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After three years at Barksdale, Wade on August 1, 1966, assumed the command of the Eighth Air Force at Westover Air Reserve Base near Springfield, [[Massachusetts]]. As the commander at Westover, he was responsiible for bombers, tankers, and missiles located south from Goose Bay in Labrador, Canada, to Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, [[Puerto Rico]], and extending westward from Loring Air Force Base in Aroostook County, [[Maine]], to Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base near Clinton, [[Oklahoma]]. Wade received the Legion of Merit with Oak leaf cluster, [[Distinguished Flying Cross]], Soldier's Medal, Air Medal with oak leaf cluster and the Air Force Commendation Medal.<ref name=bio/>
After three years at Barksdale, Wade on August 1, 1966, assumed the command of the Eighth Air Force at Westover Air Reserve Base near Springfield, [[Massachusetts]]. As the commander at Westover, he was responsiible for bombers, tankers, and missiles located south from Goose Bay in Labrador, Canada, to Ramey Air Force Base in Aguadilla, [[Puerto Rico]], and extending westward from Loring Air Force Base in Aroostook County, [[Maine]], to Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base near Clinton, [[Oklahoma]]. Wade received the Legion of Merit with Oak leaf cluster, [[Distinguished Flying Cross]], Soldier's Medal, Air Medal with oak leaf cluster and the Air Force Commendation Medal.<ref name=bio/>
==Post-military years==
After his military retirement, Governor [[John J. McKeithen]] named Wade in 1967 as the director of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, with authority over both state police and prisons. From 1968 to 1972, he was the adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard.<ref name=exhibit/>
After his military retirement, Governor [[John J. McKeithen]] named Wade in 1967 as the director of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, with authority over both state police and prisons. From 1968 to 1972, he was the adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard.<ref name=exhibit/>
In 1972, Wade got into an open dispute with Democrat State Representative Dorothy Mae Taylor of [[New Orleans]], the first African-American female to serve in the Louisiana legislature. Wade called Taylor "a real phony" and accused her of seeking media publicity by inciting trouble at the state penitentiary in Angola and the parish prison in Orleans Parish. Wade said that Taylor catered to a black militant group with an eye toward her own political advancement.<ref>"David Wade Says Dorothy Taylor Is a "Real Phony", ''Minden Press-Herald'', April 27, 1972, p. 1</ref>
Wade died in 1990 at the age of seventy-eight. He and his wife, Dorothy, who is also since deceased, donated memorabilita to the [[Herbert S. Ford Museum]] in Homer, Louisiana, which he considered to have been his hometown. On display are the general's portrait, flags, medals, and awards as well as various weapons from [[World War I]] to the Vietnam era, including a World War II "Liberator," a rare pistol meant to be discarded after a single use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.claiborneone.org/ford/exhibits.html|title=The David Wade Military Room|publisher=claiborneone.org|accessdate=June 10, 2012}}</ref>
Wade died in 1990 at the age of seventy-eight. He and his wife, Dorothy, who is also since deceased, donated memorabilita to the [[Herbert S. Ford Museum]] in Homer, Louisiana, which he considered to have been his hometown. On display are the general's portrait, flags, medals, and awards as well as various weapons from [[World War I]] to the Vietnam era, including a World War II "Liberator," a rare pistol meant to be discarded after a single use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.claiborneone.org/ford/exhibits.html|title=The David Wade Military Room|publisher=claiborneone.org|accessdate=June 10, 2012}}</ref>
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