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Air
Force OCS Class 61-C
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We
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Carson B. Carmichael
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OCLt Carson B. Carmichael
| Technical Sergeant Carmichael reported to OCS as a multi-striped, tail-gunner fresh from a SAC's B-52. A most colorful member of Alpha Flight, Carson was typically called "Mike" or "Hoagy" -- it seemed to fit better than Carson. Another Shavetale has Mike missing the corner in his '57 Dodge, returning from a Mickey Mouse Friday night. Three of his flight-fellows did the "cooperate and graduate" thing. The day after finals, OCLt Carmichael refused to return underclass salutes, "I'm a Tech Sergeant, " he said, "I just busted out of this place." After graduation, 2LT Carmichael was assigned to Harlingen AFB, Texas for Undergraduate Navigator Training. Bob Davis says Mike would take the very back station in the T-29, bouncing around in the back of the bird, he was in his element again. In a letter Tom Edge received from his second wife, Linda, we learned that Carson B. Carmichael passed away December 13, 2001. "He would have been delighted to know about the group you are trying to get together," she writes. " . . . Even though Carson and I did not meet until long after he was out of the service, he never stopped talking about those years. Rarely did a day go by that he didn't have a story, recollection or anecdote about that period of his life." |