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Robert Roger Boyd
1934 - 2025
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Springfield, VA 22159
MSGT Robert R Boyd, USAF (RET) passed away on April 8th, 2025 from leukemia. Sgt. Boyd enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 during the Korean War at the age of 17. After basic training at Sheppard AFB, TX, he was assigned to Dallas Aviation School in Dallas, TX, for nine months of aircraft mechanics training. He was next assigned to Chanute AFB IL. For aircraft instrument repair school. He volunteered there for technical instructor duty with the 3499th Mobile Training Group. He remained in mobile/field training for 19 years traveling to fifty-four different bases in the CON-US, and Libya, French Morocco, Puerto Rico, and Okinawa on the F-85D, F-105D, and F-111A/C automatic flight control systems. In 1968 he was assigned to a Mobile Training Team in Australia for six months, training the Royal Australian Air Force on the F-111C AFCS.
Upon retiring in 1971 he attended the University of New Mexico and obtained a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with honors in 1974. He spent the next twenty-eight years working as an analog circuit designer in the aerospace industry, primarily at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Fullerton, CA and retired again in 2002.
He was survived by his loving wife Linda, Daughter Jana, Granddaughter Katherine (Katie) and great-granddaughters Lily, Summer and Brooke.
He was buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California, located on Van Buren Blvd., in Riverside, CA site 12AObituary
Air Force Times
6883 Commercial Drive,
Springfield, VA 22159
MSGT Robert R Boyd, USAF (RET) passed away on April 8th, 2025 from leukemia. Sgt. Boyd enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 during the Korean War at the age of 17. After basic training at Sheppard AFB, TX, he was assigned to Dallas Aviation School in Dallas, TX, for nine months of aircraft mechanics training. He was next assigned to Chanute AFB IL. For aircraft instrument repair school. He volunteered there for technical instructor duty with the 3499th Mobile Training Group. He remained in mobile/field training for 19 years traveling to fifty-four different bases in the CON-US, and Libya, French Morocco, Puerto Rico, and Okinawa on the F-85D, F-105D, and F-111A/C automatic flight control systems. In 1968 he was assigned to a Mobile Training Team in Australia for six months, training the Royal Australian Air Force on the F-111C AFCS.
Upon retiring in 1971 he attended the University of New Mexico and obtained a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with honors in 1974. He spent the next twenty-eight years working as an analog circuit designer in the aerospace industry, primarily at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Fullerton, CA and retired again in 2002.
He was survived by his loving wife Linda, Daughter Jana, Granddaughter Katherine (Katie) and great-granddaughters Lily, Summer and Brooke.
He was buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California, located on Van Buren Blvd., in Riverside, CA site 12AObituary
Air Force Times
6883 Commercial Drive,
Springfield, VA 22159
MSGT Robert R Boyd, USAF (RET) passed away on April 8th, 2025 from leukemia. Sgt. Boyd enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 during the Korean War at the age of 17. After basic training at Sheppard AFB, TX, he was assigned to Dallas Aviation School in Dallas, TX, for nine months of aircraft mechanics training. He was next assigned to Chanute AFB IL. For aircraft instrument repair school. He volunteered there for technical instructor duty with the 3499th Mobile Training Group. He remained in mobile/field training for 19 years traveling to fifty-four different bases in the CON-US, and Libya, French Morocco, Puerto Rico, and Okinawa on the F-85D, F-105D, and F-111A/C automatic flight control systems. In 1968 he was assigned to a Mobile Training Team in Australia for six months, training the Royal Australian Air Force on the F-111C AFCS.
Upon retiring in 1971 he attended the University of New Mexico and obtained a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with honors in 1974. He spent the next twenty-eight years working as an analog circuit designer in the aerospace industry, primarily at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Fullerton, CA and retired again in 2002.
He was survived by his loving wife Linda, Daughter Jana, Granddaughter Katherine (Katie) and great-granddaughters Lily, Summer and Brooke.
