Rest in Peace General
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=257711
Published on Thursday, March 22, 2007
Retired Gen. Robert C. Kingston, a pioneer of special operations from the Korean War to the early 1980s, will be buried Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.
Kingston died Feb. 28 at Ruxton Health Care of Alexandria, a nursing home, of complications from a fall at his home in Alexandria, Va., the Washington Post reported. He was 78.
Kingston was one of the few people to rise from private to four-star general. He received the military’s second-highest award for valor and also helped form the command that now oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East.
“As a soldier, he was second to none,” said retired Col. Ola Lee Mize, who received the Medal of Honor in the Korean War and served with Kingston.
Kingston commanded the John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance at Fort Bragg when the groundwork was being laid for the creation of Delta Force to give the U.S. Army a counterterrorist capability.