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To: SAMWolf; AntiJen; E.G.C.
Interesting to see then Lt. Col. Edwin A. Walker was commander for 1944.

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Walker, Colonel Edwin Anderson

10.11.1909 Center Point, Texas - 31.10.1993 Dallas, Tex.

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)

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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!

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Godspeed Swift Victory and Safe Return to the Finest Fighting Force on Earth.

. . .ad astra per aspera. . .

75 posted on 02/03/2003 5:51:01 PM PST by PhilDragoo
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To: PhilDragoo
Evening PhilDragoo.

"You can't be here! No one can penetrate this palace's security!

Would that be worth hearing!!!

84 posted on 02/03/2003 6:04:39 PM PST by SAMWolf (To look into the eyes of the wolf is to see your soul)
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To: PhilDragoo
BTTT!!!!!
113 posted on 02/04/2003 3:09:25 AM PST by E.G.C.
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