELD — The In particular, Todd Condiff became the subject of a wide- father of a Hurlburt Field remembered discovering spread search of the Gulf of airman presumed dead after 3-year-old Cole walking atop Mexico after what the Air a parachute training acci- a fence, remembered his son Force’s 24th Special Opera- dent over the Gulf of Mexico breaking an arm on at least tions Wing, which includes last week remembered his son a couple of occasions, and the 23rd STS, has called an Monday as “a good kid” and also remembered a father- Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff poses with his wife, Rachael, and their two “a thrill-seeker.” and-son bear-hunting trip See AIRMAN, A4 children. [CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] Bay County honors veterans Trump kicks off By Patti Blake [email protected] veteran PANAMA CITY — As the cavalcade of red, white, and blue American flags trooped tribute down Harrison Avenue at the annual Veterans in NYC Day parade and ceremony Monday, Allen Harvey, along with his wife Monica The Associated Press and daughter Angie Gentry, reflected on his story of why NEW YORK — President he joined the U.S. Air Force. Donald Trump kicked off New “They would train a pilot York City’s Veterans Day and within six months he’d Tribute on Monday by saying be ready to go,” said Harvey, the nation’s veterans “risked of Panama City. “That was everything for us. Now it is a different experience for our duty to serve and protect me. I was born in South them every single day of our Georgia, raised in Florida. I lives.” was a country boy. (Seeing) Trump spoke at the open- a lot of them planes, a lot of ing of the 100th annual parade big things. It was real inter- organized by the United War esting and it sold me right Veterans Council in Madison there.” Square Park. He is the first Harvey joined in the sitting president to accept the 1960s, a time when — as Colonel Brian S. Laidlaw, See TRUMP, A4 325th Fighter Wing, Air Combat Command at Tyn- dall Air Force Base pointed out — the military was twice the size it is now. “By comparison to the 3.5 million service men and women in 1968, there are about 1.4 million serving today,” Laidlaw said. “That is less than one-half of 1% of our nation’s population. Unlike 1980 when nearly 1 in 5 Americans were veterans, today that number is about 7%, or fewer than 1 in 10.” Laidlaw also pointed out LOCAL & STATE | B1 that with the aging popu- lation of veterans — half VETERANS of Florida's veterans being 65 years or older and less SHARE ADVICE than 10% of those veterans having served in World War FOR NEXT Charles Bronzina holds his hat over his heart and looks at the fl ag while TAPS is played after the Bay See VETERANS, A4 County Annual Veterans Day Parade on Tuesday. [PATTI BLAKE/THE NEWS HERALD] GENERATIONS Panama City News Herald Business .........................A7 Obituaries ......................B3 TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Want to subscribe? Diversions ......................B6 Sports.........................C1-5 Showers Partly sunny A little rain Call 850-747-5050 Local & State ............... B1-5 Viewpoints .................... 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