Records of Les Schneider on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Les Schneider and the Schneider Genealogy

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Les Schneider

{| id="toc" style="float:right; width:210px; margin-left: 1em;"|colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:ffffff;"|{| id="toc"|- style="text-align:center;"|}|-|colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:ffffff;"||-|bgcolor=darkgray|Birthdate||bgcolor=darkgray|December 13, 1939|-|bgcolor=lightgrey|Hometown||bgcolor=lightgrey|Woodstock, New York, U.S.|-|bgcolor=darkgray|Education||bgcolor=darkgray|U.S. Air Force Academy, B.S. 1961|-|bgcolor=lightgrey|Medals||bgcolor=lightgrey|Distinguished Flying Cross|}Leslie George “Les” Schneider (born December 13, 1939) grew up in Woodstock and Staten Island, New York. He and his younger brother Wayne were raised by their grandmother and grandfather. He attended New Dorp High School from 1953 to 1957 and was captain of the school's undefeated PSAL championship football team in 1956 and attended the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs from 1957 to 1961. Shortly thereafter he began his tour of duty in Vietnam as the captain of search and rescue missions ("Crown Rescue") using C-54 and HC-130 Hercules Aircraft.

Following Vietnam, Les began as a flight engineer for Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 1969. He then transferred to Saudi Airlines and spent seven years there where he learned Arabic and earned his gemologist degree. Upon return to the United States, he flew for TWA until his retirement in 1997 as a DC-9 captain.

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Other names that sound a bit like Schneider

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