Posted on Jun 22, 2021
Army investigating death of colonel at Fort Leavenworth
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Col. Scott Green, director of the Army’s Command and General Staff School, was found unresponsive in his office at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at 8 a.m. on Tuesday.
Green was a 49-year-old career infantry officer. He had held company command in the 75th Ranger Regiment and led an Airborne brigade combat team during his 27-year career.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our teammate. The magnitude of the loss is immeasurable and will be felt across our formation,” Lt. Gen. Ted Martin, who heads the Army’s Combined Arms Center at the Kansas post, said in a statement on social media.
Green was a 49-year-old career infantry officer. He had held company command in the 75th Ranger Regiment and led an Airborne brigade combat team during his 27-year career.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our teammate. The magnitude of the loss is immeasurable and will be felt across our formation,” Lt. Gen. Ted Martin, who heads the Army’s Combined Arms Center at the Kansas post, said in a statement on social media.
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His background in the 75th Ranger Regiment marked him as a soldier’s soldier. That’s the outfit that provided the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRPs) in Vietnam that were attached to Army Infantry divisions; their mission was to penetrate deep inside enemy territory and find enemy headquarters and senior leaders. A classmate from OCS, Joseph Dilger, led a LRRP team in rappelling from a Huey onto a hilltop overlooking A Shau Valley to establish a communications site by which the division command post could communicate with those of us on the valley floor. Joe was shot in the chest by an NVA sniper as soon as he hit the ground. He survived, but barely, having lost a massive amount of blood by the time he could be medevac’d. When he recovered, he requested and was granted a transfer to the 5th Special Forces Group (A) at Nha Trang. The 75th Ranger Regt had a prestigious alumnus named LTC Earl Rudder; he led the 2d Battalion in climbing the cliffs at Point de Hoc overlooking Omaha Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. He retired a Major General and when I was a cadet at Texas A&M in 1959-‘60, he was President of the University. I was Corps Bugler my sophomore year and was privileged to shake his hand.
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Such a tragic loss, Rest in Peace Colonel, thank you for the news share MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
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