About the Webmaster

Rob is the site webmaster and historian. A Lincoln native who lived beneath the flightpath of the main Lincoln Airport runway, fished Bowling Lake, and frequented the Air Park pool in his formative years, he became fascinated with the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command, and its role in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Also interested in technology, Rob opened "The History of Lincoln Air Force Base" website in March 2000 at age 14. The following years proved fruitful in discovering more stories about the base through the voices of veterans and hours of research spent at Lincoln City Libraries and the Nebraska State Historical Society.

Rob went on to college and focused on historical tourism. He interned at the National Park Service's Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in 2011 and went on to become the Site Supervisor of the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site near Cooperstown, North Dakota in 2017.

In 2020, after years of research, Rob published his book "A Mighty Force for Peace: A History of the Former Lincoln Air Force Base" that in 2021 entered it's second printing. That same year, the book was awarded the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction Military History. Rob has since been published in North Dakota History Journal, The Journal of Military History, and was awarded the 2024 Heritage Award in North Dakota Tourism for his continued dedication to Cold War history at the Reagan missile site.

Nearly 25 years later, Rob continues his effort to support and interpret the legacy of Lincoln Air Force Base.