The first instructors
MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. – The first instructors of the Air National Guard Noncommissioned Officers Academy in 1968 get their photo taken with U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. I.G. Brown, then Director of the Air National Guard. From left, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sheridan J. Lloyd, Senior Master Sgt. Robert Alexander, Maj. Gen. I.G. Brown, Senior Master Sgt. Joseph Diaz and Senior Master Sgt. Donald Pettirew at their ranks shown. NCO Academy was the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center’s first program of instruction. The TEC was later dedicated to Brown during its 10th anniversary celebration, June 1978. (U.S. Air National Guard file-photo/Released)