The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General George C. Marshall - May 10th, 2003

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[SAMWolf]

Dear Lord,

There's a young man far from home,
called to serve his nation in time of war;
sent to defend our freedom
on some distant foreign shore.

We pray You keep him safe,
we pray You keep him strong,
we pray You send him safely home ...
for he's been away so long.

There's a young woman far from home,
serving her nation with pride.
Her step is strong, her step is sure,
there is courage in every stride.
We pray You keep her safe,
we pray You keep her strong,
we pray You send her safely home ...
for she's been away too long.

Bless those who await their safe return.
Bless those who mourn the lost.
Bless those who serve this country well,
no matter what the cost.

Author Unknown

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General George Catlett Marshall
(1880 - 1959)

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This American soldier-statesman was born on December 31, 1880, into a family of Virginia and Kentucky lineage in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, where his father manufactured coking coal for the iron and steel industry. The Uniontown Marshalls were distantly related to John Marshall, former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He had an older brother, Stuart (1875-1956), and a sister, Marie (1876-1962).

Young Marshall was not a particularly good student in school, but he was particularly interested in history, and he developed the ability to interpret American society and specific problems he faced in a broad historical context. In later years, when asked to which political party he belonged, Marshall generally responded: My mother was a Republican; my father was a Democrat; and I'm an Episcopalian.

Marshall attended the Virginia Military Institute, graduating in 1901 as the highest-ranking cadet. He entered the U.S. Army in February 1902. For the next fifteen years, he served in various of the posts in the U.S. and the Philippines. Between 1906 and 1910, he attended army schools at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and also taught there. He was a member of the small group of U.S. Army officers trained in modern warfare prior to World War I.

He went to France in the summer of 1917 as the director of training and planning for the First Infantry Division. In mid-1918, he was promoted to American Expeditionary Forces headquarters, where he was a key planner of American operations. In 1919 he became an aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing. Between 1920 and 1924, while Pershing was army chief of staff, Marshall was an important planner and writer in the War Department in Washington, D.C.


Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall, James Byrnes

Following a tour of duty (1924-27) with the Fifteenth Infantry in Tientsin, China, Marshall was assigned to teach at the Army War College, but when his wife died, he was moved to the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, to become head of instruction. There he reformed army infantry officer training to prepare for a war of mechanization, air power, and rapid movement. He briefly (1932-33)commanded posts at Fort Screven, Georgia, and Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, where one of his key duties was creating and running Civilian Conservation Corps camps. Between 1933 and 1936, he was in Chicago as senior instructor to the Illinois National Guard. He was promoted to brigadier general in October 1936 and given command of Vancouver Barracks, Washington, and its CCC district (1936-38).

Marshall returned to Washington to become head of the War Department's War Plans Division and then deputy chief of staff (1938-39), prior to being selected by Franklin D. Roosevelt to be army chief of staff (1939-45). Highly regarded by his peers, leaders of the Roosevelt administration, and members of Congress, Marshall was in charge of getting the U.S. Army and Army Air Corps ready for war (1939-41), reorganizing the army (1942), and leading it throughout the war. He was the most important member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, according to Winston Churchill, the organizer of Allied victory.


GENERAL MARSHALL AND WAR DEPARTMENT CHIEFS. Left to right: Lt. Gen. H. H. Arnold, Maj. Gen. J. T. McNarney, General Marshall, Maj. Gen. B. B. .Somervell, and Lt. Gen. L. J. McNair.

Marshall "retired" in November 1945, but President Truman immediately asked him to go to China to attempt to mediate a settlement between the Nationalists and Communists. In January 1947 he was named secretary of state. In that role, his name is most commonly associated with the "Marshall Plan," for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1953. In 1949 he resigned from the State Department and was soon named president of the American National Red Cross, hardly a sinecure, given the organization's troubles at the time. In September 1951, three months after the outbreak of the Korean War, Truman asked him to become secretary of defense, a job he held for a year. Marshall died at Walter Reed Hospital on October 16, 1959, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.


President Truman presents General George Marshall with permanent membership in the Reserve Officers Association, October 16, 1945.

