Maj Gen John Davey is a Senior Fellow with the Flatter Executive Cadre.
Major General, U.S. Air Force.
Summary: The general was a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College in 1979. Upon graduation from the academy in June 1959, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and was first assigned to Bartow Air Force Base, Fla., and then to Vance Air Force Base, Okla., for pilot training. He received wings in September 1960 and attended combat crew training in the F-100 at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., and Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. In August 1961 he was assigned to George Air Force Base, Calif., as an F-100 pilot with the 307th Tactical Fighter Squadron and moved with his squadron in June 1962 to Homestead Air Force Base, Fla. During this same period he served as a jump-qualified forward air controller attached to the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. After a tour of duty as aide-de-camp to the commander of 9th Air Force, Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., General Davey then entered F-4 pilot training at Key West Naval Air Station, Fla., under the Air Force-Navy pilot exchange program. He then was assigned to naval fighter squadron VF-41 aboard the USS Independence, and logged more than 300 carrier landings and 93 combat missions over North Vietnam.
