Aubrey De Layne Dismukes was born in Temple, Texas in 1947. During his childhood, the family moved to Mountain View, California (near San Francisco, in the bay area) where Aubrey graduated from Mountain View High School with the Class of 1965. The next year, he had taken his physical for the draft, but then enlisted for the Aircraft Maintenance specialty, and entered active duty in the Army on November 14, 1966. He completed Basic Training at Fort Lewis, Washington followed by Advanced Individual Training in the U.S. Army Aviation Center and School at Fort Rucker, Alabama, then proceeded to Fort Sill, Oklahoma upon being accepted for Officer Candidate School. He graduated...
