US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Leonard Wood, MO)

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POST HEADQUARTERS

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MAJOR GENERAL LOUIS W. PRENTISS, JR. Major General Louis W. Prentiss, Jr., was born in Washington, D.C., 25 December 1927. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., in 1950, with a B.S. degree. He received a master's degree in Civil Engineering from Princeton University in 1956. General Prentiss' first assignment after West Point was with the U.S. Army in Germany. Subsequent assignments included duty with the Norfolk U.S. Army Engineer District, company command and S-3 duties in Korea, and staff and faculty at the U.S. Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Later assignments were Officer-in-Charge of the Peru Project, Inter-American Geodetic Survey at Lima, Peru, Assistant Engineer Commissioner for the District of Columbia, and Commander of the 169th Engineer Battalion and Chief of Operations of the 20th Engineer Brigade in Vietnam. Upon return from Vietnam, he was assigned to the Office of the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Army in Washington, D.C., and from 1971 to 1973 served as District Engineer for the U.S. Army Engineer District, Baltimore. In 1973 and 1974 he commanded the 7th Engineer Brigade at Ludwigsburg, Germany. General Prentiss served as the Division Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer Division, Europe, from 1974 to 1976, and as Deputy Chief of Staff, Engineer, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army at Heidelberg, Germany, from 1976 to 1978. In October 1978, he became Division Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer Division, Ohio River, in Cincinnati, Ohio. General Prentiss assumed command of the U.S. Army Training Center Engineer and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, on 16 August 1979, General Prentiss is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. He is a registered professional engineer in the District of Columbia. His awards include the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and several foreign decorations.