David Holmes Huntoon Jr. is a retired

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who served as the 58th Superintendent of the

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from 2010-2013.U.S. Army Officer Record Brief, October 31, 2013

Early life

Huntoon is a 1973 graduate of the

at West Point.

Military career

Huntoon served as an Infantry Officer in a series of command and staff assignments in the United States and

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. Following attendance at the

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and the School for Advanced Military Studies at

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, he was assigned to XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg,

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. There, he was deployed as a Senior War Plans Officer for

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, and Operation Desert Storm. He commanded a mechanized infantry battalion at Camp Casey,

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, and served in Combined and Joint Plans for the Combined Forces Command and United Nations Command in Seoul. He was the Army's National Security Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He then took command of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). Following his service as the Executive Officer to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, he was selected as an Army Brigadier general (United States), brigadier general. His general officer assignments were as Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; leadership of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy for the US Army; Commandant of the U.S. Army War College and Director of the Army Staff in the Pentagon. In 2012 the The Pentagon, Pentagon's Office of Inspector General (United States), Office of Inspector General found that Huntoon had misused his office while at West Point by asking subordinates to perform personal tasks for him. According to ''The Washington Post'', the Inspector General and the Army kept the information confidential until required to release it after a Freedom of Information Act (United States), Freedom of Information Act request shortly before he retired in 2013. Huntoon remained the Convening Authority for West Point while he was under investigation, when he was convicted and when he was censured.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Huntoon, David H. Living people Superintendents of the United States Military Academy United States Military Academy alumni United States Army generals Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army) 1951 births People from West Point, New York

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