Dillard, Walter, COL

Cavalry
 
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Current Service Status
USA Retired
Current/Last Rank
Colonel
Current/Last Service Branch
Cavalry
Current/Last Primary MOS
12C-Cavalry Officer
Current/Last MOS Group
Cavalry
Primary Unit
1977-1979, 12C, HHT, 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry
Previously Held MOS
1204-Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander
1542-Infantry Unit Commander
Service Years
1961 - 1987
Cavalry Ranger
Colonel
Three Overseas Service Bars

 Official Badges 

Army Staff Identification US Army Retired (Pre-2007) US Army Retired (Post-2007)


 Unofficial Badges 

Cold War Veteran


 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Fort Riley-Central Kansas ChapterMilitary Officers Association of America (MOAA)Post 117
  1961, United Services Automobile Association (USAA) - Assoc. Page
  1974, Association of United States Army (AUSA), Fort Riley-Central Kansas Chapter (Member) (Junction City, Kansas) - Chap. Page
  1986, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) - Assoc. Page
  2011, American Legion, Post 117 (Member) (Reedville, Virginia) - Chap. Page


 Additional Information
What are you doing now:

Officially retired priest of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia, but have been asked to be the long term supply priest for the mountain missions of St George, Stanley, and St Paul, Shenandoah, both on the western slopesof the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Shenandoah Vallley of Virginia.  I wasn't made for retirement.

   Other Comments:

Miss the Army every day.

   

 Tributes from Members  
SGT Willie Tyler VN KIA posted by MD McJimsey, Gary, SP 6 168

   1964-1965, 1204, C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 12th Cavalry

Captain
From Month/Year
June / 1964
To Month/Year
March / 1965
Unit
C Troop Unit Page
Rank
Captain
MOS
1204-Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander
Base, Fort or City
Buedingen ober Hesse
State/Country
Germany, West
 
 
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 C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 12th Cavalry Details

C Troop, 3rd Squadron, 12th Cavalry
Type
Cavalry
 
Parent Unit
3rd Squadron, 12th Cavalry
Strength
Army Troop
Created/Owned By
Not Specified
   

Last Updated: Feb 8, 2018
   
Memories For This Unit

Best Friends
EV and Addi Parker, Charlie Greene, Buddy and Wibba Chapman,

Best Moment

Commanding C Troop on BIG LIFT, the REFORGER prototype, and commanding the North Border Camp inside the 5 km zone on the East West German border, near Bad Hersfeld, in 1965 spring
 

   

Worst Moment
1st:  Leaving 3d Platoon, C Troop, to become Squadron Commo Officer
2nd:  Becoming Sqdn S1
3rd:  Turning over command of C Trp on DEROS back to the US

Chain of Command
1. 3d plt ldr: Cpt R O Borgstrom C Troop CO; LTC Hamel Sqdn CO
2.  Sqdn Commo:  MAJ J Norton, Sqdn XO; LTC J H Leach, Sqdn CO; COL GH Woodward, Bde CO; MG CW Abrams, 3AD CG
3.  Btrp XO: 1LT EV Parker, B Trp CO; LTC J H Leach, Sqdn CO,
COL GH Woodward, Bde CO; MG CW Abrams, 3AD CG
4.  C Trp XO: CPT M Moore, C Trp CO;  LTC J H Leach, Sqdn CO
COL GH Woodward, Bde CO; MG  J PUGH, 3AD CG
5.  Sqdn S1: MAJ J Norton, Sqdn XO; LTC D T Pfeiffer; COL GH Woodward, Bde CO:  MG J Pugh, 3AD CG
6.  C Trp CO:  D T Pfeiffer; COL GH Woodward, Bde CO:  MG J Pugh, 3AD CG
 

   
   
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4 Members Also There at Same Time
A Troop

Melton, Larry, SP 5, (1964-1967) AR Specialist 5
HHT

Williams, Richard Frank, 1SG, (1944-1968) AR 11D10 Sergeant First Class
Black, Solomon, SP 5, (1963-1967) MD 91B10 Specialist 5
Booth, Travis, SP 4, (1964-1966) MI 05C10 Specialist 4

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