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From June 1978 to June 1979, he served as commander of the
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After graduation from the U.S. National War
College in June 1974 he served as a special assistant for joint matters and chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Initiatives and Action Group in the Directorate of Plans and Policy, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. While in this
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Lasater began service in
Southeast Asia in May 1967 where he flew RF-4C's with the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Republic of Vietnam. While there he completed 221 combat missions, 100 over North Vietnam, and compiled 485 combat hours. Following his Vietnam service he
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position, he also served, beginning in March 1975, as chief of the Europe/North
Atlantic Treaty Organization Division within the directorate. In April 1976 General Lasater was assigned as executive assistant to the deputy commander in chief, U.S. European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany.
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Lasater returned to Washington, D.C., as the senior military adviser to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency of the State Department. He was also the acting U.S. Commissioner to the 19th and 20th U.S. and Union of Soviet Socialists Republics Standing Consultative commissions.
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He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in March 1952 and received his commission as a second lieutenant through the Air Force
Officers' Candidate School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, in March 1957.
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European and North Atlantic Treaty Organization policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and as commander of the
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In 1987, Lasater was called to serve as a member of the First Quorum of the
Seventy. His assignments while a member of the Seventy included President of the North America Southeast
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Marilyn Jones of Samaria, Idaho. They are the parents of four daughters — Mary Lynn, Leslie Ann, Melanie, and Carolyn — and a son, Garth.
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