Col. George Booth (SAHS - Class of 1966)

Shared by Peter Pikul

My cousin, Col. George Booth (St. Aloysius Class of 1966), laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery.
Among other duties ... he was a “fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, flying with the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing based in Ubon, Thailand. He flew the F-4 and F-15. During his years of service, Col. Booth also served at Air Force bases in Bitburg, Germany; Soesterberg, Netherlands, and Nellis AFB, Nevada. He spent one year in Toronto, Canada at the Air Command and Staff College, an institution designed to provide high quality professional military education for selected Canadian and international officers. He then provided services to the Canadian government for 2 years at the Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. Col. Booth subsequently returned to the United States with an assignment to Langley AFB in Virginia where he served as Commander of the 48th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. He later trained at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama, the senior professional military education school of the USAF. His final duty station was in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he was a senior officer at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command).”