Air Force Network Integration Center officials welcomed family and friends of Lt. Gen. Harold W. Grant here March 28 to learn more about the late general’s legacy and see firsthand the building named in his honor.
General Grant is recognized as a communications pioneer who avidly worked to ensure Air Force operators had the best communications support possible. Throughout his more than 35-year Air Force career he held numerous communications and leadership positions, including first commander of the Air Force Communications Service, an early predecessor of AFNIC, from 1961-1962. Under his leadership, the command’s more than 50,000 Airmen provided airways communications, air traffic control, much of the long-haul and some base-level communications.
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