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CDR Ungerman is retired from the U. S. Navy, following 26 years of active duty. CDR Ungerman was designated a Naval Flight Officer with specialties in navigation and airborne command and control. He flew primarily in the Navy’s E-2 Hawkeye carrier based airborne early warning aircraft with two combat tours during the Vietnam War, deployed to the aircraft carriers USS Ranger and USS Midway. He had several unique assignments following his squadron tours, with duty at the Naval Plant Representative office at Grumman Aerospace Corporation which qualified him as a Weapons System Acquisition Manager; assignment as the Director of the Joint Air Reconnaissance Control Center Key West; E2/C2 Test & Evaluation Department Head at the Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Md,; Research & Development project officer for the E2/C2 aircraft for the Naval Air Systems Command; Tactical Action Officer for the aircraft carrier USS Independence; and his last duty station at the Naval Air Training Systems Center Orlando as the Aviation Training Devices Department Head, where he retired in 1989.

Following retirement, CDR Ungerman, set up an IT consulting business in the rapidly developing personal computer industry, supporting individuals and small businesses in the Central Florida area to the late 1990’s. He took advantage of his prior defense contract management activities in the Navy, to work for Coleman Research Corporation supporting the U. S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEOSTRI) in the Operations Department as Foreign Military Sales logistic project officer for constructive simulation. When that contract concluded, he applied for a Defense Logistics Management project officer position, also at PEOSTRI, and continued the management of contracts for allied nations through 2007 when he retired for the second time.

CDR Ungerman has been active in many service, community and social organizations, including life membership in MOAA. He has been President of the Central Florida Computer Society, one of the country’s oldest computer user groups, through the present. He was a vocational education instructor for adult education in computers at Winter Park VOTEC. As a member of the American Legion Oviedo Memorial Post 243, he is a Post Service Officer, counseling members and other veterans of their benefits including disability claims, health and survivors’ benefits. He maintains a library of resources for those he assists, and accepted the offer to be a Director of the Central Florida chapter of MOAA providing similar services in parallel as he does for the American Legion.

He presently resides in Oviedo with his wife of 59 years, Joyce. They have a son, 3 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. His son retired from the U. S. Air Force as a Colonel after 25 years active service.