Lieutenant General, USAF, Ret. Candidate for MOL-2 and MOL-3. Armstrong completed flight training at Greenville AFB in Mississippi, earning his pilot's wings in 1957. Further instruction was received at the F-86 gunnery school at Williams AFB, Arizona, and at the F-100 gunnery school at Nellis AFB, Nevada. In April 1958, he was assigned to the 356th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Myrtle Beach AFB in South Carolina flying F-100s. In 1961 he started attending the University of Michigan, working towards his master's degrees in astronautical engineering and instrumentation engineering. Armstrong then attended the U.S. Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California as part of the nine-strong Class 64B, whose members included future MOL and NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton. In August 1971, Armstrong attended the Air War College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama and following graduation. Armstrong was appointed Commander of the Air Force Military Training Center, Lakeland AFB, Texas. Post-military, Armstrong became more involved with America's civilian space program. In 1991 he became Associate Administrator with NASA's Human Resources and Education Office, and in 1998 was appointed Associate Administrator Office of Aerospace and Space Transportation Technology. He retired from NASA on December 31, 2002.