JH Binford Peay III.

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Lieutenant General JH Binford Peay III., 1991.

James Henry Binford "Binnie" Peay III. (Born May 10, 1940 in Richmond , Virginia , USA ) is a former general in the US Army and former commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), responsible for US military operations in 25 countries in the Middle East in the region between the Horn of Africa and Central Asia and commanding over 250,000 US soldiers at times. Peay took command on August 5, 1994 from General Joseph P. Hoar and was replaced by General Anthony C. Zinni on August 13, 1997 and retired. Since July 1, 2003, he has been superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute .

Military career

Peay graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He also holds a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University and is a graduate of the US Army War College and Command and General Staff College . After graduating in 1962, Peay received his officer license as a second lieutenant in the artillery . It had its first uses in Germany and Fort Carson in Colorado . From December 1964 through September 1966, he served as the aide-de-camp of the commanding general of the 5th Infantry Division at Fort Polk , Texas .

Peay served two tours of duty in the Vietnam War . During his first service commanded in Vietnam from May 1967 to July 1968 he the headquarters company of the I. Field Force Vietnam of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam , yet battery B , 4th Battalion , 42nd US Artillery Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division in the Central Highlands . During his second round from August 1971 until June 1972 he served as an assistant operations officer of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division and as operations officer ( S3 ) of the 1st Battalion, 21st US Artillery Regiment of the division.

After serving as a field artillery officer in the Army Military Personnel Center in Washington (DC), Peay was transferred to Hawaii in 1975 and commanded the 2nd Battalion, 11th US Field Artillery Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division . After graduating from U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania , he returned to Washington, DC, where he served as senior adjutant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later as the head of the Army Initiatives Group in the office of the deputy chief of staff for operations and planning at headquarters US Army. He was then transferred to Fort Lewis , Washington , where he served as Assistant Chief of Staff and G-3 / Director of Planning and Training for the 1st US Corps . He later took command of the 9th Infantry Division's artillery .

Peay with US President Clinton , 1994.
Peay Secretary of Defense William J. Perry , 1996.

He returned to Washington, DC in 1985 and served as executive officer to the Chief of Staff of the Army , General John A. Wickham, Jr. Two years later, in July 1987, he assumed the post of assistant at Fort Campbell , Kentucky Division commanders (operations) of the 101st Airborne Division . In July 1988, he then served a year as the deputy commandant of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas .

On August 3, 1989, Peay returned to Fort Campbell and took command of the 101st Airborne Division and led it during Operations Desert Shield / Storm, the Second Gulf War . In June 1991 he was promoted to Lieutenant General and served until March 1993 as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Planning at the US Army Headquarters under General Gordon R. Sullivan and was also the Army Senior Representative on the US Military Committee at the United Nations . On March 26, 1993, Peay was promoted to general, assuming the post of 24th Vice Chief of Staff of the Army , becoming General Sullivan's deputy. This tenure lasted only briefly, because on August 5, 1994 Peay took over command of the US Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida . He held this command until August 13, 1997, when he retired.

Civil occupations

After his retirement in 1997, Peay became a director at United Defense Industries (UDI). When BAE Systems took over UDI in 2005, Peay joined the board of directors of the North American subsidiary BAE Systems Inc.

In addition, since March 2000, Peay was a board member of Allied Research Corporation , an arms and security company that sells medium-caliber ammunition and security systems. In January 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO . In 2003 the company was renamed the Allied Defense Group . Peay resigned from this post in June 2003 and took over the post of superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute on July 1 of that year . However, he remained on the board of Allied . He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Defense University .

Peay is married and has two sons, both of whom serve in the U.S. Armed Forces .

Awards

Selection of decorations, sorted based on the Order of Precedence of the Military Awards:

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SURNAME Peay, JH Binford III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peay, James Henry Binford III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American general, former commander of the US Central Command
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Virginia