Thomas G. Goduto Interview, 20 February 2001
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| INT: | Why was it General Thompson? | |
| TG: | Because, he was the General that I knew personally. I was in his house, had a beer with him in his house. I knew him a little bit, not very much, and that's why I think it was him. But he might be the only General name that I remember being up there. I thought that he was the division commander, but if he wasn't listed as an ex-division—he might've been the missile wing commander. | |
| INT: | Okay. | |
| TG: | And the missile wing commander may have been a Brigadier General versus the flying wing commander was a O-6 Colonel. | |
| INT: | Yeah. In fact, the division commander at that time was a Colonel and then he was promoted. | |
| TG: | Maybe I'm thinking we went to a General's office and we actually went to a Colonel's office. Although I knew that the office we went to was not the flying wing commander—was not in the flying wing. | |
| INT: | Okay. | |
| TG: | It was down where the missile area was. It was not familiar surroundings to us. | |
| INT: | It must not be, because all you guys have sort of odd memories of it, it wasn't normal routine for you. | |
| TG: | Oh no, certainly not normal. Down where the tanker squadron was and the missile area was, which is not where I remember division headquarters being. And we went into that debriefing and it wasn't real cordial, it didn't seem. The way I remember it, it was just very matter-of-fact and, in other words, there was nothing light about it from— | |
| INT: | You guys all walked together to this room? | |
| TG: | Yeah. | |
| INT: | Was Partin there? | |
| TG: | Yeah, I think we went in as a group, yeah. | |
| INT: | Okay. Was Cagle there? | |
| TG: | Yeah, he would've been there. |
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