{"419441":{"#nid":"419441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Decorated Veterans Include Tech Engineering Alumni","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENumerous College of Engineering graduates have gone on to become decorated military members, and others have played key roles in supporting military operations.\u0026nbsp; (You can find plaques commemorating Tech\u0027s veterans along the Wardlaw Center walkway on North Avenue.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe AE program has produced numerous high-ranking military officials.\u0026nbsp; They include Adm. James A. \u0022Sandy\u0022 Winnefeld, vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2011.\u0026nbsp; As a commander, he led task forces in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother major military figure to emerge from Tech\u0027s AE program is Adm. James O. Ellis.\u0026nbsp; He spent 39 years in the Navy, according to a biography from the National Space Symposium, serving in roles that included commander of the USS Abraham Lincoln.\u0026nbsp; Ellis who holds a master\u0027s degree in aerospace engineering, is presently president and CEO of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn AE alumnus who made huge contributions to the military was David Sloan Lewis, Jr.\u0026nbsp; A 1939 graduate of the program, Lewis eventually became leader of General Dynamics and was instrumental in developing the F-16 fighter, according to the New York Times.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome other notableTech veterans:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Ray Davis, a chemical Engineering graduate, became a four-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps.\u0026nbsp; He served in Word War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and his decorations include a Medal of honor for bravery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Brig. Gen. Peter Madsden has a Tech master\u0027s from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).\u0026nbsp; According to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers biography, he served as executive officer to the chief of engineers from 1997 to 1998.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Edward Aldridge, Jr. and John Young, Jr., both AE graduates, are both former under secretaries of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Ron Johnson, a retired two-story Army general, has a master\u0027s degree in industrial engineering from Tech.\u0026nbsp; From 2003 to 2004, he oversaw the Corps of Engineers\u0027 in Iraq.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Philip Breedlove, a four-star general and previous vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, is also an alumnus of CEE at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The AE program has produced numerous high-ranking military officials."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-06-30 11:35:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:52","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130771","name":"David Sloan Lewis"},{"id":"130801","name":"Edward Aldridge"},{"id":"130791","name":"Peter Madsden"},{"id":"130811","name":"Philip Breedlove"},{"id":"130781","name":"Ray Davis"},{"id":"1615","name":"ron johnson"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}