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Show Spain's highest Utahn receives honor The highest honor ever received I! by a foreign officer from the Span-; Span-; ish government was awarded to Lt. J Col. George S. Nixon Monday in a small ceremony held in room Ij1 2005, Annex building. The occasion was attended by the Department of Aerospace Stu- dies faculty, staff and members of the cadet corps. The award (the First Class Aeronautical Merit ! Cross for distinguished service ren-cs ren-cs dered) was presented to Colonel '"' Nixon on behalf of the Spanish '-j government by Colonel John F. La Mar, AFROTC commandant from headquarters in Montgomery, Ala. Colonel Nixon has been station- ed in Madrid, Spain, since 1968, and HI- has been acting as Mason officer between the U.S. government and Spanish government air forces. He is a native of Holden, Utah, and has also served in South East Asia. He has also been a professor of languages at the Air Force Academy Aca-demy where he taught Spanish. He speaks the language fluently. Colonel Nixon is presently professor profes-sor of aerospace studies at the University, and will teach here for the next three years. The award presented him was given for meritorious service to the Spanish Air Force and government during the past four years. The Colonel acted as Department of Defense representative to the Spanish Span-ish government and negotiated base rights agreements for all U.S. military mili-tary installations in Spain. He has also received a set of wings given to him as a honorary member of the Spanish Air Force, on departing. |