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.