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The 22 nd Annual Military Intelligence (MI) Corps Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held at Fort
Huachuca on 26 June 2008. Including this year’s seven inductees, only 217 MI professionals have been
selected for membership into the Hall of Fame. The selection process is deliberate and thorough. Each
nomination is judged by a board of active and retired senior officers, noncommissioned officers, and professional
MI civilians.
The 2009 inductees are: Major General Robert A. Harding (U.S. Army, Retired); Major General William
E. Harmon (U.S. Army, Retired); Brigadier General Roy M. Strom (U.S. Army, Retired); Chief Warrant
Officer Five Wallace S. Price (U.S. Army, Retired); Chief Warrant Officer Three Doris I. Allen (U.S. Army,
Retired); Command Sergeant Major Odell Williams (U.S. Army, Retired, Deceased); and Command
Sergeant Major Ronald D. Wright (U.S. Army, Retired)
Major General Robert A. Harding, (U.S. Army, Retired)
Major General Robert A. Harding is a native of New York City (NYC). He was commissioned as
a second lieutenant from the Officer Candidate School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in April 1969. From
September 1969 to April 1971, then Second Lieutenant Harding conducted Counterintelligence (CI) investigations
and operations with the 108 th MI Group in NYC. He left New York to command the Inchon
and Uijongbu Field Offices in Korea. He concluded
his initial assignment for the 501 st MI Group in
May 1972. Captain Harding then assumed command
of Headquarters Company, 1 st MI Battalion
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
In early 1975, CPT Harding was assigned to the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the Pentagon
as the strategic analyst for Korea, where he served
until October 1978. Following this assignment,
he served first as the S2 of the 1 st Battalion, 59 th
Air Defense Artillery, 8 th Mechanized Infantry
Division, and then as the S2 for the 1 st Brigade, 8 th
Mechanized Infantry Division. While serving as the
Brigade Intelligence Officer, CPT Harding was promoted
to the rank of Major. Returning stateside,
he was assigned as the Professional Development
Officer, U.S. Army Military Personnel Center,
Alexandria, Virginia. Approximately two years later,
he would report as a student to the Armed Forces
Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. Upon his graduation
in June 1983, MAJ Harding assumed the duties
as the Executive Officer, Army CI Directorate
in the Pentagon. In October 1985, he moved to the
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