Paul Logasa Bogen Paul Logasa Bogen ( March 15 , 1918 – June 4 , 1972 ) was a United States Army soldier . Early life . Paul Logasa Bogen was born on March 15 , 1915 to Dr . Louis Isaac or could be [ Isaac Louis Bogen ] and Jeanie Deanna [ Logasa ] Bogen in Lincoln , Nebraska . He was originally expected to be born on St . Patrick ' s day and was to be named Patrick . When he was born two days early his parents decided to name him Paul instead . Bogen attended the University of Nebraska from 1933 to 1937 , originally majoring in Mechanical Engineering before switching to Speech Communications . He was a member of the Army ROTC program obtaining the rank of Cadet Colonel and being elected President of the University ' s military honor fraternity . Here he met an Elizabeth Jane Herd who he would marry on May 16 , 1942 at Fort Benning , Georgia in the Post Chapel . Military service . After graduation , Bogen was commissioned as a reserve office in the Army and assigned the command of a division in Louisiana . After the Nazi invasion of Poland , Bogen requested his reserve commission to be activated . Upon activation , he was assigned to the 2nd Armored Division as an assistant to then Colonel Patton at Fort Benning , Georgia . He served in World War II in the 6th Armored Division first as a tank commander , then as a scout , and finally as the Assistant G - 3 , I & E , where he co - authored the official unit history . He saw combat from Normandy , Brittany , North France , the Ardennes , the Rhineland , and across Germany . He was among the first American Army soldiers to meet up with the Russians near the Zschopau River in April 1945 . Graduate education . After World War II , he left active duty and became an Army reserve Lt . Colonel . During this time he pursued a doctorate in Speech Communications at Ohio State University with research in the nascent fields of educational radio and television . As he neared completion of his degree , the growing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union led to the Army re - activating him . When he returned from his tour of duty he was disappointed to find that his faculty adviser at Ohio State had published his dissertation as his own . He decided not to start over so he did not get his master ' s degree . Korean War . During the Korean War he was an instructor at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas , 1951 - 1954 . In June 1954 , he was assigned to Fort Richardson , Alaska as Chief of Staff to the commander of Army forces in Alaska , General James F . Collins . In June 1957 he was assigned to Fort Knox , Kentucky where he was a commanding officer of a battalion . In June 1958 , then was awarded a Regular Army Commission and promoted to the rank of Colonel and sent to Carlisle , Pennsylvania to the U . S . Army War College as a student in Strategy and Logistics . Upon graduation he became a professor and the first recipient of the Eisenhower Chair of Strategic Appraisal . When the Defense Intelligence Agency was established in 1961 , Bogen was made the Assistant to the Director . During his time at the DIA , Bogen was assigned to be the chief of security for the visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States . Vietnam War . From 1964 to 1965 , Colonel Bogen served under General William Westmoreland as the head of the Army Concept Team in Vietnam and was an outspoken opponent of the [ Tactical Air Command ] ( http : / / en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Tactical _ Air _ Command ) System Report that favored consolidating all tactical air operations under the US Air Force . During his service in Vietnam , he received the Legion of Merit twice , a Bronze Star , and an Air Medal . Return to War College . In the late 1960s after returning from Vietnam , Colonel Bogen was again a faculty member at the U . S . Army War College . During this time , he has been recognized as one of the first professional soldiers to advocate the military as nation - builders . 4th Army . In 1969 , Colonel Bogen was transferred to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio , Texas where he served as the Chief of Staff of the 4th Army . Upon the merging of the 4th and 5th Armies in 1971 , he was offered a promotion to Brigadier General as commander of Schofield Barracks in Hawaii after being passed by at least four times for a promotion . Retirement . Colonel Bogen , however , decided he did not want to relocate again , particularly since his second oldest son had just started college and his youngest was in the middle of high School . Instead he retired and began to write his memoirs . However , he died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet sting at his home in San Antonio in 1972 .