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Thomas H. Henning​, Air Force, joined the U.S. Air Force in 1959. His duties took him to Europe where he earned a Certificate of Attendance at Cambridge University and after one year of Russian language training earned one year of college credit at the University of Maryland University College. Thomas transferred these credits to Penn State after his military service from 1959 to 1963 where he earned a BA in Political Science and a Certificate in Russian Area Studies. Thomas continued his studied and earned a masters degree in higher education. After graduation he joined IBM and retired in 1996. Later he joined Lockheed Martin and retired from there as well. Thomas founded the TASC Institute and later the Veridian Institute. He witnessed the September 11th attack on the Pentagon in 2001 before retiring as a defense contractor in 2003. Thomas has authored and published ten books from 2005 to 2024. He has been married 45 years and togehter raised 4 children, all college grads.​