Ron Albers – “Ron”

From his USAF Official Files (Personal info follows at the end) 

Colonel Ronald L. Albers retired on 31 Dec 02 as Vice Wing Commander of the 121st Air Refueling Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, Rickenbacker International Airport, Columbus, Ohio.

Colonel Albers was born Dec. 9, 1946, in Brainerd, Minnesota and graduated from Washington High School in Brainerd in 1965.  Following extensive travels alone throughout Europe that summer, he returned to attend Brainerd State Junior College, graduating with an Associate of Arts degree in 1967.  He then attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in March of 1969.  His professional military education includes Air Command and Staff College and Air War College.

Ronald L. Albers – “Ron”

“‘Big Ron’ came to Columbus with the typical Air Force issues for student pilots: a wife, a car, and not much else…

Included in Ron’s more notorious deeds are driving on the BOQ lawn, driving the get-away car in the great Jensen Kidnapping, and being among the original five to be influenced by the Sunglassed Kid of T-37s.”

71-01 Yearbook, page 14.