Georgia Military Veterans’ Hall of Fame Spotlight
Richard Bernard Dix
2018 Georgia Military Veterans’ Hall of Fame Inductee (Achievement)
Attention All Georgia Military Veterans!
| December 2019 | Real Hero Report
United States Army Brigadier
General (Retired) Richard
Bernard Dix from Brookhaven
was inducted into the Georgia Military
Veterans’ Hall of Fame Class of 2018 for
service, leading strategic logistic units
ranging in size from 200 to more than
73,000 soldiers and civilians, in both peace
and war. Of these three decades of service
to our nation and to those he led, over one
third of those years were overseas, with
many in combat zones.
Early in his career, Dix served in
mission in Croatia. Later, his notable and
exemplary leadership skill and logistical
expertise was constantly on demand and
urgently needed as he was continually
placed in critical command positions in the
Afghanistan, and Iraq, as well as in the
adjacent supporting countries of Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
While in Afghanistan, in addition to commanding more than
40,000 personnel spread over 100 base camps and located in
four countries, Dix created a unique
Afghan apprenticeship program which
developed skilled workers and trained
locals in jobs that greatly added to the
country’s economic growth in addition
to enhancing the relationship between
our two countries. Toward the end of
his career, Dix greatly contributed to the
desperate humanitarian relief effort and
deadly disease, Ebola, in West Africa.
Because of his tireless dedication to
duty and to those he exemplary led,
all military branches of the United
States and our Allies enjoyed an
unmatched level of support necessary
he is a role model for our youth as
he continually speaks and mentors
hundreds of high school JROTC
students throughout the United States. General Richard Dix is
stopped serving mankind and his country.
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