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David Gerard Perkins
General, U.S. Army
Commander, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command

David Gerard Perkins was born in Keene, NH. He received a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1980 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Armor. He subsequently received a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Summary of Military Assignments

2LT Perkins served his first assignment as a platoon leader in Germany. During his career, he has commanded at the company, battalion, task force, brigade, and theater level in Germany, Macedonia, Iraq, and the United States.

He commanded the 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor, in the 1st Infantry Division from 1996 to 1998, during which the battalion deployed to Macedonia, where Perkins commanded a UN mission established at the request of Macedonia to monitor its borders with Albania, Kosovo, and Serbia.

Invasion of Iraq: The 'Thunder Run'

During 2001-03, then-Colonel Perkins commanded 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) during the invasion of Iraq. His unit w

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General David Perkins, Ret. graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1980 and was commissioned as an Armor Officer. In 1988, he received a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan. In 1999, Perkins received an M.A. from the Naval War College.

General Perkins, Ret. served as the 15th Commander of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), which is responsible for designing, acquiring, building, and constantly improving the U.S. Army, one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. Under his leadership, TRADOC developed the Army’s concept of Multi-Domain Operations, which has become a driver for future change not only in the U.S. military but around the world.

Previously, General Perkins, Ret. commanded at all levels in the U.S. Army, from Captain to Major Army Command at the four-star level. He has multiple combat tours, including commanding a brigade and later an infantry division in Iraq. As a brigade commander, he led the historical “Thunder Run” into Baghdad, which led to the rapid fall

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David’s Words;”….. My father’s first name was Gerald. He was a machine-gun officer in the 10th Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment when he was shot through the left wrist on the third day of theBattle of the Somme, July 1916. His type of wound was nicknamed a “Blighty wound”, not life threatening but bad enough to take him back to “Blighty”, slang for England, for treatment. It was during his recuperation and continued service in England that he met George Crabbe, a Ceylon tea planter on leave, who offered him a job after the war, on Hatherleigh Estate, Rakwana. Crabbe was a well-known shikari and wildlife photographer, and I remember seeing his framed photos of wildlife on the walls of the old Ratnapura Club. He owned a bungalow in Diyatalawa where my parents spent their honeymoon, and he was there when he sadly committed suicide as a result of the stock market crash in 1929.

My mother’s name was Gladys, but my father called her Toni, short for her second name Antonia.

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