Archived Guest Speaker Bios  
       
 

 

 
  Guest Speakers Prior to 2002    
 
  • Commodore Terry D. Raines, USN, Commander, Strike Fighter Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet, "Lemoore & the Super Hornet"
  • RADM John E. Boyington, JR., USN, Chief of Naval Air Training, "Navy Pilot Training, Street to Fleet"
  • CAPT Kenneth M. Linn, USN(Ret), Air Combat Systems, Northrup Grumman Corp, "Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles"
  • LT Steven Salata, USN, Security Officer, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, "Naval Counter Terrorism Program"
  • CAPT Thomas Morgenfeld, USN(Ret), Chief Test Pilot, Joint Strike Fighter, Lockheed Martin, "X 35 Briefing"
  • CAPT Robert Merick, USN, Commanding Officer Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, "Mission of the Weapons Station"
  • MajGen Charles Bolden, USMC, Commanding General Third Marine Aircraft Wing, "The State of Marine Air"
  • Daniel Huston,WWII US Naval Aviator, "Flying Spotter Aircraft from the Battleship Colorado"
  • Thomas Moon, WWII OSS Officer/ Author, "OSS Operations and Lady Spies"
  • Abdul Akbar, Former Afganistan Fighter / CIA Operative during Russian War, "Afganistan History and Circumstances"
  • Col Partick O'Donogue, USMC, Assist. Chief of Staff, Camp Pendleton, "Operations & Mission, Presidential Flight Ops, Marine One"
  • Col Walker Mahurin, USAF(Ret), WWII & Korea War Ace with 25 Victories, "Adventures of a Fighter Ace"
  • RADM Charles Johnston, Commander Naval Air Warefare Weapons Division, China Lake, "Naval Air Weapons Development"
  • Maj Andrew Croft, F 15 Pilot /Instructor, Nellis AFB, "Air Force Top Gun"
  • Col Martin Peatross, USMC, Commanding Officer MAG 16, MCAS Miramar, "Air Rescue and Mission of MAG16"
  • William Thomas, Northrop Grumman Business Development Unmanned Systems, "Performance of the Global Hawk"
  • Gordon Dillow, Military Editor, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, "Media's Inaccurate Reporting of Military Matters"
  • CAPT Richard Gallagher, USN, Commanding Officer John C. Stennis CVN 74, "Operations on the Stennis"
  • VADM John Nathman, USN, COMNAVAIRPAC, "State of Naval War"
  • Ron Eckels, Boeing Patriot Missile Project Manager, "New Patriot Missile's Performance"
  • Group Captain Amrik Ahluwalia, Indian Air Force (Ret), "Indian Pakistan War 1995"
  • George Grupe, Historian, "EL Toro Marine Corps Heroes"
  • Robert Gilliland, Lockheed "Skunk Works" Test Pilot, "Flying the SR 71 Blackbird"
  • CAPT Zachary May, USN, Commander Strike Fighter Wing Pacific, "West Coast F/A 18 Readines"
  • LT Chris Marlar, USN, VCR 30, "Carrier on Board Delivery"
  • CAPT Lames Kelly, USN, Commanding Officer USS Constellation, "Today's Carrier Operations"
  • LtCol Don Tooker, USMC (Ret), GPS Member / Author, "1963 F 8 Trans Pac"
  • Iris Critchell, Aviatrix, "Women Air Force Service Pilots"
  • CDR James Grant, USN, Commanding Office USS Fitzgerald DD 62, "Life on an Arleigh Burke DDG"
  • MajGen Michael Delong, USMC, Commanding General 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, "Marine Aviation"
  • COL Lewis Millet, USA(Ret) Medal of Honor Recipient, "Two Generations"
  • CDR John Einhord, USN, Assist. Officer in Charge VX 9, "F 14 Operational Testing"
  • Eric Shilling, 1937 Army Air Corps Pilot, "Flying Tigers Flying the Hump"
  • VADM Richard Allen, USN(Ret), President, Association of Naval Aviation, "Key Issues Facing Naval Aviation"
  • CAPT Ken Linn, USN(Ret), First Navy Test Pilot to Fly the F 117A, Lockheed Martin, "Joint Strike Fighter, the F 117A"
  • LtCol Steve Coubrough, USAF, Director ANG/AFRES Night Vision Center, "Night Vision Equipment in the F 16"
  • Maj Harry Constant, USMC, Mission Commander / Lead Pilot, "Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center"
  • CAPT T. R. Bernitt, USN, Commanding Officer Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. "Naval Weapons Stations, Past and Present"
