Leadership

Jim is a native of Louisiana, but has made Georgia his home for the past 35 years. He graduated with Honors from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1980 with a B.A. in Criminal Justice. Following graduation, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army and served 25 years in the Military Police Corps, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He later worked for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency from which he retired in April, 2020.
Following retirement, he and his wife, Leslie, moved from Henry County to their retirement home in Fannin County. Jim is active in several Veterans Service Organizations including the DAV, VFW and The American Legion and in the Blue Ridge Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Leslie is a CPA. operates her own business called On Call Accounting, LLC and continues to work from home. Leslie is also a member of The American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. The Callenders have two daughters, Laura Doroski of Toronto, OH and Melissa Reece of Dallas, GA and seven grandchildren.

Harold served with distinction in the U.S. Navy from Oct 1966 to Oct 1970 as an ASH-2 Ground Support Hydraulics, Flight Line Equipment. Harold was awarded the Vietnam Service Medal.

 John Tucker grew up abroad as an Air Force dependent and he entered the Air Force in February 1998 and spent over 20 years on active-duty.  His military service included Bioenvironmental Engineering duties in Operational Environmental/Occupational Health, Radiation/Nuclear Safety, and Readiness Response Operations (FEMA, Homeland Security, EPA, OSHA).  He was stationed in the United Kingdom, South Dakota, Utah, Korea and Georgia and was deployed twice to Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan in direct support of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom.  He is currently serving as a Junior Reserves Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Instructor in Morganton, GA.  He is also a member of the Fannin County American Legion and Disabled American Veteran organizations.

Floyd Served with distinction in the U.S. Army. Floyd served in Vietnam and earned the Vietnam Service Medal and two Purple Heart Medals. Floyd is a Life Member of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars and a member of the American Legion and Disabled American Veterans in Blue Ridge.

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Bob was born in Canterbury England in 1957 (Dad was in the U.S. Air Force and Mom was prior RAF). After graduating high school in 1975, Bob enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and was a Jet Engine Mechanic on the F-111E at RAF Upper Heyford England, then to Tinker AFB Ok to work engine depot. In 1979 he cross-trained to be a Flight Engineer and eventually throughout his 22-year career flew three different aircraft, the C-141A/B, the E-4B National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP) a militarized version of the Boeing 747-200 and the E-8A/C Joint Stars (Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System). Bob is also a member of American Legion Post 248 and the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 28 in Blue Ridge.

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