How old would Hodges be? If he retired in 1971 at say age 55, he would be 88.
Hodges didn't retire in 1971 - he was still the commanding officer of the 147th in August of 1972, because he signed the order grounding Dubya for not taking his flight physical.
It was Staudt that retired, and that was in March of 1972 (18 months before he was supposedly pressuring Killian to "sugar coat" his evaluation of Bush).
MAJOR GENERAL PAUL H. HODGES
Retired July 1, 1987.
Major General Paul H. Hodges is director of the Inter-American Defense College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington D.C.
General Hodges was born in 1930, in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco and then attended Oberlin (Ohio) College until the outbreak of the Korean War. He enrolled in the aviation cadet program and received his commission as a second lieutenant in December 1952. General Hodges resumed his academic studies while on active duty and received a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of Omaha in 1966. He graduated from the Air War College in 1971.
Entire article is at link below:
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5818