He was buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California, located on Van Buren Blvd., in Riverside, CA site 12A
Air Force Times
6883 Commercial Drive,
Springfield, VA 22159
MSGT Robert R Boyd, USAF (RET) passed away on April 8th, 2025 from leukemia. Sgt. Boyd enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 during the Korean War at the age of 17. After basic training at Sheppard AFB, TX, he was assigned to Dallas Aviation School in Dallas, TX, for nine months of aircraft mechanics training. He was next assigned to Chanute AFB IL. For aircraft instrument repair school. He volunteered there for technical instructor duty with the 3499th Mobile Training Group. He remained in mobile/field training for 19 years traveling to fifty-four different bases in the CON-US, and Libya, French Morocco, Puerto Rico, and Okinawa on the F-85D, F-105D, and F-111A/C automatic flight control systems. In 1968 he was assigned to a Mobile Training Team in Australia for six months, training the Royal Australian Air Force on the F-111C AFCS.
Upon retiring in 1971 he attended the University of New Mexico and obtained a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with honors in 1974. He spent the next twenty-eight years working as an analog circuit designer in the aerospace industry, primarily at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Fullerton, CA and retired again in 2002.
He was survived by his loving wife Linda, Daughter Jana, Granddaughter Katherine (Katie) and great-granddaughters Lily, Summer and Brooke.
He was buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California, located on Van Buren Blvd., in Riverside, CA site 12AObituary
Air Force Times
6883 Commercial Drive,
Springfield, VA 22159
MSGT Robert R Boyd, USAF (RET) passed away on April 8th, 2025 from leukemia. Sgt. Boyd enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 during the Korean War at the age of 17. After basic training at Sheppard AFB, TX, he was assigned to Dallas Aviation School in Dallas, TX, for nine months of aircraft mechanics training. He was next assigned to Chanute AFB IL. For aircraft instrument repair school. He volunteered there for technical instructor duty with the 3499th Mobile Training Group. He remained in mobile/field training for 19 years traveling to fifty-four different bases in the CON-US, and Libya, French Morocco, Puerto Rico, and Okinawa on the F-85D, F-105D, and F-111A/C automatic flight control systems. In 1968 he was assigned to a Mobile Training Team in Australia for six months, training the Royal Australian Air Force on the F-111C AFCS.
Upon retiring in 1971 he attended the University of New Mexico and obtained a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with honors in 1974. He spent the next twenty-eight years working as an analog circuit designer in the aerospace industry, primarily at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Fullerton, CA and retired again in 2002.
He was survived by his loving wife Linda, Daughter Jana, Granddaughter Katherine (Katie) and great-granddaughters Lily, Summer and Brooke.
He was buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California, located on Van Buren Blvd., in Riverside, CA site 12AObituary
Air Force Times
6883 Commercial Drive,
Springfield, VA 22159
MSGT Robert R Boyd, USAF (RET) passed away on April 8th, 2025 from leukemia. Sgt. Boyd enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 during the Korean War at the age of 17. After basic training at Sheppard AFB, TX, he was assigned to Dallas Aviation School in Dallas, TX, for nine months of aircraft mechanics training. He was next assigned to Chanute AFB IL. For aircraft instrument repair school. He volunteered there for technical instructor duty with the 3499th Mobile Training Group. He remained in mobile/field training for 19 years traveling to fifty-four different bases in the CON-US, and Libya, French Morocco, Puerto Rico, and Okinawa on the F-85D, F-105D, and F-111A/C automatic flight control systems. In 1968 he was assigned to a Mobile Training Team in Australia for six months, training the Royal Australian Air Force on the F-111C AFCS.
Upon retiring in 1971 he attended the University of New Mexico and obtained a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with honors in 1974. He spent the next twenty-eight years working as an analog circuit designer in the aerospace industry, primarily at Hughes Aircraft Co. in Fullerton, CA and retired again in 2002.
He was survived by his loving wife Linda, Daughter Jana, Granddaughter Katherine (Katie) and great-granddaughters Lily, Summer and Brooke.
He was buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California, located on Van Buren Blvd., in Riverside, CA site 12A
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Published by MilitaryTimes.com on Sep. 18, 2025.
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