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Robert L. Ord III
Robert Laird Ord III (born May 12, 1940) is a retired lieutenant general (United States), lieutenant general of the United States Army who served as commander of United States Army Pacific from 1993 until 1996. Early life and education Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Ord graduated from Rancocas Valley Regional High School in 1958. He is an alumnus of the United States Military Academy with a B.S. degree in 1962 and the Georgia Tech, Georgia Institute of Technology with an M.S. degree in industrial management in 1972. He also received military education at the United States Army War College. Military career During the Vietnam War, Ord commanded an Infantry company of the 25th Division in 1966. He then worked as a Personnel Staff Officer for the headquarters of the United States Army Vietnam. Later in the conflict, from 1972 to 1973, he worked as a Senior Adviser for the 41st Ranger Command and as Chief of Plans and Operations for Region IV. Ord's major commands wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
