A short timeline for BGen Chuck Yeager
12 September 1941 Yeager enlisted in the Army Air Corps.
10 March 1943 Yeager received his pilot wings and appointment as a flight officer from Luke Field, Phoenix, Ariz. He was promoted from corporal to flight officer. After completing basic training at Ellington Field, Texas, he served for two months at Mather Field, Calif., and later at Moffet Field, Calif.
General Yeager’s first assignment was as a P-39 pilot with the 363d Fighter Squadron in Tonopah, Nev. As a member of the 363d he trained at various bases in the United States before going overseas to England in November 1943
In 1958, Yeager became commander 1st Fighter Squadron, flying new F-100 “Super Sabres.”
July 1966 Assumed command of the 405th Fighter Wing at Clark Air Base, Republic of the Philippines, and flew 127 missions in South Vietnam.
25 February 1975 BGen Chuck Yeager flew his final Air Force sortie at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in an F-4C Phantom II (s/n 63-7264) before retiring from the service on March 1. Yeager was conducting a safety inspection of Edwards at the time.
He retired from active duty in the U.S. Air Force on March 1, 1975, but continued to serve as a consulting test pilot for many years.
Source: Wikipedia; http://www.chuckyeager.org/history/184/