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Navy Blue Air Force Blue underway. Details of the campaign are training or choice of duty in a wide From later in this article, but it is first impor- range of specialty fields such as elec- tant to understand the history of USNA tronics, tactical and strategic missiles, and its linkage to the U.S. Air Force. space and logistics, plus base of choice, Navy When President Truman signed the were pitted against duty at sea. National Security Act of 1947 establish- Contributions of Naval Academy ing the Department of Defense with the grads were especially significant during U.S. Air Force as a separate service, the Air Force’s formative years. With Blue each service had to develop plans to the opening of the Air Force Academy to implement the change. Establishing a in 1955, Naval Academy grads immedi- new service was so complex it wasn’t ately and for years played major roles in until 1949 that the transfer of functions building the new service academy. from the Army Air Corps was complete Seven members from USNA ’53 were Air and the Air Force could stand on its own. Air Training Officers (ATO’s) who According to Bob Gilliland ’49, the indoctrinated the first cadets entering Army decided it would not provide the academy. Those ATO’s were Kim Force West Point graduates to the Air Force. Bassett, Charlie Cole, Dick Day, Bill The Army felt it had no more responsi- Fredlund, George Greaves, Rafael bility than the Naval Academy in that Ortiz-Benitez, and Ed Vigee. During the regard. The Department of Defense Academy’s first 20 years, 151 USNA Blue quickly settled the issue by authorizing grads served on the faculty and staff. 25% of both West Point and Annapolis John Pustay ’54 became dean of the graduates to voluntarily choose USAFA faculty. commissions in the Air Force. Ben Martin ’46, was the Air Force Memorial planned USNA’s Class of 1949 received the Falcon football coach in its early years, news only a few weeks before its grad- from 1958–1977. On his staff were two for USNA role in uation. Nonetheless, 57 made last former captains of Navy football teams, minute changes and entered the Air Tom Bakke ’52 and John Gurski ’53 building the USAF Force. During the next decade, 25% of plus Ned King ’52 and Jim Leach ’54. nearly every USNA class entered the John Clune ’54, Navy’s first All- Air Force. By 1963, the last year of a American basketball player who led By Mike Nassr ’54 large percentage, the total had reached Navy into two NCAA tournaments, was 2,121, exceeding the number from West USAFA’s director of athletics from Point during those same years by more 1975–1991. (Ed note: See further recog- oday not one midshipman in a than 20%. Today the USNA total stands nition of John Clune in “All Hands.”) hundred realizes that over at 2,306. The Air Force Academy honored John, 2,300 Naval Academy gradu- Reasons for so many midshipmen now deceased, by naming its basketball ates helped build the U.S. Air choosing the Air Force were many and arena after him—the Clune Arena. TForce into the service it is today. Some varied. The new and growing service, The Naval Academy’s legacy in the of those graduates hope to change that with an ever larger part of the defense Air Force can be shown by the number and make the information a matter of budget and without an academy of its of USAF leaders who came from Plebe knowledge. own, offered promising opportunities. Annapolis. USNA grads provided the A campaign to erect a memorial at the The emergence of jet aviation was a Air Force with 59 general officers, 457 Naval Academy recognizing this fact is factor. Immediate entry into flight colonels, and 499 lieutenant colonels from the classes of ’49 through ’63, the peak years of the Air Force influx General Robert T. Herres ’54 until the Air Force Academy became Bob served in fighter-interceptors, technical firmly established. intelligence, the Flight Test Center, and Space Attaining four stars were Lawrence Systems before tours as a wing commander in Skantze ’52, Robert Herres ’54, Monroe Strategic Air Command. Later, he was command- Hatch ’55, and James B. Davis ’58. er of Air Force Communications Command, The Both Skantze and Hatch rose to the sec- Eighth Air Force, and as Joint Staff J-6, was pro- ond highest position in the Air Force, moted to general to become commander of vice chief of staff, and Herres became NORAD and the first commander of U.S. Space the first vice chairman of the Joint Command. On retirement from active duty as vice- Chiefs of Staff. chairman of the JCS, the first to hold that position, The 11 three stars were Lewis he joined management of USAA. Bob became Brereton ’11 (Army Air Force), James chairman and CEO of the company in 1993. After