Cooper Graduates Air War College

Lieutenant Colonel Matthew W. Cooper, son of Loretta Cooper of Seeley Lake and 1987 graduate from Seeley-Swan High School, graduated from the Air War College, May 19, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama with a master's degree in Strategic Studies. He spent ten months studying with emphasis on critical thinking, writing and travel that included counterinsurgency and critical role of cyberspace in modern warfare. He is returning to Camp Murray, in Washington, as a full time National Guard Deputy Staff Judge Advocate and Legal Advisor to the Adjutant General. The air War College includes all branches of the military as well as international military officers.

Cooper will march in the Swan Valley Fourth of July parade again this year as he has done for many years.