Duane H. Cassidy

Duane Harlan Cassidy  (24 Nuwamba 1933 - 8 Fabrairu 2016) ya kasance Janar a cikin Sojojin Sama na Amurka kuma tsohon kwamandan Sojojin Sojan Sama da Kwamandan Sufuri na Amurka.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Cassidy a Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, a cikin shekara ta 1933. Ya sami digiri na farko na Kimiyya daga Jami'ar Nebraska a 1968 da kuma digiri na biyu na Kimiyya manipud Jami'ar Jihar Troy a 1975. Ya kammala Makarantar Jami'in Squadron a 1961 a Kwalejin Masana'antu na Sojoji a 1973, Makarantar Gudanarwa ta J.L. Kellogg a Jami'ar Arewa maso Yamma a 1979, da kuma shirin manyan jami'ai a cikin tsaron kasa da kasa a Makarantar Gwamnati ta John F. Kennedy, Jami'ar Harvard, a 1983. 

 Ayyukan soja 
Bayan kammala karatun cadet na jirgin sama, an ba da izini ga Cassidy a matsayin mataimakin na biyu a shekara ta 1954. Daga nan sai ya halarci horo a Harlingen da James Connally Air Force Base, Texas. Ayyukansa na farko a cikin Sojojin Sama sun kasance ga Hukumar Sufurin Jirgin Sama ta Soja: na farko zuwa Air Weather Service ta 6th Weather Group, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, tashi B-25 Mitchells, sannan zuwa Air Rescue Service ta 49th Air Rescue Squadron, Selfridge Air Force Base. A lokacin wadannan ayyukan, ya shiga cikin ayyukan ceto da yawa da kuma binciken yanayi, gami da gwajin makaman hydrogen a 1956 a Eniwetok Atoll a cikin Marshall Islands. Ayyukansa na mai ba da hanya ya ƙare bayan shekaru biyu a matsayin memba na ma'aikatan sufuri na C-121 Constellation a Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina. Ya shiga horo na matukin jirgi a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1958.

An sanya Cassidy a cikin Strategic Air Command bayan kammala karatunsa daga horar da matukin jirgi kuma ya tashi B-47 Stratojets a McCoy Air Force Base, Florida, Little Rock Air Force Base. A watan Nuwamba 1965, ya koma Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, kuma ya yi aiki tare da 810th Strategic Aerospace Division, wanda aikinsa ya hada da B-52 Stratofortress bom da LGM-30 Minuteman missile operations. A watan Satumbar 1968, an sanya shi a Jamhuriyar Vietnam, ya fara aiki tare da Cibiyar Kula da Jirgin Sama ta 7 sannan kuma tare da Daraktan Harkokin Jama'a na Vietnam na Kwamandan Taimako na Sojoji a matsayin mai ba da labari ga rundunar manema labarai ta Saigon. 

Cassidy ya koma aikin jirgin sama na Sojojin Sama a watan Oktoba 1969. An sanya shi a hedkwatar Rundunar Sojan Sama a matsayin mai zartarwa ga mataimakin shugaban ma'aikata don ayyukan, sannan daga baya a matsayin mataimakin zartarwa da matukin jirgi na kwamandan rundunar sojin sama. A watan Agustan 1972, ya zama kwamandan 8th Airlift Squadron, McChord Air Force Base, Washington. Ya shiga Kwalejin Yakin Jirgin Sama a watan Agustan 1974 kuma, bayan kammala karatunsa, ya sake aiki a hedkwatar Rundunar Sojan Sama, a matsayin mataimakin shugaban ma'aikata.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2016
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1933