Frank Helmick

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caption= General Frank Helmick
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allegiance= United States of America
branch=United States Army
serviceyears= 1976-present
rank= Lieutenant General
commands=Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq, Southern European Task Force, Assistant Division Commander (Operations) for the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
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battles=Iraq War War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
awards= Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit Bronze Star Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal Joint Service Commendation Medal Expert Infantryman Badge Ranger Tab Air Assault Badge Master Parachutist Badge

Frank Helmick is a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. [ [http://www.mnstci.iraq.centcom.mil/CG.htm] . Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick Commanding General copyeditMulti-National Security Transition Command Iraq. Retrieved on July 20, 2008. ] 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. [ [http://www.setaf.army.mil/cg%20bio.html] . Southern European Task Force Commanding General Biography. Retrieved June 5, 2007. ] He was the commander who led the attack in Mosul that killed Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein's sons. [ [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wartech/combat.html] . Unconventional Combat by Williamson Murray and Robert Scales, Jr. Retrieved on June 8, 2007. ]

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) watch as a TOW missile strikes the side of a building that is suspected of harboring Uday and Qusay Hussein in Mosul, Iraq, July 22, 2003. Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle as they resisted efforts by coalition forces to apprehend and detain them. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Curtis Hargrave.

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