This group is dedicated to creating an online community for all active military, veterans, first responders and their families. group has a language and experience all of its own and we are dedicated to giving you a space and place in which to interact and engage with others who know that life.

We also seek to support the families of all those who have served, as well. We welcome you here to your very own community. Thank you Jesus for every soldier & first responder protecting & serving us through this night. Like warm covers in the cold, blanket them in your love & our prayers of gratitude.

Rosedale Gardens became a “Military Caring Congregation” through Military Caring Network, USA. As a congregation, we expanded our ministry of serving those who serve to include first responders and families of both military and first responders.

JOIN US IN HONORING OUR VETERAN OF THE MONTH

We are recognizing Joseph E. Tyson Staff Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, Korea Joe graduated from Roosevelt High School in Wyandotte, Michigan in June, 1950. He joined the Air Force in early 1951 and attended basic training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas. After basic training, Joe was sent to a Special USAF Program at USC College of Aeronautics, graduating with a 3.9 GPA. He also attended the USAF Business Management School and earned a degree from Central Michigan University.

Once Joe’s various educational programs were complete, he was assigned to an F-51 Mustang Squadron responsible for training NATO pilots at Luke AFB. Next, he tested R-4360 28 Cylinder 4000 horsepower engines. He was then sent to Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama to work with C-74 and C-124 Globemaster II heavy-lift cargo aircrafts powered by R-4360 engines. For Joe’s final two and a half years in the service, he was stationed at Travis SFB, an SAC base for B-36 bombers. A portion of the base was occupied by MATS.

Joe was assigned to special programs, one of which was flying as a co-pilot on an R4D. This program consisted of flight physicals, high altitude tests to 60,000 feet, as well as daylight and nighttime recon evaluation. Joe’s last assignment was a special project specifically for SAC Commander General Curtis LeMay. After retiring from the USAF in 1955, Joe worked for several different companies. He joined Ford Motor Company and worked in the Scientific Laboratory which had four departments: Physics, Chemistry, Metallurgy, and Electronics.

After a period, Joe transferred to work with four engineers developing new military products where he was responsible for overseeing all testing stages, including delivery to Fort Knox for field testing of a 12V-71 Detroit Diesel Engine for a new medium duty tank with wire guarded missiles. Joe’s final project here was his work on an NB-36 Bomber. Joe returned to his work in the aviation field at Lycoming Manufacturing, a division of AVCO Corp, where he worked on horizontally opposed engines for general aviation aircrafts and engines for Bell, Hiller, and Hughes military helicopters. Joe’s next step in his career was with Continental Motors, a part of Ryan Aeronautical.

After many years of employment, their product line consisted of aircraft engines, commercial truckengines, and military engines for 2.5 and 5 ton trucks plus Mutt Jeeps. His work included developing new aircraft engines and a variable compression ratio engine for the Army’s new main battle tank Winner AVCO turbine, assisting engineers with writing and editing SAE papers, and working on the Stirling external combustion engine. Joe was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the C5A project and a member of the Aviation and Aeronautics Association. In 2000, President Clinton signed into law a HUD Directive which stated that personnel working and servicing HUD homes must be certified and licensed in each state. Joe was asked to develop and produce programs to license those personnel in numerous states. He conducted these programs, as well as required Continuing Education seminars, from 2000 – 2016.

Joe is currently retired and working with veterans. We at Rosedale Gardens would like to recognize and honor Joseph E. Tyson’s contribution to the safety and security of this great nation. We thank him for his dedicated and honorable service. Well done, good and faithful servant.