Dan K. McNeill
Dan K. McNeill ( born July 23, 1946 in Warsaw, North Carolina ) is a retired general of the U.S. Army and was from February 2007 to June 2008 Commander of the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF) in Afghanistan. From July 2000 to August 2003, he was Commanding General of XVIII. U.S. Airborne Corps in Fort Bragg and was during this use also commander of the Combined Joint Task Force 180 during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Military career
Training and first uses
McNeill in 1968 completed the North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry and received a ROTC student at November 3, 1968 his commission and was promoted to Second Lieutenant. After the completion of the Infantry Officer Basic Training McNeill served from July 1968 to April 1970 as a protocol officer at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and in this use in the Vietnam War.
On November 3, 1969, he was promoted to First Lieutenant. From May 1970 to January 1971, he graduated from the U.S. Army Aviation School at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and later at Fort Rucker, Alabama. While this use, he was promoted to captain on 3 November 1970 and served from February 1971 to January 1972 as Senior Assistant to the Commanding General of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. Then followed a foreign assignment in South Korea, where he served from January 1972 until May 1973 as a pilot, assistive operations officer ( S-3 ), and finally. Than operations officer of the 55th Fliegerkompanie, 52 U.S. airmen Battalion of the 8th U.S. Army When he was back in the United States, he graduated in May 1973 to April 1974, the advanced training for infantry officers at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Service in Fort Bragg, teaching activities and staff training
After training he served from May to December 1974 as assistive operations officer ( S-3 ) for air operations in the 2nd Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In December 1974, he took over as company commander, the combat support company of the battalion and served in that position until April 1976. Starting in April McNeill was then until August 1977 used only as an assistant and later as the actual operations officer ( S-3) of the 3rd Brigade of the Division. He then took over for a year until August 1978, the command of the E- Company of the 2nd Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment of the division. From August 1978 to June 1980 McNeill was then promoted as a lecturer in military science at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, Georgia and has been in this use, on July 5, 1979, Major. After that, he then completed by June 1981, the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and then worked as a writer for doctrine in the tactics department of the college.
Staff assignments and commands
From June 1982 until July 1984 McNeill served as first officer of the 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, later regrouped to 4th Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment, Vicenza, Italy. He then served for a year as Secretary of the General Staff of the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force in Vicenza, thereafter to be transported on 1 June 1985 Lieutenant Colonel in July as first officer of the support company of the 82nd Airborne Division again a troop command to take over. In May 1986, McNeill took over until June 1988, the command of the 1st Battalion of the 325th U.S. Infantry Regiment. From August 1988 to June 1989, he finally graduated from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania. Thereafter he served until August 1991 as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations ( G-3 ) of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division and was promoted to Colonel on 1 March 1991. In this use, he served during Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Shield / Storm in Saudi Arabia. From August 1991 to July 1993, he took over command of the 3rd Brigade of the Division at Fort Bragg. After McNeill was until March 1995 as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations ( G-3) in the bar of the parent XVIII. U.S. Airborne Corps used. In September 1995, he was promoted to Brigadier General and served from March of the same year as an assistant division commander of the 2nd Infantry Division of the 8th U.S. Army in South Korea. In June 1996, McNeill returned to the United States and took over in Fort Bragg the post of Chief of Staff of XVIII. Airborne Corps and then in August 1997, the post of Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. I Corps at Fort Lewis, Washington. On 1 October 1998 he was promoted to Major General and served from July as Commanding General of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division.
On 20 July 2000 McNeill was promoted to Lieutenant General and took over until August 2003, the command of the XVIII. Airborne Corps and was during this use from May 2002 until May 2003, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force 180 during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. In September 2003, he took over until May 2004 the post of Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort McPherson, Georgia. On 7 May 2004, he took over command of the U.S. Army Forces Command and was eventually promoted to General in July.
On 20 September 2006 McNeill was nominated for the post of commander of the ISAF in Afghanistan. This was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 29 September 2006. He has replaced the previous commander, Lieutenant General David J. British Richards on February 4, 2007. The command of the U.S. Army Forces Command, he handed on 9 January 2007, General Charles C. Campbell. After 16 months, he handed over the command of ISAF, General David D. McKiernan on and retired.
Awards
Selection of decorations, sorted on the basis of the Order of Precedence of Military Awards:
- Defense Distinguished Service Medal
- Army Distinguished Service Medal (2 x)
- Defense Superior Service Medal
- Legion of Merit (5 x)
- Bronze Star (2 x)
- Meritorious Service Medal (4 x)
- Army Commendation Medal ( 3 x)
- Army Achievement Medal