Frank Helmick is a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1976, he was assigned as a platoon leader to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, at Fort Hood, Texas. He later served as the executive officer and company commander for the 7th Cavalry Division at Fort Hood. General Helmick has had many assignments over the course of his military career.

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  • Frank Helmick is a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1976, he was assigned as a platoon leader to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, at Fort Hood, Texas. He later served as the executive officer and company commander for the 7th Cavalry Division at Fort Hood. General Helmick has had many assignments over the course of his military career. He served as the Chief of Operations for Anti-Terrorism in the J3 on the Joint Staff in Washington, D.C. and later would become the Assistant Division Commander at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was the Assistant Division Commander (Operations) for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was the commander who led the attack in Mosul that killed Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein's sons. On August 24, 2008 Helmick survived a suicide bombing of the MRAP vehicle he was riding in near Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul. The suicide car bomb attack killed the attacker and damaged the Navistar MaxxPro Plus vehicle, but Helmick, Brigadier General Raymond “Tony” Thomas, and an Iraqi general and others inside the vehicle were not seriously injured. The Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, announced that on September 1, 2009, the President nominated General Helmick for reappointment to the rank of lieutenant general and assingment as commanding general, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, NC.
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  • Frank Helmick is a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1976, he was assigned as a platoon leader to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, at Fort Hood, Texas. He later served as the executive officer and company commander for the 7th Cavalry Division at Fort Hood. General Helmick has had many assignments over the course of his military career.
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