Paul E. Blackwell

Paul E. Blackwell
Paul E. Blackwell
Nickname(s)	Gene
Born	August 19, 1941 (age 81); York, South Carolina, U.S.
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1965–1996
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, United States Army; Deputy Director of Operations, National Military Command Center; 24th Infantry Division; 2d Armored Division (Forward); 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Division; 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	Vietnam War ; Persian Gulf War
Awards	Silver Star (2); Bronze Star (9); Purple Heart ; Air Medal (3)

Last updated July 18, 2023

Paul Eugene Blackwell Sr. (born August 19, 1941) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general. During his 31-year career in the United States Army, LTG Blackwell held a wide variety of command and staff positions including assignment as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (G3), Department of the Army and commanding general, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Other key assignments include Deputy Director of Operations, National Military Command Center, Washington, DC; commanding general, 2d Armored Division (Forward), Garlstedt, Federal Republic of Germany, and Assistant Division Commander, 3d Armored Division, Federal Republic of Germany.^[1]^[2]

Blackwell earned a B.S. degree with honors in Agricultural Education from Clemson University in June 1963. He was commissioned as a reserve infantry officer through the Army ROTC program, but did not report for active duty until after he had completed an M.S. degree in Horticulture and Agricultural Education at Clemson in June 1965.^[1] Blackwell graduated from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in June 1976 and the United States Army War College in June 1983.^[1]^[3]

Awards and decorations

U.S. service medals
	Combat Infantryman Badge
	Senior Parachutist Badge
	Army Staff Identification Badge
	Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
	Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak leaf cluster
	Silver Star with Oak leaf cluster
	Legion of Merit with Oak leaf cluster
	Bronze Star with V device and eight Oak leaf clusters
	Purple Heart
	Defense Meritorious Service Medal
	Air Medal with device 3
	Army Commendation Medal with V device and three Oak leaf clusters
	National Defense Service Medal
	Vietnam Service Medal with two campaign stars
	Army Overseas Service Ribbon
Foreign decorations
	Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia)
	Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
	Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
	Parachutist Badge (United Kingdom)

Related Research Articles

Peter Jan Schoomaker is a retired four-star general of the United States Army who served as the 35th Chief of Staff of the United States Army from August 1, 2003, to April 10, 2007. Schoomaker's appointment as Chief of Staff was unusual in that he was recalled and came out from retirement to assume the position. Schoomaker voluntarily retired from the Army for the second time in 2007 after completing the full four-year term as Chief of Staff.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">J. H. Binford Peay III</span>

James Henry Binford "Binnie" Peay III is a retired four-star general of the United States Army. He served as the 14th superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute from 2003-2020, and as chairman of the Allied Defense Group from 2001-03. He has also served on various corporate and nonprofit boards.

John M. Riggs is a retired United States Army general. He was retired in 2005. He had attained the rank of lieutenant general, but was retired with the loss of one star, at the rank of major general. According to the army, this was because of misuse of contractors, but some of Riggs' supporters argued that the retirement and demotion was a result of his contradiction of the United States government stance on troop strength needed to support the actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Dennis Joe Reimer is a retired general of the United States Army, who served as the 33rd Chief of Staff of the Army from June 20, 1995, to June 21, 1999. He is also a graduate of Ranger and Airborne school.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael D. Maples</span> United States Army general

Lieutenant General Michael David Maples, USA served as the 16th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), appointed on November 4, 2005. He was promoted to lieutenant general on November 29. Maples also commanded the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR) for the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). He transferred his Directorship of the Defense Intelligence Agency and his command of JFCC-ISR to LTG Ronald Burgess on March 18, 2009. Maples formally served as the vice director of management of the Joint Staff.

James David Thurman is a retired United States Army general who served as the Commander of United Nations Command, R.O.K.-U.S. Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea from July 14, 2011 until October 2, 2013. He previously served as the 18th Commanding General, United States Army Forces Command from June 3, 2010 to July 8, 2011 and as Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7. He was the former commanding general of United States V Corps in Heidelberg, Germany from January 19, 2007 to August 8, 2007.

