Major General Merdith W. B.
(Bo) Temple
Major General Merdith W. B. (Bo) Temple became the Deputy
Commanding General and Deputy Chief of Engineers on 15 December 2009.
As such, he is second in command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE),
which has over 36,000 employees, and manages an over $40 billion annual
program.
MG Temple was designated as Acting Chief of Engineers and Acting
Commander of USACE for a period of approximately one year between
LTG Van Antwerp's retirement in May of 2011 and LTG Bostick's Assumption
of Command on 22 May 2012.
Major General Temple’s previous assignment was as the Deputy
Commanding General of Civil and Emergency Operations (DCG-CEO) for the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As the Nation’s primary planner,
designer, builder, and operator of flood control, navigation,
environmental restoration, and multi-purpose water resource projects, he
managed the Army’s $10 billion annual Civil Works Program.
Additionally, he was responsible for the federal emergency flood
fighting effort, recovery operations, and emergency engineering and
public works support in response to natural or manmade disasters.
As the DCG-CEO, Major General Temple served as the President of the U.S.
Section of the International Navigation Association (PIANC), President
of the Corps’ Coastal Engineering Research Board, and Executive Director
of the Inland Waterways User Board.
Prior to serving as the DCG-CEO, Major General Temple was the
Deputy Commanding General of Military and International Operations, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, where he was responsible for policy, program,
and technical functions in the execution of over $20 billion of design,
construction, and environmental programs for the Department of Defense
and other federal agencies and foreign countries.
Before coming to Headquarters, Major General Temple served as
Commander of the North Atlantic Division for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. Other previous assignments include duty as the Theater
Engineer (C7), Combined Joint Task Force Seven, Baghdad, Iraq and
Commander of the Corps’ Transatlantic Programs Center in Winchester,
Virginia. He also served as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations
(G3), XVIII Airborne Corps and commanded both the 20th Engineer Brigade
(Combat) (Airborne Corps) and the 307th Engineer Battalion (Combat)
(Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Major General Temple has also served as a Platoon Leader in the
44th Engineer Battalion, Korea and in the 548th Engineer Battalion
(Combat) (Heavy), Ft. Bragg; and served on the staff of U.S. Army Europe
& 7th Army, Germany. He commanded A/307th and later served on the 307th
Engineer Battalion staff in Saudi Arabia, during the Persian Gulf War.
Major General Temple served at the NATO Headquarters in Turkey, with
the U.S. Army Personnel Command Center in Virginia, and as a Reserve
Component advisor with the Readiness Group in Denver, Colorado.
Major General Temple, a Virginia native, was commissioned in
the Engineer Branch in 1975. He earned a bachelors degree in civil
engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and a Masters degree in
civil engineering from Texas A&M University. He is also a graduate of
the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War
College, and is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth
of Virginia.
Major General Temple’s military decorations include the Legion of
Merit (two oak leaf clusters), the Bronze Star Medal, Joint Service
Commendation Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Army
Meritorious Service Medal (six oak leaf clusters), Joint Service
Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (four oak leaf
clusters), the Army Superior Unit Award, and the Master Parachutist
Badge.
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