General Yeager & General Robin Olds, Directors of Safety

Brig Gen Robin Olds in front of F-4 in Vietnam 1967

Brig General Robin Olds, considered a handsome man with a dashing mustache, was a highly regarded triple Ace from World War II and Vietnam. General Yeager and he served at the same time in Vietnam.

One of General Yeager’s later encounters with General Olds, General Yeager’s predecessor as Director of Safety, was when General Olds’ soon to be ex-wife, Ella Raines, a Hollywood actress, an alcoholic, refused to move out of the military housing reserved for the current Director of Safety. This required General Yeager to stay in the BOQ at Norton AFB for a month waiting for Ella to exit while Glennis waited in Grass Valley, CA. General Olds had retired from the Air Force in 1973 and had moved out. General Yeager subsequently held the post until he retired in 1975.

General Yeager changed the procedures and saved millions of lives.

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