Press Release for the Country Club of Columbus: 2013 Veterans Appreciation Program
The CCC is proud to announce that Commanding General H.R. McMaster will honor us by speaking at the 11th annual Veterans Day Appreciation program at the club. The Country Club of Columbus and Fort Benning are two of the oldest institutions in our area. In 1909 the CCC was established and nine years later in 1918 Camp Benning began its mission of training the finest military in the world. We, at the CCC, have honored our Veterans in special ways since the beginning. In 1920 General Charles S. Farnsworth, the Commandant at Camp Benning, along with his top Captains helped christen the CCC’s new clubhouse after the first was burned. In the 30’s Harvest Dances were held to honor Benning’s student classes. These dances were attended by brass such as Colonel George C. Marshall, Assistant Commandant of Benning at the time, who later went on to be the primary military advisor to President Roosevelt during WWII, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of State. Our history together is rich. Some traditions never die. The CCC continues to honor it’s veterans throughout the year. For the past ten years the CCC has held a Veterans Day Ceremony and Dinner attended by members and their guests. During this event and for several weeks prior the club honors all of its past and present veterans. The prestigious presidents’ hall becomes the CCC’s hero’s hall with pictures of about 80 men and women who have served our country. Each year the Columbus High School ROTC will post the colors, the invocation will be given, joyful toasts made, and respects are paid to our Fallen Comrades.
More about our Commanding General:
Major General H.R. McMaster most recently served as Commander, Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force Shafafiyat (Transparency) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Previously he served as Director of Concept Development and Learning at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984. He holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
McMaster’s previous command assignments include Eagle Troop, Second Armored Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg, Germany and in Southwest Asia during the 1991 Persian Gulf War; 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in Schweinfurt Germany from 1999 to 2002; and 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Carson, Colorado and in Iraq from June 2004 to June 2006. Staff assignments include special assistant to Commander, Multinational Force-Iraq from February 2007 to May 2008; director, Commander’s Advisory Group at US Central Command from May 2003 to 2004; and squadron executive officer and regimental operations officer in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment from July 1997 to July 1999. He also served as an assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy from 1994 to 1996.
McMaster’s military education and training includes the Airborne and Ranger Schools, Armor Officer Basic and Career Courses, the Cavalry Leaders Course, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and a U.S. Army War College fellowship at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.  McMaster has also served as a senior consulting fellow at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.Â
McMaster is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married to the former Katie Trotter of Orange County, California. The McMasters have three daughters, Katharine, Colleen, and Caragh.Â
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