Robert T. Marsh

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Robert T. Marsh
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal (2)
Legion of Merit
Alma materUniversity of Michigan

Robert Thomas Marsh (January 3, 1925 – December 28, 2017) was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC) from 1981 to 1984.

Military career

Born in 1925, in

Air War College, both schools located at Maxwell Air Force Base
, Alabama.

As an enlisted man in the Army Air Forces for almost two years, he completed both aircraft mechanic and aerial gunnery training on

B-24s prior to his appointment to the academy. Following his graduation he attended the Air Tactical School at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and in December 1949 entered preliminary technical training at the Atomic Weapons and Radiological Safety School at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. In July 1950 he joined the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project as an atomic weapons assembly officer at Sandia Base, New Mexico. Later, he was assigned to the cadre of the 5th Aviation Field Depot Squadron, an atomic weapon assembly and storage organization, and went with the squadron in 1951 to Sidi Slimane Air Base, Morocco. In December 1952 he transferred to Headquarters 7th Air Division, Strategic Air Command, South Ruislip
, England, where he served as an armament and electronics staff officer.

From September 1954 to June 1956, Marsh attended the University of Michigan under the

Air Research and Development Command with duty at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where he served as project officer in the SM-64A Navaho and TM-61-76 Matador/Mace
weapon systems project offices.

Following Air Command and Staff College in July 1960, Marsh was assigned to the Ballistic Missile Division,

Los Angeles Air Force Station
, California. He returned to Maxwell Air Force Base to attend the Air War College from August 1964 to June 1965.

He was assigned to Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., in July 1965 in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Research and Development, as a staff officer in the Directorate of Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare. He later became chief of the Projects Division in the Directorate of Space. He completed his tour of duty at the Pentagon as executive officer for the deputy chief of staff for research and development.

In September 1969 Marsh returned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as deputy for reconnaissance, strike and electronics warfare. In June 1973 he received his first assignment to Air Force Systems Command headquarters as deputy chief of staff for development plans. He became deputy chief of staff for systems in October 1973 and was appointed vice commander in August 1975.

He was commander of the

, Massachusetts, from May 1977 to January 1981. He assumed command of AFSC in February 1981. Marsh retired on July 31, 1984.

His military decorations and awards include the

Master Missile Badge
.

Death

Marsh died on December 28, 2017, in Potomac Falls, Virginia. He was 92. He was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Robert T. Marsh Former Chairman President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection".
  2. ^ https://externalapps.westpointaog.org/Memorials/Article/16916/
  3. ^ "GEN Robert T. Marsh USAF (Retired)".

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