strongspan class="large"Superintendent, U. S. Military Academy/span/strongbr/ br/span class="large"Lieutenant General Sidney B. Berry was appointed the 50th Superintendent of the United Stales Military Academy by the President in May 1974 and assumed his duties as Superintendent in July 1974. General Berry was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on February 10, 1926. He attended school in Hattiesburg and entered the United States Military Academy in July 1944. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, Infantry upon graduation from the Academy in 1948. Following combat service in Korea in 1950-51, where he served with the 35th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division as platoon leader, rifle company commander, and battalion operations officer, General Berry returned to the United States to attend Columbia University for graduate studies. He received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Columbia in 1953./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"For the next three years General Berry served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"Alter attending the Marine Corps Staff and Command Course from 1960 to 1961, General Berry served three years as Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense./spanbr/ span class="large"General Berry served two tours of combat duty in Vietnam. He served as Senior Advisor, 7th Infantry Division (Vietnamese), United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam from July 1965 to June 1966 and as Brigade Commander, 1st: Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, United States Army, Pacific (Vietnam), from June 1966 to February 1967. During his second tour of duty in Vietnam from July 1970 to July 1971, General Berry served as Assistant Division Commander, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile)./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"After his tour in Vietnam, General Berry was Army Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City from 1967 to 1968./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"Promoted to Brigadier General in August 1968, General Berry served two years, 1968-1970, as Assistant Commandant, U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"Returning to the Pentagon and Department of the Army in 1971, he served successively as Deputy Chief and Chief of Personnel Operations, and Commanding General, United States Army Military Personnel Center upon its establishment in January 1973./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"Prior to his appointment as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, General Berry was Commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell, Kentucky./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"His awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Legion of Merit with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal with V Device, 42 Air Medals, Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, two awards of the Combat Infantry Badge, Army Aviator Badge, Senior Parachutist Badge and Ranger Tab./spanbr/ br/ span class="large"General Berry is married and has three children./span