Volume 8, Number 3 - Space and Missile Defense Command - U.S. ...
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a Historical<br />
Perspective<br />
COL Ronan Ellis is an ROTC graduate <strong>and</strong><br />
entered the Army in 1961 in the field<br />
artillery. He spent most of his career<br />
except for the last four years in the artillery<br />
business comm<strong>and</strong>ing artillery batteries, battalion,<br />
<strong>and</strong> brigade, in Korea, Vietnam <strong>and</strong> Germany. In the<br />
latter part of his career he was selected to be the<br />
first Comm<strong>and</strong>ant of the Army <strong>Space</strong> Institute <strong>and</strong><br />
eventually the second comm<strong>and</strong>er of U.S. Army<br />
<strong>Space</strong> Comm<strong>and</strong>.<br />
The following text is an edited version of a historical<br />
interview between COL Ellis <strong>and</strong> U.S. Army<br />
<strong>Space</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Missile</strong> <strong>Defense</strong> Comm<strong>and</strong>/Army Forces<br />
Strategic Comm<strong>and</strong> historian, LaJeannia Lacey. You can<br />
find the complete transcript of the interview online at<br />
http://www.smdc-armyforces.army.mil/ASJ/<br />
16<br />
Army <strong>Space</strong> Journal<br />
2009 Fall Edition
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