Notable graduates education.education primary flight training at Bartow AB included astronauts Colonel Edwin E. `` Buzz '' Aldrin , Jr. , Lieutenant Colonel Edward White II , and Colonel Karol J. Bobko , as well as former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Lieutenant General Thomas G. McInerney and the first graduate of the USAF Academy to achieve 4-star rank , General Hansford T. Johnson .

Terry Jones and Michael Palin are Oxford University graduates education.education Eric Idle , John Cleese , and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University ; and American-born member Terry Gilliam is an Occidental College graduate .