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SUBJ/PASSING OF VICE ADMIRAL THOMAS JOHN KILCLINE, USN, RET//
 
RMKS/1.  VADM THOMAS JOHN KILCLINE, FORMER COMMANDER, NAVAL AIR
FORCE, U.S. ATLANTIC FLEET, PASSED AWAY 11 JULY 2002.  VADM
KILCLINE'S REMARKABLE CAREER SPANNED FOUR DECADES FROM THE
CLOSING YEARS OF WWII TO THE CLOSING YEARS OF THE COLD WAR.
 
2.  VADM KILCLINE WAS BORN IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN ON 9 DECEMBER
1925. HE ENLISTED IN THE USN IN 1943 AND WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED
IN 1945 TO ATTEND THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY.  UPON GRADUATION,
CLASS OF 1949, VADM KILCLINE EMBARKED UPON A STORIED CAREER
IN THE NAVAL AIR FORCE.  THROUGH HIS LONG AND
DISTINGUISHED CAREER VADM KILCLINE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN MANY
OF THE PROGRAMS WHICH HAVE MADE OUR NAVY THE FINEST IN THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
 
3.  HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE DORNELL AND HIS SON RADM TOM
J. KILCLINE, JR., AND DAUGHTER MARY.
 
4.  FUNERAL IS SCHEDULED FOR 1345, 17 JULY 2002, AT MEMORIAL
CHAPEL LOCATED AT FT. MYERS, FOLLOWED BY BURIAL AT ARLINGTON
NATIONAL CEMETERY.
 
5.  RELEASED BY VADM P. A. TRACEY, DIRECTOR, NAVY STAFF.//
 
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