Richard Haley selected as TCAT Oneida/Huntsville’s distinguished veteran
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Richard Haley selected as TCAT Oneida/Huntsville’s
distinguished veteran
Veterans in attendance at the luncheon are, from left: CIT instructor Jacob Kimbrell (U.S. Air Force), Correctional Programs Coordinator Lewis Wohlman (U.S. Navy), Power Line Construction & Maintenance instructor Tim Elliot (U.S. Air Force), substitute instructor Michael Byrge (U.S. Army), Truck Driving instructor David Brewster (Vietnam War veteran), Automotive instructor Tim Gibson (U.S. Air Force), Building Construction student Richard Haley (U.S. Air Force), and Twin K Construction’s (contractor for the new buildings on the Oneida campus) Seth Rector (U.S. Air Force).
HUNTSVILLE — Richard Haley, a student in Tennessee College of Applied Technology Oneida/Huntsville’s Building Construction Technology program, is the college’s nomination for the 2024 Tennessee Board of Regents’ Chancellor’s Commendation for Military Veterans.
Haley received the Chancellor’s Commendation at a special veterans luncheon at the Huntsville campus on Tuesday, Nov. 12, where TCAT Oneida/Huntsville also honored the rest of its veterans with a chicken-and-dumpling dinner.
Haley is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He served nine years in the USAF, with much of that time spent at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, where he worked on the Minuteman III weapon system. The Minuteman III is an intercontinental nuclear missile program.
Following his time in the Air Force, Haley met and married his wife, Terri. Following a stint at Hewlett Packard, he relocated with his family from Oregon to Stearns, Ky.
“I like to jokingly say that I took a blindfold and threw a dart at a board, and this is where I ended up,” Haley said.
With his wife operating a small business out of their home, making plushies and doing embroidery, Haley decided to enroll at TCAT Oneida/Huntsville. His son is a student in the school’s Automotive Technology program, and Haley took his advice to apply for admission.
“I do a lot of renovations and I wouldn’t mind doing some odd jobs here and there,” Haley said. “I just really wanted to learn some basic and residential construction, and this just seemed perfect.”
To learn more about TCAT Oneida/Huntsville’s 20 programs of study, visit tcatoneida.edu or call (423) 663-4900.
