Assignments

Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
and Plans, (Joint Affairs)/Director of Strategy,
Plans and Policy, Office, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Operations and Plans, US Army,
Washington, DC

Commanding General, 9th Infantry Division,
Fort Lewis, WA . .

Deputy Commander in Chief, US Army Europe
and Seventh Army, Germany.

Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Washington, DC . .

Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, Supreme
Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe/
Commander in Chief, US European

Principal US Military Decorations and Qualifications

Defense Distinguished Service Medal (with 3 oak leaf clusters)
Army Distinguished Service Medal (with oak leaf cluster)
Navy Distinguished Service Medal

Air Force Distinguished Service Medal

Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medal

Legion of Merit (with 2 oak leaf clusters)

Bronze Star (with "V" device)

Meritorious Service Medal (with 3 oak leaf clusters)
Air Medal

Joint Service Commendation Medal

Army Commendation Medal

Parachutist

Combat Infantryman

HENRY HUGH SHELTON

1 October 1997 —

ugh Shelton was born 2 January 1942 in Tarboro, North Carolina,

Hugh

Land grew up on a farm near the small town of Speed. After graduating from North Edgecombe High School, he entered North Carolina State University. He enjoyed the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and enrolled for an additional two years beyond the two then mandatory for men attending land-grant colleges. When he received his bachelor of science in textile technology in June 1963, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry in the Army Reserve.

Lieutenant Shelton spent two years on active duty at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he was a platoon leader first with the 2d Infantry Division and then with the 1st Cavalry Division. While at Fort Benning, he completed the Ranger course at the Army Infantry School, qualified as a parachutist, and was promoted to first lieutenant. Shelton remained in the Army Reserve when he returned to civilian life in July 1965 to work for Regal Textile Corporation in Ware Shoals, South Carolina, a job he had accepted before entering military service. Although promoted before completing the company's training program, he decided that he preferred Army life and in 1966 applied to return to active duty as an officer in the Regular Army.

Several months later, he received orders to report to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for training in preparation for assignment to the Special Forces in Vietnam. Shelton served from September 1966 until July 1967 with the 5th Special Forces Group along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, engaged in cross-border operations to impede the flow of men and supplies from North Vietnam

General Henry H. Shelton

United States Army