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MANSFIELD — Timothy Beard has literally sailed the world since graduating from Mansfield Senior High School in 1962.
The retired two-star U.S. Navy rear admiral — whose 34-year military career included a stint as the commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) — is the guest on the News Man Weekly podcast.
Now a Dallas resident, Beard came back to his hometown this week to speak to the Rotary Club of Mansfield as the guest of Jeff Gorman, the executive chairman of The Gorman-Rupp Company.
In an hour-long-plus conversation, Beard reflects on growing up in Mansfield and leaving home for the U.S. Naval Academy before taking listeners inside the world of Naval aviation, 155 combat missions over Vietnam, test pilot training and landing aircraft aboard carriers.
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He shares lessons from commanding 5,000 sailors aboard the USS John F. Kennedy, his transition from pilot and ship captain to senior strategic leader and his perspective on how warfare and the Navy have evolved.
Before that chat, the News Man Weekly team of Carl Hunnell, Zac Hiser and Hayden Gray recap the latest Richland County news, including plans to transform a former Madison school property into housing; a proposed $32 million affordable housing development across Mansfield; and Wiener King celebrating 50 years in business.
Plus, after making a whirlwind trip Monday from Mansfield to Dallas and back to bring Beard home, Hunnell counts down his Top 5 humorous reasons why flying on the Gorman-Rupp corporate jet has officially ruined commercial air travel for him.
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