Del Jacobs

[19 JUN 1932 - H1 - 20167 - 6 OCT 2019]

Ike and Del

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Del and Shirley Jacobs
[Nuevo Vallarta - Mexico - DEC 2014]

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Shirley and Del Jacobs
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Gamble's - Jacobs' - Todd Graham's - Thornquist's -
Wheeler's [55th Reunion - May 2010]

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H-1: Gamble's - Jacobs' - Thornquist's - Todd
Graham's [55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Del and Shirley Jacobs
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Jim Ryan and Del Jacobs
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Wargowsky's - Shirley Jacobs - Pat Strati - Linda
Newton - Goldstein's [55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Jim Drummond - Del and Shirley Jacobs
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Shirley Jacobs and Donna Ludwig
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Donne Olvey - Shirley and Del Jacobs
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Ruth Horst - Bill Heyer - Shirley and Del Jacobs - Caye and
Dave Wheeler - Mary Ann Miller [55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Shirley and Del Jacobs
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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John and Mary Gamble - Shirley and Del
Jacobs [55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Shirley and Del Jacobs
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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John Feagin - Del Jacobs - Rosanne and Bob Wray
[Tennis Center - 55th Reunion]

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Rich Cardillo - Del Jacobs - Jack Strom
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Carol Thornquist - Carolyn DeRamus Cumbie and Buddy
Roberts - Shirley and Del Jacobs [55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Del and Shirley Jacobs - Ellen Schick
[55th Reunion - May 2010]

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Sitting: Sandra Lynn - Dienst - Anna Bates - Lynn - Pat Vitty - Standing: Shirley Jacobs - Lo Dienst - Sanderson - Jacobs - Connie Franklin - Vitty - Bates - Regnier - Joe Franklin - Maren Palmer - Georgie Regnier [Steamboat Ski Trip - JAN 2008]

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Bates - Keegan - Jacobs - Lo Dienst.
[Steamboat Ski Trip - JAN 2008]

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Joe Franklin - Jacobs - Keegans - Dienst's
[Steamboat Ski Trip - JAN 2008]

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Joe and Connie Franklin - Shirley Jacobs - Mary and Don
Andrews - Helga Hinrichs [FEB 2007 Ski Breckenridge]

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Georgie - Tony and Dick Regnier - Jeter - Keegan - Helga Hinrichs - Michael Hinrichs - Dianne Enslow - Ellen Schick - Shirley Jacobs [FEB 2007 Ski Breckenridge]

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Shirley and Del Jacobs
[FEB 2007 Ski Breckenridge]

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[50th Reunion Bio]

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Standing: Todd Graham - Don Smith - Mary and John Gamble -
Sitting: ? - Sue Graham - ? - Del and Shirley Jacobs [50th Reunion]

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Dan Geran and Del Jacobs
[50th Reunion]

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Shirley Jacobs and Joey Geran
[50th Reunion]

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Marcia Cathey - Shirley Jacobs - Anna Bates -
Don Giza [50th Reunion]

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Regnier - Andrews - Lathrop - Vitty - Pirkey - Regnier -
Bates - Jacobs - Regnier [JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Sanderson - Lathrop and Jacobs
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Judy Lathrop - Del Jacobs - Marti Head
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Marni Palmer - Sanderson - Bergen - Sandra
Lynn - Jacobs [JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Vitty - Bates - Joe Franklin - Jacobs - Sanderson
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Jacobs and Sanderson scrub it up
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Jacobs and Sanderson
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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John Feagin - Connie Franklin - Shirley Jacobs
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Vitty - Shirley Jacobs - Anna Bates - Connie
Franklin [JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Cardillo - Jacobs - Mike Hinrichs - Mary
Keegan [JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Jacobs - Joe Franklin - Pirkey
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Del Jacobs
[JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Vitty - Bates - Joe Franklin - Jacobs -
Sanderson [JAN 2005 Ski Club Trip]

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Jacobs and Ute Ordway
[Ski Utah - 2004]

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Feagin and Jacobs
[Ski Utah - 2004]

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Jacobs' - ??? - Joe Franklin -
Bergen [c2003]

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Jacobs - Hinrichs - Bergen -
Dienst - Newton [c2003]

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Del Jacobs and Joe Franklin
[SnowMass - 2003]

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Del Jacobs
[SnowMass - 2003]

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Dienst - Bates - Rich Miller - Cardillo - Joe Franklin -
Lynn - Hinrichs - Jacobs [SEP 2002 Ski Club Bike Trip]

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Jacobs - Camp - Fikaris - Pirkey
[2002 Ski Trip]

