Casper Weinberger

Personal Information

Birthplace: San Franciso, CA

Service Information

Branch of Service: Army

Unit: 41st Infantry Division

Theater of Operation: Pacific

Highest Rank: Captain

Military Honors: Bronze Star

Honored By: The Eisenhower Foundation

Biography

Caspar Weinberger was a prominent Statesman and Businessman. He sever for three decades most notably as Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan. Weinberger attended Harvard in 1934 and enlisted in the Army in 1941. His time in the Pacific was spent as a Lt. Sargent in Australia, New Guinea and The Philippines. At the end of the war he served on General McArthur’s intelligence staff as a Captain. Courtesy of the legion.org and The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw