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from the

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in 1943 and entered into the engineering trades. During

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, he served as a communications officer with the U.S. Navy. After the war, he returned to engineering work before taking a consultancy position with Booz Allen Hamilton in 1951. Stetson became president of the

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publishing company in 1963. At the time of his appointment as Secretary of the Air Force, he was the head of office products supplier

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* 1920 births 2007 deaths United States Secretaries of the Air Force United States Navy personnel of World War II Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni {{USAF-bio-stub