Wednesday, January 15, 2003
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Wednesday, January 15, 2003 |
Matcheck assumes squadron commandPeachtree City resident Lt. Col. Dean F. Matcheck, U. S. Air Force Reserve, a 1978 honor graduate of the U. S. Air Force Academy, assumed command of the 43rd Flying Training Squadron in a formal Change of Command Ceremony held at Columbus AFB, Mississippi, Dec. 6. Matcheck received the Squadron guidon from the hands of Colonel Neil Rohan, 340th Flying Training Group Commander. Lt. Col. Matcheck is also a pilot for Delta Air Lines and currently flies as co-pilot on the Boeing 767 jumbo jet. He is also a member of the Peachtree City Falcon Field Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol. Their oldest son, Nicholas "Nick" Matcheck, who attends UCLA on a Navy ROTC scholarship, was unable to be at the ceremony because he was in the middle of final exams. Nick, by the way, got his start in aviation as a CAP cadet and became Cadet Commander of the Peachtree City Falcon Field Squadron. But the rest of the Matchecks were at the Change of Command Ceremony: His wife of 23 years, Teresa Bunton Matcheck, also a 1st Lt in CAP; their younger son Brett, a CAP Cadet Colonel, a private pilot, and like older brother Nick, also a past Cadet Commander of their squadron; and their daughter, Ashley Matcheck, a Cadet 2nd Lt. in the same squadron.
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