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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 Artil-
lery 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 com-
mission 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 po-
sitions 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 com-
pleted his bachelor’s degree at the University of 
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Omaha leveraging his earlier studies at Tuskegee In-
stitute. 
(6) In 1965, Mr. Dillard graduated from the 
National War College, becoming the first Black offi-
cer 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 Iden-
tification Badge, and the Vietnam Distinguished 
Service Order (1st and 2d Class). Dillard also re-
ceived two civilian awards from the Republic of Viet-
nam, the Vietnam Rural Revolutionary Development 
Medal and the Vietnam Ethnic Development Service 
Medal (1st Class). 
(8) Dillard was inducted into the United States 
Army’s Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 2012, 
the Officer Candidate 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. 
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SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS 
COMMUNITY-BASED 
OUTPATIENT 
CLINIC LOCATED IN CANTON, MICHIGAN. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The Department of Veterans Af-
fairs community-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’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives November 14, 
2022. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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