Craven C. Rogers Jr. was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force who served as deputy commander in chief, U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. The command was tasked with achieving U.S. national objectives in Southwest Asia, the Persian Gulf and the Horn of Africa. U.S. Central Command is currently conducting military Operation Desert Shield on the Arabian peninsula. Rogers was born in 1934, in Galveston, Texas. He earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy in 1957 and a master's degree in business administration from The George Washington University. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1962 and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1973. Upon graduation from the academy he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. After completing pilot training in September 1958 he was assigned to Tactical Air Command at Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., for gunnery training in the F-86F. With the phaseout of the F-86F, Rogers transferred in June 1959 as an instructor pilot to Air Training Command, Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. [More at Wikipedia]

September 16th, 1934  /  Died:   Aug 4th, 2016