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Officer, Columbus Field Office, 109 th CI Corps Group. Serving for approximately two and one half years,
he departed Ohio in January 1962 and transferred to Korea where he served as the Officer-in-Charge of
the Inchon Field Office, 502d MI Battalion from May 1963 to May 1964. His next assignment was at Fort
Holabird where CPT Strom would serve the next 19 months as the Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding
General, Intelligence School, Fort Holabird.
In July 1967, Major Strom was assigned as the Intelligence Officer to the Army’s Alternate Command
Post, Operations Group, Army War College at Carlisle Barracks. After two years in Pennsylvania, MAJ
Strom took command of the 519 th MI Battalion, 525 th MI Group serving in combat operations in Vietnam.
In January 1970, he took command of the 4 th MI Battalion, 525 th MI Group also conducting operations in
the Delta region of Vietnam. After concluding his second command, Lieutenant Colonel Strom reported to
Munich, Germany, where he took command of his third battalion, the 18 th MI Battalion, 66 th MI Group.
He left command in March 1972 and complete 16 months as the Adjutant of the 66 th MI Group in Munich
before returning to Washington, D.C. where he would become a CI Officer and Executive Officer in the
Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army. LTC Strom served a little
over two years in the Pentagon and then became the Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Special Security
Group in Washington. Moving over to DIA approximately one year later, he became the Staff Chief, Special
Intelligence Operations from June 1977 to June 1978.
In July of that year, Colonel Strom took command of the 500 th MI Brigade, INSCOM at Camp Zama,
Japan. Two years later, in July 1980, he assumed the duties as the Deputy Commandant and served as
the Commandant of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center (USAIC), Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Early in 1982,
BG Strom returned to Washington, D.C. to become the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence,
Department of the Army.
His final assignment was as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Forces Command (FORSCOM),
Fort McPherson, Georgia. It was during this tour that he and his staff developed a workable language
maintenance program fitting the reserve components, as well as active forces, to keep pace with the requirements
of an army facing the need for language
facility. In March 1985, he retired from active duty
in the U.S. Army after having served honorably for
31 years.
Brigadier Strom’s awards and badges include
the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit,
Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal (3 OLCs),
National Defense Medal (1 OLC), Vietnamese Service
Medal, Department of Army Staff Badge, U.S. and
Vietnamese Parachutist Wings.
Chief Warrant Officer Five Wallace S.
Price, (U.S. Army, Retired)
A native of Oregon, Chief Warrant Officer Wally
Price began his Army career in 1966 with the
Army Security Agency (ASA). He attended Defense
Language Institute (DLI) for Czech language training,
and following advanced training at Goodfellow,
AFB, Texas was assigned to Detachment J, 16 th
ASA Field Station, Schneeberg, Federal Republic of
Germany. From 1967 until 1970, he provided intelligence
support for U.S. Army Europe and NATO
commands during the Warsaw Pact invasion of
Czechoslovakia.
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