PHOTOS FROM THE 1980s
Scroll down to see all pictures. To see photos donated by the school click here.
Sep 1980

Submited by Aaron
Taft(standing second from left with 44 hat)
Partial list of class mates: Burkley Beck, Kent Bredbenner, Richard Gisher,
Alvin Myers and Timmy Moore
All of the following photos were donated by former tech school instructor James Klein (SSgt wearing eyeglasses in all pictures). Jim is now a Lt Col and is the commander of the 32 Aerial Port Squadron in the Pittsburgh ARS.
The pictures were taken sometime during the 1981 - 82 time frame.

Sra Jerry Lee
(Instructor) is on far right.

Standing and 1st on the right above is Sgt Rex Webster who is cross training into the career field.


Here are some pictures from Chanute (I dated them as best I could). I also included an old recall roster for BOTH life support and fabrication. NOTE: the three columns to the left are
life supporters, minus Sgt Franks who was fabrication, the three columns to the right are fabrication instructors. Click here to see the roster
Cheers!
Don Cavendish
Professor of History and Geography

(Tech School 84-85) Instructors L: SSgt Kurt Arn R: TSgt Ben Logan

(Tech School 84-85) Instructor Center: SSgt Don Cavendish R: Jim Allen

(Tech School 1984) Instructor Center: SSgt Don Cavendish
Class 840515
Donated by William Neason, standing on the right. SSgt Jim Allen standing on the left,
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Class 830707
Donated by William Neason, standing on the right.
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February 1984
Donated by Steve Boyd (top row, 2nd from left). Others in the picture are: Instructor Jim Allen; Leonard Babcock, top row, 3rd from right; Ron Blankenship, 2nd from right; Amn Hust; 3rd from left; Brian Millington, bottom row left side; and James Brown, bottom row, right side.
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June 1984

Donated by Glenn King (kneeling second from left). Also in this picture are: second from the left, TSgt Jeff Malley; Third from the left:, Amn Roy Morris; sixth from left, AB Valarie Bentley (Mrs. Steve Skaggs) and Chris Baylor (kneeling, second from right).
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1984

Donated by Mark Stanley (back row, second from left). Others identified in the picture are John Sandova, kneeling front left, and Mark Bezuhli, standing far right.
Aug 84

Here is the graduating class of 20 Aug 1984 from Chanute AFB that was donated by Terri L Lahann (now Thorntont) back row, 2nd from the right. Also in the photo are Peter Hopp, bottom row, center and Yvette Moreno, the top row third from the left. Terri can be reached at Mikterri101@hotmail.com
Aug 84

Donated by Leslie Brinkley-Haskell. Standing L - R: Sgt Rubio, AB Ball, Amn Jackson, Ssgt Gerry Grotberg, AB Bill Burkhart, unk, AB Lesley Brinkley-Haskell
Kneeling L - R: A1C Polito (?), unk, AB Robert Deal, unk
SEP 84

Donated by Danny Sherrand, top far left. Others in the picture are D. Allgood, L. Lewis, J. Bavuso, J. Garner, R. Dean, J. Cleveland and SSgt Grotberg, instructor.
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Mar - Apr 86

Donated by Michael Bernhardt, back row third from left. Others in the picture in the back row from left to right are Sgt Snyder (instructor) and Sgt Davis (cross trainee). AB Schoemehl is also in the picture.
1987

Donated by Steve Bromley, kneeling, second from right currently working for Gentex Corp.
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1988

Donated by Christopher Thode (rear, third from left).
Aug - Sep 89