  • Col Stephen Mugg, USMC, Commanding Officer MCAS El Toro. "History of MCAS El Toro"
  • CDR "B.J." Long, USN (Ret), Sea Dart Test Pilot. "Sea Planes"
  • CDR Debra Bodenstedt, USN, Consolidated Diving Unit San Diego, "Navy Diving and Salvage"
  • VADM Michael Bowman, USN, COMNAVAIRPAC, "The Status of Our Force"
  • Thomas DeMarino, Senior Program Manager, Aeroviornment, "The Centurian Autonomous Solar Powered Aircraft"
  • Maj Tom Carnesi, USMC, Operations Officer VMA 211, "Current AV 8 Harrier Operations"
  • CAPT James McConnell, Commanding Officer Naval Construction Battalion Center, "The SEABEE Story, Past and Present"
  • LT Chris Moss, USCG, "Coast Guard Search and Rescue"
  • CDR Mark Chicoine, USN, Commanding Officer VAW 116, "E 2C Hawkeye, Carrier Airborne Early Warning"
  • CAPT Edward Herbert, USN, Commanding Officer Assault Craft Unit 5, "The Swift Intruders: Air Cushion Landing Craft"
  • CDR Philip Winters, Commanding Officer Patrol Squadron 65, "The P 3 Orion"
  • VADM Herbert Browne, USN, Commander U.S. Third Fleet, "Strike Is Our Business"
  • Col Danny McDaniel, Commanding Officer MCAS Camp Pendleton, "Growth and Support for the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing"
  • CAPT Steven Ahlberg, USN, Commander Naval Spcial Warfare Group One, "Navy Seals Responsibilities and Missions"
  • LtCol Robert Graham, USMC, Commanding Officer VMFAT 101, "Training F/A 118 Hornet Fighter Pilots"
  • BGen Robert Magnus, USMC, Commander Marine Corps Air Bases, Western Area, "The Affects of Base Closure"
  • Col Francis Duggan, USMC, Commanding Officer Weapons and Field Training Battalion, Camp Pendleton, "The Cruicible"
  • Col James Sexton, USMC(Ret), Manager, West Coast Region, Bell Helicopter, "V 22 Osprey and the Super Cobra"
  • CAPT Charles Nesby, USN, Commander Training Air Wing Two, "Naval Aviator Training in the New T 45 Goshhawk"
  • Gerald Landry, Manager, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, Cal Tech, "Wind Tunnel Testing"
  • H. Paul Brehm, Navy Cross Recipient, "The Last Japenese Battleship Sunk"
  • Donna Lee Shirley, Mars Exploration Program Manager, JPL, "Mars Exploration"
  • Captains Dean Neeley and Pete Van Pelt, USAF, 1st Reconaisance Squadron, Beale AFB, "Current U 2 Operations"
  • BGen Charles Bolden, USMC, Assistant Wing Commander Third Marine Aircraft Wing, "Commanding Space Shuttle Missions"
  • CAPT Wynn Foster, USN(Ret) (Foster lost his arm over Viet Nam.), "Captain Hook. His Fight to Fly"
  • VADM Brent Bennitt, USN, COMNAVAIRPAC, "Present and Future Carrier Aviation"
  • VADM Jerry Unruh, USN(Ret), President, Assoc. of Naval Aviation. "The Future of the Assoc. of Naval Aviation"
  • MG Robert Brandt, CANG, Commander California Army National Guard, "The Role of the National Guard"
  • Maj Damien Lott, USMC, Commanding Officer Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, "At the Cutting Edge Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"
  • RADM Paul Gillchrist, USN(Ret) Former Asst. Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare), "Leadership"
  • MajGen Terrance Dake, USMC, Commanding General 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, "Update on the Third Marine Aircraft Wing"
  • LtCol Robert Price, USMC(Ret), Chief Pilot, Lockheed, "Flight Testing the C 130J"
  • Robert Mitchel, Jet Propulsion Lab, JPL's, "Galileo to Jupiter"
  • CAPT Mark Mayne, USCG, Chief of Search and Rescue, 11th Coast Guard District, "Search & Rescue and Drug Interdiction."
  • LCDR Robert Pandis, USNR, Northrop Grumman B 2 Division, "B 2 Current Development"
  • RADM Lyle Bean, USN, Commander Carrier Group Seven, "The Future of Carrier Battle Groups"
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  • Col Andrew Jasinski, USAF, "Cold War Challenges with the Russians"
  • CAPT Daniel R. McCort, USN, Commanding Officer VX 9, "Present Status and Future Plans for VX 9"
  • VADM Tony Less, USN (Ret.), President of ANA, "Naval Aviation and ANA in Coming Years"