1. Carl Wade Stiner was a United States Army four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, United States Special Operations Command from 1990 to 1993.
11 Facts About Carl Stiner
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Carl Stiner graduated from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned in the Infantry.
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Carl Stiner served initially with the 9th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia and commanded a basic training company at Fort Jackson.
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Carl Stiner held this post until assigned as commanding general, 82nd Airborne Division, in January 1987.
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Carl Stiner was inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Carl Stiner co-authored the 2002 book Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces with Tom Clancy.
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Carl Stiner was a recipient of the Freedom Foundation Award and the Distinguished Alumnus award from Tennessee Technological University and served as chairman of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
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Carl Stiner was active teaching the joint warfare fighting course at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, and worked as a senior advisor for new joint war fighting experiments.
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Carl Stiner died at a medical facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 2 June 2022, at the age of 85.
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On 7 September 2002, an oil portrait in the likeness of General Carl Wade Stiner, by California Artist Sylvia Rogers-Barnes, was unveiled to a company of interested citizens, friends and relatives of General Stiner, at the proposed location of a new Veterans' Memorial Museum in Jacksboro, Tennessee.
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The biographical material and photo of the portrait of General Carl Stiner has been entered into the Catalog of American Portraits, Center for Electronic Research and Outreach Services, National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.