Thomas McInerney
| Thomas G. McInerney | |
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Thomas G McInerney as a Major General (1983, aged 46)
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| Born |
March 15, 1937 Havre de Grace, Maryland, U.S. |
| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/branch |
United States Army United States Air Force |
| Years of service | 1959–1994 |
| Rank |
Lieutenant General 
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Thomas G. McInerney (born March 15, 1937) is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General, who served in top military positions under the Secretary of Defense and the Vice President of the United States.
McInerney was a command pilot with more than 4,100 flying hours, including 407 combat missions (243 in O-1s as a forward air controller and 164 in F-4Cs, Ds and Es) during the Vietnam War. In addition to his Vietnam Service, McInerney served overseas in NATO; Pacific Air Forces and as commander of 11th Air Force in Alaska. Until 2015 he was a Fox News contributor, and a member of the Iran Policy Committee. Tom McInerney is noted for insisting on Fox News that terrorists had flown the disappeared Malaysia Airlines 370 to Pakistan.
McInerney was born March 15, 1937, in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and graduated from Garden City (N.Y.) High School in 1955. He earned a BS degree from the United States Military Academy in 1959 and a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University in 1972. McInerney graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College in 1970 and from the National War College in 1973.
After graduating from USMA in June 1959, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He then joined the Air Force, and completed initial pilot training at Bartow Air Base, Florida, and Laredo Air Force Base, Texas, in November 1960. McInerney was assigned to Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, and later to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, for advanced gunnery training. His first operational assignment was in October 1961 with the 476th Tactical Fighter Squadron, flying F-104s at George Air Force Base, California. From there he participated in the Berlin and Cuban crises in 1962, flying escort missions in the West Berlin Air Corridor and escort reconnaissance missions over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In April 1963 he was one of the first forward air controllers assigned to South Vietnam with a Vietnamese army division.
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