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Command and Staff The commanding general of V Corps is Lieutenant General William S. Wallace, who took command in July 2001, replacing Lieutenant General James C. Riley[?].
The Chief of Staff is Brig. Gen. Daniel A. Hahn.
Strength V Corps has 41,000 personnel.
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 travel to U.S. Central Command[?] headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to discuss contingency plans for deployment to the Middle East.
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