First a bio of : Brigadier General (R) Anthony J. Tata
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Anthony J. Tata graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1981 and retired after 28 years of uniformed service on 1 June 2009 as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army.
Tony just recently donated $27,000, the sum of his royalties so far from his novel Sudden Threat, to the USO Metro DC Hospital Services Fund for Wounded Warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda Military Medical Centers. His new novel, Rogue Threat, will be released at the end of October 2009.
Among his many assignments as a paratrooper and combat infantryman, Tony commanded a paratrooper battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division and an air assault brigade in the 101st Airborne Division. Most recently he was the deputy commanding general of the 10th Mountain Division and Combined/Joint Task Force-76 in Afghanistan. BG Tata has deployed on combat missions and operations in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia, Panama, and the Philippines. He has been awarded the Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star, is a Master Parachutist and graduate of the U.S. Army's Ranger School.
Tony served as a National Security Fellow at Harvard University's JFK School of Government, has an M.A. in International Relations from the Catholic University of America, and earned a Master of Military Art and Science from the Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies. Notably, he is listed as a distinguished member of the 502nd, 504th, and 505th Parachute Infantry Regiments.
Tony is currently serving as a Broad Academy Fellow with the Eli Broad Foundation, which focuses on training superintendents and other leaders for service as superintendents in large urban school districts. After a career serving his country in uniform, Tony is finding his second calling in education reform in America. He begins as the Chief Operating Officer of DC Public Schools on June 1st 2009.
The author of the critically acclaimed fiction novel Sudden Threat , Tony continues to donate 100% of his book proceeds to the USO Metro DC Hospital Services fund for Wounded Warriors. BG Tata’s story has garnered national attention with appearances of FoxNews’ Fox and Friends Weekday and Weekend Editions, The O'Reilly Factor, America's Newsroom, The Daily Buzz with Andy Campbell and Kia Malone, local television stations around the country, and scores of nationally syndicated and local station radio interviews. On May 2, 2009, he was the keynote speaker at the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania annual Rally for the Troops on the steps of the state capitol.
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