Career Highlights

     Service in the Korean War as a Company Commander and Regimental S3 (7th Division)

     Service in Vietnam as a Battalion and Brigade Commander (1st Cavalry)

     Commanding General of the 7th Inf Div in Korea

     Commander of Fort Ord, California

     Service as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Department of the Army

     He was most famous as the Lieutneant Colonel in command of a battalion of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the1965 Battle of the Ia Drang Valley during the Veinam war.