[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 87 (Tuesday, June 18, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E903]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




PAYING TRIBUTE TO MAJOR GENERAL KARL R. HORST AND 40 YEARS OF DEDICATED 
                         SERVICE TO OUR NATION

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                          HON. C.W. BILL YOUNG

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 18, 2013

  Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Major 
General Karl R. Horst, United States Army for his extraordinary 
dedication to duty and selfless service to the United States of 
America. Major General Horst will be retiring from his present 
assignment as the Chief of Staff, United States Central Command, 
MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa Florida.
   Major General Karl R. Horst entered the United States Army in June 
1973. He attended the United States Military Academy Preparatory School 
and went on to graduate from the United States Military Academy in 1978 
and was commissioned as an Infantry Officer. After his first assignment 
as an Infantry Lieutenant in Germany, with the 3rd Infantry Division he 
commanded Infantry units at the Company, Battalion and Brigade levels 
with the 9th Infantry Division and the famed 82nd Airborne Division. He 
returned to the 3d Infantry Division in July 2004 as an Assistant 
Division Commander, serving at Fort Stewart, Georgia and in Baghdad, 
Iraq. Returning to Fort Bragg in September 2006, he assumed the duties 
as the Deputy Commanding General, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg.
   Major General Horst has served in a variety of Joint and Army Staff 
positions to include his most memorable assignments as an aide-de-camp 
to the Army Chief of Staff, and a Joint and North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization (NATO) assignment as the special assistant to the Supreme 
Allied Commander, Europe. Major General Horst served as the Chief of 
Staff, 82d Airborne Division; then as the Chief of Staff, XVIII 
Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg. Karl also commanded the United States 
Army Military District of Washington and Joint Force Headquarters 
National Capitol Region. At the Combatant Command level, he served as 
the Director for Operations, Plans, Logistics and Engineering (J3/J4), 
United States Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, Virginia and his final 
assignment was as the Chief of Staff, United States Central Command, 
MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa Florida.
   Mr. Speaker, it has been a pleasure to recognize Major General 
Horst's long and decorated career today and also the great benefit to 
the Nation he has provided as a General Officer for the United States 
Army. We have work closely with Major General Horst to accomplish the 
toughest tasks for our Service Men and Women and Karl has always 
achieved excellence daily during his tenure. On behalf of a grateful 
Nation, I join my colleagues today in recognizing and commending Major 
General Horst for a lifetime of service to his country. For all he and 
his family have given and continue to give to our country; we are in 
their debt. We wish him, his wife, Nancy and their three children: 
Kaitlin, 26, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and also a 
Army wife and a graduate student at Gonzaga University; she lives in 
Vicenza Italy with her husband, Mason; son Paul, 23, graduated from 
North Carolina State University and is a graduate student at Embry-
Riddle University; and daughter Megan, 21, is a senior at North 
Carolina State University, studying elementary education; she will 
spend this summer with the Teach for America program all the best 
wishes as he moves into retirement.

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