LTG Gary Cheek is currently the Director of the Army Staff. The summary provides details of LTG Cheek's career in the US Army including his first assignment after graduating from West Point, subsequent commands, and staff positions at both the Joint Staff J-5 and Army Staff G3/5/7. It concludes with his most recent assignments as Deputy Commanding General of Third Army/US Army Central and Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, Headquarters Department of the Army prior to his current role.
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The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States. It is awarded for gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. The document then provides details on 6 recipients of the Medal of Honor including their names, dates of service, and citations for why they received the medal. It concludes by noting legal protections that prevent unauthorized use or imitation of the Medal of Honor.
This document summarizes information about four United States military heroes who received the Medal of Honor:
- Paul R. Smith, an Army soldier who manned a machine gun under enemy fire to allow other soldiers to withdraw safely and helped defeat an enemy attack, being mortally wounded in the process.
- Jason L. Dunham, a Marine corporal who threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow Marines from an attack.
- Michael P. Murphy, a Navy officer who repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to call for assistance for his wounded soldiers, continuing to engage the enemy until he was mortally wounded.
- Michael A. Monsoor, a Navy SEAL who covered a live grenade with his
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But your own memorialist, Pvt. CALIF NEWTON DREW, YANKEE SCOUT in the CIVIL WAR!! described the newly created Light Division in some detail, at p. 82 of his Memoir, where he wrote:
“On parade one evening by Gen’l Orders we was informed that the Reg’t was a unit in the Light Division of the 6th Corps which was composed of the 61st Pa Inft; 31st N.Y. Inf’t ; 43rd N.Y. Inf’t; 6th Me Inf’ty; 5th Wisc. Inf’ty. The 3rd N.Y. L:ight Battery of Artillery was attached to the Division and Gen’l John Newton was put in command of the Division.
“By Order of the 3rd of Feb. of Gen’l Joe Hooker, Commanding Army of the Potomac (Feb 3rd, 1863) the Light Division was supposed to be selection of the best troops in the [6th] Corps. They were to move at a moment’s notice in light marching order with 100 extra rounds of ammunition. Pack mules was to convay our knapsacks, tents, blankets and all over one days rations. We was to move with the cavalry when and where they needed infantry support, so we started to get acquainted. [P. 83 ] The 5th Wisc. was our sister regiment. The 31st Pa. we had seen under fire and they had stood up to the work in fine shape. We had a number of our men in the battery and we took the judgment of those who made the selection as to the efficiency of the New York men.” [All emphases added, here and throughout.]
The newly formed Light Division saw its first major action on April 30, 1863 in the Battle of Marye’s Heights – an engagement almost as lost to history, as the Light Division itself. The battle is sometimes otherwise known as the Second Battle of Fredericksburg ...
THIS IS THE REAL STORY
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The document outlines the history and criteria for receiving the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the U.S. government. It details the different types of Medals of Honor for each military branch and establishes a pyramid of honor for other medals awarded for bravery below the Medal of Honor level. Specific details are provided on individual recipients of the Medal of Honor throughout history, including demographic information and their acts of bravery.
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This document summarizes information about four United States military heroes who received the Medal of Honor:
- Paul R. Smith, an Army soldier who manned a machine gun under enemy fire to allow other soldiers to withdraw safely and helped defeat an enemy attack, being mortally wounded in the process.
- Jason L. Dunham, a Marine corporal who threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow Marines from an attack.
- Michael P. Murphy, a Navy officer who repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to call for assistance for his wounded soldiers, continuing to engage the enemy until he was mortally wounded.
- Michael A. Monsoor, a Navy SEAL who covered a live grenade with his
The document provides a summary of pictures from the 1-36th Infantry's joint sniper training. It also includes articles on the 2nd HBCT commander's message to soldiers, handing over security stations to Iraqi forces as part of the responsible drawdown of US forces from Iraq, a sexual assault prevention walk at FOB Marez, 1-36th Infantry mortars conducting an indirect fire training mission, and the end of a disputed internal boundary checkpoint training program between US, Iraqi and Peshmerga forces.
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Even at a remove of some 150 years following the cataclysmic conflict of the Great War of the Rebellion or CIVIL WAR -- as most would have it -- there appear to be almost no historical treatments of General Joe Hooker’s creation of the Union Army’s 6th Corps Light Division – or sometimes, the Light Brigade – in the spring of 1863;
But your own memorialist, Pvt. CALIF NEWTON DREW, YANKEE SCOUT in the CIVIL WAR!! described the newly created Light Division in some detail, at p. 82 of his Memoir, where he wrote:
“On parade one evening by Gen’l Orders we was informed that the Reg’t was a unit in the Light Division of the 6th Corps which was composed of the 61st Pa Inft; 31st N.Y. Inf’t ; 43rd N.Y. Inf’t; 6th Me Inf’ty; 5th Wisc. Inf’ty. The 3rd N.Y. L:ight Battery of Artillery was attached to the Division and Gen’l John Newton was put in command of the Division.
