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PRESS
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For Immediate Release: March 7, 2007
Contact: Abigail Shilling (202) 225-6365
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Forbes Introduces Legislation to Name
Fort Lee Building
After General Thompson |
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04) announced today the introduction
of legislation to name the Logistics Automation Training Facility of
the Army Quartermaster Center and School at Fort Lee in honor of
retired General Richard H. Thompson. The bill, H.R. 1206, has been
referred to the House Committee on Armed Services for review.
“Through the hard work of General Thompson, Fort Lee has become the
Department of Defense’s logistical center of excellence,” said
Forbes. “I believe it is only fitting to name the training facility
in his honor.”
Gen. Thompson served the Army for 43 years and is the only
Quartermaster to have risen from the rank of private to four-star
general. After completion of Quartermaster Officer Advanced Course
at Fort Lee in 1960, Thompson was assigned overseas but returned to
the U.S. in 1961. He worked in multiple jobs as a staff officer in
the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics for the Army,
eventually being moving up to the position of Deputy Chief. In 1984,
he was promoted to General and given command of the U.S. Army
Material Command, a post he held until his retirement in 1987.
Recognized as the leader of the modernization of logistics
automation during the 1980s, Thompson is an honoree in the
Quartermaster Hall of Fame.
The U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School’s Logistics Automation
Training Facility was completed in December 1995. It is a
three-story, 125,600-square foot brick structure and contains
multi-purpose classrooms, offices and state-of-the-art computer
laboratories on each floor. It is the primary training site for
Quartermaster Officer Basic and Warrant Officer Advanced Courses.
Fort Lee serves as the focal point for Army Logistics and provides
support to U.S. Army Joint and Coalition operations around the
world. In addition to being the Quartermaster Center and School, it
is home of the Combined Arms Support Command, U.S. Army Garrison,
Army Logistics College and the headquarters for the Defense
Commissary Agency. It is home for nearly 3,200 military personnel
and equally as many family members, 600 single solders on the
installation, and another 2,300 families off-post. For more
information about Fort Lee, visit
www.lee.army.mil.
For more information on H.R. 1206, visit
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:hr1206:">H.R. 1206:.
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