Richard A. Cody

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General Richard A. Cody

Richard A. Cody (* 2. August 1950 in Montpelier , Vermont ) is a retired American general of the US Army , the last of 24 June 2004 to August 1, 2008 Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Army ( Vice Chief of Staff of the Army ) .

Life

Military training and uses as an officer

Richard A. Cody completed an officer training at the US Military Academy in West Point and entered the US Army as a lieutenant in 1972 . In the following years he attended basic and advanced courses for logistics officers in the USATC ( US Army Transportation Corps ) and for aircraft maintenance officers (Aviation Maintenance Officer Course) . He was platoon leader of the 2nd  Squadron of the 9th Cavalry Regiment and the A Company of the 24th Army Aviation Battalion and company commander of the E Company of the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division ( 24th Infantry Division ) , the so-called "Victory Division" in Fort Stewart .

In addition, he trained as an army pilot on the Bell AH-1 and Boeing AH-64 attack helicopters and the Sikorsky UH-60 transport helicopter . Throughout his tenure Cody reached over 5,000 flight hours and purchased in addition to the Master Army Aviator Badge after visiting the US Army Air Assault School in Fort Campbell , the Air Assault Badge . In the following years he was S3 officer of the 55th Attack Helicopter Battalion and company commander and deputy commander ( Executive Officer ) of the 229th Attack Helicopter Battalion . He was also a graduate of Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth and deputy commander of the Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division , the air assault brigade of the 101st Airborne Division , and during Operation Desert Storm in the Second Gulf War between 1990 and 1991, commander of 1 Battalion of the 101st Army Aviation Regiment (101st Aviation Regiment (Attack)) . For his services there he was honored with the Distinguished Flying Cross .

Richard A. Cody also served as Director, Flight Concepts Division of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command in Fort Eustis between 1991 and 1993 and was awarded the Legion of Merit for the first time . He was also aide-de-camp of the commander of the Combined Field Army in South Korea , from 1994 to 1996 commander of the 4th Brigade (Combat Aviation Brigade) of the 1st Armored Division ( 1st Cavalry Division ) stationed at Fort Hood . For his achievements there he was again honored with the Legion of Merit. He acted then as commander of the 160th Army Aviation Special Operations Regiment ( 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) ) , the so-called "Night Stalkers" at Fort Campbell. In Fort Hood he was also assistant commander for maneuvers of the 4th Infantry Division ( 4th Infantry Division ) , the so-called "Ivy Division". Cody, who also attended the US Army War College in Carlisle , was also deputy commander of Task Force Hawk in Tirana between April and June 1999 , which was supposed to support NATO forces in Operation Allied Force during the bombing of Yugoslavia .

Promotion to General and Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

After a subsequent assignment between June 1999 and June 2000 as Director, Operations, Readiness and Mobilization in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Planning (Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and plan) , replaced major General Richard A. Cody in June 2000 major General Robert T. Clark as commander (commanding General) of the "Screaming Eagles" mentioned 101st Airborne Division ( 101st Airborne Division (air Assault) ) , and as such was also site commander of Fort Campbell. He remained in this post until July 2002, when Major General David Petraeus succeeded him. He himself then became Deputy Chief of Staff (G3 / 5/7-Operations) in July 2002 and held this position until June 2004.

On 24 June 2004 General Richard A. Cody replaced General George W. Casey, Jr. as Vice Chief of the General Staff of the Army ( Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army ) from. In January 2006, he advised Major General Antonio M. Taguba to retire in January 2007. Taguba was hired in 2004 to investigate the cases of torture in Abu Ghuraib prison . After the publication of his - originally secret - investigation report, the Taguba Report, in May 2004, which was very critical, his career was effectively over. During his tenure, Cody was in December 2007 announced the withdrawal of troops of the Seventh US Army ( United States Army Europe ) to want to slow down. At least 37,000 army soldiers are to remain in Germany and Italy by 2013 . On August 1, 2008 he retired from active military service after 36 years of service and was replaced on August 4, 2008 by General Peter W. Chiarelli .

The largest military child development center, the Cody Child Development Center (CDC) in Fort Myer, is named after Richard A. Cody, who has been married to Vicki Lyn Heavner since 1975 and has two children .

Awards

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

Web links

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  • Entry into Military Hall of Honor
  • Entry in The Hall of Valor Project

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sullivan, Laura; David Greene: Fil-Am general praised for report. ( The Baltimore Sun . ABS-CBN news of 8 May 2004. English)
  2. ↑ The General's Report (Seymour Hersh in: The New Yorker, June 25, 2007; English)
  3. ↑ "USA slowing troop reductions in Europe" - dpa Alarm If GMX .com December 20, 2007. Access December 21 of 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Cody, Richard A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American General (US Army), Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpelier , Vermont