Class of 1967
Attained Highest Rank For Any Det 825 Graduate

From af.mil:

"[General Eickmann] was born in San Antonio, Texas, and entered the Air Force in 1967 as a distinguished graduate of the University of Texas' Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He has been a reliability and maintainability engineer on the F-106 and C-5 aircraft, and an F100 engine systems manager and division chief at an air logistics center and at the Air Staff. He has served as principal military adviser to the assistant secretary of the Air Force for research, development, acquisition and logistics; director of maintenance at an air logistics center; deputy chief of staff for logistics, Pacific Air Forces; chief of staff, staff director, and later, director of logistics, Air Force Materiel Command, and commander, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, the largest military and industrial complex in the Department of Defense. The state of Oklahoma declared July 11, 1995 "General Ken Eickmann Day" in recognition of his leadership and assistance to federal and state rescue and recovery efforts following the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. A recognized expert in propulsion technology, he has published several papers in technical journals in the United States and overseas."

From "The Eickmann Group":

"General Eickmann had a distinguished 31-year career in the Air Force including assignments as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics for two Major Commands, the Commander of the nation’s largest military industrial complex and Commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center, where he managed 2800 programs and employed 12,000 personnel with an annual budget in excess of $11billion at 35 locations worldwide.

He is currently State Vice Chairman of the Texas Engineer’s Task Force on Homeland Security, drawing on the personal expertise he gathered as a member of the leadership team directing the rescue and recovery efforts of US interests in the Philippines following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

 More recently he has been a key member of the National Research Council Committee appointed to evaluate the National Aerospace Initiative for the Department of Defense with particular emphasis on “Hypersonic Flight” and “Access to Space”.   He is currently serving as Chair of a USAF sponsored study for the National Academy of Sciences investigating the DoD and commercial propulsion (airbreathing, rocket, and in-space propulsion) technology base to determine whether efforts underway in the laboratory and industry will support necessary warfighting capabilities over the next 15 years.

A member of the Air Force Science & Technology Board (Air Force Studies Board), General Eickmann is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Air Force Museum.