Mabry, Major General George L., Jr.
(Army-retired-deceased) (MOH
- WWII 1944) Director of U.S. Southern Commands J3/Operations
Directorate (during the riots of 1964) later Commanding General, U.S. Army
Forces Southern Command (USARSO), Fort Amador (Dec 1970 - Oct 1974) and
Commanding General, 193d Infantry Brigade (Canal Zone) (Nov Dec 1974
following the reorganization of USARSO) [For
details on his MOH GO
TO]
Magruder, Major General Lawson W. III
(Army-retired) -- Commanding General,
U.S. Army South (USARSO), Fort Clayton (March 1995
June 1997) [For later
assignments GO TO]
Martin, Major General Charles H. (Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander, Panama Canal
Department (Jan 1925 - Oct 1927)
Mather, General George R.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Southern Command (Feb 1969 - Sept 1971)
McAuliffe, Lieutenant General Dennis P.
(Army-retired) --
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command (Aug 1975 - Sept 1979)
[For
later assignments GO TO]
McBride, Lieutenant General Horace L. (Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander-in-Chief,
U.S. Caribbean Command (April 1952 - June 1954)
McCaffrey, General Barry R. (Army-retired) -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Southern Command (Feb 1994 - Feb 1996). His first assignment in
Panama was aide-de-camp to Major
General C.L. Johnson, commanding general of U.S. Army Forces Southern
Command at Fort Amador in
1968) [For
later assignments GO TO]
McGarr, Major General L. C.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commanding General,
U.S. Army Caribbean Command (USACARIB), Fort Amador (July 1954 - June
1956)
Montague, Lieutenant General Robert M.
(Army-deceased) --
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Caribbean Command (Jan 1957 - Feb 1958)
Morris, Lieutenant General William H.H. (Army-retired-deceased) --
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Caribbean Command (Oct 1949 - April 1952)
Nebbia,
Staff Sergeant Pete D. (Army-deceased 1990) Was assigned
to Company C of the 150th
Infantry (part of the Panama Mobile Forces) at Fort Clayton
during his service in the Army during World War II.
Nutting, Lieutenant General Wallace H.
(Army-retired) --
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command (Oct 1979 - May 1983)
Ogilvie, Colonel Vincent
(Army-retired) -- Director, Southern Command
Public Affairs Directorate, Quarry Heights and Miami (Aug 1997-1999)
O'Meara, Lieutenant General / General Andrew P.
(Army-retired-deceased) --
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Caribbean Command (Jan 1961 - June 1963);
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command (June 1963 - Feb 1965)
Pagonis, Colonel William "Gus"
( Army-retired) -- Director of Logistics, 193d Infantry Brigade (Panama),
Corozal,
Panama, early 1980s, including serving as acting chief of staff, 193d
Infantry Brigade (Panama) briefly in 1981)
[For later assignments GO
TO]
Peabody, Lieutenant Colonel John W.
(Army)
-- Political-Military Division Chief of the J-5Directorate, U.S. Southern
Command in Panama in the 1990s. His first assignment in Panama was with the
193rd Infantry Brigade in Panama in the early 1980s where he served as a
Sapper Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, and later Aide-de-Camp
to then Brigadier General Frederick Woerner, commanding general of the
193rd Infantry Brigade (Panama); later he was an Instructor at the U.S.
Army School of the Americas at Fort Gulick, Panama
[For later assignments GO
TO]
Panvini, Colonel Joseph
(Air
Force-retired)
-- Director, Southern Command Public Affairs Directorate, Quarry Heights
(Jan 1990-1993)
Plummer, Brigadier General E.H.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander, Headquarters,
U.S. Troops, Panama Canal Zone (April 1917 - Aug 1917) and Commander,
Panama Canal Department (April 1917 - Aug 1917)
Porter, Major General R. E.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commanding
General, U.S. Army Caribbean Command, Fort Amador (USACARIB) (Nov
1948 - Nov 1951)
Porter, General Robert W.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Southern Command (Feb 1965 - Feb 1969)
Rhea, Mack R.
(Army-retired) -- U.S. Army Communications Center Duty
Officer, USASTRATCOM Detachment,
Quarry Heights (in
the
Tunnel) (1965-1967).
Richards, Colonel Mark
(Air Force-retired) -- Director, Southern Command
Public Affairs Directorate, Quarry Heights (1976-1979)
Richardson,
Brigadier General / Major General William R.
