Posted on Feb 3, 2022
#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Harry Brooks Jr. - VAntage Point
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“ Harry Brooks Jr. was born in May 1928 and grew up in a segregated community in Indianapolis, Indiana. While in high school, he excelled at mathematics and joined the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Brooks enlisted in the Army in 1947, and went to Fort Dix, New Jersey, where he served with the all-Black 365th Infantry Division. Fort Dix remained segregated even after President Truman signed an executive order that integrated the Army. Once Brooks concluded his service at Fort Dix, he attended Officer Candidates School at Fort Riley, Kansas. He commissioned as a second lieutenant in the quartermaster branch.”
Looking at the first part of his life, Brooks, born in 1928, didn’t just sit around whining about no opportunities for the Black man, but he worked hard to start getting somewhere positive using his determination and hard work. That’s what a smart person does, and a survivor.
He’s a great inspiration to not let unfortunate circumstances get in our way to keep reaching forward to make something of ourselves in this world.
SGT Steve McFarland CW3 Steve Butts Sgt David G Duchesneau CPL Patrick Rasmusson LCpl Dana Paulsen SGT (Join to see) SGT Tiffanie G. PFC Michelle Gauthier CPL Douglas Chrysler LTC Wayne Brandon SPC John Bryant Cpl Gerald Hill PFC Andrew "Tommy" M. TSgt Tim (lj) Littlejohn SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL CPL Ronald Keyes Jr
Looking at the first part of his life, Brooks, born in 1928, didn’t just sit around whining about no opportunities for the Black man, but he worked hard to start getting somewhere positive using his determination and hard work. That’s what a smart person does, and a survivor.
He’s a great inspiration to not let unfortunate circumstances get in our way to keep reaching forward to make something of ourselves in this world.
SGT Steve McFarland CW3 Steve Butts Sgt David G Duchesneau CPL Patrick Rasmusson LCpl Dana Paulsen SGT (Join to see) SGT Tiffanie G. PFC Michelle Gauthier CPL Douglas Chrysler LTC Wayne Brandon SPC John Bryant Cpl Gerald Hill PFC Andrew "Tommy" M. TSgt Tim (lj) Littlejohn SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL CPL Ronald Keyes Jr
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
Absolutely. He was a real hard charger. Unfortunately, his subordinate commanders didn't play nice and created a scandal that brought his career to a curtailed end.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. “subordinate commanders didn't play nice and created a scandal that brought his career to a curtailed end.” A scenario that repeats itself throughout time.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
That he was. He gave me a lot of leeway as editor of the Tropic Lightning News. He would call me up to his office every-other week to tell me the points he wanted to cover in the next issue's CG's column "I Give a Damn!" I would then write it for him and send him my draft that Friday. The drafts came back to me the following Monday with little or no change and invariably a positive comment on the job I'd done.
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Brooks was the ADC (S) to 2d Inf. Div. commander Henry "Gunfighter" Emerson in Korea before coming to Hawaii to command the 25th Inf. Div. in '74. He imported all the programs Emerson created in Korea to eat up the troops' spare time with constructive activities. Unfortunately, programs that were great for unaccompanied troops on a short overseas tour were considered draconian by married troops with families in Hawaii. While everything looked great on paper--and earned Brooks orders to Germany to assume command of V Corps and a promotion to Lt. Gen.--a scandal that broke out over the falsification of Hometown News Releases resulted in Brooks losing the Germany assignment and his early retirement not long after. He wound up remaining in Hawaii as an executive with AMFAC--the American Factories Corporation. . . .
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