Col. Greg Stone was
born in Seattle, Wash., in July 1954 and attended the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point, graduating in the Class of 1976. He was commissioned in
Armor Branch and has served throughout his career in Armor – Cavalry
assignments. He graduated from the Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Courses,
the Army’s Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan., and the Army War College in Carlisle, Penn. He also graduated from
Villanova University in 1985 with a masters of science in Human Organization
Science.
Stone has commanded
armor – cavalry units at every level from Platoon to Brigade. He
served in the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis as a Tank and Scout
Platoon Leader and Company Commander. He was then assigned to Berlin,
Germany, where he commanded our Army’s only separate tank company,
Company F “Patton” 40th Armor. Stone was the S3 (Operations
Officer) for 2d Squadron, 4th United States Cavalry, 24th Infantry Division
at Fort Stewart, through Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He
returned from the desert as G3, Chief of Operations and later served as
Deputy G3 of the Division. Following Fort Stewart, Stone was assigned
to the Pentagon, where he served in the Management Directorate of the
Office of the Chief of Staff.
On leaving the Pentagon,
Stone commanded 1st Squadron, “Black Hawk”, 1st United States
Cavalry, 1st Armor Division in Budingen, Germany. While there, in 1995-1996,
Stone deployed the Squadron to Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Endeavor
as a member of NATO’s Implementation Force (IFOR). This included
being our Army’s first unit to cross the Sava River into Bosnia.
After leaving command and attending the Army War College, Stone served
as the G3, 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. From there, he was
assigned to the 2d Infantry Division in Korea where he commanded the 1st
Brigade “Iron Team” of the Division. Following Brigade Command,
Stone returned to Germany where he served as Commander Operations Group
(COG) at our Army’s Combat Maneuver Training Center (CMTC) in Hohenfels.
From there, he was assigned to the U.S. Military Academy where he assumed
duties as Brigade Tactical Officer (BTO) in August 2002. He assumed duties
as the Chief of Staff/Deputy Commandant, United States Corps of Cadets
(USCC) in February 2004.
Stone has been awarded
the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation
Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Occupation Medal, National Defense
Service Medal, Southwest Asia Medal, Saudi Arabia-Kuwait Liberation Medal
and the NATO Medal. He also holds the Parachutist Badge and the Army Staff
Badge.
Stone is married
to the former Mary Pat Leimbach of Glenside, Penn. They have four children:
Patrick, an Infantry captain assigned to the 101st Airborne (Air Assault)
Division; Christian, an Infantry first lieutenant assigned to the 173rd
Airborne Brigade and currently deployed to Afghanistan; Keegan, an Adjutant
General Corps second lieutenant assigned to Fort Benning, Ga., whose husband,
Tony, (Citadel Class of '02) is an Infantry first lieutenant in 3d Battalion,
75th Ranger Regiment; and Theresa, a freshman (Plebe) member of the class
of 2008 at the U.S. Military Academy.
