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Kennedy C. Uzomba From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Kennedy Uzomba Born	 November 30, 1961 (age 57) Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria

Allegiance	United States Service/branch	United States Army

Years of service	1980–1990 Rank	First Lieutenant Commands held	197th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) (Separate) 3/7th Infantry Battalion (Mechanized) Company C, 3/7th Infantry Battalion 3rd Platoon, Company C, 3/7th Infantry Battalion 174th Infantry Regiment,42nd Rainbow Division

Battles/wars United States Invasion of Grenada Operation Just Cause Operation Desert Storm Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Iraqi Freedom Iraq War War in Afghanistan

Awards Croix de Guerre with three palms (3) Army Service Medal Presidential Unit Citation (4) Valorous Unit Award

Kennedy Uzomba, a First Lieutenant from the United States Army was awarded the Croix de Guerre [1] with three bronze palms for developing the (TOE) Theatre of Operations Plans [2][3] for Coalition Forces during The Persian Gulf War of 1991,Operation: Enduring Freedom of 2001,and Operation: Iraqi Freedom of 2003. Contents •	1Early life and education •	2Military career [3] o	2.1Packard Commission [3][4] / Goldman-Nichols Act [3][5] o	2.2Armed forces restructuring and weapons system innovations [3][6] o	2.3Operational war planning [3][7] 	United States Invasion of Grenada [3][8] 	Operation Just Cause [3][9] 	Operation Desert Storm [3][10] 	Operation Enduring Freedom [3][11] 	Operation Iraqi Freedom [3][12] 	Iraq War [3][13][20] 	War in Afghanistan [3][14] •	3Uzomba v. United States of America et al [3][15]

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Early life and education[edit source] Born in Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria, Uzomba attended the Bennett High School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from State University of New York at Buffalo, a Master of Arts degree in Business Administration from Northcentral University, and another Master of Arts degree in national security and strategic studies by correspondence from the United States Army War College. [3] Military career[edit source]

Uzomba earned his commission as an Infantry officer through the Canisius College Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in 1982 and has spent most of his career in Infantry assignments, in preparation, planning, mobilization, deploying units toward mission accomplishment in both strategic / military operational and civilian advisory capacities. During the early 1980s Uzomba contributed to the Packard Commission Report [3][4] (1986). Uzomba also contributed to the GOLDWATER-NICHOLS ACT [3][5] (1986) Public Law 99-433 during the 1980s and 1990s, by provide military expertise during the initial concepts used in the Goldwater Nichols Act to restructure the armed forces command and control network whereby the National Military Command Center (NMCC) would transfer responsibility of reserve component units to army field commanders, thereby providing the foundation for an integrated force concept Uzomba coined “AN ARMY OF ONE” [3][17]; which required all active and reserve component units to plan, train, mobilize, deploy and fight as one unit. The GOLDWATER-NICHOLS Act increased the powers of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and implemented some of the suggestions formulated by Uzomba from the Packard Commission. Among other changes, GOLDWATER-NICHOLS streamlined the military chain of command, which now runs from the President through the Secretary of Defense directly to combatant commands, bypassing the Service Chiefs.

During the late 1980s Uzomba developed and field-tested unique fire and maneuver concepts and, restructured the US ARMYs Table of Organization & Equipment [3][18] of how combat Infantry and combat support divisions would fight & win in the upcoming GWOT. One of these techniques, he famously coined ‘The Running Gun Battle.’ [3][19] In 1985, Lieutenant Colonel Patrick A. Toffler (1968 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point) [22] wrote an Officer Efficiency Report that rated Uzomba well above his peers, and praised Uzomba with such words as "Very strong sense of commitment to mission, men and superiors; extremely bright with aggressive appetite for acquiring knowledge; he will be a real contributor throughout his career; he has the potential to go to very high levels of responsibility in command and staff; He learns quickly, responds well to guidance, and is not satisfied with anything less than a superior performance; I have no doubt that he will become a strong, successful leader and a real asset to the Officer Corps"[3][23].

During the early, and the late 1980s through 1990s Uzomba made contributions towards the development, training, mobilization and deployment in forward movement to contact military formations of major Army Service Component Commands[3][19] and US Armed Forces Commands[3][19] that included: XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS[3][19], FORSCOM[3][19] / THIRD ARMY[3][19] and U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND[3][19]. Uzomba also performed work as the FORSCOM COMMANDER; U.S. CENTRAL COMMANDER. During that period, Uzomba also managed to help broker the “Fall of the Berlin Wall” [3][24] in negotiations with Soviet and Eastern Bloc Counterparts. And since Uzomba was the acting 7th Infantry Regimental Commander in 1987, he was able to meet one of the conditions required to bring down the Berlin Wall, which was to move parts of his European 7th Infantry Regimental units further South away from targeting East Berlin, subsequentially ending the COLD WAR[3][25].

