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    LEADERS & COMMANDERS

    Oct 01, 2020 3 minutes

    GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

    COALITION FORCES COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF USA

    By 1990 Schwarzkopf was a highly experienced combat commander. Born in Trenton, New Jersey he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1956. He served in Vietnam first as an advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and then a battalion commander with the 6th Infantry. He was wounded four times in 1966 while leading an ARVN assault against the Viet Cong.

    In 1983 as a major general, he was deputy commander of Joint Task Force 120 under Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III. This conducted Operation

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