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Ten Things I Didn't Learn at War College

An AIAA Professional Development Lecture Series Presentation, via Zoom

presented by

Colonel Walter Gordon

Friday, February 9th, 12:00-1:30 PM PST

This talk was initially developed in response to a request from the Air Force Reserve for senior officers with deployed leadership experience to speak at professional development seminars.  From the cockpit of a C-130 landing on a blacked-out runway in Iraq to counseling a sobbing sixty-year-old master sergeant pleading not to be sent home from his last deployment, Ten Things relates the lessons learned – lessons just as applicable outside the military – by a civilian aerospace engineer and citizen-soldier pilot trying his best to serve his country with integrity and excellence.

Walter Gordon worked as an engineer in Western New York from 1979 to 2020 at four different aerospace firms, retiring recently as a business development manager in the Moog Space and Defense Group. He is also retired from a parallel 30-year career in the Air Force Reserve, serving as commander of the 328th Airlift Squadron and 914th Airlift Wing in Niagara Falls, New York. Colonel Gordon is a veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom and has over 2,000 hours flying time in the C-130.  Colonel Gordon has a long time interest in aerospace and aerospace history, joining AIAA at age 17 and currently serving as chairman of the Niagara Frontier Section and deputy chair of the History Committee. He is also the chairman of the Niagara Frontier Aviation and Space Hall of Fame nominating committee and a past president of the Niagara Aerospace Museum and Aero Club of Buffalo. Colonel Gordon has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University at Buffalo and an M.S. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Air Force Air War College. 

The presentation will be on Friday, February 9th, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM PST via Zoom. The Zoom link for the meeting is below.