Charles Elliott Wilhelm is a decorated retired United States Marine Corps General who served two combat tours of duty in Vietnam. He later served as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division; as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; and as the Commander, U.S. Southern Command (1997–2000). General Wilhelm retired from the Marine Corps in 2000, after 37 years of service.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">R. Steven Whitcomb</span> United States Army general

R. Steven Whitcomb is a retired United States Army lieutenant general. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation from the University of Virginia in 1970. In his final assignment he served as Inspector General of the United States Army.

Sam Sims Walker was a United States Army general who served as the Commanding General of Allied Land Forces, South East Europe from 1977 to 1978.

Walter Lawrence "Skip" Sharp, is a retired United States Army four-star general, who last served as the Commander, United Nations Command, Commander, ROK-US Combined Forces Command and Commander, U.S. Forces Korea from June 3, 2008 to July 14, 2011. He previously served as the Director of the Joint Staff from 2005 to June 2008. Sharp retired from the Army in July 2011.

Daniel William Christman is a retired United States Army lieutenant general, former Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (1996–2001), and the current Senior Vice President for International Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A 1965 graduate of West Point, he went on to earn multiple post-graduate degrees and hold numerous commands during his army career. Christman served in highly visible and strategically important positions and four times was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the nation's highest peacetime service award.

Robert Michael "Mike" Walker is the former United States Under Secretary of the Army (1997-1998).

Larry Wyche, is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General. He last served as the deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. Prior to his last assignment, Wyche served as the Special Assistant to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. He has also served as commanding general of the Combined Arms Support Command, commanding general of the Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE) and Senior Mission Commander for Fort Lee, Virginia.

"We are Warfighter Logisticians and Supporters, prepared to give the shirts off our backs and boots off our feet, to support the fight. We will never say no, as long as there is one gallon of gas to give, or one bullet to give"

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Herbert R. Temple Jr.</span> United States Army general

Lieutenant General Herbert R. Temple Jr. is a career military officer who served as Chief of the National Guard Bureau.

Robert George Yerks was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Deputy Chief of Staff G-1 Personnel of The United States Army from 1978 to 1981.

Kevin R. Wendel is a retired officer of the United States Army. He attained the rank of major general, and his assignments included interim commander of First United States Army, commander of First Army Division East, commander of the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosives Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and commander of 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division.

Lieutenant General Harris Whitton Hollis was a United States Army officer who served in World War II and the Vietnam War.

Charles A. Flynn is a United States Army general who serves as commanding general of United States Army Pacific since June 4, 2021. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans and Training (G3/5/7) of the Army Staff from June 2019 to May 2021. He is the younger brother of Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, Donald Trump's first National Security Advisor.

Emmett Paige Jr. served as the United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence from 1993 to 1997. He retired from active duty in the United States Army as a lieutenant general in 1988 after 41 years of military service.

References

1 2 3 United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Readiness Subcommittee (1996). Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997--H.R. 3230 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session: Military Readiness Subcommittee Hearings on Title III--Operation and Maintenance : Hearings Held March 19 and April 16, 1996. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 6–8. ISBN 9780160537226 . Retrieved 2021-03-24.
↑ "Kazi Investment Group". kaziig.com. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
↑ "Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 103d Congress: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate". Vol. 103, no. 873. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1994. pp. 918–921. ISBN 978-0-16-046386-0.

This biographical article related to the United States military is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[google-1] 1 2 3 United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Readiness Subcommittee (1996). Hearings on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997--H.R. 3230 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session: Military Readiness Subcommittee Hearings on Title III--Operation and Maintenance : Hearings Held March 19 and April 16, 1996. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 6–8. ISBN 9780160537226 . Retrieved 2021-03-24.

[kaziig-2] "Kazi Investment Group". kaziig.com. Retrieved 2015-05-24.

[3] "Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 103d Congress: Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate". Vol. 103, no. 873. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1994. pp. 918–921. ISBN 978-0-16-046386-0.

[1]

[2]

[3]