#1060 The Desert Storm Air War and Other Flying Stories

Tuesday, April 2, 10:10am - 12:00pm

#1060 The Desert Storm Air War and Other Flying Stories

Instructor: Ed Herlik

Ed interviewed many pilots, weapons officers and their families right after Desert Storm and assembled their stories into the oral history book Separated by War.  It includes Air Force, Navy, Marine and Army stories in the Apache, A-6, A-10, B-52, C-5 Galaxy, F-15, F-16, F-18, F-117, Harrier, and British Tornado.  Each chapter includes the flier in combat and a loved one back on the home front.

This program will cover the highlights of each aircraft’s action with Ed’s own photos, gun camera videos and stories interspersed as the education required to understand what’s really going on.  Some of the home front stories are pretty special too, as Ed lived in the family of a combat officer and Prisoner of War.

Ed Herlik: BS in Engineering and Political Science from the US Air Force Academy; MA in National Security Studies from California State University.  Ed is a recognized authority on “near space” or stratospheric unmanned systems. He is a pilot (both military and civilian aircraft), and served in the Air Force Space Command developing unmanned systems.

$25 PILLAR Members / $40 Nonmembers