About the author
Taylor Eubank
As an Air Force pilot Taylor Eubank flew 200 unarmed combat reconnaissance missions in an RF-4C (Phantom II) over North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. His decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Air Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters. He also performed instructor pilot and maintenance test pilot duties in the Phantom II.
In September 2010, Taylor was selected to be a lecture series speaker at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Charles D. Metcalf, the Museum's director, proffered the invitation.
Taylor will be a presenter in the Museum's OF WINGS AND THINGS lecture series and will speak about tactical reconnaissance during the Southeast Asia conflict. General Metcalf requested Alone, Unarmed, and Unafraid be used as the basis of the presentation. (The impressive roster of previous lecture series speakers includes author Steven Coonts—Flight of the Intruder; Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Dick, RAF (Ret.) Battle of Britain; Mr. Ben Rich, Lockheed Skunk Works (U-2 and SR-71); Lieut. Gen. (Ret.) Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first black general in the U.S. Air Force and the first black West Point graduate in the 20th Century, and many other distinguished presenters.)
From 1971 until retirement in 1998 he served as a Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While assigned to the Madison WI resident agency he was responsible for all organized crime investigations in the Western District of Wisconsin. After the University of Wisconsin--Madison was bombed in 1970, he was the FBI's lead Agent in overseeing the apprehension, prosecution, and conviction (guilty pleas) of two of the FBI's Top Ten Fugitives responsible for this crime.
Taylor was then assigned to Arkansas to establish and supervise the FBI's aviation operations in the state. Additionally, he coordinated the investigations of three Federal agencies joined at the badge in an attack on political corruption in the Eastern District of Arkansas. This two-year investigation resulted in the conviction of a former sheriff and his chief deputy in the first Racketeer and Criminal Influenced Organizations (RICO) trial ever held in the District.
A firearms and police training instructor, Taylor crafted organized crime and political corruption investigation models for presentation to a wide range of law enforcement agencies. He was selected to present these investigative models in Russia and Latvia as part of a U.S. Department of State international training initiative.
Upon retiring from the FBI in 1998, he served as the election coordinator for Jefferson County, Arkansas for ten years. Presently he is preparing A Remembrance of Donna, his late wife, for publication.