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- John Adams Wickham Jr. (June 25, 1928 – May 11, 2024) was a United States Army general who served as the United States Army Chief of Staff from 1983 to 1987.
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John Adams Wickham Jr. (June 25, 1928 – May 11, 2024) was a United States Army general who served as the United States Army Chief of Staff from 1983 to 1987.
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Wickham was made a temporary general in 1979; he then served as the commander in chief of the United Nations Command and led the United States Forces and Eighth Army, Korea, until 1982. Wickham returned to the United States to serve as vice chief of staff of the Army until 1983.
May 29, 2024 · Retired Four-Star Gen. John Adams Wickham Jr., a longtime Oro Valley resident who served as the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during the Reagan Administration, died May 11. He was 95. John Wickham attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1950, beginning a 37-year Army career.
May 12, 1983 · John Adams Wickham Jr. was born June 25, 1928, at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. He had his heart set on West Point and a military career before he got out of grammar school. His father had been an Army...
Colonel (Infantry) John Adams Wickham, United States Army, was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as Commanding Officer, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, in the Republic of Vietnam, in 1968.
May 17, 2024 · GEN John Wickham is recognized as one of the Army's finest Chief of Staff. He survived miraculously his overrun position in Vietnam despite all odds.
Wickham-JA. JOHN ADAMS WICKHAM, JR. , was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York on 25 June 1928; graduated from the United States Military Academy, 1950; was commissioned a second lieutenant and...
