VERNE ORR
April 23, 2003
Served as secretary of the Air Force from Feb. 9, 1981 to Nov. 30, 1985.Verne Orr was the 14th secretary of the Air Force. He was born in 1916 in Des Moines, Iowa. He grew up in the Midwest and moved to California with his family about the time he entered high school. He graduated from Pomona