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Article: Major General James A. Young.(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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MAJOR GENERAL JAMES A. YOUNG
Retired Sep. 1, 1979.
Major General James A. Young is chief of staff, Combined Military Planning Staff, Central Treaty Organization, with headquarters at Ankara, Turkey.
General Young was born in 1926, in Marion, Conn. He graduated from Newton High School, Newton, Mass., in 1944. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army and in 1945 was selected for Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant, infantry, in January 1946.
He next served in Korea with the 7th Infantry Division. In February 1948 he returned to the United States, completed parachute training, and was ...