Not the General McChrystal most of us are familiar with, his father (who was also pretty accomplished).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...1ba942-641f-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html
Herbert J. McChrystal Jr., a retired Army major general who was a highly decorated combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars, died Dec. 10 at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 89.
He had heart and respiratory ailments, said his son Stanley McChrystal, a retired Army general who commanded U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan and also led the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command.
As a young soldier, Gen. McChrystal served with U.S. occupation forces in Germany after World War II. Later, while commanding combat units in the Korean and Vietnam wars, he was awarded the Silver Star four times for battlefield valor — once in Korea, three times in Vietnam.
During his second tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968, he was chief of staff for the 4th Infantry Division.
In the early 1970s, Gen. McChrystal served at the Pentagon as director of the Planning and Program Analysis Directorate, where he worked closely with a then-little-known officer named Colin Powell, who later became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...1ba942-641f-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html
Herbert J. McChrystal Jr., a retired Army major general who was a highly decorated combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars, died Dec. 10 at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 89.
He had heart and respiratory ailments, said his son Stanley McChrystal, a retired Army general who commanded U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan and also led the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command.
As a young soldier, Gen. McChrystal served with U.S. occupation forces in Germany after World War II. Later, while commanding combat units in the Korean and Vietnam wars, he was awarded the Silver Star four times for battlefield valor — once in Korea, three times in Vietnam.
During his second tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968, he was chief of staff for the 4th Infantry Division.
In the early 1970s, Gen. McChrystal served at the Pentagon as director of the Planning and Program Analysis Directorate, where he worked closely with a then-little-known officer named Colin Powell, who later became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state.
