Charles B . Eichelberger Charles B . Eichelberger was an officer in the United States Army . From November 22 , 1989 to September 30 , 1991 , Eichelberger , then a Lieutenant General , served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence , Headquarters , Department of the Army . General Eichelberger is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame and a graduate of Georgia Military College . References . Eichelberger , Charles B . , Lt . Gen . [ Member of MI Hall of Fame . ] He entered the U . S . Army commissioned officer ranks from Infantry Officer Candidate School on January 18 , 1957 . He started his career in Military Intelligence as a platoon commander , and served at every level of command available to an MI officer . Additionally he served at the joint level several times , including duty as the J2 , CENTCOM . He served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence , United States Army Europe , and Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Headquarters , Department of the Army . He culminated his active duty career as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence , Headquarters , Department of the Army . During the period 1989 through October 1991 , he was faced with three monumental crises — Operation JUST CAUSE , the conflict in Panama ; operations DESERT SHIELD / DESERT STORM ; and the resulting build down of U . S . Forces . In preparing for operation JUST CAUSE , Lt . Gen . Eichelberger was faced with the challenge of establishing national intelligence coordination . As a result he was able to graphically portray a very intricate enemy situation from a small data base . As the Army s senior intelligence officer during operations DESERT SHIELD / DESERT STORM , Lt . Gen . Eichelberger exercised brilliant initiative by providing the best intelligence field commanders have ever experienced in support of ground operations . He helped introduce prototype intelligence systems into the Kuwaiti theater of operations ; coordinated the training of Kuwaiti students in the U . S . in order to employthem in direct support of Intelligence , Military Police and Psychological Operations units ; provided the best qualified personnel from around the globe to in - country intelligence staffs ; and kept the Army staff fully informed in near real time . In the process he established new standards by which all future operations will be judged . Lt . Gen . Eichelberger , as part of the Military Intelligence Board and National Foreign Intelligence Board , was instrumental in analyzing the collapse of Communism , its impact on world society and economics , and its effect on the reduction of US . Army military strengths . As a result of his actions , arguments and presentations , many of the proposals to reduce the size of Military Intelligence capabilities to below adequate operating levels , were reversed or revised . If the proposals had been allowed to go unchallenged , they would have decimated Army intelligence capabilities for the future . He was named the Army s deputy chief of staff for intelligence in November 1989 , after a year s service as the assistant deputy chief of staff in that office . From June 1986 to November 1988 , he was deputy chief of staff for intelligence for U . S . Army , Europe , and Seventh Army . Gen . Eichelberger has been an intelligence officer throughout his 34 - year career , which began with his commissioning through officer candidate school in 1957 . He graduated from the University of Nebraska , with a master s degree in education from Pepperdine University . He graduated from the Army War College . In the 1950s and 1960s , Gen . Eichelberger served in signal and communications intelligence units of the former Army Security Agency ( ASA ) in Hawaii , the continental United States , Europe , the Republic of Korea and Vietnam , where he commanded the Army Security Agency 3d Radio Research Unit in 1962 . He has been an instructor in cryptology at the Army Intelligence School , and commanded the 313th Army Security Agency Battalion at Fort Bragg , NC , during 1971 to 1973 . In the mid - 1970s , Gen . Eichelberger was assigned to a succession of intelligence posts in Hawaii , with U . S . Army , Pacific , and the U . S . Pacific Command . During 1978 to 1980 , he was commander of the Berlin Field Station of the Army Intelligence and Security Command , then served two years in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans , as chief of the Intelligence , Surveillance , Target Acquisition and Electronic Warfare Division . Gen . Eichelberger was deputy commandant of the Army Intelligence School from October 1982 to July 1984 , before a two - year tour as director for intelligence , Headquarters , U . S . Central Command .