” HIGH FLYING” GENERAL (RET.) NORTON SCHWARTZ
“We live in fame or go down in flame. Hey!
Nothing’ll stop the U.S. Air Force!”
General Norton Schwartz (Ret.) He was the first Jewish Chief of Staff of the Air Force and was a member of the U.S. Air Force Academy Jewish choir before his 1973 graduation. In 2004 he was awarded the Jewish Community Center’s Military Leadership Award. In accepting the award, he said he was “proud to be identified as Jewish as well as an American military leader.” In 2008 Press TV, an Iranian English language media outlet, published a column titled “U.S. Names Jew as Air Force Chief.”
General Norton Schwartz served as the 19th Chief of Staff of the Air Force from August 12, 2008, until his retirement in 2012. As Chief of Staff, he served as the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipping of nearly 700,000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving in the United States and overseas. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Schwartz functioned as a military adviser to the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council and the President. He previously served as Commander, United States Transportation Command from September 2005 to August 2008. Schwartz is a command pilot with more than 4,400 flying hours in a variety of aircraft.
He has won twenty nine medals and badges.
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