Carl H. Jefcoat

Carl Jefcoat received his commission in the U.S. Air Force as a Second Lieutenant and his pilot wings at Greenville AFB, Mississippi, on October 13, 1959, and then completed advanced flying school and F-100 Super Sabre Combat Crew Training. Lieutenant Jefcoat's first assignment was as an F-100 pilot in Japan. From 1962 to 1966, Captain Jefcoat served as an F-100 pilot and as an instructor pilot and scheduling officer with the 4517th Combat Crew Training Squadron at Luke AFB, Arizona, and then as an F-100 pilot with the 416th Tactical Fighter Wing at Phu Cat AB, South Vietnam. His next assignment was as an F-100 pilot with the 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, England, and then on the staff of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath from October 1970 to June 1971. Major Jefcoat then served as an F-100 pilot with the 492nd, 493rd, and 494th Tactical Fighter Squadrons at RAF Lakenheath, and during this time he completed F-4 Phantom II Combat Crew Training. He deployed to Southeast Asia for a 3rd time in July 1972, serving as an F-4 pilot with the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Udorn Royal Thai AFB, Thailand, from July 1972 until he was forced to eject over North Vietnam and was taken as a Prisoner of War on December 27, 1972.

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