Frederick Carlton Weyand (15 September 1916 – 10 February 2010) was a US Army General who served as commander of the MACV from 1972 to 1973 (succeeding Creighton Abrams) and Chief of Staff of the US Army from 1974 to 1976 (succeeding Abrams and preceding Bernard W. Rogers).
Biography[]
Frederick Carlton Weyand was born in Arbuckle, California in 1916, and he served in the US Army intelligence in China, Burma, and India during World War II. From 1946 to 1949, he served as the chief of the Army's intelligence in the Middle Pacific, and he served as assistant chief of staff for the US 3rd Infantry Division from 1950 to 1951 during the Korean War. From 1964 to 1967, he commanded the US 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii and then in Vietnam, and he became commander of the II Field Force in 1967. He dissented from William Westmoreland's "body count" tactics, instead supporting the pacification of South Vietnam's villages as the most effective strategy. He went on to serve as commander of the MACV from 1972 to 1973, when the United States ended its involvement in the Vietnam War, and he served as Army Chief of Staff from 1974 to 1976. He died in Honolulu in 2010 at the age of 93.