US Army general
Lieutenant General
Franklin Lee Hagenbeck
[1]
(born November 25, 1949) is a retired
United States Army
officer who served as the 57th
Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
from June 2006 to July 2010. Previous to his assignment at
West Point
, he was the
Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1 United States Army
,
Washington, D.C.
Early life and education
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Hagenbeck was born in
Morocco
to a
United States Navy
family. He attended high school in
Jacksonville, Florida
, and was commissioned from the
U.S. Military Academy
in 1971. Later, at
Florida State University
, he earned a
Master of Science
degree in
exercise physiology
and served as an assistant football coach. While assigned to the U.S. Military Academy's Department of Physical Education, he earned a
Master of Business Administration
degree from
Long Island University
. Hagenbeck's military education includes the
United States Army War College
,
Army Command and General Staff College
, and the Infantry Officer Advanced Course.
Military career
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Hagenbeck commanded at every level from company through division, culminating as Commanding General of the
10th Mountain Division
(2001?2003). He also served in the
25th Infantry Division
,
101st
and
82nd Airborne Divisions
, and
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command
.
On July 24, 2002, Hagenbeck awarded Colonel
Rowan Tink
of the
Special Air Service Regiment
the
Bronze Star Medal
for his role in
Operation Anaconda
.
Before becoming Superintendent, Hagenbeck served as the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, and in numerous staff positions, including
Chief of Staff
,
10th Mountain Division
; Director, Officer Personnel Management Directorate, United States Total Army Personnel Command; and Assistant Division Commander (Operations), 101st Airborne Division.
Hagenbeck served in numerous Joint assignments, including Exchange Officer and Tactics Instructor to the Royal Australian Infantry Center; Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs; Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J5); and Deputy Director for Current Operations, J33, Joint Staff. General Hagenbeck served as Commander, Coalition Task Force Mountain, Operations Enduring Freedom/Anaconda and Deputy Commanding General,
Combined Joint Task Force 180
in Afghanistan. Hagenbeck retired in July 2010.
Hagenbeck is controversial, as his planning for
Operation Anaconda
bordered on negligent, as he excluded air component planning until two days prior to the operation commenced. This planning lapse caused chaos in the first few days of the operation, which in turn led top
Taliban
and
al Qaeda
leaders to escape into
Pakistan
.
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Hagenback defended himself, arguing that the operation had been overly dependent on USAF
fixed-wing aircraft
that he believed could not offer as much protection as
United States Army
rotarcraft
and
artillery
. However, United States Air Force officials alleged that Hagenbeck and other United States Army officers who plotted the operation left them out of crucial planning, and Hagenback himself later retracted his criticisms of the operation.
[3]
Awards and decorations
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Hagenbeck's decorations include:
Badges
References
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- ^
"Franklin Lee Hagenbeck"
. West Point Association of Graduates
. Retrieved
March 26,
2021
.
- ^
Anaconda: A Flawed Joint Planning Process, Joint Forces Quarterly, National Defense University, Institute for Strategic Studies, Issue 47, 4th Quarter, 2007.
- ^
Blanchette, Nicholas (December 16, 2021), Haun, Phil; Jackson, Colin; Schultz, Tim (eds.),
"Operation Enduring Freedom: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Air Power over Afghanistan"
,
Air Power in the Age of Primacy
(1 ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 97?120,
doi
:
10.1017/9781108985024.006
,
ISBN
978-1-108-98502-4
, retrieved
February 2,
2022