AGCRA Founding Members

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The Adjutant General’s Corps Regimental Association (AGCRA) was created in 1987 to support unfunded requirements associated with the Adjutant General's Corps regimental activation and unit redesignations.  The regimental activation required the Corps' regimental crests to be distributed to the regiment's Soldiers, as well as funding activation events at the Adjutant General School (then located at Fort Benjamin Harrison, IN) and at the installations where the redesignated units resided.  These expenses were unforeseen and thus not included in the School’s budget. For this reason, the Adjutant General School leadership established AGCRA as a nonprofit organization whose primary purpose was to support the aims and objectives of the Adjutant General’s Corps Regiment.  

The Association intended to fund regimental projects by selling Adjutant General’s Corps memorabilia. There were 199 founding members of the AGCRA, including Major Generals Verne L. Bowers, William G. O’Lesky, J. C. Pennington, Kenneth G. Wickham; and Brigadier Generals Ronald E. Brooks, R. Lex Dilworth, Mildred E. Hedberg, James A. Norell, and Jack T. Pink.  Also present as founding members were several officers who would later become General Officers of the Adjutant General’s Corps, including Colonel Arthur T. Dean, Colonel Frederick E. Vollrath, Lieutenant Colonel Neil N. Snyder III, and Captain Reuben D. Jones.

Provided below are the original AGCRA founding members.

The benefits of becoming a founding member included a beautifully designed Founding Member scroll, Regimental Crest, Regimental Coin, a special laminated Founding Member ID Card, and a one-year membership in the Association.  AGCRA founding members also have their names inscribed on the magnificent Founding Members' Plaque hanging in the AG School Regimental Room at Fort Jackson, SC (see the next photo below).

AGCRA Founding Members are listed below in order by Rank and Last Name. An Excel spreadsheet of all the Founding Members can be found HERE.

For additional information about the AGCRA's history and its relationship to the Adjutant General's Corps and Adjutant General’s Corps Regiment, click HERE.