US Air Force General. He served as the Commander-in-Chief of Air Training Command (now Air Education and Training Command) a Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (now part of Joint Base San Antonio). Upon completing high school, he enrolled at Mankato State Teachers College in Mankato, Minnesota and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He then entered the US Army Air Corps aviation cadet program and received his pilot wings in February 1944. For his first assignment, he was sent to Luke Field (now Luke Air Force Base), Arizona as an instructor pilot. In 1946 he was reassigned to a fighter wing in Germany and in April 1949, he returned to the US and performed instructor pilot duties in the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, where he won the trophy for top individual scoring in the first US Air Force Fighter Weapons Meet. From there he was assigned to Korea where he served as flight commander and squadron operations officer and flew combat missions in the F-84 Thunderjet and F-86 Sabre aircraft. In 1954 he returned to the US and became an operations staff officer at Headquarters Air Training Command. In 1957 he commanded the 3529th Combat Crew Training Squadron at Williams Air Force Base (now closed), Arizona, and in November of that year he returned to Headquarters Air Training Command again as an operations staff officer. In August 1958 he served with Headquarters 12th Air Force at James Connally Air Force Base (now Texas State Technical College Waco Airport), Texas, first as an operations officer and later as chief of the Combat Crew Directorate. In September 1961 he was transferred to Headquarters Pacific Air Forces at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. He returned to the US in 1964 and attended the National War College at Fort McNair, Washington DC and following his graduation in 1965, he was assigned to Headquarters US Air Force in Washington DC where he was first the assistant chief of the Special Warfare Division, Directorate of Plans and Operations, followed in October 1966 as the chief, Systems Division, Defense Communications Planning Group, at the US Naval Observatory there. While there, he received his Master's Degree from George Washington University. In October 1967 he became vice commander of 4453rd Combat Crew Training Wing at, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, and in December 1968, he was sent to Vietnam as commander of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing at Da Nang Air Base. Ten months later he moved to Headquarters 7th Air Force at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, where he was the director of the Tactical Air Control Center. In August 1970 he returned to the US where he served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, Washington DC, as Deputy Director of Personnel Planning, and later the Director, Personnel Plans. In October 1973 he became the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. For his contributions to Air Force personnel resource programs management, he was awarded the 1975 Eugene M. Zuckert Management Award. In August 1975 he returned to Headquarters Air Training Command to become its Commander-in-Chief. On November 12, 1976 he was inducted into Air Training Command's Order of the Sword. On March 29, 1977 he was promoted to the rank of general while commander of Air Training Command and retired in that position on March 31, 1977, with 35 years of continued active military service. He was a command pilot. His military awards and decorations include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Silver Star, The Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, and the Air Medal with seven oak leaf clusters. He died in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 78.