William G. Boykin

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Lieutenant General WG Boykin

William G. Boykin (born April 19, 1948 in New Bern , North Carolina ) is a former lieutenant general in the US Army and most recently in the function of "Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence" (Deputy Undersecretary of State for intelligence ).

Throughout his military career, he was personally involved in almost all significant military operations by the United States Armed Forces . During his career as an officer , he was predominantly a member of the United States Department of Defense's special forces community at the intersection of the military and intelligence services.

In addition to his official function as a representative of the Defense Ministry, Boykin was particularly noticeable in public because he made no secret of his Christian fundamentalist convictions, but repeatedly caused a number of irritations not only among other denominations with pithy and misplaced statements in public . In doing so, he amalgamated the " war on terror " propagated by the Bush administration with the supposed fight of Christianity against "evil", in his eyes obviously Islam . A disciplinary investigation initiated by the Pentagon in 2004 finally came to the conclusion that Boykin had made his controversial statements as a private person and not in an official capacity, and that he would have been reprimanded for this, but that he could continue in office.

Boykin now teaches as a professor at Hampden-Sydney College , Virginia .

Military career

Boykin graduated from Virginia State University in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in education. In the same year he received the officer's license and was sworn in as a second lieutenant . He was transferred to the 2nd Armored Division in Fort Hood , Texas ; served with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell , Kentucky ; and with the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Stewart, Georgia .

From 1978 Boykin was employed with the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta , the Delta Force . In 1980 he was involved in the unsuccessful Operation Eagle Claw in Iran , in which the US embassy staff in Tehran was to be evacuated. Three years later he took part in Operation Urgent Fury , the US invasion of Grenada . From 1990 to 1991 he graduated from the Army War College and was promoted to colonel in 1992, commander of a small team of 8 soldiers who tried to arrest Pablo Escobar in Colombia .

From 1992 to 1995 he commanded the Delta Force and was wounded in 1993 during Operation Restore Hope in the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia . In 1994 Boykin was appointed commander of the Special Operations Division to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in 1995 as an advisor to the White House Security Review . In the same year he switched to the CIA and became head and co-founder of the newly established Special Activities Division and also carried out missions in Haiti .

In 1998 he returned to the US Army as Brigadier General and became Commander of the United States Army Special Forces Command (Airborne) at Fort Bragg ( North Carolina ) and - after his promotion to Major General - was Commander of John F. Kennedy from 2000 to 2003 Special Warfare Center and School , the training academy of the Green Berets at Fort Bragg. Since 2003, now with the rank of Lieutenant General, he has been the Deputy Undersecretary of State in the Department of Defense for intelligence.

Comments Boykins

  • In 1993 Boykin contrasted the Christian God with the belief of a Somali warlord : “I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol. "
  • 2003: On George W. Bush (US President): “Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he here? And I tell you this morning, he's in the White House because God put him there in those times! "
  • In uniform, Boykin claimed before members of a religious group that Islamists despised the United States "because we are a Christian nation, because our roots are Judeo-Christian. ... The enemy is a guy named Satan."
  • 2013 at the WallBuilders' Pro-Family Legislators Conference: "The Lord is a warrior and in Revelation of John 19 it says that he will come again, what will he come back as? As a warrior. A mighty warrior who leads a mighty army, riding a white horse in a bloodstained white robe ... I am convinced that the blood on this robe is that of his enemies, for he will return as a warrior with a sword. And I am convinced - I have it checked - I am convinced that the sword he will carry when he comes back will be an AR-15 . [...] And a sword today is an AR-15, and if you don't have one, go and get one. You should have one, it's biblical. "

Awards

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

Works

  • Never Surrender: A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom.

References

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fagin, Barry and Lt. Col. Parco, James: A question of faith - Religious bias and coercion undermine military leadership and trust . ( Memento of July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Article from the Armed Forces Journal from January 2008. Accessed January 30, 2008.
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wallbuilderslive.com
personal data
SURNAME Boykin, William G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer, Lieutenant General in the US Army
DATE OF BIRTH before 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH New Bern , North Carolina