David H. Huntoon

Huntoon is a 1973 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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Huntoon served as an infantry officer in a series of command and staff assignments in the United States and Germany. Following attendance at the Command and General Staff College and the School for Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he was assigned to XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. There, he was deployed as a Senior War Plans Officer for Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Shield,{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/lt-gen-david-h-huntoon-jr-becomes-new-superintendent-of-west-point/|title = Lt. Gen. David H. Huntoon Jr. Becomes New Superintendent of West Point| website=Fox News |date = 20 March 2015}} and Operation Desert Storm.{{Cite web|url=https://jinsa.org/person/lt-gen-david-h-huntoon-jr-usa-ret/|title = Lt. Gen. David H. Huntoon Jr., USA (Ret.)}} He commanded a mechanized infantry battalion at Camp Casey, South Korea, and served in Combined and Joint Plans for the Combined Forces Command and United Nations Command in Seoul. He was the Army's National Security Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He then took command of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). Following his service as the Executive Officer to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, he was selected as an Army brigadier general. His general officer assignments were as Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; leadership of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College;{{cite web|url=http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/institutional/aboutnps/Biographies/Members/2006/06_Huntoon.pdf|title=Naval Postgraduate School Board of Advisors|publisher=Naval Postgraduate School|access-date=August 6, 2019}} Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy for the US Army; Commandant of the U.S. Army War College and Director of the Army Staff in the Pentagon.

In 2012 the Pentagon's Office of Inspector General found that Huntoon had misused his office while at West Point by asking subordinates to perform personal tasks for him.{{Cite news|last=Whitlock|first=Craig|date=14 June 2013|title=West Point superintendent misused his office, IG says|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/west-point-superintendent-misused-his-office-ig-says/2013/06/14/10bff076-d51e-11e2-bc43-c404c3269c73_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post}} According to The Washington Post, the Inspector General and the Army kept the information confidential until required to release it after a Freedom of Information Act request shortly before he retired in 2013. Huntoon remained the Convening Authority for West Point while he was under investigation, when he was convicted and when he was censured.{{citation needed | date=January 2024}}

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