Columbia Controller Biographies
MIKE         (MX)
        LEROY           (LD)         
Age:  48
Grew up in: 
Panama City, FL
Arrived at Columbia Tower: July 1997

Air Traffic Control Experience:
Since 1974
-
-Naval Air Tech Training Center (NATTC)  Millington, TN
(Navy ATC school)

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Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, FL
--Outlying Field (OLF) Choctaw, FL
-NAS Bermuda
--FAA - Fayetteville, NC
--NAS Whidbey Island, WA
--USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
--NAS Lemoore, CA
--NATTC  Millington, TN
(ATC Instructor)
--NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
--NonFederal Contract Tower (NFCT) Millington, TN
--FCT Anoka, Minnesota
--FCT Columbia, MO

Totals:
--18 years US Navy;  2.5 years FAA;
9 years contract tower
--1981 PATCO Strike


Retired from US Navy as Chief Petty Officer




Age:  52
Grew up in: 
Michigan
Arrived at Columbia Tower: July 1997

Air Traffic Control Experience:
Since 1981
-
-Naval Air Tech Training Center (NATTC)  Millington, TN 
(Navy ATC  school)

--
Naval Air Station (NAS) Memphis, TN
--TACRON 21 Little Creek, VA
--NATTC  Millington, TN
(ATC Instructor)
--FCT Columbia, MO

Totals:
--14 years US Navy;  
7 years contract tower


Retired from US Navy as Chief Petty Officer





     STEVE           (SK)
      TIM                   (TJ)
Age:  46
Grew up in: 
Michigan
Arrived at Columbia Tower:
August 2001

Air Traffic Control Experience:
Since 1979
-
-Keesler AFB; Biloxi, MS
(Air Force ATC School)
--Wurtsmith AFB, MI
--Anderson AFB, Guam
--Zagreb Center, Yugoslavia (Croatia)
--Nellis AFB, NV
Whiteman AFB, MO

Totals:
--19 years US Air Force;  
3 years contract tower


Retired from US Air Force as Master Sergeant





Age:  51
Grew up in: 
Ft. Atkinson, Wisconsin
Arrived at Columbia Tower:

March 1998

Air Traffic Control Experience:
Since 1978
-
-Keesler AFB; Biloxi, MS
(Air Force ATC School)
--Travis AFB, CA
--Ramstein AFB, Germany
--Eglin AFB, FL
--Zwibrucken AFB, Germany
Cannon AFB, NM
--Thule, Greenland
--Whiteman AFB, MO

Totals:
--20 years US Air Force;  
6 years contract tower


Retired from US Air Force as Senior Master Sergeant





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