William S. Wallace

Lieutenant General William S. Wallace is an American Army officer who commands V Corps, located at Heidelberg, Germany.

He was commissioned in 1969 after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, then qualified as an armor officer before serving in the Vietnam War. After serving in Vietnam, Wallace became a company commander, battalion S-1 (adujant), and battalion S-3 operations officer with the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1977, he attended the Advanced Armor Operations Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In 1983, he joined the 2nd Armored Regiment in Germany.

As a general officer, he commanded the 4th Armored Division and then of the Joint Warfighting Center and Director of Joint Training at the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Suffolk, Va.

General Wallace assumed command of V Corps in July 2002. He is expected to command U.S. ground forces in the U.S. invasion of Iraq.