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John galvin, a fourstar army general who served as the united states and natos top military commander in europe in the final years of the cold war and whose foresight on counterinsurgency. They have also lived in fairport, ny and schaumburg, il. John rogers jack galvin was born in melrose, ma, the eldest of four children of josephine rogers and john j. Bush i was a warrant officer helicopter pilot for general galvin when he commanded a battalion in vietnam. A soldiers memoir by former supreme allied commander europe saceur general john jack galvin, usa ret.
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