“By Order of the 3rd of Feb. of Gen’l Joe Hooker, Commanding Army of the Potomac (Feb 3rd, 1863) the Light Division was supposed to be selection of the best troops in the [6th] Corps. They were to move at a moment’s notice in light marching order with 100 extra rounds of ammunition. Pack mules was to convay our knapsacks, tents, blankets and all over one days rations. We was to move with the cavalry when and where they needed infantry support, so we started to get acquainted. [P. 83 ] The 5th Wisc. was our sister regiment. The 31st Pa. we had seen under fire and they had stood up to the work in fine shape. We had a number of our men in the battery and we took the judgment of those who made the selection as to the efficiency of the New York men.” [All emphases added, here and throughout.]
The newly formed Light Division saw its first major action on April 30, 1863 in the Battle of Marye’s Heights – an engagement almost as lost to history, as the Light Division itself. The battle is sometimes otherwise known as the Second Battle of Fredericksburg ...
THIS IS THE REAL STORY
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„It was the first book, which I dictated to Moses, My chosen one;
And then it was the second book, which I dictated, I, the Lord, to My apostles, leav-ing My word on the earth through it.
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Bugler Sounds Mess Call
Introduction of Guests
Posting of the Colors
National Anthem and Invocation
Toasts
Dinner
Entertainment:
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Guest Speaker Remarks
Punch Bowl Ceremony
Induction Ceremony
Benediction
Retirement of the Colors
Dancing
Sequence of Events
LTG Gary Cheek was commissioned a Second
Lieutenant of Field Artillery in May 1980 follow-
ing his graduation from the United States Military
Academy. His first assignment was 1st Battalion,
13th Field Artillery, 24th Infantry Division; the
same unit his father, Colonel Leon Cheek, served
with during the Korean War. While at Fort Stewart,
Staff Sergeants Larry Walls and Michael Jacques
and Sergeants First Class Harrel Smith, Leroy King,
and Ira Todd were instrumental in the professional
development of then Lieutenant Gary Cheek.
LTG Cheek later served in 2nd Battalion, 28th Field Artillery, VII Corps Artillery,
US Army Europe as a battalion staff officer and commander of Battery A. His Battery
First Sergeant was Stephen Williams. LTG Cheek then served as an Exchange Officer
at the Canadian Field Artillery School in New Brunswick, Canada followed by the
Command and General Staff College and the School of Advanced Military Studies. LTG
Cheek then returned to Fort Stewart, GA where he served as a division plans officer and
Executive Officer for 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery.
After serving at West Point as the Field Artillery Branch Representative, LTG Cheek
commanded 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 3d Infantry Division. His Command
Sergeants Major were Jerry Nelson and James Bryant. He then served as the Senior Fire
Support Observer/Controller at the National Training Center. His Sergeant Major was
Joe Smith. Upon completion of the US Army War College, LTG Cheek was assigned as
the commander, Division Artillery, 25th Infantry Division, and later as the commander
of Combined Task Force Thunder, CJTF-76 in Afghanistan. His Command Sergeants
Major were Hershel Turner, Ed Murrell, and Gene Brewer.
LTG Cheek was then assigned to the Joint Staff J-5 as a strategic planner for the war
on terrorism and later to the Army Staff as the Deputy for Strategy, Plans and Policy,
G3/5/7. He later served as the Commanding General of Warrior Transition Command
with Command Sergeant Major Ly Lac. He then served as the Director of Military
Personnel Management, G1 with Sergeant Major Stanley Randolph.
LTG Cheek served as the Deputy Commanding General, Third Army/US Army
Central. LTG Cheek’s previous assignment was serving as the Assistant Deputy Chief of
Staff, G-3/5/7, Headquarters Department of the Army.
LTG Cheek is currently the Director of the Army Staff. He is married to the former
Leslie Clark of Riceboro, Georgia and they have two adult sons, Blakely and Christo-
pher.
lieutenant
General Cheek
3. n artillery wife, Mary
Hays McCauly (better
known as Molly Pitch-
er) shared the rigors of Valley
Forge with her husband, Wil-
liam Hays. Her actions during
the Battle of Monmouth (28
June 1778) became legendary.
That day at Monmouth was as
hot as Valley Forge was cold.
Someone had to cool the hot
guns and bathe parched throats
with water.
Across that bullet-swept ground, a striped skirt fluttered. Mary Hays Mc-
Cauly was earning her nickname “Molly Pitcher” by bringing pitcher after
pitcher of cool spring water to the exhausted and thirsty men. She also tend-
ed to the wounded and once heaved a crippled Continental soldier upon her
strong young back, carrying him out of reach of hard-charging British. On her
next trip with water, she found her artilleryman husband with the guns, re-
placing a casualty. While she watched, Hays fell wounded. The piece, its crew
now too depleted to serve it, was about to be withdrawn.
