Background
DeBellevue was born in New Orleans on August 15, 1945 and grew up in Louisiana. After applying unsuccessfully to the United States Air Force Academy, he attended and graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana), in 1968. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) program at the university. Accepted into undergraduate pilot training (UPT), he failed to complete the course, but subsequently applied for and was accepted into undergraduate navigator training (UNT) at Mather Air Force Base, California in July 1969. He completed F-4 combat crew training at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona and was assigned to the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina, as a McDonnell Douglas F-4D Weapon Systems Officer (WSO).
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