Today, I salute Air Force Veteran Mark LeCappelain. Mark was one of three children born to Salvation Army officers, which meant the family moved around several times when he was young. It was as if he were being prepared for military life. Mark joined the Air Force and was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. After stops in Denver, Colorado, and Phoenix, Arizona, where he started working on F4C’s, he was sent overseas to Germany at a time of high tension. Mark said, “I was seven minutes flying time from Russia, and it was during the Cold War. We were loaded with nuclear weapons all the time. If there was an alarm and anything happened, we were ready to go.” Mark eventually returned to Denver, where he met his wife, and said he really enjoyed his time in the military and it taught him a lot. Thank you for sharing your story, Mark, and THANK YOU for your service.
