Robert D. McMurry Jr. is a retired

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who is now an executive vice president at Dayton Aerospace and a member of its board of directors. In the U.S. Air Force, he last served as the Commander of the

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. Prior to that, he was the

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. McMurry earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the

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in 1984. He later received an M.S. degree in control and systems engineering from the

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in 1993, an M.A. degree in national security and strategic studies from the

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at the Naval War College in 1998 and an M.S. degree in strategic studies from the

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in 2002.

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