CAPT,

Still miss your leadership and your loyalty to your people.

V/r,
Stu

Jack was one of my favorite squadron mates while in Brunswick, ME. We spent many long nights on alert in Bermuda. Jack and a few of us spent a lot of time passing hours talking sports. He was really knowledgeable in a lot of areas, but particularly formidable in sports trivia. Always jovial, I never heard him say a bad word about anyone. I last saw him at a Christmas party at the Pentagon. He will be missed.

CAPT Jack Punches, I remember fondly his cheerful, positive leadership during the early days of USSTRATCOM and flying the Airborne Command Post mission with him. Years later at the Pentagon, we passed more than once while jogging in opposite directions from the POAC and I always thought there would be time to stop and catch up from our flying days at Offutt but alas that terrible morning 7 years ago. I am proud to have served with Jack. Fair winds and following seas, shipmate, I will never forget...

Jack, you were a great high school buddy and I always enjoyed cheering for you. Wasn't it great when you guys would come out of the locker room and bust through the 'Tiger Ring'? You are still sorely missed by everyone in Tower Hill, Illinois.

Jack Punches was the finest skipper I ever knew, as well as a good friend and mentor. As my own son is commissioned and begins flight training this summer, I intend to remind him often of the example Capt. Punches set for us as Naval officers, fathers, husbands, and human beings. He will always be loved by those of us who worked with him, and he will certainly never be forgotten.

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