Randall Schmidt Randall Mark Schmidt was a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force . Schmidt was appointed to conduct an inquiry into FBI reports that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were being subjected to inhumane interrogation . The unclassified summary of Schmidt ' s report acknowledges that one high value detainee was subjected to almost continuous interrogation , for 18 to 20 hours per day , for almost two months . It describes the long term effect of this interrogation as " " degrading and abusive " " , but that it did not rise to the level of " " inhumane " " . Featured in the 2008 Academy award - winning documentary " Taxi to the Dark Side " He was formerly the Commander , 12th Air Force and Air Forces Southern , Davis - Monthan Air Force Base , Arizona . Twelfth Air Force comprises seven active - duty wings and three direct reporting units in the western and midwestern United States . The fighter and bomber wings possess 400 aircraft and more than 33 , 000 active - duty military and civilian personnel . The three direct reporting units , the 3rd Combat Communications Group , 820th Red Horse Squadron and 1st Air Support Operations Group , comprise more than 1 , 200 personnel . He is also responsible for the operational readiness of 12th Air Force - gained wings of the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard , featuring an additional 18 , 800 personnel and more than 200 aircraft . As the Commander , Air Forces Southern , a component to the Combatant Commander , U . S . Southern Command , he oversees Air Force assets , five forward operating locations , and civil and military engagements in Central and South America as well as the Caribbean . General Schmidt entered the Air Force through the United States Air Force Academy in 1972 . He has commanded a fighter squadron , operations group , three wings and a combatant Joint Task Force . He also served in key positions during tours with the Air Staff , major commands and the Joint Staff . General Schmidt is a command pilot with more than 4 , 600 hours , primarily in fighter aircraft . He flew the F - 15C in combat operations during operations Provide Comfort and Southern Watch . He served as a mission commander against the hostile resurgent force of Iraqi Integrated Air Defense Systems while serving as the operations group commander at Incirlik Air Base , Turkey , for the multi - national air component . General Schmidt also commanded the 5th and 7th Air Expeditionary Wings in Southwest Asia in response to hostile Iraqi maneuvers in the southern no - fly zone . As Commander , Joint Task Force – Southwest Asia , he led the effort to destroy more than 380 enemy targets . The general had a direct impact in supporting combat operations when he served as the Headquarters U . S . Air Force Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom . Schmidt retired September 1 , 2006 . On June 8 , 2008 the " Washington Post " reported that Schmidt was expected to testify at the military commission of Mohammed Jawad , about the use of the " frequent flyer " program . The frequent flier program was the technique of repeatedly moving a captive from one cell to another , to keep them sleep deprived . During one fourteen - day period Jawad was reported to have been moved 112 times . Schmidt wrote :