Paul Eaton

Last Name: Eaton

First Name: Paul

Middle Name:
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Nickname: Paul

Medals and Honors:

• Army Distinguished Service Medal

• Defense Superior Service Medal

• Legion of Merit (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)

• Meritorious Service Medal (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)

ACNSL Offices and Committees:

Rank: Major General

Service/Department: U.S. Army

Last or Significant Assignment: Commanding General, Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (Iraq)

Areas of Experience:

• Europe

• Strategic Operations

• Middle East, Iraq

• Training, Manning, Recruitment
  
  

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Raised in Oklahoma, Major General Eaton is the son of the late US Air Force Colonel Norman Dale Eaton, a West Point graduate who was killed piloting a B57-B in a night interdiction mission over Laos. Eaton followed his father’s footsteps, attending the U.S Military Academy.

As a lieutenant and captain, Eaton served in the 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colorado, and was later transferred to Germany as part of 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division ("Brigade 76"), where he served as an assistant brigade S3 (operations) officer and later was an infantry company commander. As major and lieutenant colonel Eaton was assigned to key battalion and brigade staff positions in the old 9th Infantry Division, then on the I Corps staff. He also commanded the 3rd Battalion, 14th Infantry, 2nd Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, and later served as the G-3 (operations officer) of the division during Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.

As a colonel in the mid-1990s he commanded an Army brigade in Germany and following promotion to brigadier general was the assistant division commander of the 1st Armored Division. In 2000, he returned to the U.S. to serve as deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Infantry Center and School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and later he led the creation of the Army's new Stryker brigades at Fort Lewis, Washington. As a major general he returned to Fort Benning to be commanding general of the Army Infantry Center and School. He was then assigned to Iraq as Commanding General of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), where he was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004.

Upon return to the US he was Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Training, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Fort Monroe, Virginia.

After retiring from the Army in 2006 Eaton was a frequent guest on various media outlets. Eaton currently serves as a senior advisor to the Vet Voice Foundation which encourages veterans to be active participants in their return to civilian life.