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Apr 5, 2018 · In that same year, Col Russell V. Ritchey founded SOS. Designed as a leadership development center for junior officers, the school blended graduate-level instructional techniques with thrilling experiential activities to teach and reinforce leadership, team building, and critical-thinking skills.
Colonel Russell V. Ritchey, USAF, was the founder of SOS and its first commandant. In 1959, SOS became a separate Air University school reporting directly to the Air University commander.
May 11, 2010 · The first SOS Commandant, Colonel Russell V. Ritchey, called the early period of the school the "Years of the Tiger." When hostilities broke out in Korea in June 1950, the Air Force drastically reduced the enrollment of officers attending Air University's professional military education programs, resulting in the closure of the Air Tactical School.
Dec 9, 2012 · It's credited to a story by Russell V. Ritchey, but I can find nothing about the original. I was able to find out that Russell V. Ritchey (unless there was somebody with the same name) was an colonel in the United States Air Force, and was the founder of the USAF's Squadron Officer School.
When Colonel Russell Ritchey conceptualized what would become Squadron Officer School, he intended to create a program of practical application that encompassed the “whole man” concept.4 This course would emphasize group discussion, reduce lectures, enhance esprit
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Air Force Colonel Russell V. Ritchey was detailed to a joint planning board of British and American officers and became interested in the British course. He was later instrumental in establishing a similar course at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. It was used there as one of the four means to evaluate students of the Squadron Officers Course.
Item LIDDELL HART 2/R/72/1-2 - Colonel Russell V Ritchey: correspondence, 1964 Jun 3 - 1964 Sep 2. LIDDELL HART, Capt Sir Basil Henry (1895-1970) General correspondence, 1919-1976, including correspondence, chiefly 1950-1976, with Israelis (2/1-25), and about his post at UC Davis, 1965-1966 (2/26-39). Some continued by Kathleen after 1970
