Archive for the Biographies Category

After TBS I went to Ft Sill, Oklahoma for artillery training and then to Vietnam. After Vietnam, I was stationed in the Panama Canal Zone.

Growing up near the ocean in New Jersey and spending summers in Conn., I spent lots of time boating, sailing, and fishing. The NROTC program was a natural for me.

After Basic School, I went to Flight School in Pensacola and then on the jets at Meridian, MS. Honestly, I felt that flying a jet was not fun.

A native of Belleville, Illinois, Colonel Fuchs graduated from Southern Illinois University and was commissioned through the Platoon Leaders Class in 1967. His first assignment after completion of The Basic School in November 1967 was as the Executive Officer of Guard Company,

My wife Jackie and I have four children (Daughter and Son + two step-daughters). Two are in the military: Son is a LtCol, F-22 pilot in the USAF (I know,