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Former Cowley student assumes duties as Officer in Charge
Lieutenant Commander Craig Neubecker, United States
Coast Guard, who attended Cowley College during the 1988-89 academic
year, was recently named Officer in Charge of the U.S. Navy’s
Helicopter Instructor Training Unit (HITU).
As Officer in Charge of the HITU, Neubecker is responsible for the joint training
of every U.S. Navy Marine Corp and Coast Guard Helicopter Instructor Pilot for
the Chief of Naval Aviation Training at Naval Air Station Whiting Field near
Pensacola, Fla.
Neubecker, a 1988 graduate of Central High School in Burden, and the Instructor
Pilots he trains are then tasked with the responsibility to train all NAVY, Marine
Corp and Coast Guard student aviators to fight the Global War on Terror and provide
Homeland Security for the United States.
It is rare that a Coast Guard Officer is chosen for this responsibility, and
this marks only the third time in history that a Coast Guard Officer has been
selected to assume the duties as the Officer in Charge of the HITU.
Neubecker, who graduated from Kansas State University in 1993 with a bachelor’s
degree in History, lives with his wife, Kimberly, and son, Duke, in Pace, Fla.
His parents are Don and the late Esther Neubecker of Burden.
