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U.S. Army general

GeneralRaymond Anthony Thomas III (also known as Tony Thomas; born 6 October 1959) is a retired general officer of the United States Army and former commander of the United States Special Operations Command.

He participated in numerous combat operations during his career, such as Operation Urgent Fury 1983, Operation Just Cause in 1989, Gulf War in 1991, and since 2001 the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every year between 2001 and 2013 (minus his time in Iraq with the 1st Armored Division in 2007), Thomas deployed to Afghanistan as part of various special operations units.

Military career

Thomas was born in Pennsylvania on 6 October 1959, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1980. Thomas was a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. He led a Ranger Rifle platoon from A Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion during the Invasion of Grenada in 1983, that was dropped from an MC-130 onto a landing strip in Grenada. After completion of Infantry Officer Advanced Course in early 1986, he was assigned as Assistant S-3, Plans/Liaison Officer with 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia until 1987. Thomas was then assigned as a company commander with 3rd Ranger Battalion. In 1989, during the Invasion of Panama, he led his Ranger Rifle Company in another combat jump.

In 1992, Thomas volunteered for and completed a specialized selection course for assignment to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, also known as Delta Force. He served as Operations Officer, Troop Commander, Executive Officer and B Squadron Commander from 1992 to 1994 and 1996 to 1999. In June 1995 Thomas earned a master's degree from the Naval Command and Staff College in Newport, Rhode Island, followed by assignment as Executive Officer, 2nd Ranger Battalion from June 1995 to July 1996. From 2000 to 2002, he served as commanding officer of the 1st Ranger Bat

United States Air Force general

Anthony Thomas Shtogren (May 13, 1917 – March 22, 2003) was a major general in the United States Air Force.

Biography

Shtogren was born on May 13, 1917, in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1939, then attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he received a Master of Science, summa cum laude, in 1940. After pursuing graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shtogren received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

Shtogren died on March 22, 2003, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. His sister-in-law, Margaret, of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, served in the United States Army as a major during World War II.

Career

Shtogren joined the military in 1940 and was commissioned an officer the following year. During World War II he served with the 2d Air Division.

Following the war he was named Director of Personnel and Administration of the Air Weather Service. He later served as Assistant Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff of Personnel of the Air Weather Service. In 1951 he was given command of the 2nd Weather Group. From 1954 to 1957 he was stationed in Tokyo, Japan. While there he assisted military leaders of Japan, South Korea, and the Republic of China in the development of a weather service.

After returning to the United States, he was stationed at Westover Air Force Base and Wheeler Air Force Base before being assigned to Pacific Air Forces in 1966. In 1968 he was assigned to the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

His retirement was effective as of August 1, 1971.

Awards he received include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Army Commendation Medal, the Distinguished Unit Citation, the Outstanding Unit Award with oak leaf cluster, and the Croix de Guerre of

Major-General Thomas Anthony RichardsonCB MBE (9 August 1922 – 26 March 2015) was a British Army officer who took part in the Normandy landings in June 1944, the liberation of Brussels, and the forced crossing of the Rhine.

Military career

Richardson was born on 9 August 1922 in Egypt to a military family: he was the eldest son of Major-General T W Richardson. Tony was educated at Wellington College.

He enlisted into the Essex Yeomanry and served in the Normandy landings, the capture of Lille and the advances on Nijmegen and Arnhem. After the war he studied at the Staff College, Camberley and became an instructor at the Royal Military College of Science. In 1958 he joined the Directorate of Land/Air Warfare in the War Office, working on the introduction of helicopters into the Army Air Corps, for which he was appointed MBE.

In a varied and distinguished career, he served with the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) in Germany and at the Ministry of Defence as military assistant to the Deputy Chief of the General Staff. He served as Commander Royal Artillery of the 2nd Division in the Army of the Rhine in 1967, and then became Director of Army Aviation in 1971. He later went to New Delhi as Defence Advisor to the British High Commission.

He was appointed CB in 1974 and retired from the army in 1997.

Personal life

He married twice. Firstly, he married Katherine Joanna Roberts in 1945: they had two children. Following her death, he married Anthea Fry, daughter of Professor Dennis Butler Fry in 1991.

Richardson died on 26 March 2015, aged 92.

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