Tsar_Maple
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This is a newspaper article from Louisiana College about my great uncle General Norris E. Sills, a LC Alumnus. He was a very decorated serviceman in the US Military, and I find it very cool to find something like this about him.
"Louisiana College ... A small college that will help you make it big.
Meet Maj. Gen. Norris E. Sills ('44), a man who has left his mark on the U.S. military.
A former commander of the two largest units in the Army Reserve, Sills was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal - a coveted honor rarely bestowed upon members of the Army Reserve - for "exceptionally meritorious performance of outstanding selfless service." He received the medal after a decade as commander of the 79th Army Reserve Command (11,300 officers and enlisted personnel) and commanding general of the 310th Theater Army Area Command (3,600 officers and enlisted personnel), a unique command that would assume complete control of logistics operations for all of Europe upon mobilization.
Sills also received the Meritorious Service Medal and eight other decorations during a distinguished career that spanned 35 years.
The Army Reserve operates under the "Sills Plan," a blueprint for long-range preparedness and full-time support that Sills created before retiring in 1982 in Pineville.
An honor graduate in chemistry from Louisiana College (eight of his 12 siblings graduated from LC), Sills also earned an engineering degree at the Naval Academy and a master's in physics from LSU.
After teaching physics at LC from 1947-53, Sills became a chief civilian instructor and deputy chief of the Radiological Branch of the Army Chemical Corps School at Fort McClellan, Ala. He joined the Pentagon as chief scientific adviser to the assistant chief of staff for force development in chemical and nuclear programs, became chief of the Research and Development Division of Military Engineering, and worked for the Environmental Protection Agency as deputy chief of the Regional Liaison Office and deputy for programming in the Office of Radiation.
Louisiana College, Sills says, was an asset at each stop in his fascinating career. "I've had the privilege of associating with some of the keenest minds at some of the finest schools and seminars in the country (including the highly-selective Industrial College of the Armed Forces), but I've never been exposed to a better learning environment than Louisiana College.
In the classroom, in the laboratory, at the commander's desk ... Maj. gen. Norris Sills, a Louisiana College alumnus who has made it big."
This article mainly talked about his Army Reserve career. His career expanded into holding a position over the entire US Coast Guard after his Army career. My uncle's first spot in the military was aboard the USS Missouri, the Battleship in which the Japanese surrendered on in WWII.
Man, that was a lot of typing.
"Louisiana College ... A small college that will help you make it big.
Meet Maj. Gen. Norris E. Sills ('44), a man who has left his mark on the U.S. military.
A former commander of the two largest units in the Army Reserve, Sills was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal - a coveted honor rarely bestowed upon members of the Army Reserve - for "exceptionally meritorious performance of outstanding selfless service." He received the medal after a decade as commander of the 79th Army Reserve Command (11,300 officers and enlisted personnel) and commanding general of the 310th Theater Army Area Command (3,600 officers and enlisted personnel), a unique command that would assume complete control of logistics operations for all of Europe upon mobilization.
Sills also received the Meritorious Service Medal and eight other decorations during a distinguished career that spanned 35 years.
The Army Reserve operates under the "Sills Plan," a blueprint for long-range preparedness and full-time support that Sills created before retiring in 1982 in Pineville.
An honor graduate in chemistry from Louisiana College (eight of his 12 siblings graduated from LC), Sills also earned an engineering degree at the Naval Academy and a master's in physics from LSU.
After teaching physics at LC from 1947-53, Sills became a chief civilian instructor and deputy chief of the Radiological Branch of the Army Chemical Corps School at Fort McClellan, Ala. He joined the Pentagon as chief scientific adviser to the assistant chief of staff for force development in chemical and nuclear programs, became chief of the Research and Development Division of Military Engineering, and worked for the Environmental Protection Agency as deputy chief of the Regional Liaison Office and deputy for programming in the Office of Radiation.
Louisiana College, Sills says, was an asset at each stop in his fascinating career. "I've had the privilege of associating with some of the keenest minds at some of the finest schools and seminars in the country (including the highly-selective Industrial College of the Armed Forces), but I've never been exposed to a better learning environment than Louisiana College.
In the classroom, in the laboratory, at the commander's desk ... Maj. gen. Norris Sills, a Louisiana College alumnus who has made it big."
This article mainly talked about his Army Reserve career. His career expanded into holding a position over the entire US Coast Guard after his Army career. My uncle's first spot in the military was aboard the USS Missouri, the Battleship in which the Japanese surrendered on in WWII.
Man, that was a lot of typing.
