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				Spring 2001 By Karin L. McWhorter (Klein) on Tue, 1 May 2001 @ 00:00 GMT	Class of 1998
				Hello again '98. By the time this is printed, we should all be enjoying the beginning of our third year in the Air Force and the pay raise that goes along with it! There isn't a lot of information for this article, so it will be a little shorted than normal. When you read this, please take a minute and send a quick e-mail. Things are good here at Langley, but it had been a while since I have run into any classmates here. I know there are a few either at ACC or in the fighter squadrons, but I haven't seen them. Protocol here is busy as usual, and I got to meet the President in January, which was cool. I just got back from a trip to Columbus AFB, where I know there are still a few '98ers, but I only ran into Stuart Alley. He is currently a T-37 IP and will go to C-130s when he is done. He is also interested in the U-2 program and is about to begin the interview process. Good luck, Stu! I thought I might run into Beth Makros (Crimmel), a T-38 student, Gregory Hietpas, or Scott Smith, both T-37 instructors, but no luck. As for me, I keep busy between work and school. I will finish my Master or Science in education this August and possibly start teaching a night class at one of the universities here. My husband is still in pilot training and we will be apart for at least another year - nice to see joint spouse in action! OK, on to the three updates I got this month. The first is from Jeremy Gordon, who worte to say that he got married to a wonderful ("and obviously patient - for putting up with me") woman named Nicole (his words, not mine!). She's from Toledo, OH. They got married last September while Jeremy was in RTU at Luke. He got Vipers out of Sheppard and from Like he got assigned to Shaw. He is currently a member of the 77th FS at Shaw. Bradley Klemesrud is in the 79th and Brett Comer is in the 55th out there. Brett is getting married in Hawaii in August. Bradley Turner is finishing up at Like and is on his way to Shaw in a few months. Patrick McCoy is flying C-17s out of Charleston, and Jeremy is still trying to get in touch with him. Chad Burdick just showed up in the 77th and Scott Sieting should be out there soon. The next update is from Joy Boston, who is still working air traffic control at Eielson. She wrote that Francis Cooper was at Eielson at the beginning of March for arctic survival and Brett Schumer was also in his class. Aaron Bell and Bill Smith also passed through in February on their way to Japan. SHe thinks they are flying KC-10s at Travis. Joy also wrote that there was an article in Parade magazine - which comes with the Sunday paper there - about the military presence in Okinawa. There is a picture of Erika Tanner (Cottrell) and her family, all of whom were features in the article on Sunday, March 11. Mark Heusinkveld just arrived and is flying F-16s there at Eielson. And lastly, I heard from Matthew Dunker, who spent time this fall in Saudi where Patrick Fox was getting ready to leave. foxy loves it up here and is thinking about buying a house and asking the AF for a waiver so he can finish up his commitment up here. While he was in SWA, Robert Evert came over from GF and Rachel Tukey came in as they were leaving. While Matt was gone, Kerrie Dunker (Gribuski) was working diligently as the head of Logistics of the Grand Forks Clinic. She completed a few more classes for her master's and trained to be a volunteer at the local crisis intervention line. John Boria is in Grand Forks, and so are a bevy of other dominators that have shown up in the past year. Hopefully, it will get warmer there soon. Matt talked with Leslie Hauck III, who got an F-16, and is going to Cannon where Ryan Savageau is already, and Douglas Riggs is going to Aviano. William Hepler III is now a father of a little kid, and flying B-1s in Dyess about once a month. Ok, that's all for this quarter. I hope you are all happy and healthy. Le me know how you are doing, and send pictures if you have them. Enjoy your summer!

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