A History of the Commanding Officers at Fort Monmouth ... - CECOM

He ended his tour of duty at Fort Monmouth on 28 October 1982 whenhe was promoted to Lieutenant General and assigned as DeputyCommanding General for Readiness, DARCOM, (now AMC),Alexandria, VA. In June 1984 he was reassigned as Commander of theDefense Logistics Agency, Alexandria, VA.Major General John K. Stoner, Jr.MG John K. Stoner, Jr.Major General John K. Stoner, Jr. came toFort Monmouth as the seventh CommandingGeneral of ECOM and the twenty-eighthcommander of Fort Monmouth in November1976. ECOM was disestablished and two newcommands established as CommunicationsElectronics Materiel Readiness Command andthe Communications Research andDevelopment Command on 1 January 1978.Stoner then became the first CommandingGeneral of CERCOM and served in thatcapacity until his retirement in June 1980.Stoner was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, in January 1929. Hegraduated from Drexel Institute of Technology and received a regularArmy commission through the Reserve Officers Training Corps in July1951 as a Second Lieutenant, Artillery. He completed the ChemicalCorps School Advanced Course and served in Korea.“…the first responsibility of aleader is to prove himself to hisfollowers. You can’t demand theirrespect, you have to earn it.”-MG Stoner in an interview uponassuming command, here.Other tours of dutyincluded a year inVietnam with the MilitaryAssistance Command,Vietnam; Office of theAssistant Secretary of theArmy in Washington; andCommanding Officer ofPine Bluff Arsenal inArkansas and Commanding Officer of Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.Stoner commanded the U.S. Army Materiel Management Agency inGermany from 1973 to 1976, and was Commanding General, 2dSupport Command (Corps) in Europe before coming to Fort Monmouth.Commanding Officers at Fort Monmouth