WEBMASTER'S AIR FORCE BIOGRAPHY

                                       Tom Sandman

                                                  Entered the Air Force:  February 20, 1959

                                                           
                                                 In San Antonio - April 1959 (Anyone remember the "Bush Jacket?")               

                                                   

                                      Attended Air Police School: April 1959 - June 1959

                                                            
                                                        In front of Air Police School Barracks - May 1959

                           

                                         Assigned 7th Tactical Depot Squadron: June 1959

                                                        
                                                                At Travis AFB June 1959 Headed for Oki

                                     

                                              Transferred to 6313th Air Police Squadron - April 1959

 

                                                                        
                      Reassigned to 22nd Combat Defense Squadron, March AFB, CA - January 1961

 

 

                                OTHER AIR FORCE ASSIGNMENTS

Retrained From Air Police to Missile Maintenance Career Field - June 1962
June 1962 - December 1962 - Chanute AFB, IL - Hound Dog Missile School
January 1963 - February 1966 - 5th Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron, Travis AFB, CA
February 1966 - February 1967 - Lowry AFB Colorado - Mace Missile Guidance Electronics School
March 1967 - January 1970 - 498th Tactical Missile Group, Kadena AFB
January 1970 - June 1970 - 92nd Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron, Fairchild, AFB, WA
June 1970 - June 1972 - California State University, Sacramento, CA (Airman's Education and Commissioning Program)
June 1972 - September 1972 - Officer Training School, Lackland AFB
September 1972 - June 1975 - Air Force Plant #35, Air Force Systems Command, Aerojet General Corporation, Sacramento, CA
June 1975 - January 1979 - Computer Systems Instructor, Lowry AFB, CO
February 1979 - September 1982 - Assistant Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
September 1982 - Retired from the U.S. Air Force  

                                                     

                                                           Captain Tom Sandman - 1977

 

Since my Air Force retirement I have worked in the private sector for Boeing, Litton, and Emulex Corporation in computers and networking.  I am currently the Telecommunications and Networking Manager for the National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in Silver Spring, MD.  I plan to retire in a couple of years in the San Antonio, Texas.

 

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