Charles F. G. Kuyk Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Kuyk was promoted to Major General in 1977 and retired from the Air Force in 1980.

In 1975 he was appointed deputy director for strategic forces and in 1977 director of Operational Requirements, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Research and Development, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. Kuyk left his directorship in 1978 to take command of the Twenty-Second Air Force.

Beginning in 1952, Kuyk served with the Strategic Air Command’s 93rd Bombardment Wing. In 1954 he was assigned to the 310th Bombardment Wing, where he served as aircraft commander, instructor pilot and assistant operations officer. In 1958 General Kuyk entered the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and Kuyk served as an experimental test pilot from 1959 to 1963. From October 1967 to November 1968 he flew 168 combat missions with the 42nd Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron at Takhli, Thailand. From 1968 to 1971, General Kuyk served on the Air Staff in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Research and Development. In June 1973 he took command of the 436th Military Airlift Wing.

Maj.-Gen. Kuyk enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in July 1944 prior to attending West Point. He received his pilot wings in 1951 and was assigned to the 19th Bombardment Group on Okinawa during the Korean War in which he flew 32 combat missions.

Charles Frederick Goodwyn Kuyk, Jr. (born July 28, 1926) is a retired Major-General of the United States Air Force. He was also the named party in the Supreme Court Case, Poe v. Kuyk.