Background
A native of Flushing, New York where he was born in 1935, Harlin is an ordained Baptist pastor.
A native of Flushing, New York where he was born in 1935, Harlin is an ordained Baptist pastor.
Gardner–Webb University.
He is a graduate of Nyack College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He died in February 2015 in hospital at LaGrange, Georgia. Harlin joined the United States Air Force in 1965 and was stationed at Minot Air Force Base.
Later, he served in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1968.
Harlin later became Command Chaplain of Air Training Command, the Air University and Tactical Air Command before being named Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force in 1988. Harlin remained Chief of Chaplains until his retirement in 1995.