Source: Email May 25, 2023
Subject: "A" school grad of Navy weather 1978
I graduated from Aerographer's mate "A" school at Chanute AFB in 1978. I got there about January 1978 and graduated about March 1978. I then was sent to Fleet Weather Facility- Suitland in Maryland. I am Tom Lippi from Denver, Colorado. In my class was Rocco Nigro III from Rome, New York. He was sent to Andrews AFB weather office in Washington DC. I became a satellite imagery analyst for the southern hemisphere and learned alot. I got out of the Navy in October 1981. I was stationed there my whole tour. We changed our name to Naval Polar Oceanography Center in about 1980. Dan Stemple from Klamath Falls, Oregon and the late Mark King from Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, graduated a few classes later from Chanute weather school. We all worked together at Suitland.
Tom Lippi
