sooneron
11/11/2010, 01:43 PM
Besides the multitudes of vets that have served OUR country, single out someone that you know or love that has worn or is wearing the uniform that represents OUR country.
Mine is my cousin's husband: Maj Gen Anthony Cucolo
A great man and someone that I looked up to when I was a lad. I was a groomsman in their wedding way back when.
http://www.stewart.army.mil/CommandGroup/thirdID/cg.asp
Major General Tony Cucolo
Commanding General
3rd Infantry Division
Major General Tony Cucolo assumed command of the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia on 14 July 2008. After deployment of the 3rd Infantry Division Headquarters in October 2009, he assumed command of US Division-North, home-based in Tikrit, Iraq. In this capacity, he is responsible for all US forces operating in the seven provinces north of Baghdad. US Division-North has a current strength of just under 10,000 Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen.
Major General Cucolo was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of infantry in 1979. He has served 18 of the past 31 years in infantry and armor divisions. He commanded two companies and was an operations officer at both the battalion and brigade level. He commanded an Infantry battalion in Germany and deployed his unit as a combined arms task force for the first eleven months of the Balkans NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in the contested area of Brcko, Bosnia. Major General Cucolo also commanded 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and was the Assistant Division Commander for the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New York. While in this capacity, he deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom and served as Deputy Commanding General, CJTF-180, during the 10th Mountain Division’s service there in 2003-2004.
Major General Cucolo's other Joint assignments include duty with the Joint Staff at the Pentagon from July 2001 to July 2003, with service in the Strategy and Policy Directorate (J5), Chief of the Future Operations Group in the Operations Directorate (J3) immediately after 9/11, and then Chief of European and NATO Policy, J5. His most recent joint assignment was as Director, Joint Center for Operational Analysis, US Joint Forces Command, from September 2004 through May 2006. While in this capacity, Major General Cucolo deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times, embedding in joint operational headquarters there, as well as duty with JTF-Katrina to develop the lessons learned from civil support operations in the US Gulf Coast region. Major General Cucolo arrived at the 3rd Infantry Division after a two year tour in the Pentagon as the Chief of Public Affairs for the United States Army.
Major General Cucolo has been a staff officer at Division and Army level and was the Director of Combined Arms Tactics and Doctrine at the US Army Infantry School. He is a graduate of the US Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the US Military Academy and a master’s degree from the University of San Francisco.
http://www.stewart.army.mil/CommandGroup/thirdID/images/CG.jpg
Mine is my cousin's husband: Maj Gen Anthony Cucolo
A great man and someone that I looked up to when I was a lad. I was a groomsman in their wedding way back when.
http://www.stewart.army.mil/CommandGroup/thirdID/cg.asp
Major General Tony Cucolo
Commanding General
3rd Infantry Division
Major General Tony Cucolo assumed command of the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia on 14 July 2008. After deployment of the 3rd Infantry Division Headquarters in October 2009, he assumed command of US Division-North, home-based in Tikrit, Iraq. In this capacity, he is responsible for all US forces operating in the seven provinces north of Baghdad. US Division-North has a current strength of just under 10,000 Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen.
Major General Cucolo was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of infantry in 1979. He has served 18 of the past 31 years in infantry and armor divisions. He commanded two companies and was an operations officer at both the battalion and brigade level. He commanded an Infantry battalion in Germany and deployed his unit as a combined arms task force for the first eleven months of the Balkans NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in the contested area of Brcko, Bosnia. Major General Cucolo also commanded 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and was the Assistant Division Commander for the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New York. While in this capacity, he deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom and served as Deputy Commanding General, CJTF-180, during the 10th Mountain Division’s service there in 2003-2004.
Major General Cucolo's other Joint assignments include duty with the Joint Staff at the Pentagon from July 2001 to July 2003, with service in the Strategy and Policy Directorate (J5), Chief of the Future Operations Group in the Operations Directorate (J3) immediately after 9/11, and then Chief of European and NATO Policy, J5. His most recent joint assignment was as Director, Joint Center for Operational Analysis, US Joint Forces Command, from September 2004 through May 2006. While in this capacity, Major General Cucolo deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times, embedding in joint operational headquarters there, as well as duty with JTF-Katrina to develop the lessons learned from civil support operations in the US Gulf Coast region. Major General Cucolo arrived at the 3rd Infantry Division after a two year tour in the Pentagon as the Chief of Public Affairs for the United States Army.
Major General Cucolo has been a staff officer at Division and Army level and was the Director of Combined Arms Tactics and Doctrine at the US Army Infantry School. He is a graduate of the US Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the US Military Academy and a master’s degree from the University of San Francisco.
http://www.stewart.army.mil/CommandGroup/thirdID/images/CG.jpg