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Lieutenant General Ranald T. Adams Jr.(United States Air Force)(Biography)
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U.S. Air Force Military Biographies
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January 1, 2004
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LIEUTENANT GENERAL RANALD T. ADAMS JR.
Retired Aug. 1, 1981.
Lt. Gen. Ranald T. Adams Jr. is chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington, D.C. The mission of the Inter-American Defense Board, in accordance with Resolution XXXIV of the Bogota Conference, is "to act as the organ of preparation and recommendation for the collective self-defense of the American continent against aggression, and to carry out, in addition to the advisory functions within its competence, any similiar functions ascribed to it by the Advisory Defense Committee of the Organization of American States."
General Adams was born in 1925, at Fort Sill, Okla., the son of on officer ...