________________________________________________________________________Richard S. Kem
Colonel Kem, Commander of the 7th Engineer Brigade, addressed soldiers of the 78th
Engineer Battalion on 30 November 1977................................................................................................. 191
Colonel Kem inspected the bridging exercises on the Rhine River conducted by the labor
service companies and the 565th Engineer Battalion in the spring of 1977 .............................................. 203
Colonel Kem reviewed the 20th Engineer Battalion's plans to destroy bridges on the Iller River
in Exercise Carbon Edge, REFORGER 77, in September 1977................................................................ 212
Lieutenant General David Ott, Commander of the VII Corps, and Colonel Kem as Kem left his
assignment as Commander of the 7th Engineer Brigade in July 1978. ...................................................... 223
Ann Kem and Lieutenant General John W. Morris, Chief of Engineers, pin brigadier general's stars
on General Kem's uniform during his promotion ceremony in November 1979....................................... 252
General Kem's wife, children, and parents at his promotion to brigadier general in November 1979. ..... 253
General Kem with Mr. William R. Gianelli, who was Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil
Works from 1981 to 1984.......................................................................................................................... 277
General Kem at his promotion to major general in July 1984 ................................................................... 328
General Kem received the school colors from General Carl Vuono, Commanding General,
Training and Doctrine Command, when he became Commander of the U.S. Army Engineer
Center and Fort Belvoir, Virginia. ............................................................................................................. 329
General Kem and Major General James N. Ellis, departing Commander of the U.S. Army
Engineer Center and Fort Belvoir, Virginia, at the change of command ceremonies on
21 August 1984. ........................................................................................................................................ 329
General Kem, Commandant of the Engineer School, congratulated his son, Second Lieutenant
John Kem, on his graduation from the Engineer Officer Basic Course on 27 November 1985................. 335
General Kem and Lieutenant General Elvin R. Heiberg III, Chief of Engineers, observed a test
of the M9 ACE during the summer of 1985. ............................................................................................. 342
General Kem with Brigadier Roland Zedler, Commandant of the West German engineers,
during a visit to a German engineer river crossing in 1986 ....................................................................... 348
General Kem greeted Lieutenant Colonel Garth Hewish, British Liaison Officer, and his wife
Sheila when he was Commander of the Engineer School.......................................................................... 355
General Kem met with Israeli Defense Force officers during a visit to Israel while he was
Commander of the Engineer School .......................................................................................................... 361
The first Honorary Colonel of the newly established Engineer regiment, called the Corps of
Engineers, Lieutenant General Frederick J. Clarke (Retired), former Chief of Engineers, passed
the colors of the regiment to General Kem, Commandant of the Engineer School, at the unfurling
of the new colors at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on 23 June 1986 .................................................................... 370
Lieutenant General Elvin R. Heiberg III, Chief of Engineers and Colonel of the Engineer
Regiment; Lieutenant General Frederick J. Clarke, Honorary Colonel of the Regiment and
former Chief of Engineers; and General Kem at the ceremony establishing the regiment......................... 371
General Kem presented a commemorative painting from the Engineer School to General Bruce C.
Clarke (Retired), a prominent Engineer officer, on 10 March 1987 .......................................................... 376
General Kem received the Distinguished Service Medal from the Commander of the Training
and Doctrine Command, General Maxwell Thurman, at the Change of Command Ceremony at
the Engineer School on 6 July 1987 .......................................................................................................... 382
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