Major General Adolphi Major General Adolphi is currently assigned as the Deputy Mobilization Assistant to the Director, J-4/ Director of Operations, Logistics Readiness Center, the Joint Staff. Major General Adolphi's awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, the Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Service Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with Silver Hourglass and M Device, the Armed Reserve Component Overseas raining Ribbon with Numeral 5, and the NATO Medal.
Specialist Clark
Command Sergeant Major Font CSM Font's awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal (third oak leaf cluster), Army Commendation Medal (second oak leaf cluster), and the Army Achievement Medal. Back to the Beginning (WW I & II)
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"Fort Lee and Women of the Quartermaster Corps" Notable Women (As information becomes available, others will be added)
Major General Celia L. Adolphi Major General Celia L. Adolphi, who previously was Deputy Commanding General for Mobilization and Training (Individual Mobilization Augmentee) for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School at Fort Lee, became the first woman two-star general in U.S. Army Reserve history in November 1999. She had 21 years of military service. Commenting on the promotion, Major General Thomas J. Plewes, USAR Chief who like Major General Adolphi has an extensive logistics background as a Quartermaster, said that she did not get to this achievement just because the USAR is a great place for women to succeed, which it is, but because of what she has done and her future potential. As an example, when the 55th Support Center went to Hungary for Operation Joint Endeavor, Major General Plewes noted, she did not have to go. She volunteered, however, because she was the commander and she felt that was where the commander should be. Major General Adolphi also made history when she was promoted to brigadier general in March 1998. She then became the USAR's first woman one-star logistician. She had received a direct appointment as a captain in 1978. Her previous assignments include Assistant Chief of Staff, Services, and Assistant Chief of Staff, Training, for the 310th Theater Army Area Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Commander of the 55th Support Center at Fort Belvoir; and Commander of the 55th Support Center in Kaposvar, Hungry, July 1996 - February 1997, during Operation Joint Endeavor. Her military education includes the Quartermaster Officer Advanced Course, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. She also has a bachelor's degree in dietetics from Marian College and a master's degree in education from Butler University. - LTC Randy Pullen, Public Affairs and Liaison Directorate, Office of the Chief, USAR, November 1999. Specialist Beverly Sue Clark Specialist Clark was a member of the 14th Quartermaster Detachment (Water Supply). At the beginning of the Gulf War, just one day prior to air strikes against Bagdad in Iraq (January 15, 1991), soldiers of the 14th, a water purification unit from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, were mobilized. They spent the next 30 days at Fort Lee, Virginia, in training before arriving in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on February 19. On the evening of the seventh night in the country, a Scud missile slammed into the quarters of the 14th, killing 19 in the detachment. Specialist Clark died on February 25 as a result of injuries sustained in the attack. Clark Fitness Center, Fort Lee, was named in her honor. Command Sergeant Major Johnnie M. Font Command Sergeant Major Font enlisted in the Army in 1970. She attended Basic Combat Training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and was assigned to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for Advanced Individual Training. She has served in a variety of Noncommissioned Officer leadership positions throughout her 30 years service. Some of the positions she held were: Detachment First Sergeant, Senior Enlisted Advisor, and Material Management Sergeant Major. Command Sergeant Major Font has had many important assignments, both in the Continental United States (CONUS) and overseas. Her Continental United States (CONUS) assignments include Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Women's Army Corps (WAC), Fort Richie, Maryland; Headquarters Company, Division Support Command (DISCOM), 7th Infantry Division, Fort Ord, California; and Headquarters, 11th Signal Brigade, Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Her overseas assignments include tours with Headquarters, Supply and Service Company, Giessen, Germany; Combate Equipment Group Europe (CEGE); 9th Support Center, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Headquarters Company, Division Support Command, 1st Armored Division, Montieth Barracks, Nuremberg, Germany; Southwest Asia: 2d Infantry Division, G-4 Sergeant Major; 2d Infantry Division, 702d Main Support Battalion, Command Sergeant Major; and 2d Infantry Division, Support Command. Headquarters and Headquarters Company/Material Management Center Command Sergeant Major. She is a graduate of Class 35 of the Sergeants Major Academy, Fort Bliss, Texas. |