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Fikaris and Jacobs
[2002 Ski Trip]

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Cardillo - Pirkey - Jacobs
[2002 Ski Trip]

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Shirley and Del Jacobs
[2002 Ski Trip]

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Todd Graham - Del Jacobs - Ellen and
John Schick [2001 Jackson Hole Mini]

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Pat Vitty - Mary and Don Andrews - Jacobs
[FEB 2001 Sun Valley Ski Trip]

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Cardillo - Del and Shirley Jacobs - Sanderson
[FEB 2001 Sun Valley Ski Trip]

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Fikaris - Jacobs - Pirkey - Newton
[FEB 2001 Sun Valley Ski Trip]

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Quent Bates and Del Jacobs
[Ski Trip - c1999]

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Anna Bates - Shirley Jacobs - Candy Strom
[Ski Trip - c1999]

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? and Jacobs"
[Ski Trip - c1998]

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Toni and Dave Maurer (don't you just love the tennis shoes) Marlowe Viney - Craig and Pat Elliott - Bud and Bonnie DeMaris - Marvel and Bob LaFrenz - Jack Viney - Shirley and Del Jacobs [Maurer Saudi Party - 1994]

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Del Jacobs
[c1994]

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Dienst - Jacobs - Camp - Newton - Bates - Vitty
['55 Ski Trip - c1994]

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Del Jacobs and Dan Ludwig
[c1992]

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1st Row: Marlowe and Jack Viney - Cynthia (Paul Smor's date) - Ronnie and Bill McWilliams - Bobbie Samos - Betsey Lowry - 2nd Row: Georgie Regnier - Doris O'Brien - Toni Maurer - Shirley Jacobs - Paul Smor - 3rd Row: Sam Lowry - Bonnie and Bud DeMaris - Dave Maurer - EJ O'Brien - Del Jacobs - 4th Row: Dick Regnier - Bud Hall - John Hotchkiss - Gerry Samos [McWilliams Army/Navy Party - DEC 1989]

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McWilliams' - Maurer's - Jim Miller's - Spaulding's - Dax's -
Jacobs' - Viney's - Hotchkiss' - Bob Soper (center rear) [1988]

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Marlowe Viney - Ronnie McWilliams - Nancy Miller - Dot Spaulding - Celia Dax - Shirley Jacobs - Jerra Hotchkiss - Toni Maurer [1988]

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Nancy Miller - Dot Spaulding - Celia Dax - Shirley
Jacobs - Jerra Hotchkiss - Toni Maurer [c1988]

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Del Jacobs - John Hotchkiss - Jack Viney
[1988]

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[25th Reunion - 1980]

Row 10: Bergen - Cathey - Chapman - Gamble - Todd Graham - Don Smith - ? - Polly - McCloskey - Row 9: Blitch - Secord - Jim Ryan - Wing - ? - Row 8: ? - Matuszak - Wayne Smith - ? - Fleeger - Lynn - Joe Franklin - Charlie Johnson - Gunderson - Row 7: Regnier - ? - Reed - Stone - Herren - Weaver - Matteson - Hayes - ? - Enslow - Cliff Jones - ? - Reid - Feagin - Row 6: Wargowsky - Lichtenberg - Sanderson - Baker - Dienst - McCulla - Schick - Ludwig - Soper - Bean - Shideler - Lenio - Pirkey - Row 5: Goldstein - Fralen - Le Cates - Meisenheimer - Wheeler - Horst - Whittaker ? - Cardillo - Page - Newton - Prater - Lucas - Row 4: ? - Sloan - Traut - Rich Miller - Hoeferkamp - Heye - ? - West - Bill Graham - Row 3: Andrews - Perkins - Gay - Pace - Olvey - Strati - Dugan - Jackson - Whtitaker ? - Ralph Henry - Gallup - Murray - Ewing - Fikaris - Row 2: Hornbarger - Al Edwards - Robinson - ? - Thorsen - Dickson - Vitty - Tom Phillips - Bill Anderson - Giddings - Jacobs - Dryer - Row 1: Bazilwich - Samos - Wray - Trobaugh - Brokenshire - Bossert - Hagedorn - Walton - Poirier - Hasbrouck - LaFrenz - Nourse - Malooley

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? - John Pickitt - Bob Meisenheimer - Bob Strickland - Don Giza - Del Jacobs [Pilot Training @ Marianna FL AB - c1955]

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Ike and Del Jacobs
[1955]

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H-1 Firsties - 1st Row: Brooks - Bob Strickland (CO) - Town - Crawford - Jacobs - Harris - 2nd Row: Todd Graham - Parsons - Wheeler - Rudzki - Carrington - 3rd Row: Schuh - Thornquist - Dion - Gamble - 4th Row: Pratt - Wheaton - McNiven - Longbottom - Howard (Absent: Rundle and Don Smith)

