James Tippins

Jim Tippins was born in Florida and grew up in Daytona Beach during the great days of the 50s-60s. He had a typical childhood in a typical middle-class USA. His parents were firm, loving, and genuinely American. As a teenager, he joined the Civil Air Patrol and enlisted into the US Air Force at nineteen. He spent five years enlisted and fifteen more as an officer, retiring as a Major in 1991. The rest of his working years involved Information …