Brigadier General Dan Hickman - Guest Speaker at the April Brunswick Town DAR Meeting

Dan Hickman, was our guest speaker at our April meeting. He is a retired Brigadier General living in Wilmington, North Carolina. His Army career began with service as an infantry private. He subsequently served as an Army warrant officer pilot and section leader during the Vietnam War and received a direct commission based on combat experience afterward. As a citizen soldier, he successively commanded an infantry company, an infantry battalion, and a mechanized infantry brigade in the Army Guard.

He is a graduate of the Army War College, the Army Command and General Staff College, numerous Infantry schools, and Army Flight School. His civilian education includes a BS from Embry Riddle University and an MS from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He served in combat with Bravo Troop, 3rd/17th Air Cavalry, during the height of the Vietnam War. He later served in combat with the 1st Infantry Division during the Iraq war, where he commanded the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team near the Sunni Triangle. He published newspaper and magazine articles before writing A Thousand Chances.

https://www.nationalguard.mil/portals/31/Features/ngbgomo/bio/7/726.html For additional information about Brigadier General Dan Hickman go to the website. 

Dan Hickman grew up on a farm at Hickman Crossroads, Brunswick County, NC. He is a proud member of Sons of the American Revolution through his sixth great grandfather Samuel Hickman and cousin to two of our chapter members.

                                            Brigadier General Dan Hickman

Dan grew up on a farm at Hickman Crossroads, Brunswick County, NC. He is a proud member of Sons of the American Revolution through his sixth great grandfather Samuel Hickman and cousin to two of our chapter members.