Top Air Force pilot returning to Port Angeles roots for Boy Scouts fundraiser

PORT ANGELES — Lt. Col. E. John “Dragon” Teichert, a native of Port Angeles and a top pilot in the Air Force, is the keynote speaker at this year’s Mount Olympus Friends of Scouting fundraising breakfast in the second-floor meeting of the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant at 7 a.m. Thursday.

The event is free and open to the public, but donations to the Boy Scouts are encouraged.

Registration begins at 6:30 a.m.

Phone Derek Ballinger, 360-460-7030, for more information or to RSVP.

Teichert, 37, graduated in 1990 from Port Angeles High School as his class’s top graduate.

He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics, and spent a year at Stanford University where he earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering in 1995.

Teichert flew combat missions in Operation Northern Watch and Operation Allied Force, becoming his squadron’s “top gun” in the skies of the former Yugoslavia.

He also flew Operation Noble Eagle missions, protecting the nation’s capitol shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

He was selected for the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School.

In 2006, Teichert transferred to Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, graduating from Air Command and Staff College as a distinguished graduate.

He was promoted to 411th Flight Test Squadron commander and the director of the F-22 Raptor Combined Test Force.

Teichert has flown more than 2,000 hours in 31 different aircraft.

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