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years in the Army and. in 1956. enlisted in the Air Force.
He spent 20 years in the Air Force as an air-craft dispatcher and instructor for senior officers. He served at bases in California. Colorado. Massachusetts. Austria. Germany. Japan and Thailand.
The Air Force also gave Brown an opportunity to finish his schooling.
‘Military service was the best thing that ever happened to me. other than my wife,* he said.
Brown said he never spent much time considering the possibility of ending segregation until Martin Luther King Jr. came along. He was in the military by then, and the military had been desegregated in the 1940s.
Brown said he was planning to retire in Denver, where he spent a great deal of his career in the Air Force, but moved back to Rappahannock to be closer to family. His wife. Alberta, is also a Rappahannock native. The couple have been married 52 years.
- Written by Kevin Allen
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