William W. Crouch

General William W. Crouch (1997)

William Wright Crouch (* 12. July 1941 in Los Angeles ) is a retired American general of the US Army , who between 1992 and 1994 Commanding General of Camp Humphreys in South Korea stationed Make US Army ( Eighth US Army ) , 1994 to 1997 commanding General of the Seventh US army ( Seventh US army ) in Heidelberg and at the same time between 1996 and 1997 commander of the Allied land forces of NATO in Central Europe COMLANDCENT ( Allied land forces Central Europe ) was. Most recently, he served from 1997 to 1998 as Vice-Chief of the Army General Staff ( Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army ) .

Life

Military training and uses as an officer

William Wright Crouch attended the Army and Navy Academy in San Diego and then began studying administration at Claremont McKenna College , which he completed with a bachelor's degree . A post-graduate studies in history at Texas Christian University , he completed (TCU) with a Master from. In 1963 he joined the US Army and was platoon commander in the Red Diamond called 5th Infantry Division ( 5th Infantry Division ) . During the Vietnam War he was captain in command of an F-Troop consisting of four companies of the 2nd Squadron of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and was awarded the Silver Star on September 24, 1967 because of a deployment . On that day, he and two platoons of his troops raided a suspected hostile location, the village of Quy My in the province of Quảng Trị . As they neared the village, heavy automatic weapons and recoilless rifle fire opened on its units. When he learned that the G-Force was stationed on his flank, he maneuvered his platoons to a command post from where they effectively shot at the enemy and prevented him from retreating. When the G-Troop arrived, he led his unit through the village, dug up the firmly anchored enemy forces and destroyed them. He exposed himself to violent enemy fire several times as he led his men against the enemy.

After following numerous other uses as an officer graduated Crouch, the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in Fort Leavenworth and was temporarily commander of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment ( 2nd Cavalry Regiment ) . He also attended the US Army War College in Carlisle and on July 18, 1990 succeeded Major General Thomas P. Carney in command of the Fort Polk stationed 5th Infantry Division ( 5th Infantry Division ) and remained in this post until June 16 1992, whereupon Major General Jared L. Bates took his place.

On December 19, 1992, Lieutenant General William W. Crouch succeeded General Robert W. RisCassi as commanding general of the Eighth US Army ( Eigth US Army ) stationed at Camp Humphreys in South Korea . He held this command until October 1994, when he was replaced by Lieutenant General Richard F. Timmons . As such, he was in South Korea at the same time Chief of Staff of the US armed forces USFK (United States Forces Korea) , of the commands UN UNC (United Nations Command) American South Korean-US and the Joint Forces Command (ROK-US Combined Forces Command) .

Promotion to General and Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

Crouch (right) with Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Jr. at a press conference on the report from the Commission investigating the attack on the destroyer USS Cole (2000)

On 19 December 1994 was Lieutenant General Crouch commanding general of the Seventh US Army ( Seventh US Army ) and the US Land Forces in Europe (US Army Europe) , succeeding Lieutenant General David M. Maddox . He remained in this post until August 5, 1997, after which Lieutenant General Eric K. Shinseki replaced him. During this time, he was the successor to Admiral T. Joseph Lopez between November 7 and December 12, 1996, and commander of the Implementation Force (IFOR), the multilateral peacekeeping force under NATO command , which was established on December 20, 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina , the UNPROFOR replaced and activity in the framework of operation joint Endeavor recorded. At the same time he was appointed General on February 15, 1996 as the successor to the Dutch General Marinus J. Wilmink Commander of the Allied Land Forces of NATO in Central Europe COMLANDCENT ( Allied Land Forces Central Europe ) in Heidelberg and held this post until August 5, 1997, after which again General Eric K. Shinseki was his successor there.

On 5 August 1997 General William W. Crouch broke General Ronald H. Griffith as Vice Chief of the General Staff of the Army ( Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army ) from. He held this position until he retired in 1998 and was then replaced again on April 29, 1998 by General Eric K. Shinseki.

On December 19, 2000, he was named, along with Admiral Harold W. Gehman, Jr., by Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen as co-chair of the Cole Commission of the US Department of Defense , which investigates the attack on the destroyer USS Cole dealt. The al-Qaida had in 2000 in the port of Aden , Yemen , perpetrated a bomb attack on them, in which 17 US soldiers and two terrorists were killed. He was also a board member of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and has served on the board of directors of camera, metrology and robotics company FLIR Systems since May 2005 . He is also a senior mentor of the Leadership Development and Education program for sustainable peace at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), a board member of the Keck Institute for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College, and a member of the advisory board of Isilon Systems . From his marriage to Vicki Crouch, the daughters Cami Crouch and Cathi Crouch emerged.

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

personal data
SURNAME	Crouch, William W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Crouch, William Wright (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American General (US Army), Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
DATE OF BIRTH	July 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	los Angeles

[1] Former Eighth Army Commanders

[2] US Army Europe

[3] NATO Forces Central Europe: Commanders Gallery