[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 130 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9981-S9982]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      MAJ. GEN. RAY E. McCOY, USA

 Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I rise today to commend Maj. Gen. 
Ray E. McCoy, USA, upon his retirement from the United States Army 
after more than 32 years of distinguished and dedicated service to our 
Nation.
  Major General McCoy, a native son of the Oklahoma farmland, graduated 
in 1965 from Oklahoma State University, where he received the 
prestigious Drummond Saber Award as the year's outstanding ROTC 
graduate. That honor was the harbinger of an extraordinary military 
career.

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  After completing Infantry School and Ranger training, Ray McCoy 
served in a variety of combat and command assignments stateside and 
overseas, including two tours in Vietnam and one in Korea. In the 
operations theater, his abiding concern for his charges, his roll-up-
your-sleeves approach to getting the mission done, and his tempered-
steel military bearing earned him the respect of all who soldiered with 
and for him.
  As his career progressed, he served in a number of high-level staff 
positions at the Department of the Army, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 
Army Material Command, and the Defense Logistics Agency [DLA] America's 
combat support agency. For the past 2 years, Major General McCoy has 
served as DLA's Principal Deputy Director. His vision and leadership 
were vital to the agency's business-process reengineering, which 
incorporated the best public and private sector practices. These 
initiatives elevated material readiness and strengthened the management 
and oversight of Defense contracts--and at markedly reduced cost to the 
taxpayers and the warfighters. Blending combat experience with business 
acumen, Ray McCoy was instrumental in the agency's successful efforts 
to accelerate logistics response and improve weapons-systems readiness. 
With Major General McCoy having led the charge, DLA is now a front line 
partner with combat and contingency operations forces in Bosnia and 
around the world.
  Whether it was on the rough terrain of the combat theater or behind a 
desk, Ray McCoy served his country with valor, loyalty, and integrity. 
With the physical stature of a sturdy oak and the energy of a 
southwestern tornado, Ray McCoy demonstrates time and time again that 
he truly deserves to be called a soldier's soldier. On the occasion of 
his retirement from the U.S. Army, I offer my congratulations and 
thanks to this esteemed son of the Sooner State, and wish him well in 
his future pursuits.

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