The Bradleys’ only child, Leigh Ann Kosmas, said flying fighter jets was her father’s first love.Ī fellow pilot, officer and friend called him legendary. In Vietnam, he flew the first of his 337 combat missions. He entered the Air Force, and determined to volunteer for service in Vietnam, he picked an airplane that would send him there. However, we hope you will support our work with your prayers and financial gifts. He chuckled at himself when he added, “I don’t think the Air Force even knew they had a lieutenant general who had flunked out of their own academy.”Ĭlearly, the academic detour did not slow his career.Īccess to MinistryWatch content is free. But, John says, he “wasn’t killing it the first two years either.” He transferred to the University of Tennessee, enlisted in ROTC, made the Dean’s List and earned the top ROTC award at graduation in 1967. John was accepted to the Air Force Academy but flunked out in his third year, just months after Bobby died, which their father believed was the cause. One brother-Bobby, a naval radar intercept officer-was killed during training just a year after graduating from the U.S. John Bradley is one of five brothers who served in the military. The older brother calls the Bradleys “Grandma and Grandpa.” Their older brother was left behind to hide with their father and mourn their mother who died in the explosion. service members and scores of Afghan civilians. The children were at the gate when an Aug. troops withdrew, the couple hoped to help 500 Afghans escape the country and the reprisals they believed were inevitable.Īt publication time, about a dozen family members of one Afghan-American physician in Houston and two small children, relatives of an Afghan-American friend in Virginia, had made it out. The Bradleys had lost friends before in Afghanistan-volunteers murdered by the Taliban because they worked with Americans, because they helped educate girls. As the American military prepared for its final withdrawal, the Afghan government and military imploded, and the Taliban quickly resumed control. The future of those schools and the people they came to love and admire fell into jeopardy this summer.
They built seven schools and clinics, provided prosthetics for children injured in war and built relationships with other organizations and Afghans who became their partners and dear friends. Through the foundation, they provided more than 3.5 million pounds of humanitarian aid over 13 years. Then in 2008, in what John calls a five-minute conversation, they decided to spend their retirement helping the people of Afghanistan. military, serving country, community and churches. Air Force reservists under Bradley’s command in the final years of his 41-year career just called him General Bradley.īradley and his wife, Jan, founders of the Lamia Afghan Foundation, spent a lifetime moving from base to base and up through the ranks of the U.S.
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“He is the kind of guy you build TV shows around: Top Gun meets Jesus Christ.”
“I love that he was a fighter pilot,” Durham said. Longtime minister Ken Durham prefers “Top Gun.” At least that’s how he describes his friend, retired Air Force Lt.
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