Michael Spigelmire
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Michael Spigelmire (born November 12, 1938) is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Army.
Early life and education
The youngest child of Charles Edgar Spigelmire and Josephine Spigelmire (née Kaminski), Michael Spigelmire was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at Loyola High School and Loyola College in Maryland, both Jesuit institutions. He was in Reserve Officers' Training Corps during college, and upon graduation from Loyola College with a bachelor's degree in political science, received a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. His military education includes completion of the Infantry School, United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College. He earned a master's degree in international relations from Georgetown University.
Military career
Spigelmire's military career includes an initial tour of duty in Germany, where he served in company and division level positions with the 24th Infantry Division and as an A-Team detachment executive officer and commander with the 10th Special Forces Group. He was then assigned to Vietnam, where he commanded a company and later served as a battalion adjutant with the 1st Cavalry Division. A stateside tour as an instructor with the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia ensued, followed by another combat tour as a district senior advisor in Vietnam.
In 1972, Spigelmire was assigned to the Pentagon, where he served as an Operation Staff Officer in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations. Thereafter, he served as an Assistant Secretary to the General Staff, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army.
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