Bob Scales
| Robert H. "Bob" Scales Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | "Bob" |
| Born |
August 6, 1944 Gainesville, Florida, U.S. |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
|
| Service/branch |
 United States Army
|
| Years of service | 1966-2000 |
| Rank |
 Major General
|
| Commands held | U.S. Army War College |
| Battles/wars | Vietnam War |
| Awards |
 Distinguished Service Medal Silver Star Legion of Merit Bronze Star Medal Meritorious Service Medal Air Medal
|
| Relations | Robert Scales, Sr. (father), 2 daughters |
| Other work | Certain Victory (1994) |
Robert H. "Bob" Scales Jr. (born August 6, 1944) is a retired United States Army major general and former commandant of the U.S. Army War College. He now works as a military analyst, news commentator, and author.
Scales was born in Gainesville, Florida, in 1944, but then "scurried all over the world".
His father, Robert Scales, Sr., was a career U.S. Army officer who graduated Officer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, completed the Engineer Officer Basic Course and worked with amphibious vehicles in Florida, where his parents met, before piloting amphibious landing craft in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
After graduating from West Point in 1966, he was commissioned as a field artillery officer and sent to West Germany, instead of South Vietnam. After two years in Europe, he was posted to Vietnam, but it was another year before he saw real action. After an artillery commander was killed, Scales was his replacement prior to the Battle of Hamburger Hill. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions on June 14, 1969, when nearly a hundred North Vietnamese soldiers overran his base in a predawn assault. Despite explosions all around him, he rotated among his gun crews, firing at the enemy, helping his men, and radioing instructions to helicopter gunships.
In the early 1970s, Scales earned a master's and Ph.D. in history from Duke University.
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