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Show Bill. Native Is General Brigadier General Ralph H. Jacobson is the vice director, office of the Secretary of the Air Force Special Projects. Los Angeles Air Force Station, Sta-tion, California. BRIG. GEN. Ralph H. and Joan Jacobson have been house guests of the Robert E. . Moss family in Bountiful recently. re-cently. They were also guests one evening of Robert Alvin Moss for a dinner party. Gen. Jacobson was born Dec. 31. 1931 in Salt Lake City and grew up in Bountiful, son of Claude and Gertrude Gold Jacobson. The family lived at 901 North Main Street in Bountiful. His grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Sern Jacob-son, Jacob-son, who lived at the corner of 100 South and Main Street in Bountiful. mm ' the assistant deputy chief of staff for space and shuttle development de-velopment and operation. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development Develop-ment and Acquisition, Headquarters Head-quarters US Air Force. In June 1980 he became the Director of Space Systems and Command Control, Communications at Headquarters U.S. Air Force in the Pentagon. He assumed his present duties Sept. 1981. GEN. JACOBSON'S military milit-ary decorations and awards include in-clude the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Dis-tinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, clus-ters, Joint Service Commendation Commen-dation Medal and Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters. He wears the master missile badge and is a command pilot with 3.800 flying hours in C-119's, C-I23s, C-13lsand U-3s. He was promoted to brigadier briga-dier general July 1, 1979, with date of rank June 7, 1979. MRS. JOAN Jacobson is a native of New York City and holds a graduate degree in nursing education, was special consultant in family matters with the Air Force, lectures and has done special work on "Air Force Life Style." She has published articles for military milit-ary families, as well as lecturing. lec-turing. The couple has three children, chil-dren, daughter Mrs. Brian Klene, Los Angeles, Calif.; son Matthew C, a midshipman midship-man in the U.S. Naval Academy and the younger son James P., is a senior in a Los Angeles area high school, kj HE ATTENDED Stoker Elementary School, South Davis Junior High School and was studentbody president during his ninth grade year. He graduated from Davis High School in 1950 and attended the University of Utah for two years. During his youth. Gen. Jacobson was a constant companion com-panion of Bob Moss. The boys helped R.A. Moss with farm work and Ralph worked at Slim Olsen's and also at Lagoon La-goon in Farmington with the late Bob Freed. Mr. Jacobson remembers the delicious homemade doughnuts which he so often had at the Moss home, when the boys were there. IN 1952, Gen. Jacobson left Bountiful to enter the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Anna-polis, Md., and graduated with a bachelor of science degree and a commission as second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force in 1956. He earned a master of science scien-ce degree in astronautics from the Air Force Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1962 and second master of science degree in business administration administra-tion from George Washington University. Washington, D.C. in 1966. HE COMPLETED the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB. Ala. in 1966; Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. in 1974 and Naval War College of Newport, R.I. in 1976. Gen. Jacobson entered pilot training at Maiden AFB, Mo. 1956 and received his wings at Webb Air Force Base, Tex., Aug. 1957. HE SERV ED asaC-119and C-123 pilot and aircraft commander com-mander in the 778th Trop Carrier Car-rier Squadron at Pope AFB, N.C. Graduated in 1962 from astronautical engineering course at Air Force Institute of Technology, was assigned to the Ballistics Systems Division, Divi-sion, Norton AFB, Calif, as project officer for the inertial guidance system used on the Titan II intercontinental ballistic ballis-tic missile, attended the Air Command and Staff College from July 1965 to July 1966. Gen. Jacobson next served as an action officer in the Directorate of Plans, Headquarters Head-quarters USAF for three years. He then volunteered for service in Southeast Asia and was assigned as a wing operations opera-tions staff officer with the 14th Special Operations Wing at the Nha Trang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, from July 1969 to July 1970, where he flew 299 sorties in UC-123K's. IN JULY 1970. Gen. Jacob-son Jacob-son was assigned to the Office of Special Projects, Space and Missile Systems Organization, Los Angeles Air Force Station, Sta-tion, Calif. He served successively succes-sively as a research and development de-velopment project officer, division di-vision chief and deputy director direc-tor for research. From August 1975 to June 1976, he attended the Naval War College and after af-ter graduation, returned to Los Angeles Air Force Station as commander of the Air Force Satellite Control Facility. In March 1979 he became |