Mike is a retired USAF Colonel with 26 years of AF Rescue experience.  After his AF career he served as the NASA Chief of Flying Operations at Kennedy Space Center.

Mandy was an HH-60G Instructor Pilot with 16 years AF Rescue experience.  After separating from AD, she served in various roles in the Rescue community including time as a schoolhouse academic and simulator instructor.  She is currently the  F-16 Flight Manual Manager at Hill AFB, UT.

Brad is a retired USAF Lt Col and former Command Pilot with 20 years of AF Rescue experience.  He retired from HQ AETC In 2017 where he continues work as a civil servant.

Bob is a retired USAF Lt Col and a former command pilot with 23 years of AF Rescue experience.  He was most recently at NATO Headquarters Allied Air Command as Senior Joint Personnel Recovery Staff Officer in Ramstein Air Base Germany.

​Marie Murray grew up in an Air Force family and is the proud daughter of Kim and Michael Tillema. Her favorite tour was Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM, where she was awed by the Balloon Fiesta and made her first memories of snow. She studied biochemistry and pharmacy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she met and married Daniel Murray. She is now a full-time stay-at-home mom and homeschool teacher to their four young children in New Braunfels, TX.

Gene "Geno" Manner is a recently retired Lt Col after 21+ years in the USAF.  He is the lone HC-130P/N rep on the board, and served as an evaluator pilot at the 71st & 79th RQS's, 550th SOS, HAF, AFRCC, and completed his career as the Deputy Div Chief for PR at ACC.  He currently works for Deloitte Consulting assisting ACC's A35 efforts.

Jim is a retired Pararescueman (PJ) MSgt with 22 years of service; retired due to injuries. His last assignment was with the 58 SOW, Kirtland AFB as the Pararescue and Combat Control program manager. As a PJ, Jim was a Pararescue Instructor, Flight Instructor, Jumpmaster and Divemaster who logged flight time on UH-1N, HH-3E, HH-53E, MH-53J, HH-60G and HC-130P/N aircraft. 

Todd is a retired USAF Lt Col and former Command Pilot in the HH-60G and the Mi-17 with 17 years of AF Rescue experience.  He retired from HQ AETC In 2014 and since then has worked as a civil servant in AETC, AFPC and AFGSC.  

Tony is retired USAF CMSgt and was a helicopter crew chief with 29 years experience in the AF rotary wing community. Following retirement he began volunteering as an Ambassador for the “That Other May Live Foundation” in Valdosta, Georgia.  Tony currently continues to serve the Rescue community as an Equipment Specialist for the HH-60W at the System Program Office at Robins AFB. 

Gregory Gaunt is a retired, 38-year USAF veteran, with all but 20 months
spent in Rescue Maintenance as a crew chief, QA Inspector and section chief.
Greg is currently working in the DoD as a QA Specialist with the Defense
Contract Management Agency in Tucson, AZ.  He is also involved with the

Tucson chapter of TOMLF.

Rick is married to Tara, he has 3 children and a host of grandchildren and 2 great grandkids. He is a 1968 graduate of Frankford High School, Frankford WVA. He enlisted in the USAF immediately after High School and after basic training became a firefighter. He participated in Operation Crested Cap 1 in support of NATO shortly thereafter. In 1970 he went to Ubon, Thailand and there became a member of the Pedro Rescue Detachment. He left Ubon in 1971 for Holloman AFB, NM where he became a Flight Instructor and a Flight Examiner and assisted in opening a new Rescue Detachment. Shortly thereafter he received orders for NKP Thailand and left in 1972 and he served there with Pedro till 1973. He has had multiple assignments and positions as a firefighter and finished his AF career in 1989 as a recruiter.  Rick also served 30 years with a non-profit Community Action Agency as a Director of multiple programs.

He serves as President of the Pedro Rescue Helicopter Association and Goodview Baptist Church. 

Jim "Tut" Tuthill is a recently retired Lt Col after serving 23 years in the USAF.  He was a career HC-130 Navigator/CSO and the lone HC-130J rep on the board. His assignments included the 71 RQS, 550 SOS, 79 RQS, PACAF A8X, 415 SOS, and 512 RQS (HCs and 60s are now combined into the 512 RQS at Kirtland AFB) where he completed his career as an Assistant Director of Operations.