STRATCOM Commander Talks Great Teachers

In April, Gen. John E. Hyten, commander, U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, shared his thoughts about education and the importance of teachers with the chapter. Gen Hyten said he has met the president, chief of staff and other dignitaries at the White House and talked about his dad having worked on the Saturn V rocket program in 1965. Teachers have always been a source of inspiration and enlightened the general through all phases of his formative education. In the fifth grade, he met Wernher von Braun, the father of rocket science. Gen. Hyten recalls that he petitioned to get into MIT, which his teachers encouraged him to do. He ultimately studied engineering at Harvard University on an Air Force ROTC scholarship. Science and math, he said, open the path to the future. He pointed out that the best thing he gets to do is meet bright young people, such as the students who attended the chapter program.

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