When Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl stepped out of a car at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, just before 2 a.m. Friday, he greeted Maj. Gen. Joseph P. DiSalvo as any other soldier dressed in U.S. military uniform would greet a higher-ranking officer: with a “Sir” and a ...
Each garrison was commanded by an officer assigned to the position, usually a colonel, who was accountable for maintenance, construction, servicing, etc., on the site or sites constituting the installation. Funding for the operation of each post was then no longer funneled ...
Edward M. Almond was an American army officer who held important command positions during the Korean War. Almond graduated from Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1915 and in November 1916 took a commission in the infantry. He was promoted to captain i
Benjamin Tallmadge was an American Continental Army officer who oversaw the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution and later served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Having been tutored by his father, a Congregational minister, Ta
Franks graduated from the Artillery Officer School in 1967 and was commissioned a second lieutenant. Shortly thereafter he was posted to Vietnam with the 9th Infantry Division. In 1969 he decided to leave the service but changed his mind following his selection for the army’s Bootstrap degree-...
Leonard Wood was a medical officer who became chief of staff of the U.S. Army and governor general of the Philippine Islands (1921–27). A graduate of Harvard Medical School (1884), Wood began his military career the next year as a civilian contract surg