C. David DePriest, Colonel USAF (Ret.)

Engineering Executive | Retired Military Officer

C. David DePriest

A Timeline of Professional Milestones 

1938

Born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania to Dr. Charles Leonard and Elizabeth Hoover DePriest.

1959

Enlists in the U.S. Air Force.

1960

Marries Blanquita Reinoso of Caibarién, Cuba.

1962

Is a distinguished graduate of OCS and is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.

1964

Becomes a B-52 Stanboard Navigator at Beale Air Force Base in California.

1965

Welcomes the births of his daughter Lisa, his second daughter Diane in 1966, and his son David in 1970.

1972

Completes 129 combat missions in Vietnam as a B-52 Radar Navigator

1974

Receives a Bachelor of Science in Electric Engineering with distinction from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

1975

Earns an MS from AFIT; is program manager of the GPS Missile Guidance Program at the AF Armament Lab at Eglin Air Force Base, FL.

1975

Is Chief of the Missile Guidance Branch in the U.S. Air Force Armament Lab at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida.

1979

Becomes program element manager of the Avionics & Armament Division at the Air Staff and the Pentagon.

1979

Becomes then Deputy Division Chief of the Avionics & Armament Division at the Air Staff and the Pentagon.

 1984

Becomes Chief of the Engineering Division at Warner Robins ALC in Georgia.

1986

Becomes Director of Intercommand Electronic Warfare at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

1988

Is Director of Plans and Operations in the Air Force Electronic Combat Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH.

1991

Retires from the U.S. Air Force. He also divorces from Blanquita Reinoso.

1992

Is Manager of the Warner Robins Applications Department and Site Manager for The Analytic Sciences Corp., Inc.

1997

Becomes president of DePriest Associates, Inc. in Warner Robins, Georgia.

2001

Marries Marlena Brectel. She passes in 2002. He later retires from DePriest Associates, Inc., in 2015.

2019

Is awarded Life Masters Rank in November 2019 by the American Contract Bridge League.

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