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Lt. Gen. Mary LegereCareer Summary
Lt. Gen. Mary Legere is
only the fourth woman in
the 240-year history of
the United States Army
to reach the rank of
Three Star General.
Her promotion to Lieutenant General in April of 2012
remains the high point in a long military career that
began at the University of New Hampshire in 1982,
where she majored in mass communications and
political science. She received a commission to the UNH
ROTC as a Second Lieutenant in Military Intelligence in
May of 1982, and was assigned to Fort Bragg in North
Carolina, one of the largest Army installations in the
world.
From there she went to Fort Huachuca in
Arizona for MI Officer Basic Course, where she
stayed until May of 1983.
By then she had married the man she still calls
her college ROTC sweetheart, himself a future
career Army officer. The couple was wed in
December of 1982.
Lt. Gen. Mary Legere had her first assignment
following MI Officer Basic in Germany, where
she served as a Platoon Leader, Plans Officer
and Battalion Logistics Officer in the 207th
Military Intelligence Group from 1983 to 1986 in
Augsburg and Ludwigsburg, in the Federal
Republic of Germany.”
A skilled athlete who has always been interested in sports,
she was active during this time in various competitions.
“In addition to completing over 100 non-competitive
volksmarches in Germany, traveled all over Europe, and
competed as a Triathlete for US Army units in Europe,
winning the 7th Corps Triathlon and then placing Second in
the USAREUR Championships.” Along with her husband,
she also completed the Munich Marathon, the first of
many more to come.
She was transferred back to the United States for the
Military Intelligence Officers Advanced Course , after which
she was assigned to the Republic of Korea, for the first of
three tours there. “I served as a Staff officer, and the Signal
Intelligence/Electronic Warfare/Readiness Officer for the
532d Military Intelligence Battalion, 501st Military
Intelligence Brigade, and in November 1987, became the
Commander, A Company, 532d Military Intelligence
Battalion.”
Assignments to Colorado, Washington DC and
the Army’s Command and General Staff College
at Fort Leavenworth followed, with Legere
completing assignments as a Division and
Brigade all source intelligence officer,
professional developments and assignments
officer and student.
Returning to the Republic of Korea for her
second tour, she served as both a Battalion and
Brigade Operations Officer, responsible for
overseeing the training, readiness and
modernization of a 400, then 1600 Soldier
organization conducting intelligence operations
contributing to the security of the Republic of
Korea.
After a tour in the Pentagon, Legere was posted
to Fort Hood Texas, where she served as a xxxx.
She proceeded from there to Fort entered the
U.S. Army War College in 2001, and in June of
2002 earned her second Masters degree.
She was promoted to Colonel and assigned as
Commander of the 501st Military Intelligence
Brigade in Korea, and stayed there two years.
“In 2006, I was selected for promotion to
Brigadier General and then assigned in my first
General officer position as the Assistant Chief of
Staff, J-2, U.S. Forces Korea, Deputy C-2,
Combined Forces Command.”
She was assigned as Assistant Deputy Chief of
Staff for Intelligence, C-2, Multi-National Force-
Iraq, and in September 2008 became the Deputy
Chief of Staff, Intelligence for Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
“I served as the Senior Military Intelligence
Officer supporting the over 110, 000 service
members deployed for combat operations in the
theater.”
Now, after a career spanning more than thirty
years, Lt. Gen. Mary Legere is about to retire
from the Army and is presently considering her
options in the Intelligence Community, and with
the private sector within the National
Security/Intelligence sectors.