Schriever, Bernard A.

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)