One of the most magnificent stories about General Marshall is regarding D-Day. General Marshall was so very significant in every aspect of building up the military, and fighting the war in both theaters. He was also a major contributor in the conception and execution of the D-day plan, but was destined to be forgotten by history. President Roosevelt was conscious of this fact, and concerned Marshall's excellence would not be remembered, much as Lincoln's Chief of Staff during the Civil War. The President offered General Marshall, General Eisenhower's job as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, which in turn would allow him to lead the Normandy invasion. General Marshall turned down this offer because he felt he was needed in Washington, and a change of command at the last moment simply for his reputation and ego was not appropriate.

[snippy_about_it]

Good afternoon. Pretty butterfly. Are you feeling better today after your fish fry (broiled) troubles?

Around here skies are getting pretty dark. We are keeping a 'heads up' to see if we need to head down to the basement soon. Hopefully today will be the last of the stormy weather for the midwest for a while. :)

[Soaring Feather]

Feeling 100% today snippy!

Just something about fish can set me on edge. I think most fish are like that except for shellfish, well for me anyway.

The skies are bright here, sun is out after a somewhat dreary morning. I do think we are going to have more rain though. Let her come I say, I was here first!! LOL

Sure hope you don't have to spend the afternoon in a basement! I have no worries like that here in the East.

[Jen]

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[Victoria Delsoul]

Hello everybody! LOL, I posted this on yesterday's thread. I'm still sleepy.

click on the graphic

[snippy_about_it]

Still sleepy! What time is it? lol.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL, I went to bed late last night. ;-)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Actually, it was early this morning, LOL.

[snippy_about_it]

Clic on the pic

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Light Speed]

Join in with others to say thanks for the time spent forwarding Ship histories : )

Was researching ship camo patterns earlier today,

USS Baltimore is an item of debate as per her camo pattern at www.shipcamouflage.com

Posted by George Cost on 15:37:31 9/21/2001 from 205.188.198.178:
In reply to: Re: CA-68 posted by John Sheridan on 15:10:20 9/21/2001 from 208.204.155.241:

John,
I thought that Ms33 was the low contrast scheme, with just Light and Haze Gray. Thats what I've got on my USS San Francisco and USS Reno. I wasn't aware that Ms33 had this varient,
George

: : Thanks for the input. Now I'm really confused.
: : Squadrons new book, for all its faults, has a picture of C A68(you can read the hull# on then bow)in what they call
Ms 32/16d.
The reference on this web site list her as Ms 33 /16d , but Ms 33 was the low contrast Measure, eliminating b la color.
I'm thinking there is a typo on the ship camo reference. Which still doesn't bring me any closer to the deck p at tern!
: I orignally had CA-68 in MS 32/16d but after talking to John Snyder and Don Pruel, we determined that the colors carried by CA-68 were Light Gray 5-L, Haze Gray 5-H, and Navy Blue 5-N which would make it a MS-33 pattern and not MS-32.
As for Commanders and their MS-31 pattern....NO WAY!

John Sheridan
www.shipcamouflage.com

**For those reading along..the first number is the color pallete..the second is the design.

USS Isherwood DD 520 Aug/1944 Measure 31/16d

[Light Speed]

USS Drayton DD 366 [Mahan Class]1941

USS Drayton recieved the nickname.."The Blue Beetle" from her paint job.

The attachment stuck...as Draytons fleet call sign became Blue Beetle.

There's a few stories on Drayton as to her color..that she needed to go out from yard availability quickly..so they painted her all blue.

Some comment it was an experiment by Navy dept.

Maybe aomagrat has the answer in his library : )

[PhilDragoo]

Accompanied by Lieutenant General Wedemeyer (left), General George C. Marshall inspects a Chinese guard of honor on his arrival in Shanghai, December 1945, to begin his mission of mediating disputes between the Nationalist and Communist forces.

Gen. George C. Marshall annotates the message that Japan is surrendering and forwards it to Eisenhower. (GCM at right above).

USS George C. Marshall SSBN-654

When have we had someone of such intellect to get his arms around the military and the economic?

