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In March 1952, the Air Council and United States Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg adopted a number of changes to the U.S. Air Force enlisted rank structure that had been recommended by studies made in 1950 and 1951.
The history of the group traces its existence to 1948, when Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Hoyt Vandenberg, and his wife Gladys, witnessed young servicemembers being buried without any family members present on one of their walks through the cemetery.
Appointed by the President, he served as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff of the Army, and the United States Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force on all National Guard issues.
The role of numbered air forces changed in the 1990s during the Air Force reorganization initiated by Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak.
Merrill McPeak (born 1936), American politician and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Merrill McPeak, Merrill Anthony "Tony" McPeak, former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
William V. McBride, general in the United States Air Force, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force