![]() He later become a missile systems requirements officer for both the Titan II and Minuteman in the Plans Deputate at SAC headquarters. General Smith was assigned to Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., in October 1963 as an intercontinental ballistic missile test and evaluation officer, planning and organizing the ICBM operational test program. There he participated in activation and acceptance of the first wing of Titan II missiles, and served as a standardization division combat crewmember. He completed intercontinental ballistic missile launch officer training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, in July 1962, and subsequently was assigned to the 390th Strategic Missile Wing, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. He was assigned to the 3084th Air Police Squadron, Stony Brook Air Force Station, Mass., as chief of physical security, specializing in nuclear weapons security systems. The general was commissioned a second lieutenant through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program and entered the U.S. ![]() He graduated from Armed Forces Staff College in 1971, the National War College in 1979 and completed the Program for Executives at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The general was a distinguished graduate of Squadron Officer School in 1965. He received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1959 and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Oklahoma in 1973. ![]() ![]() General Smith was born in 1937, in Orange, N.J., and graduated from Jonathan Dayton Regional High School, Springfield, N.J., in 1955. Smith is the Joint Chiefs of Staff representative, Defense and Space Negotiations, Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland. ![]()
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