The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Maxwell Taylor - July 26th, 2003

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mdtaylor.htm ^

[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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join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time.

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General Maxwell Davenport Taylor
(1901-1987)

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Maxwell Davenport Taylor was born in Keytesville, Missouri, on 26 August 1901.

He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Engineers in June 1922, and thenattended his branch course. He served in Hawaii with the 3d Engineers, 1923–1926, and married Lydia Gardner Hopper in 1925.

He transferred to the Field Artillery and served with the 10th Field Artillery, 1926–1927. He was promoted to First Lieutenant in February 1927. He studied French in Paris and was instructor in French and later Spanish at West Point, 1927–1932; he graduated from the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1933, and from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1935.

He was promoted to Captain in August 1935 and was a student of Japanese at the American embassy in Tokyo from 1935 to 1939, with detached military attache duty at Peking, China, in 1937. He graduated from the Army War College, 1940, and was promoted to permanent Major in July 1940. He then served in the War Plans Division and on a Hemisphere defense mission to Latin American countries in 1940. He then commanded the 12th Field Artillery Battalion, 1940–1941; and served in the Office of the Secretary of the General Staff, 1941–1942.

He received temporary promotions to Lieutenant colonel in December 1941, to Colonekl in February 1942, and Brigadier General in December 1942. He was then Chief of Staff of the 82d Airborne Division in 1942, then its artillery commander in operations in Sicily and Italy in 1942 to 1944. He received temporary promotion to Major General in May 1944 and commanded the 101st Airborne Division in the Normandy invasion and the Western European campaigns, 1944–1945; He was promoted to permanent Lieutenant Colonel in June 1945, and Brigadier General in January 1948.



He was chief of staff of the European Command in 1949, and commander of the United States forces in Berlin, 1949–1951; He was promoted to temporary Lieutenant General and permanent Major General in August 1951; He was then Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, G–3, and Deputy Chief of Staff for operations and administration, 1951–1953; He was promoted to temporary General in June 1953. The then was commander of the Eighth Army in the final operations of the Korean War in 1953 and then initiated the Korean armed forces assistance program, in 1953 and 1954. He commanded United States Forces, Far East, and the Eighth Army 1954–1955, and was Commander in Chief, United Nations Command, 1955; He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 30 June 1955–30 June 1959 and opposed dependence upon a massive retaliation doctrine, pushing for an increase in conventional forces to ensure a capability of flexible response, guided the transition to a "pentomic" concept, and directed Army participation in sensitive operations at Little Rock, Lebanon, Taiwan, and Berlin.



General Taylor retired from active service in July 1959 and was recalled as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962–1964. He again retired and became Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1964–1965; he was Special Consultant to the President and Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1965–1969; was President of the Institute of Defense Analysis, 1966–1969.

General Taylor died in Washington, D.C., on 19 April 1987.

[snippy_about_it]

Mornin' Darksheare.

[snippy_about_it]

Good Morning 'joe', hope you are doing well! Good to see you.

[snippy_about_it]

Good Morning Fiddlstix, SAM must be sleeping late today. He'll need that coffee.

[snippy_about_it]

Good read SAM. The statistics on landing the paratroopers is awful. We got the job done of course but at a high cost for sure.

Thanks for the Taylor biography.

[SAMWolf]

There is no way I would admit to serving on a ship named the USS Geranium. I just couldn't say that with a straight face.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Feather

[Fiddlstix]

Good morning Snippy
Good morning Sam
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(It's starting to look like I've "bit off more than I can chew" with this "remodeling project of mine". Every time I get one thing fixed, I seem to find something else that needs fixing. LOL. I think I'll just redo the whole house while I'm at it. LOL)

[SAMWolf]

1863 Sam Houston president of Texas, dies at 70

[SAMWolf]

Don't worry about bein' crazy Sam, if we weren't, we'd have never signed up for military green.

We always called it OD Green.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning CholeraJoe

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning, Fiddlstix. I really need the coffee to get going this morning.

[Darksheare]

Morning.
Had any coffee yet?
Been brave enough to try mine with half-n-half and four sugars yet? *ducks*

[Darksheare]

OD Green, Over Dirt Green.
(At least, that's how I heard it. As well as Army Green. But everyone else uses it too..)

[SAMWolf]

Every time I get one thing fixed, I seem to find something else that needs fixing.

Sounds like my typical project. Try and replace a washer and it turns into a major replace pipes, shutoff valves and who knows what else. And my wife wants to know why avoid "honey do's" like the plague

[SAMWolf]

Just a change in time, of course we didn't have the Cammo BDUs, we had solid OD Green fatigues.

[Darksheare]

Slanted front pockets too, right?
(Why did they get rid of those? They were perfect!)

[snippy_about_it]

Been brave enough to try...

NO

LOL. I need my sleep, I'm still catching up from my visit to SAM's where we never slept very long.

[Darksheare]

Hmm... I guess I'm more immune to the stuff than I thought.
:-/

My coffee didn't buzz you up THAT bad, did it?
(Afraid to ask.)

[SAMWolf]

Slanted front pockets too, right?

Only on the Jungle fatigues, the Stateside fatigues had straight pockets and had to ber tucked into the pants like a shirt.

[Darksheare]

Oh, the state trooper style BDU shirts.
Those were horrible.
Garn.