H. R. 7903 
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two 
An Act 
To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic 
located in Canton, Michigan, as the ‘‘Major General Oliver W. Dillard VA Clinic’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Oliver W. Dillard was born on September 28, 1926, 
in Margaret, Alabama. 
(2) In 1945, following basic training he was drafted and 
was assigned to the 349th Field Artillery Group in Germany 
as part of the World War II army of occupation. He was selected 
to serve as company clerk and began to work his way through 
the ranks, attaining Technical Sergeant. 
(3) Dillard successfully completed the Officer Candidate 
School (OCS) selection process and was approved for attendance 
at the Infantry OCS at Fort Benning in January 1947. He 
received a commission as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry after 
graduating from Infantry OCS in July 1947 and was the honor 
graduate of his Infantry officers basic course. 
(4) He served in command and intelligence positions in 
Korea, Germany, and Vietnam. 
(5) During his service, Dillard graduated from the Army 
Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in 1958, where 
he was one of only three Black officers in his class. After 
CGSC, he completed his bachelor’s degree at the University 
of Omaha leveraging his earlier studies at Tuskegee Institute. 
(6) In 1965, Mr. Dillard graduated from the National War 
College, becoming the first Black officer to do so. He graduated 
at the top of his class. 
(7) MG Dillard’s military awards include the Distinguished 
Service Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Silver Star, 
the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Bronze 
Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster and ‘‘V’’ Device, the Purple 
Heart, the Air Medal, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge with 
Star (two awards), the Army Staff Identification Badge, and 
the Vietnam Distinguished Service Order (1st and 2d Class). 
Dillard also received two civilian awards from the Republic 
of Vietnam, the Vietnam Rural Revolutionary Development 
Medal and the Vietnam Ethnic Development Service Medal 
(1st Class).
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(8) Dillard was inducted into the United States Army’s 
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 2012, the Officer Can-
didate School Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Alabama Military 
Hall of Honor in 2013. 
(9) He died in Canton, Michigan, in 2015, and is buried 
in Arlington National Cemetery. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
COMMUNITY-BASED 
OUTPATIENT 
CLINIC 
LOCATED 
IN 
CANTON, MICHIGAN. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The Department of Veterans Affairs commu-
nity-based outpatient clinic located in Canton, Michigan, shall after 
the date of the enactment of this Act be known and designated 
as the ‘‘Major General Oliver W. Dillard VA Clinic’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.— Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference 
to the ‘‘Major General Oliver W. Dillard VA Clinic’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.