Ron W. Poinsett II
Retired: USAF 1963 Medical
Wife: Dot
Children: Karen, Amy
Jobs / Assignments
1961 Lackland AFB, TX Officer Candidate School
1961 Sheppard AFB, TX Missile Officer School, Atlas F
1962-63 Schilling AFB, KS Missile Combat Crew
1963 Medical Discharge, Diabetes
1963-66 Newark, NJ Newark College of Engineering
1966-72 Lanham, MD Engineer with DOD
1972-74 Asmara, Ethiopia Engineer with DOD
1974-78 Lanham, MD Engineer with DOD
1978-82 Aurora, CO Engineer with DOD
1982 Resigned from U. S. Government
1982-97 Hughes Aircraft Co., Engineer/Program Manager
1997-Present Retired in Colorado and loving every minute
Education
Jun 1966 BSEE, Newark College of Engineering, Newark NJ.
Jun 1969 MSEE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Ron Remembers . . . Doing push-ups on the walk in front of 4 th Squadron in the dark and coming face to face with a cactus with ice on it . . . So this is Texas! Also a new definition for the good American word, “ BUG. ”