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Flight 99 Officers Class President, and an Honor Flight Captain 2018 DFT Student with an Overall 3.65 GPA AMERICA’S PREMIER FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION OF Proceedings MILITARY PILOTS 12 July 2018 Flight 99 Officers class president, and an honor Flight Captain 2018 DFT student with an overall 3.65 GPA. JIM BURMAN After Action Report He has received an Army ROTC Home: 468-2751 college scholarship. He started [email protected] flying a week later than Tyler, but with better weather he was able to Vice Flight Captain PAUL SNYDER solo in 14.9 hours, and also flew Home: 727-1551/Cell: 750-1999 0.5 hours of solo time. He will [email protected] attend the University of Montana in Missoula and will participate in Treasurer / Membership Army ROTC, with a strong desire GARY KASPER to fly helicopters for the Army. Home: 467-2309/Cell: 590-8357 Ground school was a dedicated [email protected] 5-day, 30-hour ground school, 6 Adjutant / Editor / Historian hours each day, with videos and MIKE BUCK DFT Officer Vince “Digger” Bakke PowerPoint slides. The Ground Home: 771-8282/Cell: 836-9857 school was conducted at the FBO [email protected] Big Sky Flight’s Daedalian Flight from 0800 to 1400, Monday to Training (DFT) program was a Friday, with about 3-4 hours of Provost Marshal complete success again this year. homework assigned every night. REX TANBERG Our younger student, Tyler Grina, The candidates each passed two Home: 761-3924/Cell: 788-2172 was a junior at CM Russell High stage tests and their pre-solo test [email protected] School. Tyler is a varsity football before they were allowed to start Scholarships player and an honor student with flying. Both of the students were ED MANGIS a 4.0 GPA. The challenging, so impressed with flying that they Home: 458-6261/Cell: 443-0552 windy weather had Tyler soloing have committed to pressing on [email protected] at 17.0 hours, and he flew 0.5 with training to earn their Private hours of solo time. Tyler will be a Pilot licenses by this Summer! DFT Officer senior at Great Falls CMR this VINCE BAKKE year. Our older student, Nathan Home: 452-6207/Cell: 799-1197 Volabamus, Volamus! Moore, was a senior and also [email protected] from CM Russell High. Nate was also a varsity football player, a Digger . July 2018 Meeting Minutes Mike Buck, Flight 99 Adjutant At 1700 Hours on 12 July 2018 the Meadowlark Country Club was the gathering place of 23 Big Sky Flight 99 members for yet another outstanding Social Hour. At 1800 Hours Vice Flight Captain Paul Snyder stepped to the lectern and invited Ed Mangis to again provide the invocation: Father, we thank you for bringing us safely to this place. As we listen carefully, we hear the splash of oars where the Corps of A New Daedalian Inducted Discovery passed through. We Vice Flight Captain Paul Snyder presented candidate Daedalian feel the rumble of airplanes taking Mr. Charlie Bruckner to Provost Marshall Rex Tanberg, off, heading for Alaska in World verifying that Mr. Bruckner was worthy of induction. War II. We can hear the jets- the F-86s and F-89s, F-102s, F-16s- Rex read the preamble and administered The Promise of a and now the throaty noise of the Daedalian. He then charged our newest member with his C-130s. We feel a kinship with responsibilities as a member of the Order of Daedalians. those who have gone before us, protecting our Constitution and this great nation. We ask that you Congratulations were offered by all! would help us to remember them, and to remember that our oath to Matt Lynde led the assembly in 23 Members Present “Protect and Defend” does not the Pledge of Allegiance. The Bakke, Buck, Bruckner, Cogswell expire when we retire. We ask Missing Man’s table was set in Dascoulias, J. Erickson, Hamer, that you would use us in some memory of our departed brother, Hedahl, Hronek, Inabnit, Kasper, way- large or small- to help those Lt Col Norman Vine, USAF. Our R. Koby, Laux, Lynde, Macklin, Provost Marshal who are now serving, and those Rex Tanberg Mangis, Harry Mitchell, Murray, who will serve, to pick up the offered the solemn toast in water Prestipino, both Jerry and Carol to all of our departed brothers, banner that we once carried. Shanahan, Snyder, and Tanberg. Now be our guest- we don’t know followed by the toast in wine to our one Commander-In-Chief, the if you drink wine or not, but if you Treasurer’s Report do, please raise a glass with us. President of the United States. Enjoy the camaraderie, and take At the behest of our Vice Flight Flight 99 Treasurer Gary Kasper us safely home when the party is Captain, Rex then led everyone in reported a total $5,232.86 in our over. In your name we pray, a warm toast to Mr. Tim Frank, a scholarship fund. Gary noted that returning guest and a prospective we have not yet paid our 2018 Amen. Daedalian. We certainly hope to DFT bill, and that he welcomed see Tim at our future gatherings! any and all additional donations. 