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Article: General Jacob E. Smart.(United States Air Force)(Biography)
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- U.S. Air Force Military Biographies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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GENERAL JACOB E. SMART
Retired July 31, 1966.
General Jacob Edward Smart is deputy commander in chief of the U.S. European Command, senior U.S. military headquarters in Europe. The command directs the activities of all U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force units committed to NATO Defense, supports other unified and specified commands, and supports United States and other national and international agencies and commands.
General Smart was born in Ridgeland, S.C., in 1909 and educated in the public schools of South Carolina and Georgia, at Marion Military Institute, Marion, Ala., and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1931.
The general ...