Without hesitation, Molly stepped forward and took the rammer staff from
her fallen husband’s hands. For the second time on an American battlefield, a
woman manned a gun (the first was Margaret Corbin during the defense of
Fort Washington in 1776). Resolutely, Molly Pitcher stayed at her post in the
face of heavy enemy fire, ably acting as a gunner.
For her heroic role, General George Washington himself issued her a warrant
as a noncommissioned officer. Thereafter, she was widely hailed as “Sergeant
Molly.” A flagstaff and cannon stand at her gravesite in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
A sculpture on the battle monument commemorates her courageous deed.
ccording to legend, our patron saint
was the beautiful daughter of Dios-
corus, a nobleman of the Roman
Empire, believed to have lived in Nico-
media in Asia Minor about the Third or
Fourth Century A.D. To limit Barbara’s
exposure to Christianity and encourage
her development as a zealous pagan, her
father kept her shut up in a tower, lighted
by only two windows.
But from these windows she looked
out upon the surrounding countryside
and marveled at the living things. She
concluded that they all must be part of a
master plan and that the idols of wood and stone worshipped by her parents
had to be condemned as false. She obtained instruction in Christianity and
was baptized. In token of her faith while her father was away, she had anoth-
er window pierced in the tower, making three, symbolizing the Holy Trinity.
On his return Dioscorus asked why she had made this change, and Barbara
acknowledged her conversion. Despite his threats, she refused to renounce
Christianity.
He delivered her to a Roman magistrate, who, even after torture, failed to
persuade her. Dioscorus himself then took his daughter to a high mountain,
where he beheaded her. As he descended the mountain, he was caught in a
sudden violent storm. In a blinding flash he was consumed by lightning.
As a logical consequence, Barbara came to be regarded as the sainted pa-
troness of those in danger from thunderstorms, fire and explosions. Given the
questionable reliability of early cannons — misfires, muzzle bursts, and ex-
ploding weapons were not uncommon — it is easy to see why our predecessors
sought the protection of Saint Barbara. She has protected us ever since.
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5. he Ancient Order is the more distinguished of the two levels of the
Military Society of Saint Barbara. It recognizes the select few who stand
above their brethren of the Honorable Order. The specific criteria for
accession into the Ancient Order is to have performed conspicuous,
long-term service for or on behalf of the United States Artillery or Marine
Corps Artillery. The Ancient Order is reserved for an elite few whose ca-
reers have embodied the spirit, dignity, sense of sacrifice and commitment
epitomized by Saint Barbara. Membership in the Honorable Order is not a
prerequisite for membership in the Ancient Order.
The approving authority for all awards of the Ancient Order of Saint
Barbara is the Commanding General, United States Army Fires Center of Ex-
cellence and Fort Sill. The Commanding General may approve, disapprove or
downgrade the nomination to the Honorable Order as he deems appropriate.
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he award authority for the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara is de-
centralized to the Artillery commanders who are Lieutenant Colonel
or above. Such commanders may approve the award for those in or
associated with their commands.
When there is no such Artillery commander available, an approving au-
thority will be selected by the Association as the approving authority for the
Honorable Order of Saint Barbara.
The Honorable Order of Saint Barbara recognizes those individuals who
have demonstrated the highest standards of integrity and moral character;
displayed an outstanding degree of professional competence; served the
United States Army or Marine Corps with selflessness; and contributed to the
promotion of the Artillery, both Field and Air Defense, in ways that stand out
in the eyes of the recipient’s seniors, subordinates and peers alike.
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6. hose awarded the Order of Saint Barbara receive a medallion attached
to a red ribbon. The medallion for the Honorable Order is silver; the
Ancient Order has a gold colored medallion.
One side of the medallion has a cannon, the other a likeness of Saint
Barbara standing by a tower with three windows. The medallion will be worn
with the cannon side facing the chest and the bust of Saint Barbara facing out
and in view.
The Order of Saint Barbara should be worn only at Artillery functions
such as Saint Barbara’s Day celebrations, Artillery balls or Artillery din-
ings-in and dinings-out. Commanders, O-6 and above, may designate other
occasions for wear as appropriate.
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he award authority for the Artillery Order of Molly Pitcher is decen-
tralized to the Artillery commanders, Lieutenant Colonel or above.
Such commanders may approve the award for individuals in their
communities.
When there is no such Artillery commander available, the Commanding
General of the United States Army Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill is
the approving authority for bestowing membership in the Artillery Order of
Molly Pitcher.
The Artillery Order of Molly Pitcher recognizes individuals who have vol-
untarily contributed in a significant way to the improvement of the Artillery
Community.
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