WINTER 2014 Letters Continued from page 10


Thanks for all your support of ACA and we look forward to more!! Chief Armistead, please know that we are here to support you. Please let us know if you have needs we can assist with.


Col (Ret) Dennis Barnett President ACA


TO ALL AT ACA, Due to medical matters I will not be able to attend the reunion, but my prayers are with you all in, the reunion and events.


Regards, Joe Robinson


P.S. What a great loss of my friend Hap, no one can replace him.


AIR COMMANDOS, Please apply enclosed


check to a “pet project” of Hap’s or put in the general fund. He was a good man, and will be missed.


Jay DeGraw


FELLOW AIR COMMANDOS, As I reflected on my AF


career this Veterans Day, the mission I remember most was


not one with medals recogniz- ing combat or airmanship in Desert Storm, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan but a mis- sion with no medals for com- bat or airmanship recognition. The Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission and my short time in Special Operations are the highlights of my career. I am thankful to have been an Air Commando.


Mike Sumida Stray Goose 77-26 ACA Life Member #4695


AIR COMMANDOS, My Father-in-law is MSgt


Robert Eugene Seals, USAF (Ret) who spent the lion’s share of the 60’s serving under Brig Gen Aderholt with the 1045th TO&EG, and he is near death. After sustaining a cata- strophic stroke in February, he has been in long-term care and was admitted to Brookwood Hospital in Birmingham, AL, where he is suffering from se- rious anemia, low blood pres- sure, among other things. His prognosis is not good. He may take leave of us before morn- ing.


belong to your organization, especially


I’m stunned that he didn’t since


he retired


from Eglin in 1980 and spent another twenty years as a ci- vilian employee of the DoD there, living in Niceville until


See LETTERS pg 12


SSgt Keith Sleeper was awarded the 2013 Air Commando Association Security Forces Award from Lt Gen Bradley Heithold. (Photo by Scott Schaeffler)


The winner of the 2014 ACA CMSgt Roland “Hap” Lutz Air Commando Medic of the Year Award is TSgt James C. Scrivener from the 1st SOSS/ OSM Hurlburt Field, FL. TSgt Scrivener could not be present at the banquet in October to accept the award, his lovely wife Robin Scrivener was there on his behalf to accept the award presented by Lt Gen Bradley Heithold, Commander AFSOC. (All photos by ACA member Scott Schaeffler, of www.Scotteventphoto.com)


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