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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 139 

Commending General Peter J. Schoomaker for his extraordinary dedication 

to duty and service to the United States. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 29, 2007 

Mr. INHOFE (for himself and Mr. AKAKA) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 

APRIL 18, 2007 

Committee discharged; considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Commending General Peter J. Schoomaker for his extraordinary dedication to duty and service to the United 

States. 

Whereas General Peter J. Schoomaker, the 35th Chief of 

Staff of the United States Army, will be released from 

active duty in April 2007, after over 35 distinguished 

years of active Federal service; 

Whereas General Schoomaker, a native of Wyoming, graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1969, served 

in a variety of command and staff assignments with both 

conventional and special operations forces, including participation in numerous combat operations, such as Desert 

One in Iran, Urgent Fury in Grenada, Just Cause in 


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Panama, Desert Shield/Desert Storm in Southwest Asia, 

and Uphold Democracy in Haiti, and supported various 

worldwide joint contingency operations, including those in 

the Balkans; 

Whereas General Schoomaker has been awarded the Defense 

Distinguished Service Medal, 2 Army Distinguished Service Medals, 4 Defense Superior Service Medals, 3 Legions 

of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals, 2 Defense Meritorious 

Service Medals, 3 Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint 

Service Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Master 

Parachutist Badge and HALO Wings, the Special Forces 

Tab, and the Ranger Tab; 

Whereas General Schoomaker was recalled from retirement, 

spent the last 4 years of his career in the highest position 

attainable in the Army, and has proven himself a tremendous wartime leader who has demonstrated unselfish devotion to the Nation and the soldiers he leads; 

Whereas General Schoomaker’s efforts to prepare the Army 

to fight a long war today while transforming it for an uncertain and complex future have been unprecedented; 

Whereas General Schoomaker has demonstrated strategic 

leadership and vision and has had a remarkably positive 

and lasting impact on the Army by leveraging the momentum of the Global War on Terror to accelerate the 

transformation of the Army; 

Whereas General Schoomaker, through modularization, rebalancing the total Army, development of a force generation 

model, restationing, and restructuring the Future Combat Systems, kept the Army focused on developing capabilities to meet traditional, irregular, catastrophic, and 


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disruptive challenges threatening the interests of the 

United States; 

Whereas General Schoomaker recognized that technological 

and organizational change requires intellectual and emotional transformation and tirelessly cultivated a learning 

and adaptive Army culture, while reaffirming the predominance of the human dimension of war; 

Whereas General Schoomaker reflected the spirit of the warrior ethos he sought to instill in the United States 

Army—always placing the mission first, never accepting 

defeat, never quitting, and never leaving a fallen comrade; 

Whereas General Schoomaker exemplifies the nonnegotiable 

characteristics exhibited by all great leaders—a strong 

sense of duty, honor, courage, and a love of country; 

Whereas General Schoomaker has been selfless in his service 

to the Nation through peace and war; 

Whereas one of General Schoomaker’s predecessors, George 

C. Marshall, once remarked that ‘‘it is not enough to 

fight, it is the spirit we bring to the fight that decides 

the issue’’; and 

Whereas when history looks back at the Army’s 35th Chief 

of Staff, it will be clear that he had the spirit at a critical 

time in the Nation’s history: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) commends General Peter J. Schoomaker for 

3 his extraordinary dedication to duty and service to 

4 the United States throughout his distinguished ca5 reer in the U.S. Army; and 


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1 (2) directs the Secretary of the Senate to trans2 mit an enrolled copy of this resolution to General 

3 Peter J. Schoomaker. 

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