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LIVING
IT UP!
Retirement from active duty means anything but retirement from active
life. While he has long been an Air Force icon, the 1979 publication of
Tom Wolfe’s best-seller, The Right Stuff, vaulted Yeager
into international celebrity . . . and the 1983 motion picture based on
the book further solidified his hold on the public imagination. There
are endless demands for public appearances, lectures and interviews. More
important, for the past quarter century, his advice has been much sought
after by both the government and the aerospace industry on a wide variety

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