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Major General
Walter Huffman TJAG
by Jane Bromley
Law School. But his education school courtesy of the U.S. Army.
was interrupted when he
volunteered for active duty His 33-year army career took him
in the U.S. Army. It was 1968, from Texas Tech Law School to
and the Tet Offensive had just Fort Ord, California; from Army
taken place in Vietnam. JAG school to Germany; from the
Pentagon back to Germany. He
After training, he was sent to was deployed in 1991 to Desert
Vietnam to command a Field Storm where he was Gen. Fred
Artillery Battery. For a year Franks’ legal counsel. Following
his unit engaged in intense that war, he became Gen.
combat and Schwartzkopf’s
countless rocket legal counsel
attacks. Part of “ at Central
The proudest
their mission Command,
was to assist achievement of my where he later
e have heroes and the Vietnamese career...is that every oversaw the
statesmen living army in defeating man for whom I was humanitarian
Wamong us, and it may the enemy in Laos. responsible came intervention in
not be obvious because many of It was extremely back alive. Somalia. In 1997
them are also humble. You have challenging because “ Major General
to go somewhere like Wikipedia of the uncertain Huffman was
to get the list of awards and political climate in Washington. promoted to The JAG (TJAG)
accomplishments of Walter Burl But the young officer said of the senior attorney of the United
Huffman. He doesn’t offer them. that experience: “The proudest States Army.
In fact, he is quick to give credit achievement of my career...is
to others regarding his long list that every man for whom I was
of honors and achievements. He was 35th to hold the office
responsible came back alive.” since 1775, when the position
was created by General George
Walter, the son of Berl and Zella In 1971 Huffman was
Huffman, was born in Biloxi, reassigned to Fort Hood.
Mississippi, where his dad was He was disappointed in the
stationed during WWII. Burl policies that surrounded
went on to become a popular the Vietnam Conflict, and
coach at Texas Tech, so Walter felt that lawyers were in
graduated from Lubbock High the best position to make
School and eventually earned his changes. That year, Capt.
Bachelors and Masters degrees Huffman was one of 15
at Texas Tech and his Doctor of selected to attend law
Jurisprudence from the Texas
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