2 . A Flight 99 Daedalian Has Flown West Robert C. “Bob” Laliberte Flight 99 Daedalian Colonel Robert C. ‘Bob’ Laliberte, USAF (Ret), flew West on 6 July 2017. He was born 11 August 1921 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the oldest of four children of Cyril Victor and Kathryn Rita Healy Laliberte. Bob enlisted in the US Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet program in July 1942, and graduated as a pilot and Second Lieutenant on 30 August 1943. He attended B-24 bomber training and was assigned to the Central Pacific Theater of Operations in December 1943, where he completed a 30-mission combat tour. Returning to the United States in August 1944, he served as an Instructor Pilot in B-24 training for the duration of the war and reverted to Reserve status in November 1945. Following the designation of the US Air Force as a separate military service in 1947, he was recalled to active duty and assigned to service in Japan. He returned to the United States just prior to the Korean conflict for duty as an Instructor Pilot in USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training. He served in that capacity until August 1955 when he was transferred to England, where he was a pilot and Operations Officer of a Fighter Bomber Squadron. Returning to the United States in July 1958, he attended the Air Force Command and Staff College, graduating in July 1959. He was subsequently assigned to the Air Force Inspector General staff for a four-year tour as a Tactical Operations Inspector, examining the readiness status of Air Force tactical forces worldwide. In August 1963 he returned to England as Commander of a Tactical Fighter Squadron. In July of 1966 he was assigned to the Pentagon in the Air Force Operational Requirements Directorate, where he also served on a NATO Col Robert C. Laliberte Armaments subcommittee as the USAF representative for the development of Daedalian 2959 a VSTOL fighter aircraft. In July 1968 he was selected to attend the Naval War 11 Aug 1921 – 6 Jul 2017 College, graduating in June 1969, and was assigned as Vice Commander of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing at Bien Hoa Air Base, Republic of Viet Nam, flying 245 combat missions in the F-100 and A-37 tactical aircraft. Returning to the United States in September 1970 he served as Director of Operations of a USAF Flying Training Wing for a year before assuming the Vice Commander position of Air Force Recruiting Service. Bob retired from active service to Billings, Montana in June 1973. His decorations include the Legion of Merit with 1 Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross with 2 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal with 3 Silver Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Purple Heart, along with various other campaign and service awards. Bob was a life member of the Air Force Association and the Order of Daedalians. Col Laliberte now rests in the Arlington National Cemetery. (Thanks to Duane “Tanker” Hedahl for discovering Bob’s passing, prompting this belated memorial) Ode to a Deceased Daedalian The flag is furled at half mast, and when the breezes blow, a-throbbing with emotion, each star and stripe droops low. Its folds are sadly rustling as it quivers in the breeze, and all is deathly silence, save the sobbing of the trees. The Drum’s sad roll, ‘tis muffled, hushed weirdly as in death, and sounding like the dying, a-gasping for each breath; disconsolate across the field the muffled tone that chills, and o’er the silent river it is echoed by the hills. The roll is called- one absent, one absent from our midst. With anguished gloom o’ershadowed, we mourn for one who’s missed. That noble, manly, loving face, that body, straight and tall, among us and at flying, he answered the last call. And when the last roll sounded, with accents firm and clear, smiling, stepping to the front, He bravely answered “Here”. Ready! Aim! Three volleys! Over a flowered bier, while many a Daedalian must shed a silent tear. The bugle’s notes are calling- sleep on! Thou soul so brave- Your last taps sadly sounding among your airman’s grave. July 2018 July 2018 Program “LIGHT COMBAT AIRCRAFT: O/A-X AND BEYOND” Standing: Lt Gen David Deptula, Dean of the Mitchell Institute. Seated, L to R: Mr. James Dunn, Air Combat Command; Maj Gen Larry Stutzriem, USAF (Ret.); Lt Col Michael Buck, USAF (Ret.) Flight 99 Daedalian Mike Buck is a Visiting Senior Fellow with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in Washington, DC.
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