Henry Viccellio Jr . Henry Viccellio Jr . ( born August 4 , 1940 ) is a former General in the United States Air Force and the former commander of the Air Force Materiel Command . Biography . Early life . After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in 1962 , he attended pilot training until September of the next year at Webb Air Force Base , Texas . From October 1963 until June the next year , he attended F - 100 Super Sabre combat crew training at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona . From June 1964 until October 1965 , he flew the F - 100 with the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Homestead Air Force Base , Florida . Beginning in October and ranging for the next year , he was an A - 1E Skyraider pilot for the 602nd Fighter Squadron , Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base , Thailand . Then took the next two years off and became an Olmsted Scholar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico , Mexico City . Beginning in October 1968 , he was a student , master of arts degree in Latin American studies at American University in Washington D . C . . He graduated in June 1969 . From June 1969 until August 1970 , he was part of the Air Staff Training program , staff officer , directorate of concepts and doctrine at United States Air Force headquarters , Washington D . C . . He was then a F - 4D Phantom II maintenance officer for the 7th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base , New Mexico until November 1971 . A transfer to the 36th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Osan Air Base , South Korea came with a job change until January 1973 as an F - 4D flight commander . For the next six months , he became a student at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk , Virginia . He then became a liaison officer to the United States Senate until October 1975 . From November 1975 to April 1976 . he was the chief , standardization and evaluation division , 33rd Tactical Fighter Wing , Eglin Air Force Base , Florida . Then , until November of that year he was operations officer of the 59th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Eglin . From December until May the next year , he became the commander of the squadron . He then took a promotion that went until November of that year as the assistant deputy commander for operations for the 33rd . Later career . From November 1977 until March 1981 , he was chief , rated officer career management branch , Air Force Manpower and Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base , Texas . He then became vice commander of the 507th Tactical Air Control Wing , Shaw Air Force Base , South Carolina for the next six months . From October 1981 to March 1983 , he was the vice commander , and later , commander , of the 56th Tactical Training Wing at MacDill Air Force Base , Florida . He then became commander of the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia from March 1983 to June 1985 . He then was the vice commander of the San Antonio Air Logistics Center at Kelly Air Force Base , Texas from June 1985 to September of the following year . He then became deputy chief of staff for logistics at Tactical Air Command headquarters , Langley Air Force Base , Virginia until April 1989 . From May 1989 to September 1989 , he was the vice commander of the Tactical Air Command . Until February 1991 he was the deputy chief of staff for logistics and engineering , United States Air Force headquarters , Washington D . C . . For the next three months , he was the deputy chief of staff for logistics for the Air Force . He then became the director , the Joint Staff in Washington until December 1992 . He was then the commander of the Air Education and Training Command , Randolph Air Force Base , Texas until June 1995 . He then became the commander of Air Force Materiel Command , Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio until his retirement on June 1 , 1997 . He is the son of General Henry Viccellio Sr . ( 1911 - 1978 ) , enlisted USAAC 1934 , commissioned 1937 , USAAF commander in the South Pacific during World War II , commander of the Continental Air Command , retired from the USAF in 1968 , while his son is actor Benjamin Viccellio . Awards . Awards earned during his career : Dates of Promotion . Dates at which he was promoted :