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Show tlz-,7 Deputy Chier of Information V j SL ..J Col. R. L. Shoemaker, Jr., has been designated Army Deputy Dep-uty Chief of Information by Secretary of the Army Cyrus R. Vance. He has been nominated nomi-nated for promotion to the rank of brigadier general, and succeeds Brig. Gen. G. V. Underwood, Un-derwood, Jr., who is now Army Chief of Information and Chief of Public Information. Prior to his assignment as Commanding Officer, U.S. Army Troop Information Support Unit, from Feb. 1961 to Feb. 1963, Colonel Shoemaker received, re-ceived, through the Chief of Information In-formation Senior Officer Civil Schooling Program, an MA in Communications and Journalism Journal-ism from Stanford University, 1960. Colonel Shoemaker was graduated grad-uated from the United States Military Academy, class of 1940, and commissioned a 2d Lt. in the Field Artillery. His military education has included the National Na-tional War College, 1958; Armed Forces Staff College, 1954; and the Command and General Staff College, 1950. |