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contingency and wartime operations. Gen. Clark oversees a headquarters staff and airmen located at nine wings in Europe and one air expeditionary wing. General Clark graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1986. His commands include the 34th Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD, and 12th Flying Training Wing, Randolph AFB, TX. He has also served as the Vice Commander, 8th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Barksdale AFB, LA, and Commandant of Cadets, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. Prior to his current assignment, he served as the Commander, Eighth Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, and Joint Functional Component Commander for Global Strike, U.S. Strategic Command, Off utt AFB, NE. General Clark is a command pilot with 4,200 fl ight hours, primarily in the B-1 bomber.
LT. GEN. SAMUEL A. GREAVES Director, Missile Defense Agency
Lt. Gen. Samuel A. Greaves is the Director, Missile Defense Agency. The MDA’s mission is to develop, test, and fi eld an integrated, layered ballistic missile defense system to defend the United States, its deployed forces, and its
allies and friends against all ranges of enemy ballistic missiles in all phases of fl ight. General Greaves directs the organization that spans 14 time zones with more than 8,000 military, civilian, and contract personnel. Gen. Greaves was commissioned in 1982 through the Reserve Offi cers’ Training Corps program after he graduated from Cornell University. He has held a variety of assignments in operational, acquisition, and staff units, including assignments at Headquarters Air Combat Command, at the National Reconnaissance Offi ce, and on the Air Staff within the Directorate of Operational Requirements and the Air Force Colonel Matters Offi ce. He commanded the 45th Launch Group at Patrick AFB, FL, and the Launch and Range Systems Wing and Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing at Los Angeles AFB, CA. The general also served as Vice Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, and then as Director, Strategic Plans, Programs and Analyses, Headquarters Air Force Space Command.
LT. GEN. CHARLES Q. BROWN JR. Deputy Commander for the U.S. Central Command
Lt. Gen. Charles Brown is deputy commander for U.S. Central Command. General Brown was commissioned in 1984 as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program at Texas Tech University. He has served in a variety of positions at the squadron and wing
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level, including an assignment to the U.S. Air Force Weapons School as an F-16 instructor. His notable staff tours include aide- de-camp to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force; Director, Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff Executive
Action Group; and Deputy Director, Operations, U.S. Central Command. He also served as National Defense Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA. The general is a command pilot with more than 2,900 fl ying hours, including 120 combat hours. Prior to his current assignment, he served as the commander, U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
LT. GEN. STAYCE D. HARRIS Assistant Vice Chief of Staff and Director, Air Staff Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC
Lt. Gen. Stayce Harris is the assistant vice chief of staff and director at Air Staff Headquarters, U.S. Air Force in Washington, DC. She also serves as deputy chairman of the Air Force Council and is the Air Force accreditation offi cial for the International Corps of Air Attachés. Gen. Harris received a commission in the Air Force through the University of Southern California’s Air Force ROTC program. Her staff assignments include serving as a
mobility force planner for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations and as Individual Mobilization Augmentee to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. She has commanded an airlift squadron, an expeditionary operations group, and an air-refueling wing. Prior to her current position, she served as the commander, 22nd Air Force, Dobbins AFB, GA. She also served as the mobilization assistant to the commander, Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, IL. In her civilian occupation, she is a commercial airline pilot fl ying routes to Asia and Europe.
MAJ. GEN. (DR.) ROOSEVELT ALLEN Director, Medical Operations and Research, and Chief of the Dental Corps
Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Roosevelt Allen is the director, Medical Operations and Research and Chief of the Dental Corps, Offi ce of the Surgeon General, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Falls Church, VA. As director of medical operations and research, he is responsible for executing health care policy in support of 44,000 personnel and 75 medical treatment facilities with a
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