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F. EUGENE BARBER
F. Eugene Barber grew up in the Midwest and worked on
farms and ranches until at age seventeen, and just out of high
school, he enlisted into the Air Force. He served during the
Korean War, was at ...view moreF. Eugene Barber grew up in the Midwest and worked on
farms and ranches until at age seventeen, and just out of high
school, he enlisted into the Air Force. He served during the
Korean War, was at Pusan Air Field for a short time, and was
transferred to the B-29 Bomber as an engine mechanic and
then to the atom bomb carrying B-36 Bomber as a Crew
Chief, and then Flight Line Chief, attached to the 5th Field
Maintenance Squadron, 5th Reconnaissance Wing—Heavy,
14th Air Division, 15th Air Force, Strategic Air Command
(SAC), Travis AFB, California.
Using the GI Bill after discharge, former Staff Sergeant
Barber earned an AS in Engineering, a BA, and an MBA.
He has worked in the defense, aerospace, and intelligence
communities all of his working life, and for the last twenty
years or so he has consulted on FAA related aircraft, DoD
projects, satellite covert INTEL projects, and other agency
projects.
He fi nished a three year assignment at the Birk Flight Test
Center, Edwards AFB, CA on the Airborne Laser Project;
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another year with a large defense fi rm near Minneapolis
working on a computer controlled remotely fi red Navy gun
program; a year-long task at a remote site ninety miles out
in the Nevada desert where he was assigned to the special
projects offi ce for UAV DoD ops; and he just fi nished
another six month consulting task in Washington on a new
composite jet aircraft.
Mr. Barber has worked all over the world; North, South, and
Central America, Europe, the UK, Finland, Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Russia, Russian Siberia, Republic of South Africa,
French Polynesia, mainland China, Republic of Korea,
Japan, and Australia.
He and his wife, Yvonne lived for a time in Yorkshire, UK
where he was a status of forces contractor/consultant on a
clandestine joint ops base—they have resided in Nevada for
twenty-two years.
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