Story by Lt. Col. Bradford Leighton | Joint Force Headquarters - Illinois National Guard Public Affairs | 06.29.2023
When Illinois Air National Guard Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. James Silvasy of Gurnee was an Army lieutenant in the late 1980s, he and his friend and fellow lieutenant, Jeff Caster, would look up into the sky from the woods during field training exercises at jet liners flying overhead. “I’d say ‘You know, Jimmy, those guys flying the jets up there are clean. And here we are,......
