William S. Wallace
William Wallace is the
Lieutenant General, of the
US Army, who commands
V Corps, located at
Heidelberg,
Germany. He was commissioned in
1969 after graduating from the
U.S. Military Academy at
West Point, then qualified as an
armor officer before serving in the
Vietnam War. After serving in Vietnam, Wallace became a company commander, battalion S-1 (adujant), and battalion S-3 operations officer with the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1977, he attended the Armor Officer Advanced Course at
Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey, California. In 1983, he joined the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Germany.
As a general officer, he commanded the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and then of the Joint Warfighting Center and Director of Joint Training at the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Suffolk, Va.
General Wallace assumed command of V Corps on July 18, 2002. He commanded U.S. ground forces during the U.S. invasion of Iraq.