Ronald Jay Bath is a retired United States Air Force Major General who directed United States. Air Force Strategic Planning for the service"s Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs at service headquarters in the Pentagon.
Education
1968: Bachelor of Surgery, business and agriculture,, Reno
1971: Master of Business Administration, University of Nevada, Reno
1975: Juris Doctor, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California
1982: Air Command and Staff College, by seminar
1993: Air War College, by correspondence
1994: National Security Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Career
Bath"s prior assignment was as Director, Quadrennial Defense Review and Defense Integration. The Defense Integration Office was established to prepare and represent the Air Force in the QDR and the follow-on actions, including the Defense Planning Guidance within the Office of the United States. Secretary of Defense. Bath began his military career in 1968 as a boiler operator and heating specialist in the enlisted ranks of the Nevada Air National Guard.
During the 1997 QDR, he was the Air National Guard assistant to the director for the Air Force effort.
Bath was one of 16 senior military officers representing the four services and the single National Guard officer assigned as professional staff to the 1995 congressionally mandated Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces. Having been a traditional guardsman and air technician, Bath is a command pilot with more than 3,500 flying hours in the RF-101 and RF-4 Phantom World War II He flew 31 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, during the Persian Gulf War.
Assignments June 1969 – June 1970: student, Undergraduate Pilot Training, Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma June 1970 – July 1984: RF-101 reconnaissance pilot, 192nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Reno, Nevada July 1984 – November 1990: RF-4C pilot and flight commander, 192nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Reno, Nevada November 1990 – July 1991: flight safety officer, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing, Sheik Isa Air Base, Bahrain July 1991 – July 1993: Chief of Safety, later, Chief of Plans, 152nd Tactical Reconnaissance Group, Reno, Nevada July 1993 – July July 1994 – July 1995: professional staff, Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces, Washington, District of Columbia July 1995 – July 1996: Air National Guard adviser to the Army Division Redesign Study, Washington, District of Columbia July 1996 – December 1997: Air National Guard assistant to the Director, Air Force QDR, Headquarters United States. December 1997 – December 1999: Division Chief, National Defense Review, Directorate of Air Force Strategic Planning and Programming, Headquarters United States. December 1999 – September 2001: Deputy Director, Air Force QDR, Headquarters United States. Flight information Rating: Command pilot Flight hours: More than 3,500 Aircraft flown: T-41, T-37, T-38, F-101, RF-101, C-54, F-4 and RF-4 Awards and decorations Dates of rank 1968: Bachelor of Surgery, business and agriculture, University of Nevada, Reno Bath retired in November 2007 and formed the RJBath Group, specializing in classified and unclassified defense analysis consulting.