About The Author: 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 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 finished a three year assignment at the Birk Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA on the Airborne Laser Project; another year with a large defense firm near Minneapolis working on a computer controlled remotely fired 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 office for UAV DoD ops; and he just finished 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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