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Del Jacobs and Donne Olvey
[1955]

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Andrews - Jacobs - Olvey - Gilpatrick -
Karam - Hardy [Brigade Staff]

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Front row: Col. Fraser - Dulk - Bossert - Smetana - Straus - Fikaris - Gilpatrick - Cathey - Jacobs - Maj. McCanna - 2nd row: Donald - Raymond - Garn - Bates - Dorward - Eddins - Wix - 3rd Row: Fetko - Lovell - Ginter - Karam - Geran - Hergenroder - Ludwig - Rock - Rich Miller [1954 Firstie Trip]

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Front: Bill Streett - Don Buchwald - Del Jacobs - Bill Maus - Rear: Sam Tagart - Bud Coyle - Jerry Brown - Hank Burns - John Leventis [Camp Buckner Stakes Squad Competition Winner - 1952]

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2015 AOG Online Register
(Updated JUL 2019)
Delbert H. Jacobs Cullum No: 20167 Class of: 1955 Born: WA Appointment: Branch: AF History: 20167 Delbert Harold Jacobs B-WA: AF: Plt Tng LaredoAFB 55-56: NATO FtrTngSq Ger 56-59: MSAE CalTech 60 (PAE 61): Dept Astr USAFA 61-64 [CM]: IntcptrTestPilot 4950TestSq 65-67: Ftr Test Plt 68-70 [CM]: CO 390TFSq RVN 70-71 [3DFC-BSM-9AM]: R&D HqUSAF 72-74 [LM]: NWC 75: F16 DepPrgmDir WrightPattersonAFB 75-78, F15PrgmDir 78-79 [LM]: DCS DevlPrgm&Plans HqAFSCmd 79-81: Dir OpnlReq HqUSAF 81-83 [LM]: Ret 83 BG [DDSM]: GpDir SysDevl Northrop Corp 83, VP AdvSys 84, VP & ATF-23 PgmMgr 85-87, VP AdvDesign 88-91: Northrop Corp, VP & CtrMgr Northrop Adv Tech & Design Ctr 92-Ret 95: Pres Olympic Csltg 96

Register Glossary

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How I got my appointment to West Point
Wellll..... I graduated from Seattle's Garfield Highschool in June 1950. I was also a Pfc in the Army reserve in an athletes PR section (skiing for me) made up of several later all-americans in football, basketball, and baseball. I then drove a truck up the gravel one lane 'Alcan Hiway', 1500 miles to Fairbanks - where my engineering student brother had wangled a construction job for me requiring a high skill level. (I was called a 'go-fer' with no assigned duties). I couldn't get into the labor unions so pitched in and doug building foundations in the permafrost anyway, with a pick axe! One day the labor foreman came by and said ' Could I run a transit'? - ( I had had 2 weeks of transit training in HS geometry)- so I shyly said 'SURE'. Turned out the multimillion $ project to build Eilleson AFB had a drunk for the surveyor. I checked his work and layouts at daylight nite with the labor foreman. He was right, things were big time wrong , so they fired the guy and I (as a modest hero in my mind), took his high paying job. Actually, I did OK and the base got surveyed and built. However ( theres always one), I didn't know that the former surveyor was the drinking buddy of the projects bullmoose boss. I had some flak but OK.

ON to Univ of Wash as an engineering major and AFROTC cadet. In winter quarter 50-51, I heard the US olympic Ski Team was training in Sun Valley. I promptly dropped out, resigned my draft deferred ROTC student status, and with $23, showed up for a promised waiter job at the fine restaurtant there, 'the Ram'. Problem was, they switched my job to 'dishwasher', knowing I had no $ and was trapped. Did the same to a kid from N Dakota. Worked all night, no automatic anything and 1000+ fancy dishes and glasses a night for board and room and $4.25. 10 days later, we quit, pooled our 21 savings $, bought army surplus GI white snow tents and sleeping bags, and moved out into the snow near the SV Lodge. We climbed the glass wall at the Sun Valley Lodge hot springs swim pool in the steam fog at night when it was closed and deserted. Used the dressing room to shave and for the john. We found if we side stepped ski packed the 'Expedition ' run to the round house (1300 ' vertical) by 0830 before the skiers could use the lift, we got free lift tickets. OK , room, sanitation etc, and lift ticket - what about food? I heard from another ski bum that if you put a napkin across your arm and looked like a waiter, you could clear a plate early from a surprised lady: ' you're through with this aren't you, mam?' (glittering smile)...she usually said 'why, well, I guess so.' We had Olympic training team badges that helped too etc. We ate unbelievably well...

