From West Point and Armored Cavalry Officer to Harvard Law and The Judge Advocate General: The Life and Career of Wilton B. Persons (1923 - 2015)

摘要

While serving as an Armored Cavalry officer in Austria in the late 1940s, then Lieutenant Wilton B. Persons, Jr., "decided that there must be something more interesting than being in an orderly room of a cavalry troop." Since he "liked doing" the special courts-martial that were then the sole responsibility of line officers in the Army, and since the Army was advertising that it would send a small group of officers to law school-all expenses paid-Persons applied to Harvard, Yale, and the University of Virginia. He ended up going to Harvard's law school and, when he graduated in 1953, began what would be a remarkable and rewarding career as an Army lawyer. When Major General Persons retired as The Judge Advocate General in 1979, he had accomplished a great deal in the Corps, and left a lasting legacy for the Army lawyers who followed him.