[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22058]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              LIEUTENANT GENERAL ROBERT ALLEN BREITWEISER

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I missed the 10:30 a.m. vote today 
because I was at Arlington Cemetery for the interment services for LTG 
Robert Allen Breitweiser. Lieutenant General Breitweiser was one of the 
commanding officers of the Fourteenth Air Force when I served in the 
China-Burma-India theater, and he turned into a good friend when he was 
assigned to the Alaskan North American Air Defense Command from 1967 to 
1969. It was also an occasion for me because Lieutenant General 
Breitweiser's assistant was Tony Langhorn Motley, who, along with me, 
survived the airplane crash in which my wife and four others were 
killed in 1978.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Lieutenant General 
Breitweiser's full biography be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

              Lieutenant General Robert Allen Breitweiser

       Lt. Gen. Robert Allen Breitweiser is commander in chief, 
     Alaskan Command, and commander, Alaskan North American Air 
     Defense Command Region.
       General Breitweiser was born in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1916. 
     He graduated from South Denver High School in Denver, Colo., 
     in 1932 and attended the Colorado School of Mines at Golden, 
     Colo., for two years where he majored in Petroleum 
     Engineering. He obtained an appointment to the U.S. Military 
     Academy in 1934 and received a bachelor of science degree in 
     military science and engineering, ranking third in a class of 
     301.
       The general completed primary and advanced flying schools 
     at Randolph and Kelly fields, Texas, in August 1939. He 
     remained at the Advanced Flying School as an instructor until 
     he went to Maxwell Field, Ala., as training group operations 
     officer. He was designated commandant of the Contract Primary 
     Flying School at Bennettsville, S.C. in August 1941. The 
     following February he was assigned to Headquarters, Southeast 
     Training Center, Maxwell Field, Ala.
       Transferred to the China-Burma-India Theater in August 
     1943, General Breitweiser served with the Fourteenth Air 
     Force and the 68th Composite Wing. While with the Fourteenth 
     Air Force he served as General Chennault's personal 
     representative to General Wedemeyer, the China Theater 
     commander. During his duty tour in China, General Breitweiser 
     flew 120 combat hours on 22 combat missions, accounting for 
     numerous enemy trucks and river craft destroyed, plus one 
     6,000-ton freighter.
       Returning to the United States in July 1945, he was 
     appointed deputy chief and later, chief of the Requirements 
     and Resources Branch, Military Personnel Division of Army Air 
     Force Headquarters, Washington, D.C. In August 1947, General 
     Breitweiser was transferred to Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto 
     Rico, and served as assistant executive officer, 24th 
     Composite Wing. He was appointed commander of the base in 
     July 1948, and served in that capacity until May 1949.
       After graduating from the Air War College at Maxwell Air 
     Force Base, Ala., in 1950, General Breitweiser became 
     executive officer to the assistant secretary of the Air Force 
     for management in Washington, D.C. He served in that position 
     until November 1951, when he was appointed vice commander of 
     the 34th Air Division (Defense), Kirtland Air Force Base, 
     N.M.
       Transferred to Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo., 
     in May 1952, he was named assistant deputy chief of staff for 
     operations for the Air Defense Command.
       In July 1954, the general returned to Washington, D.C., as 
     a student in the National War College. Upon his graduation in 
     June 1955, he was assigned as special assistant to the deputy 
     director for estimates, Directorate of Intelligence, 
     Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, and became chief of the policy 
     and management group the following February. In June 1956, he 
     was named deputy director of estimates, office of the 
     assistant chief of staff, intelligence, U.S. Air Force.
       In February 1957, General Breitweiser was designated the 
     director for intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, 
     D.C.
       In July 1961, General Breitweiser became assistant chief of 
     staff, intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, and in 
     September 1963 he assumed command of the U.S. Air Force 
     Southern Command in Panama, Canal Zone. In August 1966, he 
     became vice commander, Military Airlift Command.
       Among the general's awards and decorations are the 
     Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star 
     Medal, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf 
     cluster, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign 
     Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory 
     Medal, National Defense Service Medal with bronze star, Air 
     Force Longevity Service Award with silver and two bronze oak 
     leaf clusters, Order of Yunhui (Special Breast) of China, 
     Friendship Medal with Citation (Argentina), Royal Order of 
     the Sword (Grade of Knight Commander)--Sweden, National Order 
     of the Condor of the Andes (Grade of Commander--Certificate 
     of Honor)--Bolivia, Grand Star of Military Merit (Chile), 
     Order of Aeronautical Merit (Grade of Great Officer)--Brazil. 
     He is rated a command pilot.

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