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CDR Bill Hobgood, USN (ret)

The son of a career Naval Officer, Bill was born in New Orleans, LA in 1947. As a child he lived in New Orleans, Guam, San Francisco, Japan, McLean, VA and Coronado, CA. After completing high school in Northern Virginia, he graduated from Texas A&M University in 1969. Following flight training, he reported to Patrol Squadron Forty-Five in Jacksonville and served there from 1971 - 1974. After VP-45, he served in assignments with various patrol aviation squadrons and patrol wing staffs, a carrier battle group staff, Naval War College, a training wing staff and ended his 22 year career as a squadron commander and then executive officer of Naval Air Station, Moffett Field.

Following his retirement from the Navy in 1991, Bill worked for ServiceMaster Corporation before striking out on his own. Over the next 15 years, he was partner wings and/or owner in four businesses in the Tampa, Florida area. In 2006, in an attempt to escape hurricanes and heat, he moved to Austin, Texas where he is now fully retired. He lives with his wife, Becky and their son, Josh who is in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University as an Army ROTC scholarship cadet.

Bill assumed duties as the VP-45 Association Webmaster in 2012 upon completion of this (new) Association website.