| Biographies : BRIGADIER GENERAL DONALD A. VOGT > > BRIGADIER GENERAL DONALD A. VOGT BRIGADIER GENERAL DONALD A. VOGT Bio Tools Retired Aug. 1, 1983. Brigadier General Donald A. Vogt is the military assistant to the deputy undersecretary of defense, strategic and space systems, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C. General Vogt was born in 1930, in Chicago where he graduated from South Shore High School in 1948. He attended Purdue University for one year before entering the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., from which he graduated in 1953. He attended the Air Force Institute of Technology, graduating in 1960 in the first graduate astronautics class with a master's degree in astronautics. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1964 and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1974. He received his commission in the U.S. Air Force after graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy. General Vogt attended pilot training at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, and received his wings upon graduation from basic training at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, in 1954. After training in the F-94 at the All-Weather Interceptor Pilot School at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., he was assigned as a pilot to the 29th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Great Falls Air Force Base, Mont., from January to April 1954. He served as a pilot in F-89C and F-89D interceptors with the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Keflavik Airport, Ic...
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