Schriever, Bernard A.

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Biographical Note

1910, Sept. 14 Born, Bremen, Germany 1917 Emigrated to the United States 1923 Naturalized United States citizen 1931 B.S., Texas A & M University, College Station, Tex. 1931 1932 Field artillery, Army Organized Reserve Corps 1932 1933 Flight training, Randolph Field and Kelly Field, Tex. circa 1933 Bomber pilot, March Field and Hamilton Field, Calif. 1934 Pilot, Army Air Corps mail operations 1937 Pilot, Northwest Airlines 1938 Returned to military, Seventh Bomb Group, Hamilton Field, Calif. Married Dora Brett (divorced) 1939 1941 Test pilot, Wright Field, Ohio Attended Air Corps Engineering School, Wright Field, Ohio 1942 Masters degree, aeronautical engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Nineteenth Bomb Group, Fifth Air Force, Southwest Pacific 1942 1943 Chief, Maintenance and Engineering Division, Fifth Air Force Service Command, Southwest Pacific 1943 1944 Chief of staff, Fifth Air Force Service Command, Southwest Pacific 1944 Chief of staff, advance headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, New Guinea 1944 1946 Commanding officer, advance headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, New Guinea, Philippines, Okinawa, Japan 1946 1949 Chief, Scientific Liaison Branch, Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. 1949 1950 Student, National War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. 1950 Deputy assistant for evaluation, Deputy Chief of Staff, Development, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. 1951 1954 Assistant for development planning, Deputy Chief of Staff, Development, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. 1954 Assistant to commander, headquarters, Air Research and Development Command, Baltimore, Md. 1954 1957 Assistant to commander, Air Research and Development Command with additional duty as Commander, Air Force Western Development Division, Inglewood, Calif. 1957 1958 Commander, Air Ballistic Missiles Division, Inglewood, Calif. 1958 1959 Deputy commander for ballistic missiles, Air Research and Development Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Md. 1959 1961 Commander, headquarters, Air Research and Development Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Md. 1961 Promoted to general 1961 1966 Commander, Air Force Systems Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Md. 1965 Appointed director of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program 1966 Retired from United States Air Force 1967 Founded Urban, Inc., later renamed Urban Systems Associates, Inc. 1968 Founded Schriever and McKee Associates, Inc., later Schriever and McKee, Inc. 1970 1973 Member, President's Advisory Council on Management Improvement 1980 Inducted into Aviation Hall of Fame 1985 Appointed to President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 1985 1986 Member, National Commission on Space circa 1985 1993 Member, Strategic Defense Initiative Advisory Committee 1993 circa 2000 Member, Ballistic Missile Defense Advisory Committee 1997 Married Joni James 1998 Falcon Air Force Base renamed Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. 2005, June 20 Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Bernard A. Schriever Papers, 1931-2005, (bulk 1954-2000), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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