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'''George Stephen Morrison''' was the father of [[Jim Morrison]], also notable for being the youngest admiral in the [[US Navy]] at one time.
[[Image:John-P-Jumper.jpg|thumb|General John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force]]
'''General John P. Jumper''' is [[Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force]].
George Stephen Morrison, also known as Steve, was born in Georgia in 1920 and raised in Leesburg, Florida. The Morrison family was descended from Scottish settlers who arrived in America in the late eighteenth century.
General Jumper was born in [[Paris, Texas|Paris]], [[Texas]]. He earned his commission as a distinguished graduate of [[Virginia Military Institute]]'s [[ROTC]] program in [[1966]]. He has commanded a fighter squadron, two fighter wings, a numbered Air Force, and U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Allied Air Forces Central Europe. Prior to assuming his current position, the general served as Commander of Air Combat Command at [[Langley Air Force Base]].
Steve Morrison's parents were hardworking, God-fearing, nondrinking southern Presbyterians, and Steve followed the family's tradition of military service and entered the U.S. Naval Academy in the late 1930s. He was a trim young man, short of stature and serious, with an air of quiet authority. With World War II about to begin, his class was hustled through an early graduation in 1941, and Steve Morrison was posted to Hawaii for flight training. Later that year, just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he met Clara Clarke at a military dance. Blond, bubbly, very pretty and slightly heavy, she was the daughter of a Wisconsin lawyer and political maverick who defended union activists and had run for political office as a socialist candidate. It is interesting that Jim Morrison's maternal grandfather came from the great populist/progressive/socialist strain of American radicalism, a powerful sector of dissent and anger that challenged the two- party establishment from a strong political base in the upper Midwest and produced national leaders like Robert La Follette.
General Jumper has also served at [[the Pentagon]] as [[Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations]], as the Senior Military Assistant to two secretaries of defense, and as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff for Roles and Missions. A command pilot with more than 4,700 flying hours, principally in fighter aircraft, General Jumper served two tours in Southeast Asia, accumulating more than 1,400 combat hours.
After a brief and war-torn courtship typical of thousands of young couples in that dangerous time, Steve Morrison and Clara Clarke were married in April 1942. They moved to Pensacola, Florida, where Steve continued flight training before shipping out on a vessel laying mines in the waters around Alaska. Their first child, named James Douglas Morrison, was born in Melbourne, on Florida's Atlantic coast near Cape Canaveral, on December 8, 1943, amid the greatest burst of military energy his country ever experienced. He was called Jimmy by his family, and answered to that name all his life, at least to those who knew him intimately.
He also has television acting experience, having played himself in the science fiction series ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.
His father was soon flying Hellcat fighters in the South Pacific, and spent the next eighteen months on duty. While her husband was overseas, Clara lived with her husband's parents, Paul and Caroline Morrison, who operated a laundry in Clearwater, on the Gulf of Mexico. Jimmy lived in his grandparents' house until he was three, and Clearwater remained the family's hometown of record during Jimmy's childhood.
==Succession==
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Steve Morrison emerged from the war a decorated Navy pilot and an ambitious officer devoted to his career. His first postwar assignment was in Washington, but, determined to rise in the naval hierarchy, he moved his young family around with very little notice as he earned promotions and his assignments changed. Correctly guessing in 1947 that quick advancement lay in the new technologies that were reshaping the world, Steve Morrison transferred into nuclear weapons systems in the period when the hydrogen bomb was being developed at Los Alamos and tested at the White Sands proving grounds in the deserts of New Mexico. During this time in New Mexico, Jim Morrison would experience the Indian highway death scene, which he relates to in his poetry. George Morrisons new duties required a high-level security clearance that specified that his work was never discussed at home. Obscured by official secrecy (references to Lieutenant Morrison's duties during this period are still heavily censored in copies of his naval records made available to the public), all that is known about this era is that the Morrison family lived in naval housing in the vicinity of Albuquerque. Jim's sister, Anne, was born there when he was three years old.
==Education==
#1966 Bachelor of science degree in [[electrical engineering]], [[Virginia Military Institute]], Lexington
#1975 Squadron Officer School, [[Maxwell Air Force Base|Maxwell AFB]], [[Alabama]]
#1978 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama
#1979 Master of business administration degree, [[Golden Gate University]], [[San Francisco, California]]
#1982 National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, [[Washington, D.C.]]
