Background and Education
Lasater was born in Farmington, Utah. He grew up in the Ogden, Utah area, graduating from Weber County High School in Ogden, and attended Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He graduated from the University of Omaha, Nebraska, with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1966, and earned his master's degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California in 1970. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1966 and graduated from the National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., in 1974.
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