III 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 139 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 29, 2007 Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. Akaka) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services April 18, 2007 Committee discharged; considered and agreed to RESOLUTION Commending General Peter J. Schoomaker for his extraordinary dedication to duty and service to the United States.

Whereas General Peter J. Schoomaker, the 35th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, will be released from active duty in April 2007, after over 35 distinguished years of active Federal service; Whereas General Schoomaker, a native of Wyoming, graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1969, served in a variety of command and staff assignments with both conventional and special operations forces, including participation in numerous combat operations, such as Desert One in Iran, Urgent Fury in Grenada, Just Cause in Panama, Desert Shield/Desert Storm in Southwest Asia, and Uphold Democracy in Haiti, and supported various worldwide joint contingency operations, including those in the Balkans; Whereas General Schoomaker has been awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, 2 Army Distinguished Service Medals, 4 Defense Superior Service Medals, 3 Legions of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals, 2 Defense Meritorious Service Medals, 3 Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Master Parachutist Badge and HALO Wings, the Special Forces Tab, and the Ranger Tab; Whereas General Schoomaker was recalled from retirement, spent the last 4 years of his career in the highest position attainable in the Army, and has proven himself a tremendous wartime leader who has demonstrated unselfish devotion to the Nation and the soldiers he leads; Whereas General Schoomaker’s efforts to prepare the Army to fight a long war today while transforming it for an uncertain and complex future have been unprecedented; Whereas General Schoomaker has demonstrated strategic leadership and vision and has had a remarkably positive and lasting impact on the Army by leveraging the momentum of the Global War on Terror to accelerate the transformation of the Army; Whereas General Schoomaker, through modularization, rebalancing the total Army, development of a force generation model, restationing, and restructuring the Future Combat Systems, kept the Army focused on developing capabilities to meet traditional, irregular, catastrophic, and disruptive challenges threatening the interests of the United States; Whereas General Schoomaker recognized that technological and organizational change requires intellectual and emotional transformation and tirelessly cultivated a learning and adaptive Army culture, while reaffirming the predominance of the human dimension of war; Whereas General Schoomaker reflected the spirit of the warrior ethos he sought to instill in the United States Army—always placing the mission first, never accepting defeat, never quitting, and never leaving a fallen comrade; Whereas General Schoomaker exemplifies the nonnegotiable characteristics exhibited by all great leaders—a strong sense of duty, honor, courage, and a love of country; Whereas General Schoomaker has been selfless in his service to the Nation through peace and war; Whereas one of General Schoomaker’s predecessors, George C. Marshall, once remarked that it is not enough to fight, it is the spirit we bring to the fight that decides the issue; and Whereas when history looks back at the Army's 35th Chief of Staff, it will be clear that he had the spirit at a critical time in the Nation’s history: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1)commends General Peter J. Schoomaker for his extraordinary dedication to duty and service to the United States throughout his distinguished career in the U.S. Army; and (2)directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to General Peter J. Schoomaker.