COLONEL CASEY P. DODDS
Col Casey P. Dodds is the Vice Commander of the 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. The wing is comprised of more than 1200 Air Force Reserve members and is equipped with eight C-130H2 aircraft. The wing trains and employs the C-130 Hercules globally on medium range airlift, tactical airland and airdrop, Modular Aerial Spray System, and Aeromedical Evacuation missions.
Col Dodds is a native of Longmont, Colo. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aviation Management from Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colo. and was commissioned through the University of Colorado, Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1992. After graduating from Undergraduate Missile Training in 1993, he served as a Deputy Combat Crew Commander until attending Undergraduate Navigator Training. In 1995, following Undergraduate Navigator Training, he served in numerous units as a C-130 Navigator, Instructor, Evaluator and Weapons Officer at Pope Air Force Ba
Colonel Edwin Carraway âE.C.â Newman II, 80, an Air Force fighter pilot and test pilot, slipped the surly bonds of earth for the final time on April 7, 2021 after a valiant fight with an aggressive form of multiple myeloma, attributed to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam.
E.C. was born in 1940 and raised in rural Sampson County, NC. In 1958, he graduated from Clinton High School, waved good-bye to the tobacco fields, and left the family farm for the U.S. Air Force Academy. In 1959, he played center in the first ever Air Force-Army football game, a 13-13 tie in Yankee Stadium. He graduated from the USAF Academy in 1962, the USAF Fighter Weapons School in 1969, the USAF Test Pilot School in 1974, and earned his masterâs degree in Public Administration from Troy State University in 1984.