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Jacob Younginer, 1990 | Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Persian Gulf War, 1990-1995
Air Force
Surveillance Airplane Company, Air Defense Command
McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey; Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas; Hickman Air Force Base, Hawaii; Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts; Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri; Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; Vietnam
Lieutenant Colonel
Lexington, SC
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As a high school student in small-town South Carolina, Jacob Younginer dreamed of flying planes for the Air Force. In 1964 he enlisted, but instead of taking to the air, he stayed earthbound for a 28-year career. Among his duties: disarming land mines in Vietnam, developing a computer system that changed the way the Air Force maintained its hospital records, and working on high-tech weaponry for NATO.
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