 Your Webmaster - Dave Broeker Biography:
David W. Broeker –USAF (1966-1970)
Born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa - June 30, 1947 Raised in Mt. Union, Iowa Attended school at Winfield-Mt. Union Consolidated at Winfield, Iowa.
Graduated class of 1965
1965 - Worked at GE in Burlington, Iowa. 1966 - Left GE in March for military service and joined the USAF
1966-1967 - 814th CDS, Westover AFB, MA (SAC), Handled MWD Prince (1X63) 1967-1968 - 635th SPS U-Tapao RTAB, Thailand, Handled MWD Ara (9M72), donated to the King of Thailand to start their K-9 Corps. 1968-1970 - 408th Fighter Group, Kingsley Field AFB, OR (ADC), no K-9. Member of the elite “Kingsley Field Memorial Volunteer Drill Team”. 1969-1970 - Earned my FCC license as an Open Circuit Radio and TV Broadcaster and worked at Radio station KAGO in Klamath falls, Oregon.
1970 - Returned from military leave and continued to work at GE in Burlington, Iowa. 1974 - Became an Electrical Engineer at GE and worked in Engineering until 1987
1987 - Retired from GE after 21 years. 1987 - Started work at Sherex Chemical as an Electrical Engineer in Mapleton, Illinois. 1990 - Married Patricia Bond. (Second marriage for both of us). She has 2 wonderful daughters and I have 1 son.
1991 - Became Manager of Information Technologies and Communications. Note - Sherex went thru several name changes. Sherex, Witco, Goldschmidt, Degussa, Evonik.
2001 - April 27 - Joined the VDHA by request of Retired TSgt. Ben Cox, 635th SPS, U-Tapao, Thailand, the Assistant Kennel Master in 1968 who had been looking for me for many years.
2002 - April - Became VDHA Webmaster. 2007 - October 1 - Siemens Technologies bought me and my I/T services from Evonik. I then worked for Siemens Technologies at the same location for the same people.
2009 - July 1 - Retired from Siemens Technologies at age 62 after working 22 years at this location. 2010 - February 9 - Became the VDHA BX Manager.
I have 1 son, 2 lovely step daughters, and 3 wonderful grandchildren. My wife and I now reside in Pekin, Illinois, and are enjoying our retirement to the fullest, working with the VDHA, traveling, dining out, using computers, and playing slots as our hobbies. | 
