John A. Shaud

Who is John A. Shaud?

General John Albert Shaud is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe from 1988 to 1991.

Shaud was born in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from Cleveland Heights High School. He attended Lafayette College for a year prior to entering the United States Military Academy. Upon graduation from West Point in 1956, he received a bachelor of science degree and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. He received a master of science degree from The George Washington University in 1967 and a doctorate from Ohio State University in 1971. Shaud completed Squadron Officer School in 1962, Air Command and Staff College in 1967, and the National War College in 1974.

He received pilot wings upon graduation from training in August 1957. In December 1957 he was assigned to the 358th Bombardment Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, as a B-47 pilot. After completing B-52 combat crew training in May 1964, he was assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as an aircraft commander with the 17th Bombardment Wing.