Colonel USAF. Candidate for MOL-2 and MOL-3. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. During his 26-year USAF career, he was a tactical fighter pilot, an experimental test pilot, and an aerospace development engineer. He was stationed at many bases in the United States and deployed to many foreign countries. Hull's last Air Force tour of duty was as commander of the 6595th Shuttle Test Group, where he oversaw the construction, development and testing of the USAF Space and Missile Test program (deactivated in 1979). After his retirement from the US Air Force in 1982, he began an 11-year career at Rockwell International Missile Systems Division in Duluth, Ga., where he was a manager of research and development.