Retired effective June 1, 1997
Lieutenant General Ronald W. Iverson is commander, 7th Air Force, Pacific Air Forces; deputy commander, U.S. Forces Korea; commander, Air Component Command; Republic of Korea and United States Combined Forces Command; commander, U.S. Air Forces Korea; and deputy commander in chief, United Nations Command, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea. As 7th Air Force commander and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Korea, he trains, equips and receives air forces for the commander in chief, U.S. Pacific Command. As commander of the ROK-US Air Component Command, he is responsible to the commander in chief, United Nations Command
and Combined Forces Command for directing air component missions. As deputy commander in chief, United Nations Command, he assists the commander in chief in carrying out the conditions and terms of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
The general was commissioned as a distinguished graduate through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Idaho in March 1965. He is a command pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours in various fighter and light aircraft. The general is an F-4E graduate of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
EDUCATION:
1965 Bachelor of science degree in agricultural economics, University of Idaho 1974 Squadron Officer School 1974 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. 1977 Industrial College of the Armed Forces 1985 National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 1994 National Security Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.