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Walt L. Fricke - Pilot  

Top Tiger - Smokey - Mustang


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Then

Arrived in unit:  Apr. 1968  - WO1

Departed unit:   Oct. 1968  - WO1

Duties in unit:  Top Tiger 17, Smokey, Mustang 25

Other Assignments:  Ft. Polk Basic, Ft. Wolters 67/21, Ft. Rucker 67/501-503,
Bien Hoa  1968, Ft. Knox (Ireland Army Hospital), Ft. Rucker, AL.

Training:
  WOC Class of 67-21, 67-501 and 67-503 (It took them longer than usual to break my old F/W habits (after all I WAS 18 years old and an old hand at airplanes)

DOS Army:  Feb 1970    CWO 2

  Now

Current Residence:   Minneapolis, MN 

Occupation:   Executive at GM

Family:   Wife, and two adult children.

Hobbies:   Still Flying, trading old planes and war stories.

Remarks:   

Email:    walt.fricke@veteransairlift.org  last update Oct.  2007
 

Walt's Photo Page   
 

NBC Nightly News - "What Works" with Brian Williams/Natalie Morales [Veterans Airlift Command]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf3GmlXagQ

Veterans Airlift Command Founder interviewed by NBC Nightly News 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w1WTFDsYjA&feature=related


The T-28 Warbird Aerobatic Formation Demonstration Team website    

www.trojanhorsemen.com
Visit the site and view the T-28 owned and flown by our own Mustang Pilot - Walter Fricke
 

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