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Summer 2013 Corps Review From left, Capt. Andrew Smithey ‘08, 1st Lt. Landon Eng ‘09, Capt. Jon Kennedy ‘07, and 1st Lt. Pete Laclede ‘10, alumni of Air Force ROTC Detachment 875, display their Hokie pride at Bagram Air!eld, Afghanistan. Flying over Afghanistan on April 16, U.S. Navy Lt. Gordon Robertson ‘07, a former 3rd Battalion commander, proudly displays a Virginia Tech "ag inside his F-18 in remembrance of the university’s 32 fallen Hokies. FEATURES Summer 2013, Vol. 23, No. 3 Capt. Kim French Biddle ’05, U.S. Air Force The Corps Review is published three Working Things Out times a year by the Virginia Tech Corps of 2 Cadets Alumni Inc. in cooperation with University Relations. ALUMNI Richard Moretz Dailey ’53 SPOTLIGHTS Real Life, Real Challenges Gary Lerch ’72, Chairman 6 Maj. Gen. Randal Fullhart, Commandant of Cadets Corps Alumni Board’s Newest Members Col. Patience Larkin ’87, Alumni Director 9 and Editor Admissions Update 2013 David Stanley VT‘95, Art Director 16 2 Juliet Crichton, Assistant Editor The Civilian in the Ranks Sarah R. Woods ’04, Editorial Assistant Jeananne Ti#any VT’07, the Corps of Cadets’ residential learning Col. David L. Spracher ’70, Director of coordinator, has immersed herself in Corps culture, even living 17 Development among cadets in Thomas Hall. Michael Diersing, Bradley Larkin, Randal Fullhart, Kathy Fullhart, Photography Hokie Hero Program During radio broadcasts of Virginia Tech football games, the Corps of Melissa Richards, Assistant Vice President Cadets’ Hokie Hero program pays tribute to our deployed alumni. for Marketing and Publications, University 18 6 Relations Recruiting for the Corps Comments and all material for the maga- Sponsored by Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, the commonwealth’s annual zine should be mailed to Editor, Corps Service Academy Day hosts students interested in attending a Review, 143 Brodie Hall (0213), Virginia 20 military school—and the Corps is well represented. Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061. Persons wish- ing to reprint any portion of the contents of Corps Review must contact the editor Remembering Brig. Gen. Earl C. Acu! for permission. A veteran of three wars, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Earl Acu#, the former © 2013, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and commandant of cadets who died in February, provided a vision 36 State University that revitalized a dwindling Corps in the 1970s. Corps Review can be accessed online at Photo essays of these Corps happenings on campus: www.vtcca.vt.edu. Virginia Tech does not discriminate Spring Events Rasche Hall Memories against employees, students, or appli- PHOTOS 14 26 36 cants on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, political affilia- tion, race, religion, sexual orientation, DEPARTMENTS genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. Anyone VTCC Alumni Aviation Series ................10 having questions concerning any of Chairman’s Column ....................................21 those regulations should contact the Commandant’s Column ..........................22 Office of Equity and Access (www.hr.vt. edu/oea). Alumni Director’s Column ......................28 Alumni Announcements ........................29 Front cover: A rendering of the winning design concept for the Upper Quad by VPI Company ..................................................30 the architectural firm of Clark-Nexsen. Leader Development ................................32 Please see the commandant’s column on Recruiting Update .......................................34 page 22 for more details. ROTC News ......................................................38 Back cover: From left, Class of 2015 Philanthropy ...................................................42 cadets Thomas Denson and Cameron Geno play bagpipes in front of Burruss Honor Guard ...................................................45 26 Hall. VT/0713/17K/CC2013-0210/DS CORPS REVIEW 1 www.vtcc.vt.edu Alumna Spotlight In Blacksburg for an E-Frat ‘05 reunion in October 2011, Bo and Kim French Biddle ‘05 at the Virginia Tech game versus Wake Forest. Lt. Biddle (sixth from left) with her Intelligence Class, Signing up as a “contracted” cadet in 2003, with Col. Rider, Air Leading stretches before the Leadership Reaction 060403, at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas. Force ROTC Detachment 875’s former professor of aerospace Course at Squadron O$cer School, Maxwell Air Force studies. Base, Ala., in 2011. CORPS REVIEW 2 Summer 2013 WORKING Things Out by Capt. Kim French Biddle ‘05, U.S. Air Force I was awestruck in my seventh grade 10 years since we dragged the second but an Air Force ROTC Career Day di- technology class; I met a female NASA floor of Rasche, my buds and I still get rected me to the possibility of becoming astronaut who