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Command and Staff
The commanding general of V Corps is Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, who took command in June 2003, replacing Lieutenant General William S. Wallace.
The Chief of Staff is Brigadier General Daniel J. Keefe, who replaced Brigadier General Daniel A. Hahn in August 2003.
In September 2000, V Corps participated in Operation Victory Strike I, one of the first times American units had ever deployed in Poland. In September 2002, Victory Strike II repeated the exercise. 4000 U.S., Polish, and Italian soldiers took part. The exercise tested a modular plug-in command post system which is expected to be used by U.S. forces in the future.
In March 2002, General Wallace traveled to U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to discuss contingency plans for deployment to the Middle East.Strength
V Corps has 41,000 personnel.Subunits
Equipment
Unit History
V Corps took part in the Persian Gulf War of 1991, along with VII Corps.