Guests:

RADM H. Denny Wisley USN Retired

Author:

Green Ink

Memories of a Fighter Pilot

Commander and Flight Leader of the Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron – Boss ‘80/81”

BIOGRAPHY

Boss ’80/’81

He was raised in Wayne, New Jersey and attended Fairleigh Dickinson University prior to entering the Naval Aviation Cadet program in 1961. AS a Fighter Pilot he flew 350 combat missions over Vietnam, during which time he was first to shoot down two enemy aircraft and was shot down over NVN by ground fire on Hanoi strike. He was Commander and Flight Leader of the Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Squadron; Captain of the auxiliary ship, U.S.S. SYLVANIA and Captain of the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. JOHN F. KENNEDY, Director of Navy Liaison for the Navy Office of Legislative Affairs, Director Warfare Systems Engineering and Architecture at Navy Space and Electronic Warfare Systems Command and Director of Operations at the Defense Nuclear Agency, He retired from the U.S Navy in October 1994 as a Rear Admiral.

After retiring from the Navy, Admiral Wisely developed and ran an international business at Motorola in Scottsdale, AZ. He took advantage of networked communications and systems integration developed by Motorola for the U.S Department of Defense and applied this technology in commercial endeavors. Some examples of his success were: linked all police precincts in the country of Malaysia by way of a secure communications network; designed and built an Integrated Communications Center at Inchon International Airport in Korea and won the contract to integrate the Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal allowing all the major systems to interact with each other. When Motorola’s Integrated Information Systems Group was bought by General Dynamics, he became the account director for Navy, Marine Corps and Homeland Security customers. His last major effort was winning the $300M + Marine Unit Operations Center Program. This program has become a major revenue input for the company and a valued capability for the Marine Corps.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Military: Silver Star, Legion of Merit (6), Distinguished Flying Cross (2), Air Medal (29), Purple Heart. Civilian: Society of Experimental Test Pilots ’76, Pinnacle Award Charter Inductee Fairleigh Dickinson University ’90, New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame Inductee ’95. EDUCATION/TRAINING

He attended the U.S. Naval Post Graduate School ’69 -’70 and received a degree in Government/International Relations. In 1993 he attended JFK School of Government Senior Executive Course at Harvard.

Denny is retired with his wife Nadine in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Links:

http://blueangelsassociation.org/

Luke AFB Luke Days/ Airshow/ March 17^th/18^th 2018-03-08

http://www.luke.af.mil/2018-Luke-Days/

Guest:

Arizona State Senate Candidate- LD 20

Dr. Charles Loftus

Charles Loftus, Ph.D. has been a law enforcement officer for over thirty years working as a patrolman, investigator, supervisor, mid level management and as a Chief. He is retired from a state-level police agency in 2016.  His experience includes patrol, multi-jurisdictional task forces, fraud, public & police corruption, supervisor, training officer, and instructor of multiple disciplines.  Dr. Loftus has investigated complex frauds and misappropriation of state and federal funding, public corruption, narcotic crimes, prescription diversion by providers and abuse to patients and elderly. In his past assignments, he supervised the financial remedies section, which oversees statewide undercover – large scale narcotic operations, intelligence analysts, financial investigators and analysts for RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) offenses. Dr. Loftus is heavily involved in the supervision and direction of Southwest Border and cross-border investigations. Dr. Loftus was the Chief Law Enforcement Office at the Arizona Department of Economic Security.  In 2005, Dr. Loftus earned his Ph.D. in Public Administration with an emphasis on Criminal Justice Public Policy/Public Police Misconduct & Corruption.. He also has a Masters in Public Administration with an emphasis on policy analysis and ethics. His research interests are police officer misconduct and counter-terrorism/intelligence studies. Dr. Loftus has taught at Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University teaching counter-terrorism, domestic terrorism, research methods, statistics, the police management, and international politics. He is the director of a study abroad program through ASU that takes students to Israel to learn about counter-terrorism, intelligence coordination, Islamic fascism, jihadism, proactive security measures, infrastructure protection, and emergency responses to terrorism. Dr. Loftus also serves on the Advisory Board for the Annual Editions: Homeland Security and Annual Editions: Violence and Terrorism. Dr. Loftus’ published work includes works on critical infrastructure protection – chemical facility security, law enforcement misconduct, preparing future counter-terrorism defenders, and succession management.

Dr. Loftus is his personal life is involved with the Boy Scouts of America and is a amateur radio operator, (Extra Class)  KG7KRN.

He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, ASIS, Thunderbird Amature Radio Associoation, and Arizona Repeater Association.

Website:

https://loftus4az.com/