Eugene Dickens

I met Col Guyse when he was Director, Plans and Policy, Financial Management Directorate, Air Force Inspection and Safety Center, Norton Air Force Base, San Bernadino, CA during my assignment from May 1984 to May 1986. I was his Executive Officer and remember him well. Çol Guyse was detailed and expected high quality products for financial policy that would serve as guidance for Comptroller inspections world-wide. He was intelligent, capable and had a diverse background from assignments in Accounting Pay and Policy, to commander of the Air Force Management Engineering Team, to Director of a major Air Force Headquarters Directorate. He had the difficult responsibility of leading a directorate comprised mainly of rated pilot officers and financial specialists but did it superbly. At the same time he had a genuine, personable sense of humor. We would go to the driving range on Wednesday evening after work wearing our Air Force blue uniform w golf shoes. He mentioned "look at us...wouldn't this make a great picture for Life Magazine" and we both laughed. I liked "Barry" Col Guyse very much. He was honest in his feelings. A fast, young riser in the Comptroller field, he was very supportive of my career track and was one of the endorsers for selection to a Graduate School program. When we approached our transfer date for leaving Norton, he helped calm my wife who was very upset about leaving her native state and family in the Los Angeles area. He and I also shared a car interest, he Jaguar E Types and I with early T Birds and Corvettes. I have a high regard for Col Guyse for his kind, honest and genuine support and friendship. I will always think of him this way....always offering firm career advice but in a suggestive, not imposing way. I will miss him.