Member of Board of Directors, Helping Our Heroes Foundation

LTG Theodore G. Stroup, Jr., USA, Ret.

Lieutenant General Theodore G. Stroup, Jr., currently serves as Vice President, Education, for the Association of the United States Army, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and as Executive Director of the Institute of Land Warfare. Prior to his retirement from active service, General Stroup was serving as the Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. As a combat engineer, General Stroup commanded at all levels through battalion. His Vietnam service (1965-67) included duty as a construction engineer in the U.S. Army Support Command, Vietnam; aide-de-camp to the commanding general of the 1st Logistics Command; and commander of Company C, 864th Engineer Battalion (Construction). In Germany (1978-80), General Stroup commanded the 293rd Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy). Within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he served as the Assistant Director, Civil Works, in Washington, DC (1981-82), and as commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers District, Fort Worth, Texas, from July 1982 until January 1985. His staff duty includes service as an engineer personnel management officer, U.S. Army Military Personnel Center (1973-76). He then served as a manpower analyst in the Office of the Chief of Staff until January 1978.

General Stroup has also been assigned as executive officer to the Army Vice Chief of Staff (1985-86) and as deputy director of the Headquarters Reorganization Study, Army Reorganization Commission, under the Office of the Secretary of the Army. He also served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Resource Management, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, and as Director for Military Personnel Management in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. He also was Director for Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Office of the Chief of Staff. General Stroup was commissioned through the U.S. Military Academy (1962) and later served as a course director in the Academy’s Military Science Branch (1968-71).

General Stroup is a licensed professional civil engineer in Texas and Pennsylvania. He holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, and a Master’s in Finance and Economics from the American University, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Armed Forces Staff College and U.S. Army War College.