Brickel ’52, Bruce K. Brown ’52, leading USAA through its expansion to serve Richard Saxer ’52, Thomas Stafford ’52, enlisted members, he retired in 2002. George Miller ’53, Aloysius Casey ’54, John Pustay ’54, William Thurman ’54, 8 Shipmate, January-February 2004 heavy toll. A total of 72 members from Lieutenant General James R. Brickel ’52 the classes of 1949 through 1961 were After four years flying F-86 Sabrejets and killed in Air Force aircraft accidents, attending graduate school, Jim worked at NASA most involving jet aircraft. on MERCURY, GEMINI, and APOLLO programs. In The Vietnam War once more brought Thailand he flew RF-101 aircraft and commanded back the heightened hazards of combat the 20th TacRecSq, completing 106 missions over operations. From classes of the 1950s, North Vietnam. He was awarded the Air Force 23 Air Force officers were killed in Cross after suffering extensive damage on a mis- action. As a group they constituted 22% sion but completing it and returning home on one of USNA graduates for those years, but engine. Back in the U.S. he held numerous posi- suffered 50% of USNA’s combat losses. tions in Washington, attended National War Numerous grads in the USAF were College, and commanded Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. awarded Silver Stars (SS’s) in the He returned to another series of positions at Vietnam War. Included are Jim Brickel Air University, Department of Defense, and ’52 (also USNA’s only recipient of the Headquarters USAF. His last three years were at MacDill AFB, FL, as Air Force Cross), George Hall ’53 Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Readiness Command. (a POW who received two SS’s), Jack Hart ’53, Chuck Deppish ’54, Wayne Frye ’54 (two SS’s) and who also shot Spence Armstrong ’56, and Donald The class produced 11 Air Force gener- down a MIG, Albert Millay ’55; C.S. Cromer ’59. als. Full military careers were completed “Bud” Summers ’55 (three SS’s), John Twenty-four USAF major generals by 158 (71.5%) who served until mili- Collins ’56, Norman Frith ’56, Robert came from USNA: Hugh J. Knerr ’08 tary retirement or death on active duty. Greene ’56, Lawrence Bustle ’57, (Army Air Force), Philip Conley ’50, Of 12 who died on active duty, one was Donald Couture ’57, Jerry Gentry ’57, Howard Estes ’50, Lovic Hodnette ’50, in killed in combat in Southeast Asia, Donald Carty ’58, John Haney ’58 Leighton Palmerton ’50, Daryle Tripp seven in aircraft accidents, and four (two SS’s), and Barry Howard ’58. Bill ’50, William Maxson ’52, Richard from other causes. Hoover ’54 was the last wing Collins ’53, Stuart Sherman ’53, Those USNA grads who became cCommander at Danang AB in Vietnam Richard Boverie ’54, John Brashear ’54, fliers took assignments in fighters, and flew 97 combat missions in Kenneth Burns ’54, William Hoover bombers, and transports of the Air the F-4E. ’54, Joe Morgan ’54, William Anders Defense Command, Strategic Air A large number of USNA/USAF ’55, Peter Odgers ’55, Emil Block ’56, Command, Tactical Air Command, and officers graduated from the USAF Thomas Brandt ’56, Ralph Jacobson Military Air Transport Service. They all Aerospace Research Pilot School—the ’56, Melvin Alkire ’57, Robert faced the high hazards of flying military breeding ground for test pilots and astro- Rosenberg ’57, Julio Torres ’57, Samuel aircraft in the 1950s. Four members of nauts. Among them are Jay Hanks ’50, Swart ’58, and Donald Hard ’62. the Class of 1950 were Killed in Action Bob MacIntosh ’51, Frank Liethan ’53, There were 20 brigadier generals from (KIA) in Korea and ten others in aircraft Bob Herres ’54, Lachlan Macleay ’54, USNA: Robert Berg ’49, Dennis Sullivan accidents. The Class of 1951 fared no Wayne Frye ’54, George Knutkowski ’50, Edward Mendel ’50, Thomas Conlin better with two KIA’s in Korea and 13 ’54, Tom Strader ’54, Greg Neubeck ’51, Dave Mullaney ’51, William Dunn killed in aircraft accidents. ’55, Jerauld Gentry ’57, George ’52, Bob Foster ’53, Harold Gross ’53, After the Korean War ended in 1953, Thompson ’57, and Cecil Powell ’59. Charles Lamb ’53, Thomas Pochari ’53, Air Force flyers had a 12-year respite The home of the school, the Air Force Donald Vogt ’53, Gene Lueker ’54, Bud from outright wartime operations, but Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, CA, Poe ’54, Pinter Dyer ’55, Charles Duke flight operations continued to take a (Continued on page 10) ’57, Dick Toner ’57, James Pierce ’58, Cecil Powell ’59, Donald Smith ’59, and Charles Vickery ’59. Colonel George Mushalko ’56 In addition to those who rose to high George is initiator and project coordinator for ranks in uniform, others attained super- the USNA/USAF memorial project.
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