Education:
Schreiner Insitute; 1925-1927 New Mexico Military Institute;
1927-1931 US Military Academy, West Point;
1937 Field Artillery School;
1946 Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth;
1948 Air War College
1931 commissioned, Field Artillery
1932-1933 Battery Officer, 15th Field Artillery (Fort Sam Houston, Tex.)
1934-1936 Battery Officer, 16th Field Artillery Battalion (Fort Myer, Va.); US Army polo team
1936-1939 Battery Executive Officer, 18th Field Artillery Regiment (Fort Sill, Okl.)
1939-1941 Battery Commander, 2nd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment (Schofield Barracks, T.H.)
1942-1943 Artillery Battalion Commander, 4th Infantry Division (Camp Gordon, Ga.) & 83rd Infantry Division (Camp Atterbury, Ind.) & 2nd Cavalry Division (Fort Clark, Tex.)
1943-06.1944 Commanding Officer, 3rd Regiment, 1st Special Service Force (Aleutins, Italy)
06.1944-12.1944 Commander, 1st Special Service Force (Italy, France, Germany)
1944-1945 Commanding Officer, 474th Infantry Regiment (Germany)
1945 Commander, Task Force A, Oslo (Norway)
1946-1947 Executive, Assistent Director Combined Arms Department Field Artillery School, (Fort Sill, Okl.)
1948-1949 Staff Officer, Office of the Chief of Staff (Washington, DC)
1949-1950 Secretary, General Staff, 4th Army (Fort Sam Houston)
1950-1951 Assistant Commander, Ranger Training Commnd (Fort Benning)
1951-1952 Commanding Officer, 2nd Infantry Divisional Artillery; Commanding Officer, 7th Infantry Reiiment, 3rd Infantry Division
1952-1953 Deputy Chief of Staff for Prisoners of War Affairs, 8th Army; then senior adviser First Republic of Korea Corps, KMAG (Korea)
02.1953-09.1954 Deputy Commander for supporting arms, 82nd Airborne Division (Fort Bragg, NC)
1955 chief Army sect. MAAG, Tapai, Taiwan, adviser to Commander-in-Chief Chinese Nationalist Army
1955-1957 Commanding General, 25th Divisional Artillery (Schofield Barracks)
1957-1959 Commanding General, Arkansas Military District (Little Rock)
10.1959-1961 Commanding General, 24th Infantry Division (Augsburg, Germany)
1961 Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, US Army Headquarters Europe
1961 resignated [because of right-wing opinions]
(Vice-)President American Eagle Publishing Co., consultant, author, speaker;
1962 candidate for Governor of Texas
Ranks:
2nd Lt. (1931); Lt.Col.; Col. (1944); Brig.Gen. (1953); Maj.Gen. (1957)
Decorations:
SS, BSM (2x), CI (2x), LM (2x), CR, Korean Unit Citation (US), Croix de Guerre (France), Order of St. Olav (Norway), OBE (UK), Ulchi Medal with gold and silver star (Korea)
Today's special forces are continually involved in forward defense, just as stealthy, just as feared.
One day soon we shall hear an astonished Saddam Hussein exclaiming:
"You can't be here! No one can penetrate this palace's security!
Would that be worth hearing!!!