Gates pitches names to lead Air Force

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: The Hill

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Monday recommended that Gen. Norton Schwartz, currently the head of U.S. Transportation Command, should become the next Air Force chief.

Gates also nominated Michael Donley as the Air Force’s No. 1 civilian leader. Donley is currently the Pentagon’s director of administration and management.

Gates on Monday announced the position shuffle at the Pentagon — several days after he forced the resignation of Air Force chief Gen. Michael Moseley and Michael Wynne, the air service's secretary, over several mishaps with nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, Gen. Duncan McNabb, the current vice chief of staff of the Air Force, will take over for Schwartz at U.S. Transportation Command under Gates’s recommendation. Gates also recommended that Lt. Gen. William Fraser, currently the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, be the new vice chief of the Air Force.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gates-pitches-names-to-lead-air-force-2008-06-09.html

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GENERAL NORTON A. SCHWARTZ - Bio

Gen. Norton A. Schwartz is Commander, U.S. Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Ill. USTRANSCOM is the single manager for global air, land and sea transportation for the Department of Defense.

General Schwartz attended the U.S. Air Force Academy and graduated in 1973. He is an alumnus of the National War College, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a 1994 Fellow of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Seminar XXI. He has served as Commander of the Special Operations Command-Pacific, as well as Alaskan Command, Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, and the 11th Air Force. Prior to assuming his current position, General Schwartz was Director, the Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.

General Schwartz is a command pilot with more than 4,200 flying hours in a variety of aircraft. He participated as a crewmember in the 1975 airlift evacuation of Saigon, and in 1991 served as Chief of Staff of the Joint Special Operations Task Force for Northern Iraq in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In 1997, he led the Joint Task Force that prepared for the noncombatant evacuation of U.S. citizens in Cambodia.

EDUCATION
1973 Bachelor's degree in political science and international affairs, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
1977 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala.
1983 Master's degree in business administration, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
1984 Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.
1989 National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.
1994 Fellow, Seminar XXI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge


More at link: http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7077



MICHAEL B. DONLEY - Bio

Mr. Michael B. Donley was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to serve as the Director of Administration and Management (DA&M) in May 9, 2005.

As the DA&M, Mr. Donley is the principal staff assistant to Secretary Robert Gates for Department of Defense (DoD) Organizational and Management Planning. He oversees the DoD Freedom of Information and Privacy programs, and Historical and Information Technology / Chief Information Officer (CIO) programs for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). He is also responsible for Washington Headquarters Services, a 1,300-employee, $1.3 billion Field Activity that oversees management of the Pentagon, DoD leased space and DoD administrative services within the National Capital Region; the Pentagon Force Protection Agency which is responsible for Antiterrorism, Security and Law Enforcement; and the $5.5 billion Pentagon Renovation and Construction Program.

Mr. Donley has over 26 years of experience in the national security community, including service in the Senate, White House and the Pentagon. During his career he has been involved in strategy and policymaking at the highest levels and is a recognized expert in national security organization, planning and budgeting.

From 1996 until his appointment as DA&M, Mr. Donley was a Senior Vice President at Hicks and Associates, Inc., a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). During this time he served as a Special Advisor to the Defense Reform Commission in Bosnia-Herzegovina for the State Department and contributed to several major Defense projects involving organizational reform and planning.
From 1993 to 1996, Mr. Donley was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Prior to this position, he served as the Acting Secretary of the Air Force for seven months. From 1989 to 1993 he served as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Management and Comptroller) with responsibility for all CFO functions including budgeting, cost and economic analysis.

Mr. Donley served the National Security Council as Deputy Executive Secretary from 1987 to 1989 and as Director of Defense Programs from 1984 to 1987. He was also a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee (1981-84), a Legislative Assistant to the U.S. Senate (1979-81) and the Editor of the National Security Record for the Heritage Foundation (1978-79).

More at link: http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/biographydetail.aspx?biographyid=43

[Angleae]

1. This is a major change in AF policy

He is a C-130 pilot. I can't remember when (or even if) the last non-fighter/bomber pilot to lead the AF was. All the AF talks about are fighter planes and fighter pilots.

[Posteritatis]

2. Do you anticipate anything in particular from that?

The airlift part of the military's something of a political football on this side of the border, but senior CF Air Force people are as likely to come from that or similar components of the forces than the fighter wings. (The current commander of the Canadian air force came out of a maritime helicopter squadron, if I remember correctly.)

If top USAF brass coming from that side of the military is unprecedented (or even very rare), I'm kind of curious as to what sort of impacts it might have on the way things are run.

[saigon68]

3. a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation

Ah Donley another proponent of Privatization for the upper ruling class

Just do some research on these thugs

Yikes