Schriever. commander of the Air Force Systems Command. will bring to a close a morethan30year career in the May. 19. 1966 Air Force and a remarkable career it has been. There are several aspects of General Schrievers service which would make very compelling success stories in and of themselves. . For example. it is not every day that one hears of an immigrant boy. raised by his widowed mother. who rises to the rank of fourstar general in the service of his adopted country. Nor do You hear very often of a relatively junior staff officer in the Pentagon who successfully overcomes the resistance of inertia and introduces a new family of weapons in the biggest single developmentproductionconstruction program ever undertaken in the history of this Nation. Nor do you often find a man who could foresee. 10 years into the future. a management concept which came to fulfillment with the establishment of the Air Force Systems Command in 1961. and be named its commander.
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