SMDC History: First Army astronaut earns his wings

[The Patriot]

WASHINGTON -- On this date in U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command history, March 2, 1984, then Col. Robert L. Stewart, the first Army astronaut, received his astronaut wings.The ceremony, conducted at Fort Meyer, Virginia, the site of the first military airplane test flights in 1909, saw Gen. John A. Wickham, Jr., Army Chief of Staff, present Stewart with his wings. In the same ceremony, Secretary of the Army John O. Marsh Jr. decorated Stewart with the Distinguished Flying Cross.

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