Regimental
Hall of Fame for 1997
The 1997 induction of three
Quartermaster generals, one chief warrant officer and one command
sergeant major into the Regimental Hall of Fame brings the total
number of members to 54. The newest five members in the Hall of
Fame at the US Army Quartermaster Center and School, Fort Lee,
Virginia, are LTG Walter J. Woolwine, MG Henry G. Skeen, MG
Emmett W. Bowers, CW4 Michael Z. Smith and CSM Charles Getreu.
The Hall of Fame annually recognizes
military personnel of all ranks who are not on active duty and
also recognizes retired civilians who have made lasting,
significant contributions to the Quartermaster Corps. The five
new Hall of Fame members, as well as 17 Distinguished Members of
the Regiment and four new Distinguished Units of the Regiment,
were inducted during Regimental Week, 17-21 Jun 97, at Fort Lee,
Virginia, home of the Quartermaster Corps.
Lieutenant
General Walter J. Woolwine was born January 26, 1919, in Bluefield,
West Virginia, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the
Quartermaster Corps after graduation from the United States
Military Academy at West Point, NY, in 1941.
| General Woolwine served in
The Office of the Quartermaster General in Washington,
the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, and the
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and
Logistics. He was a company commander in the 84th
Infantry Division during World War II, and at the end of
the war became Chief of the Procurement Division in the
European Theater Headquarters. In 1965 he went to
Thailand as Commanding Officer of the 9th Logistical
Command. After a tour of duty with the Army Materiel
Command in Washington, he returned to the Far East in
1970. Initially assigned as commanding general of the 1st
Logistical Command - the largest single unit in Vietnam -
he was later designated Assistant Deputy Commanding
General, United States Army, Vietnam. After his promotion
to Lieutenant General in August 1971, he was named
Director of Logistics (J4), Joint Chiefs of Staff. In his
last assignment before retirement in 1975 he was
Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
in Washington, DC. During
his 34-year career which included participation in three
wars - World War II, Korea, and Vietnam - General
Woolwine served in every phase of Quartermaster
activities at every level and achieved lasting results
throughout the realm of military logistics.
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 LTG Walter J. Woolwine
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Major General
Henry G. Skeen was born
in Dale County, Alabama, on May 26, 1933. He entered the Air
Force in 1949, transferred to the US Army in 1953, and upon
completion of Officer Candidate School that year was commissioned
a second lieutenant in the Infantry. After serving as platoon
leader in various Infantry and airborne companies, he was awarded
a Regular Army commission as a Quartermaster first lieutenant in
1958.
 MG
Henry G. Skeen
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During most of his career,
General Skeen held important Quartermaster
mission-related command and staff positions. Key staff
assignments included Director, Supply and Maintenance in
the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics;
Secretary of General Staff, US Army Computer Systems
Command; and Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for
Logistics, US Army Europe and Seventh Army; and Secretary
to the General Staff, US Army Computer Systems Command,
Fort Belvoir, VA. Important commands included Commander,
US Army Troop Support
Command, St. Louis, MO; Commander Defense Industrial
Support Center, Philadelphia, PA; Commander, Defense
Reutilization and Marketing Service, Battle Creek, MI;
Commander, 88th Supply and Service Battalion, Vietnam;
Commander, Regional Support Activity, Military Region II,
Vietnam; Commander, US Army Logistics Evaluation Agency
at New Cumberland Army Depot; and Commander, Burtonwood
Army Depot, England.
General Skeen played a
pivotal role in launching the Quartermaster Corps into
the automation era in the 1960s and 1970s, and later lent
major support to the establishment of the Army Supply
Excellence Award and the Army Supply Master Plan.
