Whither America: Duty - Honor- Country or Treadmill to Oblivion - Basye, C. Ben
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'Whither America' is the autobiography of C. Ben Basye, supplemented by a significant amount of relevant history. The nine-decade long life story started on a Missouri farm in the midst of the Great Depression. He was a 15 year old high school graduate in 1943, while World War II was raging. He enlisted for military pilot training in 1944, thus beginning a military career which lasted for almost 43 years. Ben was one of the early U. S. Navy carrier-based jet fighter pilots. Following some nine years as a Navy fighter pilot flying eight different jet and piston engine fighters, he served more…mehr

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'Whither America' is the autobiography of C. Ben Basye, supplemented by a significant amount of relevant history. The nine-decade long life story started on a Missouri farm in the midst of the Great Depression. He was a 15 year old high school graduate in 1943, while World War II was raging. He enlisted for military pilot training in 1944, thus beginning a military career which lasted for almost 43 years. Ben was one of the early U. S. Navy carrier-based jet fighter pilots. Following some nine years as a Navy fighter pilot flying eight different jet and piston engine fighters, he served more than three additional decades. Service as a Navy Aircraft Maintenance Officer was followed by duty as a Naval Reserve Engineering Duty Officer. Some 18 years of this Naval Reserve duty was performed for no pay. He is now a Captain in the Retired Reserve of the U. S. Navy.
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C. Ben Basye was born on a farm close to one-room Union School in Howard County, MO and was one of the last six graduates of that school. He graduated from Fayette, MO High School and received the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri and the M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (T&AM) from Iowa State. His Ph.D. major at Iowa State was in T&AM with minors in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He also attended the Universities of Nebraska and Wyoming as well as Central Missouri State and Brown University. >He holds the rank of Captain, Retired Reserve, in the U.S. Navy and was one of the Navy's early carrier-based jet fighter pilots. He has a FAA Commercial Pilot License with single and multi-engine land and multi-engine sea ratings. He served on the St. Charles, MO School Board and as President of the St. Charles County School Board. He was President of the State Council of Chapters of the Military Officers of America in 2005 and has consulted on engineering problems over a significant part of the United States. He lives in Columbia, Missouri with Bootsie.