{"id":2620,"date":"2015-05-03T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T02:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewindmillrestaurant.net\/?page_id=2620"},"modified":"2022-10-23T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T02:05:40","slug":"ltc-clifford-stephen-athey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/?page_id=2620","title":{"rendered":"LTC Clifford Stephen Athey &#8211; 1 Jun 1921 &#8211; 8 Aug 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Arlington-TAPS.wav\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"><br \/>\n<strong>LTC Clifford S. Athey (Clifford Stephen Athey)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; Born 1 Jun 1921 in California &#8211; Died 1970 0827 in Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1934 0318 &#8211; Trinity Episcopal Church, Confirmations, Book 4, St Augustine, Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clifford-Steve-Athey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2625\" src=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clifford-Steve-Athey.jpg\" alt=\"Clifford Steve Athey\" width=\"142\" height=\"196\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1943 0709&nbsp;&nbsp; Enlistment Date &#8211;&nbsp;Army Serial Number &#8211; 3478972 &#8211;&nbsp; Place of enlistment &#8211; Camp Blanding Florida &#8211;&nbsp;Nativity &#8211; California<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athey2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-740\" src=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athey2-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Athey2\" width=\"155\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athey2-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Athey2.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1949 &#8211; CPT Clifford S. Athey was hired as the 51<sup>st<\/sup> Division Air Officer and became the first Army Aviation Support Facility Commander, South Carolina Army National Guard.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1955 \u2013 CPT Athey went active Army.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1959 &#8211; MAJ Athey had an article published in the Aug 1959 Aviation Digest &#8211; Page 24 &#8211; &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>http:\/\/www.rucker.army.mil\/usaace\/techlibrary\/avdigest\/index.html<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;1967 &#8211; LTC Athey had an article &#8220;Progress&#8221; published in the Apr 1967 Aviation Digest &#8211; Page 27 &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>http:\/\/www.rucker.army.mil\/usaace\/techlibrary\/avdigest\/index.html&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1967 1013 &#8211; Extracted from AGAM-P (M) (3 Oct 67) FOR OT RD 670282 13 October 1967<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;SUBJECT: &nbsp;&nbsp;Operational Report &#8211; Lessons Learned, Headquarters, 17th Combat Aviation Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;\u2026..On 11 Mar 67 LTC Clifford S. Athey, Arty, was assigned as Deputy Group Commander vice LTC Foy Rice\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1969 0101&nbsp;\u2013 Official Army Officer Registry 1 Jan 1969 &#8211;&nbsp;Service Number 0-0535151 &#8211;&nbsp;Basic Branch \u2013 FA &#8211;&nbsp;Temp Grade \u2013 LTC &#8211;&nbsp;Temp DOR \u2013 1963 0322 &#8211;&nbsp;Perm Grade \u2013 LTC &#8211;&nbsp;Basic Pay Entry Date \u2013 1943 0708 &#8211;&nbsp;Component \u2013 NGUS &#8211;&nbsp;Current Ser Agreement \u2013 P &#8211;&nbsp;DOB \u2013 1921 0601&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1970 0827 &#8211; LTC Athey was checking out his replacement in preparation for his retirement when he was killed in the crash of a U-8 twin engine aircraft on a training mission at approx 11:30 hrs in an uninhabited area near Homestead General Aviation Airport in south Dade County Florida.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTC Clifford S. Athey (Clifford Stephen Athey) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; Born 1 Jun 1921 in California &#8211; Died 1970 0827 in Florida 1934 0318 &#8211; Trinity Episcopal Church, Confirmations, Book 4, St Augustine, Florida 1943 0709&nbsp;&nbsp; Enlistment Date &#8211;&nbsp;Army Serial Number &#8211; 3478972 &#8211;&nbsp; Place of enlistment &#8211; Camp Blanding Florida &#8211;&nbsp;Nativity &#8211; California 1949 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2620\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarngavpicthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}