William Wallace is the
Lieutenant General, of the
US Army, who commands
V Corps, located at
Heidelberg,
Germany. He was commissioned in
1969 after graduating from the
U.S. Military Academy[?] at
West Point, then qualified as an
armor officer before serving in the
Vietnam War. After serving in Vietnam, Wallace became a company commander, battalion
S-1[?] (adujant), and battalion
S-3[?] operations officer with the
82nd Airborne Division[?]. In 1977, he attended the Armor Officer Advanced Course at
Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the
Naval Postgraduate School[?] in
Monterey, California. In 1983, he joined the
2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment[?] in Germany.
As a general officer, he commanded the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division[?] and then of the Joint Warfighting Center and Director of Joint Training at the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Suffolk, Va.
General Wallace assumed command of V Corps on July 18, 2002. He commanded U.S. ground forces during the U.S. invasion of Iraq.