The really surprising thing to me and others, was I made the 12 man U.S. Olympic Alpine team as the 6th alternate. Only 3 traveled with the team and I was 1-A Draft if I didn't climb to a 3rd alternate or better. There were no safety bindings and all out racing, so injuries too were very likely during training. I went home for a short visit, hedged my bets, and applied for competitive civil service exam appointment from Washington State Senators and Representatives. I did well in all exams as highest scoring in the state so Senator H.P. Cain gave me his principal appointment. The subsequent West Point physical, athletic, and student exams went well too. I soon also learned that I moved up to 4th ski team alternate. Soon too, I was also granted cadet candidate approval to class of 55. Olympics, draft 1-A, or West Point? Tough choice for a 19 yr old kid. Actually, the military career and West Point were both very popular in America then, as was patriotism. I felt this pull very strongly.

So, after my first flight (to NY), first time east of Montana, and first train ride I arrived at WestPoint with you all that fateful morning in July 1951. I found cadet life and academics challenging but I loved it ( for the most part at least now, 55 yrs later).

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West Point changed me to eventually become the man I am, as it did most of you as well. At graduation, I went into the air force as 25% of the class did. I had a great and varied single engine flying career, married Shirley, 2 children born in Germany, grad school at Cal Tech, Ass't professor at USAFA + 2 more children, Fighter test pilot, combat squadron cmdr, and F-15 Program manager, and Pentagon Weenie. I retired when our oldest son broke his neck skiing and became quadraplegic. (He later married a doctor and they have 2 beautiful teen age daughters.) I left the service for financial necessity reasons, and got a fine industry VP job as head of Northrop Corp advanced stealth fighter design and development.

We now live on the water in Port Ludlow WA, sail a fast F-33 trimaran, have 7 grandchildren, and so far seem very healthy, and invite classmates anytime to visit us here...

God Bless you all,

DEL JACOBS
4 AUG 2010

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TAPS Check List

(May 2011)
1. Birthplace and date: SEATTLE WA, 19 JUNE 1932

2. Parents names: HAROLD ARNOTT JACOBS AND WINIFRED EWELL (JACOBS)

3. No. of siblings: 1 BROTHER BORN 1929, LT IN USAF 1952-5, BECAME VP AND GEN MANAGER OF BOEING SPACE DIVISION AND HEAD OF SYSTEM ENGINEERING ON 1ST SUCCESSFUL APOLLO LUNAR ORBIT MISSION

4. High school graduated from (plus info like class officer, etc.): GARFIELD H.S. SEATTLE - PRESIDENT OF BOYS STUDENT BODY, STUDENT COUNCIL

5. High school sports (what sport, position, team Captain, honors): CAPT OF SKI TEAM, TRACK(HALF MILE)

6. Other High school activities (Band, Honor Society, etc.): CHOIR, STUDENT OPERETTA COMEDY LEAD

7. Non-school activities (e.g., Scouts, Church etc.): EAGLE SCOUT, PRESIDENT OF YOUNG LIFE STUDENT RELIGIOUS GROUP

8. Civilian College and/or Military Academy Prep School: UNIV OF WASHINGTON,SEATTLE, , 1 SEMESTER - THEN DROPPED OUT AND WENT TO SUN VALLEY ID TO TRAIN AND WIN A SLOT ON THE 1952 OLYMPIC SKI TEAM - WAS SELECTED 6TH AND LAST ALTERNATE FOR THE ALPINE EVENTS BUT DUE TO SO MANY INJURIES, WOULD HAVE MADE 2ND ALTERNATE ON TRAVEL TEAM TO NORWAY. WON APPOINTMENT AND ENTERED USMA INSTEAD!

9. Civilian College sports: FROSH SWIM TEAM LETTER

10. Prior military service, branch and rank: CADET IN USAF ROTC, PRIVATE 1ST CLASS IN ARMY RESERVE (ATHLETES GROUP)

11. Type of appointment to USMA: WASH STATE SENATORIAL

12. USMA Roommates: BOB STRICKLAND, DON SMITH, AND RUD CRAWFORD PLEBE YEAR , DONNE OLVEY FIRST CLASS YEAR

13. Close friends at USMA: BOB STRICKLAND, DON SMITH TODD GRAHAM, DONNE OLVEY, OTHERS

14. Wife info, including how you met and place of marriage: SHIRLEY GRIFFIN, U OF W GRADUATE, SCHOOL TEACHER, MET ON RETURN FROM A STRENUOUS FISHING TRIP AT APARTMENT SHARED WITH BEST FISHING FRIEND'S FIANCEE, SEATTLE WA - MARRIED AUG 1956...TOOK A 75 MILE OLYMPIC MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS BACK PACK TRIP ON HONEYMOON (TO GET TO KNOW SHIRLEY)