He won the war and won the peace.

Europe did not turn communist; Israel got its state.

As for China, perhaps nothing could be done with Chiang Kai-shek and his corruption vs. the inexorable Mao.

Was Marshall the last good Secretary of State?

The so-called Road Map depends upon the Palestinians who have already chosen war and Israel's destruction with their intifada.

Will America regain the brilliant compression of precision-guided financial aid perfected by Marshall?

Or will it continue to give billions to Egypt which praises "comrade Hitler of blessed memory who had the privilege of killing six million Jews"?

What a modest, masterful giant of a planner was Marshall.

May his ghost be a guiding hand in rebuilding Iraq.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the backgrounds on the DD's.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Victoria. Swing is always good to hear. Thanks

[snippy_about_it]

*Was Marshall the last good Secretary of State?*

Probably.

Look at the list after Marshall. Much ado about nothing?

Name: George C. Marshall
State of Residency: Pennsylvania
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 8, 1947
Entry on Duty: Jan 21, 1947
Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1949

Name: Dean G. Acheson
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 19, 1949
Entry on Duty: Jan 21, 1949
Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1953

Name: John Foster Dulles
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 21, 1953
Entry on Duty: Jan 21, 1953
Termination of Appointment: Apr 22, 1959

Name: Christian A. Herter
State of Residency: Massachusetts
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Apr 21, 1959
Entry on Duty: Apr 22, 1959
Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1961

Name: Dean Rusk
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 21, 1961
Entry on Duty: Jan 21, 1961
Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1969

Name: William P. Rogers
State of Residency: Maryland
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 21, 1969
Entry on Duty: Jan 22, 1969
Termination of Appointment: Sep 3, 1973

Name: Henry A. Kissinger
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Sep 21, 1973
Entry on Duty: Sep 22, 1973
Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1977
Note: Served concurrently as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until Nov 3, 1975.

Name: Cyrus Vance
State of Residency: New York
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 21, 1977
Entry on Duty: Jan 23, 1977
Termination of Appointment: Apr 28, 1980

Name: Edmund Sixtus Muskie
State of Residency: Maine
Non-career appointee
Appointment: May 8, 1980
Entry on Duty: May 8, 1980
Termination of Appointment: Jan 18, 1981

Name: Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.
State of Residency: Connecticut
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 22, 1981
Entry on Duty: Jan 22, 1981
Termination of Appointment: Jul 5, 1982

Name: George P. Shultz
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jul 16, 1982
Entry on Duty: Jul 16, 1982
Termination of Appointment: Jan 20, 1989

Name: James Addison Baker, III
State of Residency: Texas
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 25, 1989
Entry on Duty: Jan 25, 1989
Termination of Appointment: Aug 23, 1992

Name: Lawrence S. Eagleburger
State of Residency: Florida
Foreign Service officer
Appointment: Dec 8, 1992
Entry on Duty: Dec 8, 1992
Termination of Appointment: Jan 19, 1993
Note: Commissioned during a recess of the Senate. Served as Acting Secretary of State, Aug 23-Dec 8, 1992.

Name: Warren M. Christopher
State of Residency: California
Non-career appointee
Appointment: Jan 20, 1993
Entry on Duty: Jan 20, 1993
Termination of Appointment: January 17, 1997

Name: Madeleine Korbel Albright
State of Residency: District of Columbia
Non-career appointment
Appointment: January 17, 1997
Entry on Duty: January 23, 1997
Termination of Appointment: January 19, 2001

Name: Colin L. Powell
State of Residency: Virginia
Non-career appointment
Appointment: January 20, 2001
Entry on Duty: January 20, 2001
Termination of Appointment:

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi Sam. Good to see you, where have you been?

[SAMWolf]

Evening PhilDragoo. May his ghost be a guiding hand in rebuilding Iraq. We sure could use someone with Marshall's wisdom.

[SAMWolf]

Getting stuff done around the house, upgrading some software.

[SAMWolf]

SOme of thoose names are real famliar, some are totally forgetable and some are just complete idiotic incompetents.

[PhilDragoo]

Can't we all just get arong?