Posted by Terry Powers on December 28, 2022:

LT GEN US AIR FORCE; WORLD WAR II; KOREA; VIETNAM Abbott Congleton Greenleaf, 75, an Air Force Lieutenant General who retired in 1980 as deputy chief of staff for programs and evaluation, died of respiratory failure June 22 at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington. He lived in Falls Church. Gen. Greenleaf began his military career as an enlisted man in the Navy during World War II. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1949, then served as an Air Force officer until retiring in 1980. As a command pilot, he flew more than 50 types of military aircraft and logged over 5,000 flying hours, more than 600 of which were in combat. He participated in combat operations during the Korean War as a flight commander, squadron operations officer and bombardment group operations officer, and during the Vietnam War as vice commander and commander of a tactical airlift wing. Gen. Greenleaf was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Cayuga, N.Y. He received his pilot wings at Reese Air Force Base, Tex., a year after graduating from West Point, then attended flight-instructor school at Craig Air Force Base, Ala. After returning from the Korean War, he received master's degrees in politics and public affairs from Princeton University, then taught government, history, geography and economics at West Point. He studied national security affairs at Dartmouth College. In the 1960s, Gen. Greenleaf served in a variety of capacities in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He attended the National War College. From 1969 until 1971, he was posted in Vietnam with a tactical airlift wing at Cam Ranh Bay. After returning to the United States, he was deputy chief of staff for operations with the headquarters unit of Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base. In 1977, he became deputy chief of staff for programs and resources. In 1979, the position was renamed deputy chief of staff for programs and evaluation. Gen. Greenleaf's decorations included a Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters, a Distinguished Flying Cross, a Bronze Star, an Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters and an Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster. Gen. Greenleaf settled in the Washington area in 1958. He also had a home in Cayuga. He was a member of the Episcopal Falls Church and the Masons. His wife, Jean D. Greenleaf, died in 1993. Source: Find A Grave

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