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The Gillcrist brothers
from left to right:
Robert, Paul, and Dan
October, 1998
Dan
Dan was the youngest of nine children and raised in Freeport,
Long Island. He joined the Navy as he turned 18 and volunteered for submarine duty.
After four years in the service he went to college, married Barbara, his wife of 36
years, and raised three children. He worked for IBM and EDS prior to working in the political
arena, first as an advance man in the Nixon presidential campaign of 1968 and then
scheduling George Bush's 1970 campaign for the US Senate from Texas.
He now lives in Santa Fe with his wife and operates his own
municipal bond business. Dan's hobby is designing and producing "military
commemoratives" some of which are on permanent display in the George Bush Presidential
Library, in Lockwood Hall, Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor, the O Club bar, NAS, Norfolk
Va. and several with the Marines at Quantico Va.
Robert
The author lives with his wife Ann, in the quaint whaling village of Northport on Long Island Sound,
where they pursue their quest for the perfect beam reach. Their sailing adventures have taken them
from Nantucket to the Chesapeake and to the Caribbean.
A construction manager and professional engineer, the author has practiced his craft in New York City
for most of his adult life. After retiring, the author returned to New York City to build schools in the
inner city. In his spare time, he works as a hospice volunteer.
Life's simple pleasures include beachcombing with his wife and Yellow Lab, skeet, flyfishing and writing.
Paul
Rear Admiral Paul T. Gillcrist (ret), a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, served also as a test pilot and weapons
delivery instructor, and actively flew from sixteen aircraft carriers for over twenty-seven years. He
commanded a fleet Crusader squadron, then a carrier air wing, and finally, as flag officer, became
wing commander for all Pacific Fleet fighter squadrons. During his fleet squadron command, he completed
three carrier deployments to the Tonkin Gulf and flew 167 combat missions for which he was awarded
seventeen combat decorations.
Throughout his aviation career, the author flew virtually every airplane in the Navy's inventory. Included
in his flight log book are over 6,000 flight hours in seventy-one different types of aircraft from 1952 to 1981.
He retired in 1985 as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare). He is also the author
of TOMCAT! The Grumman F-14 Story, CRUSADER! Last of the Gunfighters,
Feetwet: Reflections of a Carrier Pilot, and Vulture's Row.
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