Description
Lieutenant General Samuel Vaughan Wilson, aka "General Sam", completed his active military career in the fall of 1977, having divided his service almost equally between special operations and intelligence assignments. He served as President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1992?2000 and as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from May 1976-August 1977; for his foundational work in doctrine for low intensity conflict, where he coined the term "counterinsurgency"; and for facilitating the drafting and passage of the Nunn-Cohen Amendment to the Goldwater-Nichols Act creating the US Special Operations Command and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. He is also credited for helping to create Delta Force, the U.S. Army's premier counterterrorism unit.
As a general officer, some of his assignments included: Assistant Division Commander, 82nd Airborne Division; United States Defense Attach� to the Soviet Union; Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community; and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. [More at Wikipedia]
Born
Rice, Virginia
Last Changes
2019/06/13
The Claim to Fame has changed
2017/06/27
The Celebrity Name has been changed from Samuel W. Wilson
2017/06/27
The celebrity has been marked as passed away