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Lt. Gen. Mary legere Awards and Decorations
Lt. Gen. Mary Legere has served as the Army’s Senior Intelligence Officer since April 2012, when she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General. She has served her country for more than thirty years in positions of leadership and intelligence, and has commanded at all levels. Her first assignment was as a Collection and Jamming Platoon Leader assigned to the United States Army in Europe.
She has also commanded at the company, battalion and brigade command level, and as the commanding general, U.S. Army intelligence and security command responsible for directing and orchestrating the multi-discipline intelligence and security operations of 17,000 intelligence professionals serving in over 20 countries across the globe.
As an intelligence staff officer, she has served at the brigade, division, corps and theater level serving as the senior military intelligence officer and j2 for united states forces korea and for the multi-national forces iraq.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards and decorations, including the Defense Superior Service Medal (One Oak Leaf Cluster), the Legion of Merit (One Oak Leaf Cluster), a Bronze Star Medal, a Meritorious Service Medal (Five Oak Leaf Clusters), an Army Commendation Medal (Two Oak Leaf Clusters), a Joint Service Achievement Medal, an Army Achievement Medal (Two Oak Leaf Clusters), a Parachutists Badge, and the Army Staff Identification Badge. She has also received the Korean National Security Award, the Knowlton Award, and the Directors Award for Contributions to the Intelligence Community.
Lt. Gen. marylegere is one of just nineteen female general officers in the army. She has served as the senior U.S. Intelligence officer for U.S. Forces korea and for multi-national force-iraq, has participated in operation joint forge and operation iraqi freedom and as the army’s senior operational intelligence commander, directed and supported multi-discipline operations in seven geographic theaters around the globe.