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MAJOR GENERAL ARTHUR J. POILLON, USMC COMMANDINC GENERAL, MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT MAJOR GENERAL ARTHUR J. POILLON was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Princeton Uni- versity, the Amphibious Warfare School, the US. Army Command and General Staff College and the US. Army War College. He entered the Marine Corps Reserve in February 1943; attended Recruit Training at Parris Island in 1944 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in August 1945. After World War II he served as a platoon and company commander and as a battalion and division staff officer in the First Marine Division in China and California. Following an assignment as the Marine Officer Instructor at Princeton University in 1952, he participated in combat operations in Korea as a company commander and staff officer with the Fifth Marines. He has served as an instructor at both the Amphibious Warfare School and the US. Army Command and General Staff College and as the Commanding Officer of the Marine Barracks, Quonset Point, Rhode Island. In 1966, Lieutenant Colonel Poillon formed and com- manded the 27th Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton, Ca- lifornia. In 1967 he became the Assistant C-3, lst Marine Division in Vietnam and subsequently the G-3 of Task Force X-Ray at Hue during the 1968 TET Offensive. After a tour in the G-1 Division, Headquarters Marine Corps, he was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned first as Assistant Division Commander, 2nd Marine Divi- sion and subsequently as its Commanding General until July 1973. In October 1973 he assumed command of Force Troops Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, which command he relin- quished on 28 May 1975. General Poillonis personal decorations include two Le- gions of Merit, the Army Commendation Medal, the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal and Vietnamese Cross of Cal- lentry with palm and silver star.
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