US Army Training Center Fort Ord - Yearbook (Fort Ord, CA)

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COL James E. Crow LTC Richard A. Thompson Brigade Commander Battalion Commander SIXTH BATTALION C THIRD BRIGADE Commenced Training: 26 January 1976 Completed Training: 11 iviarcn 1976 ILT Douglas B. Bock Company Commander

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I BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT ARTER 7th Infantry Division Assistant C. G. fManueveri MAJOR GENERAL M. C. ROSS Commanding General US Army Training Center and Fort Ord Fort Ord, California Major General M.C, Ross was born in Moberly. Missouri, January 24. 1927. He began his military career as an enlisted man on May 4, 1944. In July 1945 he entered the United States Military Academy and graduated 3 June 1949 when he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. His first duty assignment was as commander of Company K, 350th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Forces, Austria. In November 1953 as a First Lieutenant. he was assigned to Company E. Infantry School Detachment, Fort Benning, Georgia as executive officer and the next month as company commander. He was promoted to Captain in April of 1954. The following month he began the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, following which he attended Airborne Training School, He remained at Fort Benning as a Test Officer at the Infantry Board until 1957. From August 1957 until June 1958 he attended the Command and General Staff Col- lege at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas, following which he was assigned as S-3 of the 7th Brigade. 7th Infantry Division in Korea. In June 1959 he was promoted to Major and in October of that year moved to Wash- ington. D.C.. where he was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Staff. and later to the Plans and Policy Directorate of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Oper- ations. He attended the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA. from January 1963 until July 1963 and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel upon completion of the course. From July 1963 until July 1966. General Ross was assigned to the J-5 Directorate. Plans and Policy, U.S. Strike Command. MacDiII Air Force Base, Fla. In the summer of 1966 he attended the United States Army War College, and following graduation received an assignment to the 1st Cavalry Division fAirmobileJ and the Re- public of Vietnam. There he served as Battalion Commander of the 2d Battalion. 12th Cavalry. and asthe Division G-3. He returned to the United States in July 1968, and was Commanding Officer, 3d Regie ment. U.S. Corps of Cadets, for two years. He was transferred to Fort Carson. Colorado in July 1970 where he served as Commanding Officer of the 3d Brigade, 4th Infantry Division tMechanizedJ. On September 15, 1971, he became Commanding General of the 173d Airborne Bri- gade at Fort Campbell. Kentucky. In January 1972 he became Deputy Commanding General, Fort Campbell and on April 1, 1972, became Assistant Division Commander t0perationsJ, 101st Airborne Division CAirmobileJ. On February 1, 1973, he became Acting Director of Operations in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations and reverted to Deputy on 1 April. On 20 June. he became Director of Human Resources Development in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. He was assigned Commanding General, U,S, Army Training Center and Fort Ord on January 8,1975. BERTRAM J. BISHOP Col. inf. .Assistant Division Commander fSupportl

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