Kooy, Wayne John, “Kooy, Wayne John (Interview outline), 2015,” Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/41353.
Wayne Kooy was born in Lansing, Illinois on April 26th, 1932. He was drafted in March of 1955 and had basic training in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. In the Army he used his electrical engineering skills to craft and maintain meteorological devices in White Sands, New Mexico. With his time in the military he achieved the rank of E2 at his highest ranking.