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Honoring AFIT’s 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award Winners
Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2014

 

On 2 October 2014, AFIT, in conjunction with the AFIT Foundation, paid special tribute to three new Distinguished Alumni Award Winners – each of whom have made exceptional contributions to our nation.

AFIT selected its first distinguished alumni in 1979.  At that time, Col Frank Borman, Col George Holloman, Gen Jimmy Doolittle, and Gen Bernard Schriever were awarded this prestigious honor.  Since that date, 30 others individuals have been selected.

The title of “distinguished alumni” is the highest honor that AFIT can bestow upon a graduate and we award very few.  The men we honored this year are truly among AFIT’s finest. 

AFIT’s Distinguished Alumni Award winners for 2014 are:
 

Major General Jeffrey Riemer
Brigadier General Charles “Pete” Winters
Dr. Stephen Cross

Photos from the ceremony

 
Gen Riemer and Dr. Cross pictured with copies of their master’s thesis


Gen Riemer receiving the Distinguished Alumni Medal from Dr. Robert Calico, President, AFIT Foundation


Gen Riemer pictured with Dr. Todd Stewart, Director and Chancellor, AFIT (far left), and Dr. Robert Calico, President, AFIT Foundation (far right)


Dr. Cross receiving the Distinguished Alumni Medal from Dr. Robert Calico, President, AFIT Foundation 


Dr. Cross pictured with Dr. Todd Stewart, Director and Chancellor, AFIT (far left), and Dr. Robert Calico, President, AFIT Foundation (far right)

 

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