Throwback Thursday with Lt Col Roger Corbin
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Today we feature Lt Col Roger Corbin in pictures of just a few years ago. Our first picture is of Roger at his first duty assignment as a newly minted 2nd Lt in the USAF. Roger graduated from North Carolina State University and joined the USAF as a 2nd Lt. This is from 1975 at Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD. He was the vehicle operations officer for the 44th transportation squadron.
Here he is in 1977 as the Vehicle Operations Officer at Lajes Field, Azores.
In 1979, he was accepted to begin training as a flight navigator. Here he is as a 1st Lt at Mather AFB, CA, navigation trainee on a T-43.
Roger ended up as a RF-4C Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) at Shaw ABF, SC. Here are a couple of pictures with him and F-4 Phantoms.
In 1985, Roger and his pilot won the Gen Jerome F O’Malley trophy for the top reconnaissance aircrew in the United States Air Force. They were competing against strategic and tactical recon platforms such as the RC-135, U-2, SR-71, and RF-4C.
Roger has commanded in the active duty Air Force at the Flight, Squadron, Group, and Wing Levels and was the last commander of 24th Wing, Howard AFB, Panama, as the US Air Force Base and Panama Canal were reverted back to the government of Panama in 1999. Roger retired from active duty in the USAF in 2005 with the rank of Colonel. He has over 1,500 hours as a WSO in the F-4 and over 2000 hours as a civilian pilot. He joined Civil Air Patrol in 2011 and is the Deputy Commander for Seniors, Maintenance Officer, and Operations Officer for our squadron.
Roger owns and flies a 1946 Stinson 108 Voyager.
Thank you Roger for your service to our country and your dedication and support of Civil Air Patrol!