US Army Air Force Technical School and Training Center - Yearbook (Gulfport Field, MS)

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5 ALFRED I.. JEWETT IIIILIINEI. Enmmanllinq Colonel Alfred L. Jeweff, Commanding Officer of Gulfporf Field, has a milifary career sfrefching back fo l9I7 when he enfered fhe armed forces as a cadef in fhe aviafion branch of fhe Signal Corps. He received his ground school fraining af Princefon Universify and did his firsf 'Flying af Love Field, Texas. Affer receiving his wings, he was commissioned a Second Lieu- fenanf and refained a+ Love Field as an insfrucfor. He was lafer a member of fhe famed Flying Border Pafrol af El Paso, Texas. ln I920 he flew in fhe governmenf air mail service. Colonel Jewefl' served in Hawaii from I922 fo I925 and from I932 fo l935 in fhe Philippines and in Panama. Following his refurn fo fhe Unifed Sfafes, he served af 'Chanufe Field, Illinois: Lowry Field, Colorado, and af Sheppard Field, Texas. He was serving as Execufive Officer af Sheppard Field when named fo acfivafe fhe Gulfporf Field Command. Colonel Jeweff 51 came fo Gulfporf Field on April l5, I942, and has remained as Commanding Officer of fhis Technical School for airplane mechanics and Basic Training Cenfer since fhaf fime. Under his command, Gulfporf Field won fhe Efficiency Banner awarded by Maior General Jacob E. Ficlrel, fhen Commanding General of fhe Third Disfricf, for fhe firsf fwo quarfers of I943, and fhe Efficiency Banner awarded by General Ficlcel for fhe A. A. F. Easfern Technical Training 'Command for fhe fhird quarfer of I943. -Colonel Jeweff was born in Bosfon and received his educafion af Bromfield Academy and Valparaiso Universify. He affended fhe Air Corps Tacfical School in I939 and holds rafings of Com- mand Pilof, Combaf Observer, Technical Observer, Aircraff Ob- server, pisfol experf, experf bomber and experf machine gunner. His chief hobbies are draffing, arf and mapping and his favorife sporfs are golfing, hunfing, skiing, snowshoeing and mounfain climbing.