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DETAILS :CKGROUND: In connection with the Director's aitendance at the Gridiron Club on Ma.ch 20, 1965, the Director is to be seated between General Wallace Martin Grecne, Jr., A srine Corps Commandant, and Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of she Nationai Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). There fcllows detailed information regarding General Greene and Roy Wilkins. WALLACE MARTIN GREENE, JR. Biographical Data: General Greene, the 23rd Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Has been a Marine officer since 1930. He assumed his present duties and was pror to his current rank on 1-1-64. Greene was born 12-27-07 at Waterbury, Vermont, attended public schools in Burlington, Vermont, and spent a year at the University Vermont before entering the United States Naval Academy where he graduated 6-5- and received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marines. His assignments h. as in the United States.. He was commended for performance of duties during the Sino-Japant. Asstilities during 1937 and 1938. For his outstanding service as Assistant Chief of S:aff, G-3 Tactical Group, during the planning and effecting of the Marshall Islands :.vasion, Greene, then a Lieutenant Colonel, was awarded the First Legion of Mer. with Combat 'y." For his outstanding services prior to and during the combat on Saipan and Tinian, he earned a second Legion of Merit. He was promoted rapidly through the ranks and graduated from the National War College in Washington in June, 1953, the following month becoming Staff Special Assistant to the Joint Chiefs. of Staff for National Security Council Affairs. He became a Brigadier General on 9-1-55. In June, 1957, he became Commanding General of the Marine Corps Base at Camp Lejeune. While serving as Assistant Chief of Staff at Headquarters Marin Corps in 1958, he was promoted to Major General, subsequently, becoming Deputy with the rank of Lieutenant General.. :: The late President Kennedy nominated General Greene, on 9-24-63,. ba the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps for a four-year term, which was confirmed; and, when he assumed that command, 1-1-64, he was promoted to a ful Gereral (four-star).d