Robert K. Wright, Jr., received a B.A. degree in history from the College of the Holy Cross and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in early American history from the College of William and Mary. He served with the Army on active duty from 1968 to 1970 in Germany and then as a sergeant in the 18th Military History Detachment in Vietnam where he recorded the combat operations of the 25th Infantry Division. In 1982 he joined the Virginia Army National Guard and commanded the 116th Military History Detachment rising to the rank of major. He retired in that rank from the Army Reserve in 1996. Dr. Wright worked at the US Army Center of Military History from 1974 to 1989 and again from 1991 until he retired in 2002 as chief of the Center’s Historical Resources Branch managing its library and archival functions. In between he became the first historian of XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. During Operation JUST CAUSE he deployed to Panama as the historian of Joint Task Force SOUTH; during Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM he served in Saudi Arabia and Iraq with the Corps. As part of a test of the concept of joint historical coverage of operations in 1993 he served in Somalia during Operation RESTORE HOPE on special assignment for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In addition to numerous essays and articles on military history subjects Dr. Wright is the author or coauthor of The Continental Army (1983), Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution (1987), The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps (1989), and Military Police (1991) for the Center of Military History; The Tradition Continues: A History of the Virginia Army National Guard 1607-1985 (1987) for the Virginia Army National Guard; and Airborne Forces at War (2007).