Highest rank: Colonel

Awards and decorations: Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, DMSM, MSM, AFCM, Presidential Unit Citation, VN Cross of Gallantry, VN Service Medal, etc.

Most memorable military experience: Wandering around the Moroccan desert trying to figure out how to get rid of SA-6 SAMS so the Moroccan Air Force would resume operations; working at the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Middle East Branch creating the command relationships that became Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
David J. Dean
Narimasu High School, Class of 1964
USAF, 1968-1991
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