15. Children info: BORN IN GERMANY : JEANETTE LYNN 1958, GREG ALAN 1959; BORN AT USAF ACADEMY: CHERYL LEE 1961, JEFFREY SCOTT 1963

16. Suggested and/or preferred author for TAPS article: DON SMITH, BOB STRICKLAND, OR DONNE OLVEY

17. Others who can fill in gaps about you: AS LISTED, ALSO ROD VITTY, H-1 CLASSMATES

18. Classmates with whom you served: ALTHOUGH IN USAF, OTHER THAN PILOT TRAINING, NONE

19. Major military assignments, if not listed in Register: RECEIVED EISENHOWER AWARD FROM PRESIDENT AT 1955 GRADUATION AWARDS PARADE, WON USAF TOP SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN 1968 FOR INVENTING, DEVELOPING, INSTALLING, AND TEST PROVING A NEW TELESCOPE, GIMBAL MOUNTED, SLAVED TO THE RADAR, SELF TARGET TRACKING AND VIDEO RECORDING, THAT ACHIEVED 10X UNAIDED PILOT AIRCRAFT I.D. RANGE TO ALLOW EXTENDED RANGE MISSILE LAUNCH

20. Second career info: BECAME NORTHROP VP IN CHARGE OF CONCEPT DESIGN AND WINNING PROTOTYPE ADVANCED STEALTH FIGHTER (YF-23) CONTRACT

21. Anything I've missed, plus your ideas on how we can insure appropriate and accurate TAPS articles on all of our classmates: I THINK STRONG INTERESTS ETC MAKE IT MORE INTERESTING -- FOR INSTANCE: I DEVELOPED A STRONG INTEREST IN SKI RACING ON USAF EUROPEAN TEAM, FLY FISHING, HOBIE SAILING AND WIND SURFING, FIGHTER DEVELOPMENT, LIGHT PLANE FLYING, AND FINALLY OWNERSHIP OF 2 ADVANCED TRIMARAN FAST SAILING AND RACING TRIMARANS

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BRIGADIER GENERAL DELBERT H. JACOBS
(Retired 1 June 1983)
Brigadier General Delbert H. Jacobs is deputy for General Purpose Forces, Directorate of Operational Requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.

General Jacobs was born in Seattle. He studied engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle and was a distinguished graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1955. He later attended the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, receiving a master of science degree in aeronautics in 1960 and completing course work for a doctorate in 1961. The general is a 1975 distinguished graduate of the National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.

He entered the U.S. Air Force in 1955 and completed pilot training in T-33s at Laredo Air Force Base, Texas. In 1956 he became a flight commander and North Atlantic Treaty Organization instructor pilot at Furstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany.

His successive assignments include being an assistant professor of astronautics and ski coach at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo.; chief test pilot for F-101s at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.; F-4 fighter weapons school test pilot at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.; commander of the 390th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Da Nang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam; and deputy chief, New Initiatives Office, and later chief, Fighter Armament Requirements Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff Research and Development, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. He served as the F-16 deputy system program director and the F-15 system program director at the Aeronautical Systems Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Prior to assuming his current position in July 1981 he was the deputy chief of staff for plans and programs at Air Force Systems Command headquarters, Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

General Jacobs won the General Vandenberg Trophy in 1968 for outstanding contribution to aerospace science in the United States; the Air Force Association Citation of Honor the same year for test pilot achievement; the Eisenhower Award from the president of the United States in 1955 for the highest achievement at West Point in military leadership; and in 1955 won the special award given the cadet in his West Point graduating class having the highest achievement in athletics over four years.

He has flown 168 combat missions in F-4s, and has more than 3,400 flying hours in F-101s, F-102s, F-106s, F-15s and other fighter-type aircraft.

His military decorations and awards include the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal with nine oak leaf clusters and Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster.

He was promoted to brigadier general July 1, 1979, with date of rank June 9, 1979.

(Current as of October 1981)

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106661/brigadier-general-delbert-h-jacobs/

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Del Jacobs
Your classmate, Del Jacobs, passed away on Oct 6, peacefully of heart failure in Silverdale, Washington.

I�d hoped he could write his Taps article but he didn�t get it done as he hasn�t felt well for some time.

We plan burial sometime later at Arlington.

Shirley Jacobs
delj@me.com
9 October 2019

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