US Army Training Center - Armor Yearbook (Fort Knox, KY)

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p11 l ,mii Major General Paul A. Disney assumed Command of the U.S. Army Training Center, Armor, on September 22, 1956, following a tour of duty as Commanding General of the 4th Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on November 16 1904, General Disney be a h' g'n is military career after his graduation from Norwich University, Vermont, in June 1927. That year, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Cavalry in the Officers Reserve Corps and received a Regular Army commission in October 1927. A veteran of six major campaigns in World War II, General Disney served with the 2d Armored Division, commanding the 82d Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in the North African and Sicilian campaigns and the 67th Armored Regiment from the Normandy landing in 1944 to the Elbe River in German General Disney was G3 df the Cavalry School from December 1945 to August 1946. From july 1947 until May 1950, he was assigned to the G3 Section, Office, Chief of Army Field Forces in various capacities including Chief of Maneuvers and Special Projects Branch, and Chief of the Armored Branch. After graduating from the National War College, General Disney then served in the Pentagon in such posts as Chief, Strategic Logistics Branch, G4, and Assistant Chief, Plans Division, G4, Department of the Army. In Korea, General D isney was assigned as Assistant Di- Major General PAUL A. DISNEY Commanding General vision Commander of the 25th Infantry Division in May 1954, and named to the same post in the 3d Infantry Division in August of the same year. In October 1954, he became Deputv Chief f I o Staff for Administration, Headquarters Ei hth A , g rmy fForwardJ. General Disney then served Chief of Staff E' l h . . , igit Army CForwardJ and Chief of Staff AFFE and Eighth Army in Korea from April to September 1955. General Disn-ey became Assistant Division Commander of the 4th Armored Division at Fort Hood in October 1955, and became Division Commander june 5, 1956. General Disne h ' y as been awarded the Silver Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster Bronze S . , tar Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and V Device for Valor, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Ribbon with Metal Pendant, french Legion of Honor, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Korean Order of Military Merit Taeguk, and several campaign medals. The U. S. Army Training Center, Armor, under General Disney's Commaml, consists of five Armor and Infantry training regiments and one Specialist Training Regim-ent. The overall mission of USATCA is to train Army of the United States and Reserve personnel in Basic Combat Training, Advanced Individual Training in both Armor and Infantry, and Basic Unit Training, also in both Armor and Infantry. In addition, selected individuals are trained in military occupational special- ties such as Automotiv-e, Clearical, Radio, and Supply.