BRUCE HENRY
Student Pilot in George W. Bush's Class 70-04
REMEMBERING GEORGE W. BUSH:
We started Undergraduate Pilot Training with 75 students and graduated 53. We flew for 1/2 the day and were in class the other 1/2 for 53 weeks. The supersonic T-38 was a challenge to fly especially during formation acrobatics and instruments. It had a roll rate of over 360 degrees/second and was very unforgiving if you got low and slow on final turn.
George was a good stick and I would guess he finished somewhere in the top 1/2 of the class but I don't know for sure. I do know that he was the 1st guy in our section to solo in the T-38. I remember that because I was the 2nd.
BIOGRAPHY
Bruce Henry’s military career began at Moody AFB, Georgia, in November 1968, where he attended Undergraduate Pilot Training with George W. Bush. Following graduation, he was assigned to fly C-141 aircraft.

Henry served in Vietnam, flying 100+ reconnaissance missions in EC-47 aircraft. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and three Air Medals.

He would later work with National Semiconductor Corp in Santa Clara, Ca, before retiring after 28 years in semiconductor operations.

Henry has been married for 36 years and has three children.