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  1. Brigadier General Richard Stephen Ritchie (born June 25, 1942) served as an officer in the United States Air Force and the Colorado Air National Guard, and a general officer in the Air Force Reserve. Ritchie joined Navy Commander Randy Cunningham as the only two pilots (along with three airborne weapon systems officers ) among the ...

  2. Born in Reidsville, NC on 25 June, 1942, Richard Steven (Steve) Ritchie entered the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1960. Upon graduation on 3 June 1964, he entered pilot training at Laredo AFB, TX. Initially assigned to flight test operations at Elgin AFB, FL, flying the F-4 Pantom II at Homestead AFB, FL. By then a captain, in 1968 Ritchie flew the ...

  3. 4 de ago. de 2022 · On August 28, 1972, US Air Force Capt. Richard StephenSteveRitchie and Weapons System Officer Capt. Charles Barbin DeBellevue successfully shot down a North Vietnamese-flown Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 from their McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II. That day would mark Ritchie’s fifth successful kill, making him one of five ...

  4. 6 de abr. de 2022 · Brig. Gen. Steve Ritchie, retired in January 1999 after more than 34 years in the Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Colorado Air National Guard. (U.S. Air Force) After his second combat tour in Vietnam, Ritchie flew for the National Guard and the Air Force Reserve.

  5. www.smithsonianmag.com › air-space-magazine › last-american-aces-180955991The Last American Aces | Smithsonian

    Brig. Gen. Richard Stephen "Steve" Ritchie, USAF. (Robert Seale) “I miss combat flying to this day,” says Ritchie (photographed with an F-4 Phantom at Ellington Airport in Houston), who...

  6. 8 de mar. de 2017 · (U.S. Air Force photo) Military.com | By Bethanne Kelly Patrick. Published March 08, 2017. On July 8, 1972, then-Capt. Steve Ritchie downed two MiGs with three missiles in 1 minute, 29 seconds....

  7. Eagle Profile. Ritchie, Richard S. Brigadier General “SteveRitchie is the U.S. Air Force’s only pilot ace of the Vietnam War. Born in North Carolina in 1942, he graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1964. He then attended undergraduate pilot training in Texas where he finished first in his class.