William G. T. Tuttle Jr.
United States general
General William Gilbert Townsend Tuttle Jr. (26 November 1935 – 9 November 2020) was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commanding General, United States Army Materiel Command from 1989 to 1992.
Military career
Tuttle was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on 26 November 1935. Upon graduation with a baccalaureate in engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1958, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry; he later earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard. His military education includes the Basic Officer Course at the Infantry School, the Transportation Basic and Advanced Officer Courses, and attendance at the Armed Forces Staff College and United States Army War College.
Following graduate school, Tuttle commanded the 584th Transportation Detachment (Intelligence) and later served as the transportation plans officer at Headquarters, Eighth United States Army, South Korea. In 1965, he joined the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy teaching economics and government. He also served a summer period as a strategic mobility analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis) and returned to West Point as an assistant professor of social sciences, where he directed the Economics of National Security course. Upon completing his tour at West Point in June 1968, he was assigned respectively as executive officer of the 9th Supply and Transport Battalion and 9th Infantry Division transportation officer in South Vietnam.
In July 1969, Tuttle attended the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia, and in February 1970 was assigned to the Department of the Army, serving first as a military programs staff officer in the Directorate of Manpower and Forces of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Force Development, where he programmed the major portion of the army's post-Vietnam reduction as well as the withdrawal of the 7th Infantry Division from South Korea.
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