[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 22, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E55]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            TRIBUTE TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES L. CAMPBELL

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                          HON. JOHN M. McHUGH

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 22, 2008

  Mr. McHUGH. Madam Speaker, I take this opportunity today to honor LTG 
James L. Campbell for his long and distinguished service in the United 
States Army. I have had the privilege to know General Campbell since 
1999 when he commanded the Army's famed 10th Mountain Division (Light 
Infantry) at Fort Drum in my 23d Congressional District.
  LTG James L. Campbell will officially retire from the United States 
Army on March 1, 2008, after more than 36 years of dedicated service to 
our Nation, culminating in his assignment as the 13th Director of the 
Army Staff. Throughout his career, General Campbell has personified the 
Army values of duty, integrity, and selfless service across the many 
missions the Army provides in defense of our Nation. Many of us on 
Capitol Hill have enjoyed the opportunity to work with General Campbell 
on a wide variety of Army issues and programs, and it is my privilege 
to recognize his many accomplishments.
  Upon graduating from the University of Missouri in 1971 and 
completing the Reserve Officer's Training Corps program, General 
Campbell was commissioned as a second lieutenant of infantry. Since 
that time, he received two advanced degrees and served in a variety of 
command and staff assignments, leading men and women in peace and war 
in places like Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. As the leader of 
a joint task force in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, General Campbell 
helped account for America's missing service personnel from the Vietnam 
war. For the past 3 years, General Campbell has served as Director of 
the Army Staff, responsible for synchronizing the day-to-day operations 
of America's 1.2 million-person Army. He has proven himself a 
tremendous wartime leader who has demonstrated unselfish devotion to 
our Nation and the soldiers he leads.
  General Campbell has led the Army Staff during one of the most 
challenging periods in the Army's history. He directed the Army's 
efforts to transform and modernize the force and implement the largest 
Base Realignment and Closure in history all during a time of war. His 
efforts were instrumental in leading the staff through monumental 
change in the way the Army sustains, transforms, grows, and modernizes. 
This complex effort established standard organizational designs more 
relevant to current operational requirements and significantly 
increased the Army's capability to support Combatant Commanders.
  Among his many awards and decorations are the Distinguished Service 
Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, Legion 
of Merit with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, and Meritorious Service 
Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters.
  Indeed, through these varying assignments, Lieutenant General 
Campbell has provided outstanding leadership, advice, and sound 
professional judgment on numerous critical issues of enduring 
importance to the Army and our Nation. His actions and counsel were 
invaluable to Army leaders as they considered the impact of critically 
important issues.
  Madam Speaker, it is with sincere admiration and appreciation that I 
pay tribute to General Campbell, his wife, Carol, and their two 
children, Scott and Casey, for the commitment, sacrifices, and 
contributions that they have made throughout his honorable military 
career. I thank General Campbell for his more than 36 years of 
dedicated and exceptional service and wish him many years of continued 
success and happiness.

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