Background
Patrick, Rayford Powell was born on March 19, 1939 in Senatobia, Mississippi, United States. Son of Ervin Powell and Carrie Viola (Singleton) Patrick.
Patrick, Rayford Powell was born on March 19, 1939 in Senatobia, Mississippi, United States. Son of Ervin Powell and Carrie Viola (Singleton) Patrick.
Bachelor of Science, Mississippi State University, 1961. Master of Science, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Purdue University, 1976.
Second in command Lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1961; advanced through grades lieutenant colonel, United States Air Force B-1 Bomber project engineer, Air Force Weapons Laboratory project engineer nuclear hardness and survivability Air Force Weapons Laboratory, United States Air Force, 1971-1975; research scientist, United States Air Force School Aero. Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, 1975-1978; chief engineering branch, B-2 Bomber project engineer, Aircraft Engineering division Headquarters SAC, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, 1978-1981; retired, United States Air Force, 1981; peacekeeper ICBM project engineer, small ICBM engineering manager, Martin Marietta, Denver, 1981-1989; study manager, survivability engineer strategic defense system, Science Applications International Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama, 1989-1990; assistant program manager strategic defense system survivability, United States Army Strategic Defense Command, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Huntsville, Alabama, since 1990.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Air Force Association (life), Tau Beta Pi, Phi Eta Sigma.
Married Irma Katherine Wilhelm, June 5, 1960 (divorced February 1981). Children: Cynthia D., Catherine D., Angela R., Scott P. Married Elizabeth Paulette Hemmer, March 13, 1981.
Stepchildren: Rodney V. Boesch, Kenneth R. Boesch.