George w casey jr biography
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Title: General George Casey, Jr. (SFS’70)
1968-1972: “A Time of Turmoil” at Georgetown and in D.C.
1968-1972 was “a calamitous period in American history, in higher education history, in Washington, DC and on the Georgetown University campus,” says Frank Murray (SFS’72). He, along with General George W. Casey, Jr. (SFS’70) and Roger Cochetti (SFS’72), recall what it was like to be students at Georgetown in the midst of this unrest.
Casey remembers “standing on the roof of Loyola ingång in 1968 and watching the smoke billow from downtown Washington.” The smoke was from riots that broke out across the country following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968. In Washington, D.C., businesses and homes were destroyed, 13 people were killed by fires, police officers, or rioters, more than 1,000 people were injured and over 7,600 people were arrested.
Murray and Cochetti recall anti-Vietnam War protests on Georgetown’s campus, leading to a face off between civil distu
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George William Casey, Jr.
General, U.S. Army
George William Casey, Jr. was born on 22 July 1948 in Sendai the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, during the Allied occupation of Japan. His father, George William Casey, Sr., was a West Point graduate who rose to the rank of Major General and served in two wars (Korea and Vietnam). [Honoree Record ID 2319] His father commanded the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam and was killed on 7 July 1970 when his command helicopter crashed in South Vietnam enroute to a hospital to visit wounded U.S. soldiers.
A military brat, Casey grew up on Army posts in the U.S. and Germany and graduated from Boston College High School in Dorchester, MA. After high school, he earned his Bachelor of Science in International Relations from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1970 and received his mästare of Arts in International Relations from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver i
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Throughout four decades in uniform, four-star General George W. Casey Jr. (Ret.) led troops in Bosnia during Operation Joint Endeavor, commanded a thirty-nation coalition during the most difficult years of the Iraq War, and oversaw more than 1 million soldiers as chief of staff of the US Army. The experience left him uniquely qualified to give his lecture, “Civil-Military Relations: From the Constitution to the War on Terror” at BC Law last April.
“The relationship between a democratic society and its military is extremely important for the long-term health of the state but it needs to be cultivated,” he said. “It’s not something we can take for granted.”
Blending constitutional law, military history, experiences with senior administration and military officials, and self-effacing humor, Casey provided a dissertation that included two case studies illustrating the competing dynamics that regularly play out between civilian officials and military leaders: World War II and the first