Robert W. Cone

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Robert W. Cone, 2011.

Robert William Cone (born March 19, 1957 in Manchester , New Hampshire , † September 18, 2016 in Shawano , Wisconsin ) was a general in the United States Army (USA). From April 29, 2011 to March 14, 2014, he was in command of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), a major command of the US Army based in Hampton , Virginia .

Before that, he served as Commanding General of III. US Corps and Deputy Commander in Chief of United States Forces Iraq (USF-I).

Education and career

Cone graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science and then began his military career as a platoon leader in the 4th Infantry Division (at that time still 2nd Armored Division ) in Fort Hood , from 1981 on as an aide-de- camp of the deputy division commander.

After graduating from Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas , Cone was initially stationed with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fulda in the early 1990s and then served as a member of this regiment in various roles from November 1991 to spring '94 in the Second Gulf War . Cone was also employed as Regimental Executive Officer 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Fort Bliss , Texas , and as Division Operations Officer (G-3) of the 4th Infantry Division to Fort Hood. In the early 2000s served as Cone Director of the Joint Advanced Warfighting Program at the Institute for Defense Analyzes in Alexandria he took, Virginia, then in 2003 as director of the US Joint Forces Command at the Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq in part.

Cone's further education includes Masters degrees in Sociology from the University of Texas (1987) and National Security and Strategic Studies from Naval War College (1997), as well as courses and advanced training at Command and General Staff College. He has served both as an instructor and as a research fellow at the Military Academy at West Point throughout his career.

Service in the rank of general

Cone (here as Lieutenant General) in November 2009 with US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in Fort Hood.

From September 2004 onwards, Cone commanded the National Training Center (NTC) of the US Army in Fort Irwin, California with the rank of brigadier general for approximately 33 months , before taking command of the multinational Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) in 2007 Kabul took over; in this function he was promoted to major general .

In September 2009, Cone was promoted to Lieutenant General at Fort Hood, Texas, where he served as Commanding General of III. US Corps served, with whom he was again stationed in Iraq between March 2010 and February 2011 and there at the same time acted as Deputy Commander of the United States Forces Iraq .

On March 10, 2011, US President Barack Obama nominated Cone to succeed General Martin E. Dempsey , who in turn was slated for the post of Chairman of the Joint Joint Chiefs of Staff , as TRADOC Commander. Cone finally took over command on April 11 of the same year, his promotion to general took place as part of the transfer of command.

Cone commanded the TRADOC until he retired on March 14, 2014; he was succeeded by General David G. Perkins .

Promotions

rank year
US-O1 insignia.svg Second lieutenant May 1979
US-O2 insignia.svg First lieutenant June 1981
US-O3 insignia.svg Captain July 1983
US-O4 insignia.svg major August 1989
US-O5 insignia.svg Lieutenant Colonel December 1995
US-O6 insignia.svg Colonel November 1999
US-O7 insignia.svg Brigadier General September 2004
US-O8 insignia.svg Major General n / A
US-O9 insignia.svg Lieutenant General  September 23, 2009
US-O10 insignia.svg general April 29, 2011

Awards

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

See also

Web links

Commons : Robert W. Cone  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Fort Hood commander, Robert Cone, dies at 59
  2. ↑ a b c d Biography Cones at TRADOC ( Memento from January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Press release of the Ministry of Defense of March 10, 2011 (last accessed on December 5, 2013).
  4. ^ Harvill, Austin : TRADOC welcomes new commanding general. army.mil from March 14, 2014 (English; last accessed on March 15, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Cone, Robert W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cone, Robert William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American military, United States Army general
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester (New Hampshire)
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2016
Place of death Shawano , Wisconsin