Beard, Ed, CMSgt

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Current Service Status
USAF Veteran
Current/Last Rank
Chief Master Sergeant
Current/Last Primary AFSC/MOS
25390-Weather Forecaster Superintendent
Current/Last AFSC Group
Meteorological Services
Service Years
1952 - 1979
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Chief Master Sergeant

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Air Education and Training Command Instructor Basic Professional Military Education Air Force Retired US Air Force Honorable Discharge

Weather Specialist


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 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
National Rifle Association (NRA)Air Force Memorial (AFM)Air Weather Association
  1984, National Rifle Association (NRA)
  1995, Air Force Memorial (AFM) - Assoc. Page
  2008, Air Weather Association


 Additional Information
What are you doing now:


Retired

   
Other Comments:


Served from 1952-1979. Weather school, Chanute AFB, 1952
Weather Instructor Chanute AFB, 1953
Korea Weather Observer  Kimpo 1954
Observer, Gunter & Maxwell 1955-1957
St Lawrence Island Weather Observer 1957-1958
Observer Dobbins AFB, Ga 1958-1959
Forecasting School, Chanute AFB, Il 1959-1960
Weather Forecaster MacDill, Turner AFB, Ga, Lajes field,
Azores, Moody AFB, Ga
Space Environment work, NCMC, 1967-1973
Space Environment work, Athens, Greece 1973-1976
Space Environment, Satellite Anomaly Investigator
Offutt AFB, Ne 1976-1979.
Spacecraft Navigation and Satellite Anomaly Investigator
1979-1994
Retired for good 1994 due to deteriorating vision.

   

  1952, Basic Military Training (Sampson AFB, NY), 1908
School
Basic Military Training (Sampson AFB, NY)

Squadron
Not Specified

Flight
1908

Start Date 
Jul, 1952
 

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Last Updated:Jun 11, 2011
   
Personal Memories

Best Friends
Dick Sbrogna
Bill Loviszc

Best Moment
Graduation and first stripe

   

Worst Moment
First day

Instructors
A/1C Jim Mullet
A/3C Nelson

   

Other Memories
Our flight won Drill competition

   
Yearbook
 
My Photos From This Recruit Training
No Available Photos

  55 Also There at This Training:
Name Sqdn Flt Start Date
Armstrong, Smith Roland, SSgt, (1952-1957) 3650 3654 Jul, 1952
Briner, Lee, MSgt, (1952-1972) 3650 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Coughlin, Joseph, MSgt, (1952-1978) 3650 1898 Jul, 1952
Crooker, Ron, TSgt, (1952-1974) 3650 1856 Jul, 1952
Cummiskey, Ray Thomas, A1C, (1952-1956) 3653 1907 Jul, 1952
DiAntonio, Robert, CMSgt, (1952-1973) 3650 Jul, 1952
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