Complex sentence: After serving 27 years of active duty, he retired as a colonel in 1967 and soon started as the Assistant Adjutant General for the Alaska Air National Guard, retiring as a brigadier general in 1971.
Split into simpler sentences: After serving 27 years of active duty, he retired as a colonel in 1967. Following his Air Force service, Taylor started as the Assistant Adjutant General for the Alaska Air National Guard and retired as a brigadier general in 1971.