Boyd, Charles G.
Name |
| ||||
Birthname | Charles Graham Boyd | ||||
born on | 15 April 1938 at 15:15 (= 3:15 PM ) | ||||
Place | Twin Lakes, Iowa, 42n26, 94w42 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
Data source |
| ||||
Astrology data | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Biography
American four-star general of the United States Air Force. Boyd was a highly decorated combat pilot who served in Vietnam and is the only Vietnam War prisoner of war (1966–1973) to reach the four-star rank (1992). His final Air Force assignment was as deputy commander in chief, U.S. European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany. He retired from the Air Force in 1995 and remained active in the national security realm, including as a program director of the Council on Foreign Relations and as president of Business Executives for National Security. He was a member of the guiding coalition of the Project on National Security Reform.
Following his retirement from the Air Force in 1995, Boyd served as strategy consultant to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich. From July 1998 he was executive director of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century.
From 1 May 2002 until 31 December 2009 he was the president and CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a national security public interest group. From 14–17 December 2009 Boyd led a delegation from BENS to Pyongyang, North Korea, to discuss economic issues with officials from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea government. Boyd remained involved with BENS as a member of the board of directors.
Boyd endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election, the first candidate he had publicly ever endorsed.
Boyd married twice and had two children. He died at the age of 83 on 23 March 2022 from lung cancer in Haymarket, Virginia.
Relationships
- associate relationship with Gingrich, Newt (born 17 June 1943)
Events
- Social : Institutionalized - prison, hospital 22 April 1966 (Entered POW camp)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Social : Deinstitutionalized - prison, hospital 12 February 1973 (Released from POW camp)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Death, Cause unspecified 23 March 2022 (Age 83)
chart Placidus Equal_H. - Death by Disease 23 March 2022 (Lung cancer, age 83)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
Source Notes
Birth certificate in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file.
Categories
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive (BA, MA)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Lung)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two)
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Lung cancer)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 83)
- Vocation : Business : Consultant
- Vocation : Business : Top executive
- Vocation : Military : Combat
- Vocation : Military : Honors
- Vocation : Military : Military career
- Vocation : Military : Military service
- Vocation : Military : POW/ MIA (POW)
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation (Democratic)
- Vocation : Travel : Pilot/ military
- 1938 births
- Birthday 15 April
- Birthplace Twin Lakes, IA (US)
- Sun 25 Aries
- Moon 8 Scorpio
- Asc 12 Virgo
- 2022 deaths
- Traits : Mind : Education extensive
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Business : Consultant
- Vocation : Business : Top executive
- Vocation : Military : Combat
- Vocation : Military : Honors
- Vocation : Military : Military career
- Vocation : Military : Military service
- Vocation : Military : POW/ MIA
- Vocation : Politics : Party Affiliation
- Vocation : Travel : Pilot/ military