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TOM CLARK

sKY by Ted and Jody Wilson

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n old movie called Sky then shipped over to
Captain and the World of Vietnam as tank company
ATomorrow inspired the title commander at the rank of
of this article, but the subject matter Captain.
inspired us even more.
After his four-year
Tom and Angie Clark began life enlistment, and wanting
on cotton farms south of Lubbock, to make a difference in this world, division, Oakland Resident Agency.
and both attended Cooper Schools. he applied to the FBI. But since Son Cary was born in 1973, and Tom
It was his eighth-grade year when there was a hiring freeze, he taught honed his investigating skills on a
Tom started noticing girls, especially Biology at Lubbock-Cooper and wide range of cases including the
Angelene Kubacak. In January taught flying lessons on the side. He notorious Patty Hearst kidnapping.
1963, during Tom’s freshman year had received his pilot’s license while After four years, the family of four
at Hardin-Simmons in Abilene, he in college and got his advanced moved to Chicago where Tom
and Angie were married. Angie’s rating on the GI Bill. was part of a team developing an
college career was interrupted by aviation program for the Bureau. He
the birth of their daughter, Cynthia, Tom was sworn into the FBI on was among the first FBI agent pilots,
in November 1964. Tom graduated April 10, 1972, and after four and he and another agent created an
with a BA in Biology and a minor in months training at Quantico, he aerial surveillance program for the
Chemistry. was assigned to the San Francisco Chicago Division. In August 1979,

Since Tom he was transferred to DC as Aviation
was Corps Supervisor for the entire Bureau.
Commander in After 13 years, Tom was allowed to
ROTC as a senior, transfer to his office of preference,
he entered the and eager to get back to Texas, he
Army as a 2nd chose Dallas. After two years of
Lieutenant in the investigating violent crimes in the
armor branch Metroplex, he and his family moved
(Tank Corps). to Abilene where he was the Senior
After training, he Resident Agent for ten years. He
spent two years served concurrently as a street agent
in Germany, and a Bureau instructor pilot.

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