West point history
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New Wounded Warrior Project CEO has close connections to 101st Airborne
CLARKSVILLE — The Wounded Warrior Project has named a former Fort Campbell brigade commander as its next chief executive.
Michael Linnington, a retired Army lieutenant general, commanded and led the 3rd Brigade Combat Team from Fort Campbell into Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks and later into Iraq during the 2003 ground invasion.
Linnington takes over after a career as the director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in Washington. He inherits a popular nonprofit organization that is trying to recover from negative attention following the removal of former CEO Steve Nardizzi and COO Al Giordano.
The organization was built into a household name, but reports questioned how organization money was being spent.
Linnington inherited DPAA also at a time of instability when three agencies were merged and faced accusations of poor leadership.
Prior to his work as a civilian leader, Linnington had a successful career as an officer that brought him to Fort Campbell as brigade commander where he led the Ra
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Michael Linnington
CEO of Wounded Warrior Project, US Army Lieutenant General
Michael Linnington (born 1958, Cape May, New Jersey[3]) is the former CEO of Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and a retired United States Army Lieutenant General.[4][5] He has more than 35 years of military experience and was the first permanent Director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA).[6]
Throughout his 35-year military career, Linnington has served as a Military Deputy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, was the Commanding General of the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region,[7] the Deputy Commanding General at Fort Benning, GA, Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Policy for the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1]
Linnington graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1980[2][8] and holds master’s degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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59 Years of Federal Service Honored
Service to the United States of America is a life long journey for many citizens; some more than others.
Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, commanding general of the Joint Force Headquarters - National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington (JFHQ-NCR/MDW) hosted an award ceremony honoring Mark Murray upon his retirement after 59 years of dedicated military and civilian service to the nation at Fort McNair Oct. 20, 2011.
Murray was born in Fort Valley, Georgia on Oct. 24, 1930. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina in 1951, commissioned in the Infantry and immediately saw service in the Korean War from October 1952 to October 1953 where he performed duties as a Platoon Leader, Company Commander and Regimental Staff Officer, earning the Combat Infantryman Badge. He subsequently served in the Vietnam War, with assignment in Na Trang from February 1966 to February 1967 as an Intelligence Detachment Commander. Murray's numerous other military assignments in
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