Butch Engwell
Member, director, Bass
- Association Details
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Office(s): Board Member
Music Team Member
- Bio/Profile
- Completed AOCS and commissioned Ensign 7 December 1962. Assigned to AEWBARRONONPAC Hawaii and then NAAS Chase Field where his tour was cut short to become Director of the Naval Air Training Command Choir. Highlights include performances with Anita Bryant, Vaughn Monroe, on the Mike Douglas Show, the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, 50th Anniversary of Naval Aviation in New York, Winter Carnival at Lake Placid, Pre-game New Orleans Saints. Seattle Sea Fair and Alaskan Centennial. The first Medical student, a Commander, sang in the Choir in 1967. Served in VA-85, VA-95, as B/N Training Officer at COMVAT/VAQWINGPAC and as Strike Operations Officer aboard USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65). His Public Affairs tours were as PAO COMFAIR ALAMEDA and COMUSMACV as Air Warfare Spokesman to the International Press Corps in Saigon. He was Commanding Officer of NRD Dallas. Final tour was Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility Albuquerque. He piloted the Navy's Hot Air Balloon for four years of that tour and retired 1 July 1989. Civilian positions include Director of Logistics at Albuquerque Logistics Inc. and Consultant to the Institute of Public Law at the University of New Mexico. Permantly retired in 2007. He enjoys travelling nationally and internationally with Helen, his wife of 61 years, and playing tuba with five local bands and the FMCA Frustrated Maestros.
- Reunion choir Details
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Role(s): director, Bass Status: Active Special role with this ensemble: director
- Ensemble Details
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Role(s): Bass Status: Active