was an Air Force officer together for reunions whenever possible. an intelligence officer and targeteer. and pilot. I wanted to be her. During the second semester of my In the semesters that followed a tough "at evening, I told my parents that freshman year, I joined the Virginia Tech freshman year, I excelled. I was a member I, too, would be an Air Force of the Honor Court as a recorder officer and pilot. Because I was a and investigator, as well as a mem- dancer and gymnast, they encour- ber of the chaplain staff. I became aged me but never anticipated that a teaching assistant in the theatre I would actually go in that direc- department and was a founding tion. I kept my dream alive in my member of the Tap Ensemble at mind and heart until I reached my Virginia Tech. My buds and I also senior year in high school. spent many weekends camping out I wanted to go to a service in Jefferson National Forest. academy, the full experience. After For my senior year, I was I had considered the Air Force named the chief justice of the Academy, the Citadel, and Virginia Honor Court and was one of the Military Institute, my mom, who medical officers. Working tirelessly attended Virginia Tech, said that with Lt. Col. Homoki in the Air I should consider the Corps of Force ROTC detachment to fill Cadets. Having looked into the my dream sheet, I knew that my Corps, I knew it was the place to low grades from freshman year left make my Air Force dream come me a slim chance of obtaining my true. goal, but my faith in God and my My time in the Corps began faith in the Corps and its Air Force banded to a group of incredible leadership gave me strength. buds, affectionately known as "e week of our final pass and E-Frat ’05. I started freshman year review was eventful. My buds and I with a knee injury that kept me proudly fulfilled a lost Echo tradi- Capt. Kim French Biddle ‘05 on crutches for six weeks, but my tion by painting our feet black and buds were there to help get me back on Gymnastics Club to get back in shape for walking barefoot in the parade; we all track to pursue my goal. Our cadre in- my journey to becoming a pilot. In Feb- cherish the pictures from that day. A few stilled in all of us a sense of brotherhood ruary, I was heartbroken to discover that days later, prepping for Corps gradua- that can never be shaken. More than I was too short to qualify to be a pilot, tion, I realized I had accidently turned CORPS REVIEW 3 www.vtcc.vt.edu Lt. Biddle (second from right) and the other women in the Intelligence Class at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, in 2006. in a needed uniform piece. I had 30 Squadron (42ATKS), which flies the the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron as the minutes to run to the Corps’ tailor shop remotely piloted vehicle (RPA) MQ-9, chief of targeting. My role in this RPA to see if I could borrow one before the Reaper. In early 2007, I attended the squadron was to give my leadership the ceremony began. As the life-saving tailor Combat Targeting Course, was named ability to engage selected targets success- shop team retrieved the item, I turned distinguished graduate of my class, and fully using state-of-the-art equipment around to see Lt. Col. Homoki and then- achieved my goal. I was an intelligence and techniques offered by the Air Force. Capt. Cox standing in the shop. "ey officer and a targeteer in the U.S. Air I met some of my closest friends at this delivered the best news ever: I was going Force. squadron, and many of us still work to have my chance at becoming an intel- Back at the 42ATKS, I held leader- together. ligence officer. ship roles in training and operations. In Las Vegas, I learned to love a new I believe that God has a way of work- I built training scenarios for the flight sport, triathlon, and I competed in many ing things out. After leaving Virginia training, so that in September 2007, the races up to a half-ironman distance. And Tech, I went directly to Maxwell Air 42ATKS could fly its first MQ-9 mission most importantly, I adopted my “baby,” a Force Base, Ala., for the Air and Space over Afghanistan. bulldog-basset hound mix, Tater. Basic Course with my best friend and In 2008, I deployed twice to South- In 2010, I received orders to Head- E-Frat bud, Dia Kinnaman Ham ’05. west Asia as an unmanned aerial vehicle quarters USAF A9, Studies, Analyses, I then attended the challenging intel- liaison. While deployed, I joined the Assessments, and Lessons Learned. I ligence school at Goodfellow Air Force chapel praise team as a singer. I was was assigned to A9FM, Force Structure Base, Texas, and excelled with academic blessed to be able to use music and my Analysis. As an intelligence officer in the honors. faith to help me get through long and Pentagon, I am the office’s network node My first assignment was to Creech tiring deployment days.
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