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Combat Crewmember. He served in this capacity
during the Cuban Missile Crisis and flew many
missions in support of SAC’s Operation Chrome Dome. Thank you,
After attending the Air Force Squadron Officer’s
School at Maxwell AFB, AL in 1964, James was
upgraded to the crew position of Radar Navigator and Lubbock.
served in that position until 1967. He was an Instructor
Radar Navigator and accrued over 3,200 hours flight
time in the B-52. In 1967 he was reassigned to the B-58
Hustler - the SAC’s supersonic Bomber. He served in
the 305th Bomb Wing as a B-58 Crewmember until Our faculty, staff, students and families
1970. When the B-58 was taken out of service, he was
sent to SAC’s Radar Bomb Scoring Site (RBS) at La along with our entire CTK parish
Junta, CO, where he was deployed to South Vietnam
and Thailand as a Radar Controller, directing and community thank the Lubbock community
controlling aircraft bombing targets in Southeast Asia.
He directed over 250 airstrikes by B-52s and other
aircraft against enemy targets. for their support of Christ the King

He was awarded the Bronze Star and reassigned to the Cathedral School for more than 60 years.
97th Bomb Wing. He flew missions in Southeast Asia
and was later assigned as the Support Headquarters
Squadron Commander. In early 1974 he was assigned
to the 90th Strategic Missile Wing at Warren AFB,
WY where he served as a Missile Combat Crew
Commander, Missile Squadron Operations Officer,
Missile Plans Officer and Director – Plans and
Intelligence Division. In 1976, he was appointed
Squadron Commander of the 321st Strategic Missile
Squadron. In 1978, he was reassigned to Incirlik
Common Defense Installation, Turkey as Deputy Base
Commander. CTK students are challenged to discover, learn and experience The Word
while also achieving academic success in many areas. Our students
He retired in July 1980 as a Lt. Colonel. During my consistently qualify to compete in multiple academic competitions:
grandfather’s career, he was a crewmember in three
different weapons systems and served in support of • Texas Association of Private & Parochial • Texas State Science & Engineering Fair
the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, the Vietnam Schools (TAPPS) State Academic & Art Meet • Private Schools Interscholastic
Conflict and the beginning of the Mideast Conflict. He High School students won the 2019 TAPPS Academic (PSIA) State Meet
1A Division Academic & Speech Championship
was awarded Senior Navigator Wings and the Senior
Missile Badge along with several medals.

Willard R. Paine
WWII ~ Army
Eighteen 6th-12th
grade students qualified
“Boss” by Caroline Paine | Grade 7 to represent the South
Plains area at the 2019
Texas State Science
& Engineering Fair.
eterans are so much more than just people who
Vserve in the military. They are heroes. This is a
story about a certain veteran, my great-grandfather,
Willard R. Paine or, as we like to call him, “Boss”.
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The second World War had begun. Willard was experience CTK bking@ctkcathedralschool.org
attending Abilene Christian College at the time as 4011 54th Street, Lubbock
a sophomore. He had to leave college after he was by scheduling a tour. 806-795-8283
drafted into the United States Army. Two years
later he became a sergeant and was stationed in
Geilenkirchen, Germany. CTKCATHEDRALSCHOOL.ORG

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