United States Army War College International Fellows Hall of Fame
The US AWC International Fellows Hall of Fame[1] honors USAWC international graduates "who have attained, through military merit, the highest positions in their nation's armed forces, or who have held an equivalent position by rank or responsibility in a multinational organization."[2]
Commandant of USAWC DeWitt C. Smith is primarily responsible for the creation of the International Fellows Program’s (IFP) 1977.[3] From a start with six foreign students in 1978, the program now sustains over forty International Fellows (IFs) per year. Usually, only one IF per representative country per academic year participates in the program.[3] While the fellows program was established in 1978 and the first induction into the IF Hall of Fame took place in 1988.[4] Inductees are awarded in person at Carlisle Barracks.[1] Since its inception over 1,900 international fellows graduate from 130 countries have been part of the fellows program.[5]
List of IF Hall of Fame fellows
[edit]Fellow No. | Flag | Country | Name | Year | Ref |
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Botswana | Louis Matshwenyego Fisher | 1998 | |||
Norway | GEN Paal Frisvold | 2005 | [6] | ||
Bangladesh | LG Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury | 2005 | [6] | ||
31 | Canada | GEN Walter Natynczyk | 2009 | [4] | |
32 | Denmark | MG Niels Bundsgaard | 2011 | [7] | |
33 | India | GEN Vijay Kumar Singh | 2011 | [8] | |
India | GEN Bikram Singh | 2013 | [9] | ||
43 | Hungary | GEN Tibor Benko | 2013 | [10] | |
48 | Chile | GEN Humberto Oviedo | 2014 | [11] | |
49 | Oman | MG Matar Salim Al Balushi | 2014 | [12] | |
50 | Korea | GEN Seung Jo Jung | 2014 | [12] | |
51 | Uganda | GEN Edward Katumba Wamala | 2014 | [12] | |
52 | Denmark | GEN Knud Bartel | 2014 | [12] | |
53 | United Nations | MG Kristin Lund | 2015 | [5] | |
54 | Lithuania | MG Almantas Lieka | 2015 | [13] | |
55 | Austria | GEN Othmar Commenda | 2015 | [5] | |
56 | Tunisia | BG Ismail Fathalli | 2015 | [5] | |
57 | Romania | GEN Nicolae Ciucă | 2015 | [5] | |
58 | Albania | MG Jeronim Bazo | 2015 | [5] | |
59 | Bulgaria | MG Neyko Nenov | 2016 | [14] | |
60 | Czech Republic | MG Jan Gurnik | 2016 | [5] | |
61 | Nepal | GEN Rajendra Chhetri | [15] | ||
62 | Norway | GEN Odin Johannessen | [5] | ||
63 | Colombia | GEN Alberto José Mejía Ferrero | 2017 | [16] | |
64 | Estonia | BG Indrek Sirel | 2017 | [17] | |
65 | Estonia | BG Artur Tiganik | 2017 | [17] | |
66 | Georgia | MG Vladimer Chachibaia | 2017 | [5] | |
67 | Croatia | GEN Damir Krstičević | 2018 | [18] | |
68 | Taiwan/ROC | GEN Chiu Kuo-cheng | 2018 | [19] | |
69 | Norway | MG Eirik Kristoffersen | 2019 | [20] | |
70 | Norway | MG Torgeir Gråtrud | 2019 | [2] | |
71 | Malaysia | GEN Ahmad Hasbullah | 2020 | [21] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "International Fellows Program: International Hall of Fame". US Army War College. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ a b Martin, Robert (18 December 2019). "Norwegian Special Forces Commander becomes 70th member of USAWC International Fellows Hall of Fame". US Army War College. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ a b Hickey, Lieutenant Colonel James R. (2001-03-28). DTIC ADA391203: The History and Significance of the U.S. Army War College International Fellows Program. DTIC_ADA391203. Defense Technical Information Center.
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