1. Carter Frederick Ham was born on 16 February 1952 and is a retired United States Army General Officer who served as the second commander of United States Africa Command.
28 Facts About Carter Ham
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Post-retirement, Carter Ham served as president and CEO of the Association of the United States Army from July 2016 to September 2021.
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Carter Ham was born on 16 February 1952, in Portland, Oregon.
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Carter Ham attended high school at Charles F Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.
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Carter Ham received the rank of Eagle Scout as a youth in 1965.
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Carter Ham is a 1976 Distinguished Military Graduate of John Carroll University in the Cleveland suburb of University Heights, Ohio.
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Carter Ham enlisted in the United States Army in 1973 and served as an infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division before being accepted in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps while attending John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
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An ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate, Carter Ham was commissioned as an infantry officer in 1976.
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Carter Ham later received his master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, as well as graduating from several military schools including the Infantry Officer Basic Course, the Armor Officer Advanced Course, the Naval War College's College of Naval Command and Staff, and the Air War College.
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Carter Ham is a member of the John Carroll University ROTC Hall of Fame.
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From 1984 until 1989, Carter Ham served as Assistant Inspector General, then as Battalion Operations Officer and Executive Officer with the Opposing Force at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California.
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Carter Ham attended the College of Naval Command and Staff, graduating with distinction in 1990, and was then assigned to the US Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.
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Carter Ham served a tour as an advisor with a Saudi Arabian National Guard Brigade in Riyadh as part of OPM-SANG then returned to Fort Benning, where he was the executive officer for the Infantry School.
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Carter Ham commanded the 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry in Vilseck, Germany including a six-month tour with the United Nations Protection Forces in the Republic of Macedonia.
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Carter Ham graduated from the Air War College in 1997 then returned to Germany, where he served as Operations Officer, then Chief of Staff, 1st Infantry Division.
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Carter Ham was assigned as the deputy commanding general for training and readiness, I Corps at Fort Lewis, Washington in August 2003.
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Carter Ham later sought treatment for his condition and publicly encouraged other soldiers to do the same.
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Carter Ham assumed command of the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas, in August 2006 and served as the commanding general until July 2007, returning to The Joint Staff as director for operations, J-3.
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On 28 August 2008, Carter Ham became the 34th Commanding General of the United States Army Europe headquartered at Campbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany.
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In 2010, Carter Ham served as co-chair for the comprehensive review of issues associated with the repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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Carter Ham said he had "full authority to attack the regime's forces if they refused to comply with President Barack Obama's demands that they pull back from Ajdabiya, Misrata and Zawiya," according to one report.
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Carter Ham was in overall command of military forces when the 11 September 2012, terrorist attacks were launched on the American consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya.
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Carter Ham denied the allegation by some Republicans that President Barack Obama or others in Obama's administration had ordered him to "stand down" a planned rescue mission that was ready to deploy.
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Carter Ham was quoted in an online Washington Post article by Greg Miller and Craig Whitlock, posted on 1 October 2012, that, as saying, that, as a result of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's overtaking and capturing more territory in Mali in Africa, and possessing arms from Libya after the Libyan Civil War which overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, there is the possibility of the US assisting, but not leading, counterterrorism operations done by other countries.
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In 2015, Carter Ham was elected chairman of the National Commission on the Future of the Army, an eight-member panel tasked with making recommendations on the size, force structure and capabilities of the Army.
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Carter Ham became an executive vice president of the Association of the United States Army in February 2016.
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Carter Ham succeeded Gordon R Sullivan as president and CEO of AUSA on 1 July 2016.
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Carter Ham relinquished the presidency to Robert Brooks Brown on 30 September 2021.