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Lew Allen. Lew Allen Jr. (September 30, 1925 – January 4, 2010) was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as the tenth Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. As chief of staff, Allen served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training, and equipping of 750,000 active duty Air ...
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General Lew Allen Jr. is the tenth chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.. As chief of staff, he serves as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the administration, training and equipping of a combined active duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian force of nearly one million people serving at nearly 3,000 locations in the ...
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Dr. Lew Allen, Jr. (1925-2010) Lew Allen attended West Point and earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois. During his military career, from 1945-1982, he attained the rank of General and a position as Air Force Chief of Staff, served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), and was a leading expert in the military ...
LEW ALLEN, JR.—a towering figure in all respects—died on January 4, 2010, at his home in Potomac Falls, Virginia. He devoted 36 years of service to the nation in the U.S. Air Force, becoming a four-star general and the tenth U.S. Air Force chief of staff. When he retired from the Air Force in 1982, he agreed to become director of the ...
Jan 9, 2010 · Jan. 8, 2010. Gen. Lew Allen Jr., who held influential positions in United States military and scientific spheres, including chief of staff of the Air Force, but who gained the widest attention as ...
forces following the conflict in Vietnam. Indeed, Allen oversaw the later stages of an intensive effort to upgrade the USAF’s tactical forces through acquisition of the C–5, A–10, and F–16. Allen left Systems Command in April 1978 to take over as vice chief of staff of the Air Force and became chief of staff three months later.
Jul 23, 2014 · July 22, 2014 7:09 PM PT. Retired Air Force Gen. Lew Allen Jr., who during his multifaceted career headed the National Security Agency, was Air Force chief of staff and shepherded the Jet ...
