US Army General. As a young teenager, he was extremely interested in becoming a soldier and gained his first Army experience in the summer of 1934 when he participated in recruit training with B Troop of the 3rd Cavalry in Vermont. The following summer, he joined the 51st Field Artillery, 26th Infantry Division, as an underage private and participated in the Grand maneuvers of Pine Camp, New York. After graduating with honors in 1938 from Saint Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the 298th Infantry in Hawaii and attended the Military Academy Prepatory School. In 1939, he received an appointment to the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in January 1943 with a commission as a second lieutenant in the cavalry. He was assigned to the 7th Armored Division and trained in California prior to being deployed to Europe in June 1944. During World War II he led an assault gun platoon in France, and later a reconnaissance troop in Germany that linked up with the Russians near Berlin, Germany, at the close of the war. After the war, he returned to the United States and held various staff and instructional assignments, including serving on General Eisenhower's staff at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. He graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1955 and was then assigned to West Point as an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences. He next took the command of a battalion of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Meade, Maryland, and attended the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. After graduating, he served as a military attaché in Tunis. He returned to the United States in 1963 where he commanded the 1st Armored Training Brigade at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In 1964, he was assigned to the Pentagon where he worked for the Army Chief of Staff and later with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington DC. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in October 1966 and was sent to Vietnam, where he was responsible for the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, under General William Westmoreland, and also as the assistant division commander for the 9th Infantry Division. He returned to the United States and became the Secretary of the Army General Staff, Washington DC, and on March 23, 1970 he became the 49th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, and in 1974, he was assigned back to Europe as the Chief of Staff of the US European Command. He was promoted to the rank of general on 1 June 1976 and took command of the Allied Land Forces Southeast Europe. His final European assignment was as the military representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Military Committee, serving in that position until he retired in June 1980 with 37 years of active military service in the US Army. Among his decorations and awards are the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star with two oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, and the Air Medal with one silver oak leaf cluster and three bronze oak leaf clusters, and the Knight Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. After he retired, he served as a Senior Fellow at the National Defense University at Fort McNair, Washington DC. He served as an advisor for the Defense Nuclear Agency and was a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency Science and Technology Advisory Board. He also a director for nine years of the Chubb Corporation, a property and casualty insurer in the US, and served as a trustee for Davis and Elkins College located at Elkins, West Virginia. He was awarded the Gold Medallion of the Order of Saint George at the 1988 Armor Conference, in recognition for his lifelong contributions to the Army's Armor Force. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Graduate Award from the Association of Graduates of the US Military Academy alumni organization. A collection of his military uniforms and awards are on display at the American Military Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. He died as a result of intracranial bleeding after a fall.