Millennium Magazine_5th Ed

208 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine I nspired by his uncle, aWorldWar II veteran, Thomas E. Snodgrass pursued a lifelong career in the U.S. Air Force. Prior to entering the military in 1963, he received a BA in liberal arts from Grove City College. After seven years as a lieutenant and captain on active duty, he was awarded a scholarship to obtain an MA in international affairs and history from UT Austin. His military career encompassed 30 years alternating between educational classroom teaching duties and operational intelligence and diplomatic assignments in the U.S. and overseas, attaining the rank of colonel. Mr. Snodgrass taught at the USAF Special Operations School, USAF Academy, the Air War College and the University of Miami’s Center for International Studies Graduate School as an Air Force Research Associate. His experiences included USAF Signals Intelligence Officers Course, USAF Squadron Officer School, USAF Command and Staff College, Air War College, Defense Intelligence Agency Military Attaché Course, Central Intelligence Agency Case Officer Course and State Department Foreign Service Institute Polish language training. Following his retirement from the USAF, he was an adjunct history professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from 2001 to 2011. Mr. Snodgrass’ operational AF assignments include signals intelligence collecting in Pakistan, Thailand and West Germany; staff intelligence officer duties at the AF Foreign Technology Division and AF Space and Missile System Organization; scheduling 130 AF and U.S. Army Airborne Radio Direction intellection collection aircraft in Vietnam; planning, negotiating and implementing military aspects of the 1979 Panama Canal Treaty; serving as chief of wartime command and control planning at the combined U.S.-Korean forces headquarters in South Korea, and later serving as executive officer for the USAF general commanding combined U.S.-Korean air forces; being USAF Academy plans deputy chief of staff; and serving as U.S. air attaché behind the Iron Curtain in Poland. Mr. Snodgrass received the AF Commendation and Joint Service Commendation medals, the AF and DOD Meritorious Service medals with three oak leaf clusters, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, the Republic of VietnamCampaign Medal and the VietnamGallantry Cross with PalmDevice. THOMAS E. SNODGRASS MILITARY OFFICER, HUMANITIES EDUCATOR (RETIRED) Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott, AZ GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY