GENERAL GEORGE A. JOULWAN 

            General Joulwan graduated from West Point in 1961 and from the Infantry Basic Course, Armored Career Course, Command and General Staff and the War Colleges.  He received a Master’s Degree in Political Science and served on the faculty at Loyola University in Chicago.  During two combat tours in Vietnam, he was infantry company commander and battalion and brigade operations officer with the 1^st Infantry Division and 101^st Airborne Division.  He served in the Pentagon as the Executive Assistant for the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, Director of Requirements for the Army, and as Executive Officer for the Chairman, JCS.  In the White House he was Special Assistant to the President of the United States.  In 1974-75 he was Special Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe.  General Joulwan served 18 years in Europe including 14 years in Germany.  He was the first SACEUR to command at every level in the Alliance from platoon, company, battalion, brigade, division, corps and Supreme Commander.  Most significant is that General Joulwan was a Second Lieutenant in Germany when the Berlin Wall was being built and a Lieutenant General commanding V Corps in the Fulda Gap when the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain were torn down.  He also served as the Commaner-in-Chief of US forces in Central and South America.  General Joulwan’s final assignment was as the Commander-in-Chief, United States European Command (CINCEUR) and as the 11^th Supreme Allied Commander Europe.  As CINCEUR, he conducted over 20 successful operations in the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East without one hostile death casualty.  He established the first-ever strategic policy for U.S. military engagement in Africa, and orchestrated the State Partnership Program linking American Reserve Forces from 23 states with former non-NATO countries and newly independent democracies of Europe and the former Soviet Union.