| Biographies : BRIGADIER GENERAL LARRY D. WRIGHT > > BRIGADIER GENERAL LARRY D. WRIGHT BRIGADIER GENERAL LARRY D. WRIGHT Bio Tools Retired Aug. 1, 1987. Brigadier General Larry D. Wright is vice commander, 22nd Air Force, Military Airlift Command, with headquarters at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. As one of three combat-ready strategic and tactical airlift arms of the Military Airlift Command, 22nd Air Force's geographical area of operations extends westward from the Mississippi River, across the Pacific and Indian Oceans to the eastern coast of Africa, pole to pole. Throughout this area, 22nd Air Force performs airlift operations, provides a vast network of support facilities and maintains a flexible airlift capability in support of the global mobility and logistics needs of United States fighting forces. General Wright was born in 1938, in Danville, Va., and graduated from Bladensburg (Md.) High School. He received a bachelor of arts degree in political geography from the University of Maryland in 1960 and a master of arts degree in urban sociology (cum laude) from the University of Colorado in 1972. The general graduated from the National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., in 1977. He is also a graduate of Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College and Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He was commissioned in 1960 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program at...
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