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"Four Star Leadership with General Tommy Franks is a partnership between the General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum and Oklahoma Christian University."
Wikipedia:
Tommy Ray Franks….last army post…Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States military operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East…..until…2003.
United States general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001..oversaw the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
born Tommy Ray Bentley…Oklahoma…adopted by Ray and Lorene "Pete" Parker Franks…graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texasone year ahead of First Lady Laura Bush.….dropped out of college after two years due to subpar grades and lack of motivation……joined the United States Army….University of Texas at Arlington….Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1971….Master of Science in Public Administration from the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania…..graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College and the Army War College.
enlisted in….1965……Advanced Individual Trainingas a cryptologic analyst…..outstanding marksmanship…..Artillery and Missile Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma……9th Infantry Division, Republic of Vietnam…..forward observer, aerial observer, and Assistant S-3 with 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery
2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in West Germany in 1973……commanded the 84th Armored Engineer Company
posted to The Pentagon in 1976……Army Inspector General in theInvestigations Division.In 1977…..Office of the Chief of Staff, Army…..on theCongressional Activities Team
1981…..West Germany…1984….Fort Hood, Texas…until 1987
Assistant Division Commander…Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm…1992…Fort Monroe, Virginia…Office of Chief of Staff of the Army…until 1994….South Korea as the CJG3 of Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea.
1995–1997…commanded the 2nd Infantry Division, Korea…..command of Third United States Army/Army Forces Central Command in Atlanta, Georgia in May 1997…until June 2000….Commander in Chief, United States Central Command…leading the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban…led the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Critics……failure to deploy 800 United States Army Rangers to the Battle of Tora Bora as a key factor in allowing Osama bin Laden to escape into Pakistan.Peter Bergen, a prominent journalist and expert on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, described Franks' decision as"one of the greatest military blunders in recent US history," which allowed al-Qaeda to recover and begin to mount an insurgency.….critics, including the Delta Force commander at Tora Bora, Dalton Fury, claimed…evidence that bin-Laden was present at the battle….
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Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reportedly offered him the position of Chief of Staff of the United States Army, but he declined. On July 7, 2003 Franks' retirement
Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Since 2003…..Franks & Associates LLC, a private consulting firm…..in the disaster recovery industry. In June 2006….partnership with Innovative Decon Solutions.
…..at the Republican Convention….August 31, 2004….endorsed President George W. Bush for re-election…..Bush awarded Franks….highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom on December 14, 2004….same month…..became a spokesman for Teen Arrive Alive…….uses GPS in cellular phones to tell parents how fast their teenage children are driving.
2005….appointed to theBank of America board of directors,until resigning on June 11, 2009 for unspecified reasons but as part of an "exodus" of ten directors from April to August, 2009. The bank had received $45 billion of U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funding and sustained dramatic losses starting in 2008.
on OSI Restaurant Partners's board of directors….2008…elected to theboard of directors of Chuck E. Cheese's.
2008….involvement with the charitable Coalition to Salute America's Heroes…..charged $100,000 to use his name…for wounded soldiers. ..Congressional investigators and watchdog groups' criticism….only 25% of the money….to wounded veterans, compared to….standard of 85%…ended his support…in late 2005. Roger Chapin, president of the charity, and his wife…living a lavish lifestyle on the charity's money.