George Stephen Morrison was later to serve as the Captain of the USS Bonheim (58-60) and later transfered to the pentagon. Ironically, George Morrison was the keynote speaker at the decomissioning ceromony for the USS Bonham on July 3, 1971 in Washington, USA (just 12 hours after his son Jim Morrisons death).
==Assignments==
#June 1966 – July 1967, student pilot, 3550th Student Squadron, [[Moody Air Force Base]], Georgia
#July 1967 – September 1967, C-7 upgrade training, [[Sewart Air Force Base|Sewart AFB]], Tennessee
#October 1967 – October 1968, C-7 pilot, 459th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Phu Cat Air Base, South Vietnam
#November 1968 – July 1969, F-4 upgrade training, 431st Tactical Fighter Squadron, George AFB, California
#July 1969 – May 1970, instructor pilot, weapons officer and fast forward air controller, 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Udorn Royal Thai AFB, Thailand
#June 1970 – July 1974, instructor pilot, flight examiner and standardization and evaluation chief, 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Bentwaters, England
#July 1974 – August 1977, flight instructor, later, flight commander, U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School, [[Nellis Air Force Base]], Nevada
#August 1977 – June 1978, student, Air Command and Staff College, [[Maxwell Air Force Base]], Alabama
#June 1978 – August 1981, Staff Officer for Operations and Readiness, Tactical Division, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
#August 1981 – July 1982, student, [[National War College]], [[Fort Lesley J. McNair]], Washington, D.C.
#July 1982 – February 1983, Chief of Safety, 474th Tactical Fighter Wing, Nellis AFB, Nevada
#March 1983 – July 1983, Commander, 430th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nevada
#July 1983 – August 1986, Special Assistant and Executive Officer to the Commander, Headquarters Tactical Air Command, Langley AFB, Virgina
#August 1986 – February 1988, Vice Commander, later, Commander, 33rd Tactical Fighter Wing, [[Eglin Air Force Base]], Florida
#February 1988 – May 1990, Commander, 57th Fighter Weapons Wing, Nellis AFB, Nevada
#June 1990 – April 1992, Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, the Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.
#May 1992 – February 1994, Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C.
#February 1994 – July 1994, Special Assistant to the Air Force Chief of Staff for Roles and Missions, Washington, D.C.
#August 1994 – June 1996, Commander, 9th Air Force and U.S. Central Command Air Forces, [[Shaw Air Force Base]], South Carolina
#June 1996 – November 1997, Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
#December 1997 – February 2000, Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, [[Ramstein Air Base|Ramstein AB]], Germany
#February 2000 – September 2001, Commander, Headquarters ACC, [[Langley Air Force Base]], Viginia
#September 2001 – present, Chief of Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.
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==Flight information==
[[Category:The Doors]]
*Rating: Command pilot
*Flight hours: More than 5,000
*Aircraft flown: [[C-7 Caribou|C-7]], [[C-20 Gulfstream III|C-20]], [[C-37 Gulfstream V|C-37]], [[Cessna T-37|T-37]], [[T-38 Talon|T-38]], [[F-4 Phantom II|F-4]], [[F-15 Eagle|F-15]], [[F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16]] and [[Eurofighter Typhoon]].
==Major awards and decorations==
*[[Defense Distinguished Service Medal]] with [[oak leaf cluster]]
*[[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]]
*[[Defense Superior Service Medal]]
*[[Legion of Merit]] with oak leaf cluster
*[[Distinguished Flying Cross (USA)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] with two oak leaf clusters
*[[Meritorious Service Medal]] with two oak leaf clusters
*[[Air Medal]] with 17 oak leaf clusters
*[[Vietnam Service Medal]] with five [[service star]]s
*[[Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal]]
==Effective dates of promotion==
#[[Second Lieutenant]] June 12, [[1966]]
#[[First Lieutenant]] December 12, [[1967]]
#[[Captain]] June 12, [[1969]]
#[[Major]] January 1, [[1978]]
#[[Lieutenant Colonel]] October 1, [[1980]]
#[[Colonel]] Oct. 1, [[1985]]
#[[Brigadier General]] August 1, [[1989]]
#[[Major General]] February 1, [[1992]]
#[[Lieutenant General]] September 1, [[1994]]
#[[General]] November 17, [[1997]]
==References==
[http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?name=John+Jumper General John P. Jumper]
[[Category:U.S. Air Force generals|Jumper, John P.]]
[[Category:Joint Chiefs of Staff|Jumper, John P.]]
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