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FROM
U.S.
Army 10th Infantry
(Arrived
Oct. 1911)
U.S.
Troops Panama Canal Zone
(1916-1917)
Panama
Canal Department
(1917-1941)
Caribbean
Defense Command and Panama Canal Department
(1941-1947)
U.S.
Army Caribbean Command (USACARIB)
(1947-1963)
U.S.
Army Forces Southern Command (USARSO)
(1963-Oct
1974)
193d Infantry
Brigade (Canal Zone)
(Oct 1974-Sep
30,1979)
193d
Infantry Brigade (Panama)
(Oct 1, 1979-Dec
1986)
TO
U.S. Army South (USARSO)
Dec 4, 1986-July 1999
(in Panama)
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SENIOR
ARMY COMMANDERS
IN PANAMA (1914-1999)
-- Continued
| 1947-1963
Commanding
General, U.S. ARMY CARIBBEAN COMMAND (USACARIB) - Fort
Amador, Canal Zone |
| Major General E. H. Brooks |
Nov 1947 |
Nov 1948 |
| Major General R. E. Porter |
Nov 1948 |
Nov 1951 |
| Major General L. J. Whitlock |
Nov
1951 |
July 1954 |
| Major General L. C. McGarr |
July
1954 |
June 1956 |
| Major General T. L. Harrold |
June
1956 |
June 1958 |
| Major General C. L. Dasher |
June
1958 |
June 1960 |
| Major General T. F. Bogart |
June
1960 |
June 1963 |
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| 1963 -1974
Commanding
General, U.S. ARMY FORCES SOUTHERN
COMMAND (USARSO)
- Fort Amador,
Canal Zone |
| (Redesignated from U.S.
Army Caribbean Command June 6, 1963, when the Caribbean Command was
reorganized as a regional unified command as the U.S. Southern
Command.)
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| Major General T. F. Bogart |
June
1963 |
July 1964 |
| Major General J. D. Alger |
July 1964 |
July 1967 |
| Major General C. L. Johnson |
July
1967 |
Dec 1970 |
| Major General George L. Mabry, Jr.
(MOH - WWII 1944) |
Dec
1970 |
Oct 1974 |
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| 1974 -
1979 Commanding
General, 193d INFANTRY BRIGADE
(CANAL ZONE) - Fort Amador, Canal Zone |
| (Redesignated
from USARSO when USARSO lost its Army major command status
through a reorganization effective November 1, 1974 (as
part of an Army wide reduction of headquarters staffs) and
the Brigade becoming an installation under U.S. Forces
Command, Fort McPherson, Georgia, and the Army component
of the U.S. Southern Command which retained operational
control of the Brigade.)
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| Major General George L. Mabry, Jr. |
Nov
1974 |
Dec 1974 |
| Brigadier General / Major General
William R. Richardson * # |
Dec 1974 |
June 1977 |
| Brigadier
General Richard W. Anson |
June 1977 |
June 1979 |
| Brigadier General
Kenneth C. Leuer |
June 1979 |
Sept 30, 79 |
| Oct
1, 1979 - Dec 1986 Commanding
Officer, 193d
INFANTRY BRIGADE (PANAMA) - Fort Clayton, Panama |
| Major
General Kenneth C. Leuer * |
Oct
1, 1979 |
April
1982 |
| Brigadier General / Major General
Frederick F. Woerner * # |
April 1982 |
March
1986 |
| Brigadier General James R. Taylor |
March
1986 |
Dec
1986 |
| The
Army Headquarters moved from Fort Amador in
August-September 1979 to Fort Clayton before the transfer
of that part of the Army sector of Fort Amador to the
Government of Panama upon implementation of the Panama
Canal Treaty of 1977 on October 1, 1979. The Command
Group moved into the Quadrangle area (principally Building
95) at Fort Clayton.
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| Dec
1986 - July 1999, Commanding
General, U.S. ARMY SOUTH (USARSO) -
Fort Clayton, Panama |
| (Redesignated from 193d
Infantry Brigade (Panama) December 1986 concurrent with reorganization resulting
in the Army regaining major command status in Panama with major general
rank and remaining under
the operational control of the U.S. Southern Command as its Army component
command.) |
| Major General James R. Taylor |
Dec
1986 |
April
1987 |
| Major General Bernard Loeffke |
April
1987 |
June
1989 |
| Major General Marc A. Cisneros
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June
1989 |
July
1990 |
| Brigadier
General J.W. Kinzer (acting Commanding General) |
July
1990 |
Sept
1990 |
| Major General William W. Hartzog |
Sept
1990 |
July
1991 |
| Major General R. F. Timmons |
July
1991 |
May
1993 |
| Brigadier General J. L. Wilson
(acting Commanding General) |
May
1993 |
June
1993 |
| Major General George A. Crocker |
June
1993 |
March
1995 |
| Major General Lawson W. Magruder III
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March
1995 |
June
1997 |
| Major General Philip R. Kensinger Jr. |
June
1997 |
July
1999 |
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U.S. Army South officially moved to Fort
Buchanan, Puerto Rico on August 13, 1999, after closing-out ceremony at
Fort Clayton, Panama July 30, 1999, one of the last major units to
depart Panama (although most of this command had drawn down its forces in
phases from late 1994 through 1999 under the Department of Defense's
Panama Canal Treaty Implementation Plan, the roadmap for the U.S. military
departure from Panama by the end of 1999 in accordance with the Panama
Canal Treaties of 1977). From September 16, 2002, to September 30,
2003, Army South was relocated to Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio, Texas.
The relocation was driven by changes to Army strategy that led to
restructuring and restationing.
* Promoted while in command in
Panama
# Assignments after Panama:
(See Life After SouthCom pages
on this website
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FORT AMADOR -- Headquarters
of the senior Army command in Panama from Nov. 1947 through Sept. 1979
George Mabry, Jr.
K.C. Leuer
Fort Clayton
Building 95 and Quadrangle Area, Fort
Clayton
Fred F. Woerner
Bernard Loeffke
George Crocker
Lawson Magruder
Philip Kensinger
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