Uzomba made major contributions to the effectiveness and success of United States armed forces command, control, communications, fire and maneuver warfighting capabilities during the COLD WAR and the Global War On Terror by developing and participating in the original strategic, operational, and tactical concepts and war plans against enemies of the United States. His plans were used to respond to and combat global terrorism against enemies of the United States and that of its allies, in places such as Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Syria etc. during Operation: Urgent Fury; Operation Just Cause; [[Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Operation Desert Strike; Operation Desert Thunder; Operation Desert Thunder II; Operation Vigilant Warrior; Operation Vigilant Sentinel; Operation Desert Fox; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Enduring Freedom; and Operation Inherent Resolve. Uzomba also developed the initial building blueprint design concept for Fort McPherson [3][21]; Uzomba also developed the initial concepts for US Africa Command[3][19]; Uzomba also developed the initial concepts for Army NORTH (Nortcom) [3][19] / The Department of Homeland Security [3][19]. Uzomba commanded the 197th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized)(Separate) from September 1986 to July 1987 at Fort Benning, Georgia. Uzomba commanded the 7th Infantry Regiment (Mechanized)(Separate) from September 1986 to July 1987 at Fort Benning, Georgia. Uzomba commanded the 3/7th Infantry Battalion (Mechanized) from September 1986 to September 1986 at Fort Benning, Georgia. Uzomba commanded the 174th Infantry Regiment from September 1982 to June 1984 at Buffalo, New York.

Uzomba v. the United States of America et al (2019) [3][15] [edit source] Uzomba brought this action primarily pursuant to the Federal Torts Claims Act, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S. Code § 706 (Wilhelmus v. Geren) (See also Becker v. Esper, 2018). The action concerns Plaintiffs request for the correction of his military service records and a more accurate recitation of his accomplishments. Plaintiff contends that United States Defendants refuse to release and correct said records which currently prevent him from obtaining military and veteran benefits. Awards and decorations [3][edit source]

Parachutist Badge

197th Infantry Brigade Distinctive Unit Insignia

Croix de Guerre Medal

Presidential Unit Citation with four oak leaf clusters

Valorous Unit Award

Army Service Ribbon

Fourragère aux couleurs de la Croix de Guerre[1]

References[edit source] 1.	^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix_de_Guerre. 2.	^ Crisostomo, George (September 20, 2010). Eyewitness Affidavit of Uzomba’s Active Duty Service Performance. https://www.slideshare.net/KennedyUzomba/affidavit-command-sergeant-major-george-crisostomo-us-regular-army-retired-58640096 3.	^ United States Northern District Court of Georgia, 11th Circuit (July 09, 2019). "Statement of undisputed facts" – [Docket File No. 36] 2018-11-11, via https://ecf.gand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?646842124051986-L_1_0-1. 4.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Commission 5.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater–Nichols_Act 6.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces 7.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_operation_plan 8.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada 9.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama 10.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War 11.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present) 12.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War 13.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War 14.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present) 15.	^https://dockets.justia.com/docket/georgia/gandce/1:2019cv00302/259712 16.	^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of_the_United_States_Armed_Forces 17.	^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogans_of_the_United_States_Army 18.	^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_organization_and_equipment 19.	^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army 20.	^ "The U.S. Army in the Iraq War". January 17, 2019 21.	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McPherson 22.	^Colonel Patrick A. Toffler, Hall of Valor, https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/143506 23.	^Toffler Patrick A. (1985) Uzomba’s Officer Efficiency Report as Company Executive Officer, Company B, 2nd Infantry Training Brigade, Fort Benning, Georgia 24.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall#Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall 25.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_(1985–1991)

External links[edit source] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kennedy C. Uzomba. •	 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Army document "Lieutenant Kennedy C. Uzomba". •	Uzomba v. the United States of America et al, Case No. 1:19-cv-00302-ELR [3] Military offices [3]

Preceded by Colonel William W. Hartzog 	Commanding Officer of the 197th Infantry Brigade 1986–1987	Succeeded by

Preceded by Colonel Richard T. Rhoades	Commanding Officer of the 3/7th Infantry Battalion 1985–1986 	Succeeded by

Preceded by Major Patrick N. Nappi Commanding Officer of 174th Infantry Regiment 1982 -1984 	Succeeded by Colonel John J. Pershing III

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