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John A. Gordon

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John A. Gordon
2nd United States Homeland Security Advisor
In office
April 30, 2003 – July 28, 2004
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byTom Ridge
Succeeded byFran Townsend
Undersecretary of Energy for Nuclear Security
In office
June 29, 2000 – June 28, 2002
PresidentBill Clinton
George W. Bush
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byLinton Brooks
20th Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
In office
October 31, 1997 – June 29, 2000
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byGeorge Tenet
Succeeded byJohn McLaughlin
Personal details
Born
John Alexander Gordon

(1946-08-22)August 22, 1946
Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S.
DiedApril 19, 2020(2020-04-19) (aged 73)
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Missouri, Columbia (BS)
Naval Postgraduate School (MS)
New Mexico Highlands University (MA)
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service United States Air Force
Years of service1968–2000
Rank
General
Commands90th Strategic Missile Wing
AwardsLegion of Merit

John Alexander Gordon (August 22, 1946 – April 19, 2020) was an American air force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as the President's Homeland Security advisor from 2003 to 2004.[1]

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Transcription

Rusty was my son's nickname, cause of the color of his hair back when he was little. He was a law enforcement officer. And my son and I became the only father-son bailiff team in the whole state of Ohio. It's kind of a unique thing. So we were closer than a lot of fathers and sons. He had two children. He went to every single practice and game for baseball, softball, football, basketball, the piano recitals, the dance - dance classes. I mean, he went to every single thing that his children were involved in. My son was driving on his motorcycle. He was riding northbound on a state highway, uh... The driver of the truck - a young man - he had swerved into the oncoming lane. And uh... it was a head-on crash. My son died instantly of a broken neck. And the phone records were subpoenaed, and we found that at the point of impact, the time of the crash, that he was on his phone. The moment we heard about this, it felt like somebody stabbed us in the heart. And every day, that knife just turns a little bit more. And every day we deal with something else that happens. And I mean, it just - it just doesn't go away. I was angry. I'm still angry. It's almost like texting is an addiction to these young adults, and even the teenagers. You could get away with it four or five times, or ten times, or fifty times. But there's gonna be a day when you're not going to see something in front of you, or you're going to be weaving, or go through a stop sign. And you could be killed yourself, let alone kill somebody else. How do you live with yourself if you kill somebody else? It um... it tears a family apart. What could have been, and was, a close family, is not that close anymore. It's not because one person is not there at the dinner table, or at the Christmas dinners. You just kind of focus on what's next. For me, I lost a 17-year-old brother in a car accident. And since we only had one child, I lived in fear every day of my life that someday somebody was gonna come to the door and tell me that we had lost our only child. And that day happened. It was like all my fears and everything came to reality. The birthdays, the graduations, our son walking his daughter down the aisle. It's... and for what?   A telephone? [Music] Distracted driving kills, safe driving starts with you.  

Military career

Gordon entered the Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1968. His early assignments were in research, development and acquisition where he was involved in improving the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and in developing and acquiring the Peacekeeper ICBM. He was a long-range planner at Strategic Air Command and served with the U.S. State Department in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs. Later, he commanded the 90th Strategic Missile Wing, the only Peacekeeper ICBM unit. He has served with the National Security Council in the areas of defense and arms control, including the oversight and completion of the START II negotiations. He then became a senior member of the secretary of defense's staff and later, the director of operations, Air Force Space Command, responsible for overseeing and developing policy and guidance for the command's operational missions. He also has served as special assistant to the Air Force chief of staff for long-range planning, where he was responsible for restarting and integrating a long-range planning process into the Air Force. Prior to assuming the deputy director position, he was associate director of central intelligence for military support, Central Intelligence Agency. He retired from the Air Force on August 1, 2000.[citation needed]

Post-military career

Following his Air Force retirement, Gordon was chosen as the first administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and also Under Secretary of Energy, responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program, a position he filled from June 2000 to June 2002.[2] He next served as the Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, then assumed duties as Homeland Security Advisor from April 2003 to July 2004.[1] On September 16, 2004, he was inducted into the Naval Postgraduate School Hall of Fame.[3] After retiring from public service, he served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, as well as the board of advisors of VirtualAgility, Inc. (beginning in October 2005),[4] the board of EDO Corporation (beginning in 2007),[5] and the Board of Trustees of Analytic Services, Inc.[2]

Gordon died on April 19, 2020, at the age of 73.[6]

Education

Assignments

  • July 1968 – June 1970, graduate student, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio[7]
  • June 1970 – June 1974, physicist, Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico[7]
  • June 1974 – April 1976, research associate, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico[7]
  • April 1976 – February 1979, long-range planner, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska[7]
  • February 1979 – August 1980, staff officer, research and development, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • August 1980 – May 1982, executive assistant to the undersecretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • May 1982 – January 1983, deputy director, Office of Policy Analysis, Department of State, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • January 1983 – July 1985, office director for strategic nuclear policy, and director for defense and arms control matters, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • July 1985 – July 1986, student, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama[7]
  • July 1986 – June 1987, assistant deputy commander for maintenance, 44th Strategic Missile Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota[7]
  • June 1987 – May 1989, vice commander, then commander, 90th Strategic Missile Wing, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming[7]
  • May 1989 – January 1993, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for defense policy and arms control, National Security Council, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • January 1993 – June 1994, deputy undersecretary of defense and chief of staff for policy, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • June 1994 – September 1995, director of operations, Headquarters Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado[7]
  • September 1995 – September 1996, special assistant to the chief of staff for long-range planning, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • September 1996 – October 1997, associate director of central intelligence for military support, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.[7]
  • October 1997 – 2000, deputy director of central intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.[7]

Major awards and decorations

Effective dates of promotion

  • Second Lieutenant June 4, 1968
  • First Lieutenant December 4, 1969
  • Captain June 4, 1971
  • Major September 1, 1979
  • Lieutenant Colonel November 1, 1981
  • Colonel December 1, 1985
  • Brigadier General June 1, 1992
  • Major General May 25, 1995
  • Lieutenant General September 20, 1996
  • General October 31, 1997

References

  1. ^ a b "Naval Postgraduate School bio" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-12-13. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
  2. ^ a b Analytic Services, Inc. Board of Trustees Biography[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Hall of Fame Recipients
  4. ^ "VirtualAgility Board of Advisors" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-18.
  5. ^ Gen. (Ret.) John A. Gordon Joins EDO Board (press release)
  6. ^ "John Gordon, Aug. 22, 1946 – April 19, 2020". Columbia Missourian. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "GENERAL JOHN A. GORDON". Air Force. Retrieved 2023-12-14.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Air Force.

Government offices
Preceded by Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
1997–2000
Succeeded by
Political offices
New office Undersecretary of Energy for Nuclear Security
2000–2002
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Homeland Security Advisor
2003–2004
Succeeded by
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