The Glendale Chamber of Commerce is honored and proud to announce the 2023 Military & Veterans Affairs Committee chair.

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Edward C. “Ed” Logan was born a few months before Pearl Harbor.

“It was in my DNA and already my karma to be a U.S. military veteran, and I am still serving the veteran community way after my active duty,” Logan says.

It started for him at ASU, where ROTC was once mandatory for freshmen and sophomores. Selected to go further, he was commissioned second lieutenant on June 1, 1962, and began a 20-year career in the Air Force. He escaped the draft but still went to war.

In fact, he served at the locations of three American wars: Okinawa (World War II), Korea (Korean War) and Thailand (Vietnam War) under six American presidents — John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

He had special ties to Johnson while stationed at the former Bergstrom AFB, in Austin, Texas 1970-74 as commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations Detachment.

As an OSI special agent for 19 of his service years, he participated in security details for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum dedication and for Johnson’s funeral.

“My wonderful and stalwart wife of 59 years, Judy, of Glendale, was with me all the way through my active-duty service and is qualified to be a ‘veteran’ in her own right,” Logan says.

They have three daughters, all born in the service (Okinawa, Niagara Falls and Austin). The eldest, Darice, went on to save many, many young lives as a neonatal intensive care unit nurse, somehow making up for lives lost in the Battle of Okinawa, the last U.S. battle of World War II.

Deeply proud to be an American veteran, at age 82, he said he will continue to support his fellow veterans through volunteer service as long as possible.

“As a 30-year resident of Glendale and a retired U.S. Air Force officer, it has been a real pleasure to be a Military & Veterans Affairs Committee member for many years,” Logan says.

“The committee has supported many veterans and active-duty units. In particular, we hold an annual award event honoring Valley active-duty military members who have gone beyond their jobs by doing community service, which is near and dear to the Glendale Chamber of Commerce. As of 2023, I am now serving as Military & Veterans Affairs Committee chairman and expect to continue our commitment to our Arizona veteran community.”

The Military & Veterans Affairs Committee is dedicated to assisting the Glendale Chamber of Commerce with committee programs and events. It also helps to create a strong relationship between the local business community and military units in the community. For more information, call the Glendale Chamber of Commerce at 623-937-4754.

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