Frank Drew Brigadier General Frank Morehead Drew ( born October 10 , 1930 ) was vice commander , U . S . Air Force Tactical Fighter Weapons Center , TAC , Nellis Air Force Base , Nevada He retired on July 1 , 1979 . Biography . General Drew was born in Salt Lake City , Utah . He graduated from Beverly Hills High School , California , in 1948 . After attending Western Kentucky State College for a year , he entered the United States Military Academy , West Point , New York , and graduated in June 1953 with a bachelor of science degree and a commission in the U . S . Air Force . He completed the U . S . Army Command and Staff College in 1964 and the National War College in 1971 , and received his master of science degree from The George Washington University , Washington , D . C . , in 1971 . After graduation from the academy he attended pilot training and received his pilot wings at Williams Air Force Base , Arizona , in 1954 . He then attended F - 86 combat crew training at Nellis Air Force Base , Nevada , and while at Nellis was selected for assignment in January 1955 to the U . S . Air Force Academy , where he served as an air training officer for the next three years . In December 1957 he was assigned as a flight commander in the 417th Fighter - Bomber Squadron of the 50th Fighter - Bomber Wing at Toul - Rosieres Air Base , France , flying the F - 86H and the F - 100D . In January 1959 he was transferred to Incirlik Air Base , Turkey , to organize an operations facility for command and control of Tactical Air Command fighter squadrons on rotational temporary duty from the United States . General Drew was transferred to Luke Air Force Base , Arizona , in February 1960 , where he served as an operations officer in training squadrons and in the group headquarters . In August 1963 he entered the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . After graduation in July 1964 , he was assigned to the 1st Air Commando Wing , Hurlburt Field , Florida , where he held various squadron and wing positions . He also performed six months of temporary duty with a T - 28 detachment in Southeast Asia . He was wing director of standardization and evaluation when , in April 1967 , he was assigned to command the Tropic Moon I Task Force , a special Air Warfare Center unit equipped with A - lE ' s fitted with night vision devices designed for independent night interdiction operations . After more than a year of development , testing and training in the continental United States , General Drew went with the unit to Southeast Asia , where he commanded it during a year of combat operations . General Drew returned to the United States in December 1968 and was assigned as chief of the Air Support Branch in Defense Communications Planning Group , Washington , D . C . In January 1970 he was assigned to Headquarters U . S . Air Force where he served in the Office of the Special Assistant for Sensor Exploitation , Office of the Vice Chief of Staff , U . S . Air Force . In August 1970 General Drew entered the National War College , Washington , D . C . He returned to Headquarters U . S . Air Force in July 1971 to serve as assistant for general officer matters in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff , Personnel . In August 1974 he was assigned as commandant , Air Command and Staff College , at Air University , Maxwell Air Force Base , Alabama . General Drew served as chief , Air Force Section , U . S . Delegation , Joint Brazil - United States Military Commission , at Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , from August 1975 to December 1976 , when he assumed his duty at the Tactical Fighter Weapons Center . He is a command pilot with 3 , 600 flying hours . His military decorations and awards include the Legion of Merit , Distinguished Flying Cross , Meritorious Service Medal , Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters , Air Force Commendation Medal , Presidential Unit Citation , and the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with oak leaf cluster . He was promoted to the grade of brigadier general August 1 , 1974 , with same date of rank .