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Major General
Emmett W. Bowers was
born on July 19, 1926, in Fulton County, Georgia. He graduated as
an Reserve Officers’ Training Corps honor graduate from
Mercer University in 1951 and was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. During the early years in
his career, he was detailed to the Artillery Corps. Serving in
Korea with the 2d Division Artillery, he was wounded in action in
1952 during the Second Korean Winter Campaign.
| General Bowers taught
financial management at the Quartermaster School, both in
Germany and at Fort Lee, VA. Important staff assignments
during his distinguished career included Chief of the
Budget and Accounting Branch in the Quartermaster Market
Center System, US Army, Europe; Chief, Analysis and
Statistics Branch, Management Division, Southern Area
Command, US Army, Europe; Coordinator of the Stock Fund,
Army Supply and Maintenance Agency, US Army, Europe;
Chief of the Procedures and Performance Branch, Deputy
Chief of Staff for Logistics; Executive Officer to the
Comptroller, Defense Logistics Agency; and Staff Officer
in the Logistics Directorate, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Some
of his principal commands included Commander, 9th Supply
and Transportation Battalion, 9th Infantry Division,
Vietnam; Commander, 593d Support Group, Fort Lewis, WA;
Commander, US Army Troop Support Agency, Fort Lee, VA;
and Commander, Defense Personnel Support Center,
Philadelphia, PA. Among
his many lasting contributions, General Bowers expedited
movement of the communications zone from France to
Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, that was key to North
Atlantic Treaty Organization success over the last two
decades. Plus, he conducted a thorough study of
Department of Defense commissary operations that led to
many reforms.
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 MG
Emmett W. Bowers
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Chief Warrant
Officer Four Michael Z. Smith - the current Honorary Warrant
Officer of the Quartermaster Regiment - was born October 22,
1948, in Canton, North Carolina. He began his military career as
an enlisted Infantry-soldier at Fort Bragg, NC, in November 1966.
He transferred to the Quartermaster Corps in 1971 and was
commissioned a warrant officer in 1976.
 CW4 Michael Z. Smith
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CW4 Smith has held a
variety of significant staff positions in his career,
including Chief Quartermaster School representative on
the US Army Strategic Logistics Agency to define
functional logistics requirements; Chief, Materiel
Control Training Division, Supply Department, Fort Lee,
VA; Subject Matter Expert with the Department of State,
Washington, DC, on the automated and manual supply
systems; and Assistant Branch Chief and Instructor Writer
Direct Support Unit Standard Supply System (DS4) with the
Material Control Training Division, Fort Lee, VA. He also
served as Assistant Branch Chief and Instructor/Writer
for DS4; Advisor to The Quartermaster General, designed and implemented the Supply
Excellence Award Program; Supply Management Division,
Fort Lee, VA, served as course coordinator and Direct
Support Unit/DS4 instructor; Class IX (repair parts)
Supply Management Officer, 3d Division Materiel
Management Center, 3d Infantry Division; Brigade Property
Book Officer with the 2d Training Brigade, USA Training
Center, Fort Leonard Wood, MO; Battery Commander for five
months and the Battalion S4 and the Property Book Officer
for 2d Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, 42d Field
Artillery Group, V Corps.
Since his retirement from
active duty in 1991, CW4 Smith has continued to
contribute to the logistics community as civilian
Director for Research and Studies, Office of the Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense (Logistics).
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Command Sergeant
Major Charles Getreu was
born June 9, 1924, in Washington, DC. He graduated from
Gaithersburg High School in Gaithersburg, MD, in 1942, and was
drafted into the Army in 1943. He took basic training and
advanced infantry training at Fort Benning, GA, where he also
graduated from the Airborne Jump School. He served on active duty
from 1943 to 1969 - through World War II, Korea and Vietnam - and
was permanently retired in 1974.
| During his distinguished
26-year career, CSM Getreu held a wide variety of
logistics administrative, command and staff positions
that included Noncommissioned Officer in Charge, Central
Issue Facility, 82d Replacement Company; Regimental
Supply Sergeant, 187th Regimental Combat Team; Chief
Clerk, G4 Section, 101st Airborne Division; Sergeant
Major, Command and Control Battalion, 101st Airborne
Division; Chief Supply Sergeant, G4 Section, 8th Infantry
Division, Airborne Brigade; Chief Clerk, G4 Section, 8th
Infantry Division, Airborne Brigade; Brigade Sergeant
Major, 8th Infantry Division, Airborne Brigade; Chief
Clerk, G4 Section, Fort Ord, CA; Sergeant Major, 503d
Supply and Transportation Battalion, 3rd Armored
Division, Germany; and Sergeant Major, 1st Supply and
Transportation Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, Vietnam. |
 CSM
Charles Getreu
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