william s. wallace

William S. Wallace is a Lieutenant General of the United States Army. He commands the V Corps, located at Heidelberg, Germany.

Biography

Wallace was commissioned in 1969 after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, then qualified as an armor officer before serving in the Vietnam War. After serving in Vietnam, Wallace became a company commander, battalion S-1 (adujant), and battalion S-3 operations officer with the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1977, he attended the Armor Officer Advanced Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In 1983, he joined the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Germany. As a general officer, he commanded the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and then the Joint Warfighting Center and Director of Joint Training at the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Suffolk, Virginia. General Wallace assumed command of the V Corps on July 18, 2002. He commanded U.S. ground forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq until June 14, 2003, when he left to become the commanding general of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His replacement in Iraq was Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez.

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