US Army Air Defense Training - Yearbook (Fort Bliss, TX)

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Major General James P. Maloney Commanding General U.S. Army Air Defense Center and Fort Bliss Fort Bliss, Texas James P. Maloney was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvan- ia on January 4, 1932. A distinguished military graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Texas Western College Cnow University of Texas - El Pasoj, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in Artillery in 1954. After completing the Officer Basic Course in late 1954, he was assigned to the 11th Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and Munich, Germany. From November 1955 to September 1958, he held various battery and battalion positions with the Division's antiaircraft artillery battalion, and the 2d Airborne Battle Group, 502d Infantry. Returning from Europe in 1958, then Captain Maloney attended the Field Artillery Battery Officer Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the Guided Missile System Officer Course at Fort Bliss, Texas. He then returned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for an eighteen months assignment at the US Army Artillery and Missile School as a research and development officer in the Guided Missile Department. After completing a Military Assistance Training Advisor Course at the US Army Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he served with the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Vietnam from April 1962 to April 1963. He next attended the Artillery Officer Advanced Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, then became a battery commander in the 4th Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery, Fort Hancock, New Jersey. This was followed by a one year assignment as Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General, US Army Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Graduating from the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in June 1967, he spent the next two years as a staff officer in the Air Defense Directorate, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development, Department of the Army. ln November 1969, he took command of the newly activated 7th Battalion, 61st Artillery at Fort Bliss, Texas, and six months later, took the battalion to Germany. He attended the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1972. Concurrent with this, he attended Shippensburg State College earning a master's degree in Communications. A tour in Korea from July 1972 to August 1973 with the 38th Air Defense Brigade as the Operations Officer was followed with an assignment at Department of Army as Chief of the Missile and Air Defense System Division, Office of the Chief of Research and Development. From July 1974 to February 1976, he commanded the 108th Air Defense Group, 32d Army Air Defense Command, US Army, Europe. He was then assigned to Alexandria, Virginia, as Air Defense Systems Director, Battlefield Systems Integration Directorate, US Army Material Development and Readiness Command. In January 1977, he moved to the Department of Army where he was named Deputy Director of the Combat Support Systems Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research Development and Acquisition. He was promoted to the grade of Brigadier General on August 1, 1977, and to the grade of Major General on September 8, 1980. In 1980, he was appointed Director, Weapons Systems Directorate, ODCSRDA. Major General Maloney assumed command of the US Army Air Defense Center and Fort Bliss, Fort Bliss, Texas, on June 23, 1982. In this position, he also serves as the Commandant of the US Army Air Defense School.