(Army-retired) -- Commanding General, 193d Infantry Brigade (Canal Zone) (Dec 1974
- June 1977) [For later assignments
GO
TO]
Ridgway, Lieutenant General Matthew B. (Army-retired-deceased) Served with the
33rd Infantry Regiment, Fort Clayton (1931 1932 as a major);
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Caribbean Command (June 1948 - Oct 1949)
[For
later assignments GO TO]
Rosson, General William B. (Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Southern Command (Jan 1973 - July 1975)
Rowell, Brigadier General F.W. (Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander, Panama Canal
Department (Feb 1937 - April 1937)
Sanchez, Brigadier General Ricardo S. (Army-retired)-- Deputy Chief of Staff
at U.S. Southern Command in Panama as colonel 1994-1996 and Director of
SouthCom's J3/Operations Directorate in Panama and Miami 1996-1998. [For later assignments
GO
TO]
Sconyers, Ronald (Air Force-retired) -- Director, Southern Command Public Affairs Directorate, Quarry
Heights (1987-Jan 1990)
Sink, Lieutenant General Robert F. (Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander-in-Chief,
U.S. Caribbean Command (July 1960 - Jan 1961)
Smullen, Lieutenant Colonel F. William "Bill" III
(Army-retired) --
Community relations officer with the Southern Command Directorate of
Public Affairs at Quarry Heights (early-mid 1980s) [For
later assignments GO TO]
Speer, Colonel Gary D.
(Army-retired) -- Deputy Commander, U.S. Army
South, Fort Clayton (1997-1999 period) [For
later assignments GO TO]
Stone, Major General David L.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander, Panama Canal Department (April 1937 - Jan 1940)
Sturgis, Major General S.D. (Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander, Panama Canal
Department (Oct 1921 - Sept 1924)
Taylor, Brigadier General / Major General James R. (Army-retired) --
Commanding General, 193d Infantry Brigade (Panama), Fort Clayton
(March 1986 - Dec 1986) and Commanding General, U.S. Army South (USARSO),
Fort Clayton (Dec 1986 - April 1987 with the reorganization of the 193d
Infantry Brigade (Panama))
Thurman, General Maxwell R.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Southern Command (Sept 1989 - Nov 1990). After serving as commanding
general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and planning to retire,
Thurman delayed his retirement at the request by President George H.W.
Bush administration to spearhead Operation Just Cause, the invasion of
Panama. After having been diagnosed with leukemia in 1990, he
retired from active duty in February 1991. He died November 30, 1995.
Timmons, Major General Richard F.
(Army-retired) -- Commanding General, U.S. Army
South (USARSO), Fort Clayton (July 1991 - May 1993) [For
later general officer assignments GO
TO]
Underwood, General George V.
(Army-retired-deceased) -- Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Southern Command (Sept 1971 - Jan 1973)
Van Voorhis, Lieutenant General Daniel
(Army-retired-deceased) Commanding
General, Panama Canal Department
(Jan 1940 - Feb 1941) as major general and Commanding General, Caribbean Defense Command (Feb 1941 - Sept 1941)
as lieutenant general
Veneri, Marion served in
Panama during World War II as an enlisted soldier in
communications with D Battery, an anti-aircraft gun battery on the
Pacific side from Fort Amador at the same time his cousin Staff
Sergeant Pete D. Nebbia [see his entry above on this page] was also serving
in the Army at Fort Clayton, Panama Canal Zone. Veneri spent
most of his assignment in the jungle.
Wilhelm, General Charles E.
(Marine Corps-retired) Commander,
U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South (dual-hatted
as Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Atlantic/Commanding General, Fleet
Marine Force, Atlantic/ Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Commanding
General, II Marine Expeditionary Force/Commanding General, Marine Striking
Force Atlantic, Camp Lejeune, N.C.) (Aug
1995 Sep 1997) and Commander-in-Chief,
U.S. Southern Command (Sep 26, 1997 Sep 2000) [For
later assignments GO TO]
Whitlock, Major General L. J. (Army-retired-deceased) -- Commanding General,
U.S. Army Caribbean Command (USACARIB), Fort Amador (Nov 1951 - July 1954)
Wilson, Brigadier General J. L.
(Army-retired) -- Acting Commanding
General, U.S. Army South (USARSO), Fort Clayton (May 1993 - June 1993);
previously Deputy Commander, U.S. Army South
Woerner, General Frederick F.
(Army-retired) Commanding General, 193d
Infantry Brigade (Panama), Fort Clayton (April 1982 - March 1986 as
brigadier general then major general) and
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command (June 1987 - Sept 1989)
[For
later assignments GO TO]
Worthington
, Colonel Wayne (Army-retired)
-- In Southern Command
J-2 Directorate as a major (1969-1972), first on the
Commander in Chief briefing team in the tunnel and then on the
Intelligence team that
produced the Country Intelligence Studies CIS.
[For later assignments GO
TO]
Ybanez, 1st Sgt Fred (Army-Retired)
-- Staff Sergeant and Platoon Sergeant of 3rd Platoon of Company
C, 4th Battalion, 10th Infantry of the 193rd Infantry Brigade at
Fort Davis (1977 - 1981)