Robert Lofton

“I joined the Air Force at the age of 19, during the Korean War. I was a telephone repairman and, in the Air Force, I became an Early Aircraft Warning Technician. Stationed in Tripoli, Libya, my job was to warn fighter pilots of incoming unknown aircraft, so they could intercept them. My time in the Air Force made me a better man. I learned to give orders, but more importantly, to follow them.”