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After studying electrical engineering and graduating with honors from North Carolina State College in 1925, George Holloman was commissioned in the US Army Infantry. While serving as a comunications officer, he transferred to the Army Air Corps in 1927 and received both pilot and observer ratings the following year. By 1931, he was assistant director of the Instrument and Navigation Laboratories and tasked with developing aircraft instruments and navigation equipment, which ultimately led to automatic flight (instrument landing and automatic pilot). Later, serving as the Laboratory Direcgtor, he was instrumental (har!) in the development of radio-controlled aircraft. In 1941, Col Holloman headed a special weapons unit tasked with developing guided missile technology.
In 1946, Col Holloman was killed in a plane crash in Taiwan while serving as Deputy Chief of Staff for Supply & Maintenance, 20th Air Force.

Col Holloman graduated from what is now AFIT in 1935.

In 1971, I was born at Holloman Air Force Base.

(gently stroking his mashed potatoes:) "This means something..."