[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
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[H.R. 7903 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.7903

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two


                                 An Act


 
    To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based 
 outpatient clinic located in Canton, Michigan, as the ``Major General 
                     Oliver W. Dillard VA Clinic''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
    Congress finds the following:
        (1) Oliver W. Dillard was born on September 28, 1926, in 
    Margaret, Alabama.
        (2) In 1945, following basic training he was drafted and was 
    assigned to the 349th Field Artillery Group in Germany as part of 
    the World War II army of occupation. He was selected to serve as 
    company clerk and began to work his way through the ranks, 
    attaining Technical Sergeant.
        (3) Dillard successfully completed the Officer Candidate School 
    (OCS) selection process and was approved for attendance at the 
    Infantry OCS at Fort Benning in January 1947. He received a 
    commission as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry after graduating from 
    Infantry OCS in July 1947 and was the honor graduate of his 
    Infantry officers basic course.
        (4) He served in command and intelligence positions in Korea, 
    Germany, and Vietnam.
        (5) During his service, Dillard graduated from the Army Command 
    and General Staff College (CGSC) in 1958, where he was one of only 
    three Black officers in his class. After CGSC, he completed his 
    bachelor's degree at the University of Omaha leveraging his earlier 
    studies at Tuskegee Institute.
        (6) In 1965, Mr. Dillard graduated from the National War 
    College, becoming the first Black officer to do so. He graduated at 
    the top of his class.
        (7) MG Dillard's military awards include the Distinguished 
    Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Silver Star, the 
    Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Bronze Star with 
    one Oak Leaf Cluster and ``V'' Device, the Purple Heart, the Air 
    Medal, the Combat Infantryman's Badge with Star (two awards), the 
    Army Staff Identification Badge, and the Vietnam Distinguished 
    Service Order (1st and 2d Class). Dillard also received two 
    civilian awards from the Republic of Vietnam, the Vietnam Rural 
    Revolutionary Development Medal and the Vietnam Ethnic Development 
    Service Medal (1st Class).
        (8) Dillard was inducted into the United States Army's Military 
    Intelligence Hall of Fame in 2012, the Officer Candidate School 
    Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Alabama Military Hall of Honor in 
    2013.
        (9) He died in Canton, Michigan, in 2015, and is buried in 
    Arlington National Cemetery.
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMUNITY-BASED 
OUTPATIENT CLINIC LOCATED IN CANTON, MICHIGAN.
    (a) Designation.--The Department of Veterans Affairs community-
based outpatient clinic located in Canton, Michigan, shall after the 
date of the enactment of this Act be known and designated as the 
``Major General Oliver W. Dillard VA Clinic''.
    (b) References.-- Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
``Major General Oliver W. Dillard VA Clinic''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.