The Reluctant General - Softcover

Cooper, Billy R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1465345833 ISBN 13: 9781465345837

Publisher: Xlibris, Corp., 2011

Synopsis

An autobiography of Brigadier General Billy R. Cooper, whose military career has taken him across the United States, to Germany and Vietnam.

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About the Author

Brigadier General Billy R. Cooper was born in 1948 in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Franklin D. Roosevelt High School. He received an associate's degree from the University of the State of New York, a bachelor's degree in education from Cameron University in 1977, and a master's in education from Georgia State University in 1980. Commissioned through Offi cer Candidate School in December 1968, he is a graduate of the Field Artillery Offi cer Advanced Course, the Command and General Staff College and the National War College. His military career has taken him across the United States, to Germany and Vietnam. Of his thirty-three years in the Army, twelve were spent at Fort Sill, OK. Cooper's assignments include training offi cer, 1st Basic Combat Training Brigade, Fort Lewis, WA; forward observer, then executive offi cer, Battery A, 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery, 1st Calvary Division, Vietnam; artillery tactics instructor, U.S. Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, OK; S-1/adjutant, 1st Battalion 22d Field Artillery, then commander, Battery C, 1st Battalion, 22d Artillery, 1st Armored Division, then deputy installation coordinator, Pinder Barracks, 1st Armored Division, Germany. After serving as assistant professor of military science at Albany State College in Albany, GA, he returned to Fort Sill as a fi eld artillery staff offi cer, staff and faculty battalion, then operation's offi cer, 214th Field Artillery Brigade. He served as research and development coordinator, U.S. Army Material Systems Analysis Activity, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; then Commander, 2d Battalion, 1st Field Artillery, 1st Armored Division, Germany. He was senior operations offi cer and later assistant deputy director for operations, National Military Command Center, the Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. in the Pentagon. Again returning to Fort Sill, he was training and doctrine command systems manager for Fire Support Command, Control and Communications Systems in t

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris, Corp.
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1465345833
• ISBN 13: 9781465345837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208