Colonel, USAF. Candidate for MOL-2 and MOL-3. He was an ROTC student at New York University. He entered active service with the U.S. Air Force in 1957. On November 24, 1967, Maj. Foley and 1st. Lt. Ronald M. Mayercik comprised the crew of an RF4C Phantom jet sent on a photo reconnaissance mission over the Plaine Des Jarres (Plain of Jars) in Northern Laos. Foley was the pilot, while Mayercik manned the camera and technical equipment for the mission. Their aircraft was flying alone. At 0125 hours, shortly after take-off, the last radar contact was made with Foley and Mayercik's Phantom. At that time, it was passing over extremely rugged mountains covered in dense jungle less than a mile west of Route 4, the primary north/south road in the region, paralleling the Nam Huong River that was located just to the east of Route 4. The point of last contact was approximately 25 miles north of the Laotian/Thai border, 45 miles southeast of the Plaine Des Jarres, 50 miles southeast of Long Tieng, Laos and 60 miles northeast of Udorn Airfield, Thailand.