Michael Lee Lanning
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Michael Lee Lanning | |
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| Born | September 18, 1946 |
| Occupation | writer |
Michael Lee Lanning (born September 18, 1946) is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel[1] and the author of military non-fiction.[2]
Lanning was born September 18, 1946, in Sweetwater, Texas.[3]
- Trent High School, Trent, Texas 1964
- Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, BS Agricultural Education, 1968. Lanning completed student teaching in Stephen F. Austin High School, Bryan, Texas, under the tutelage of James C. Dooley, teacher of vocational agriculture.
- East Texas State University, Commerce, TX, MS Journalism 1977
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 1979
Personal life
In 2003, Lanning was diagnosed with kidney cancer. He underwent treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and is now stable. A Washington Post article chronicled his journey and the story of the doctors who treated him.[4]
Military career
Upon graduation from Texas A&M in 1968, Lanning was commissioned a second lieutenant and received infantry, airborne, and ranger training at Fort Benning, Georgia. After a tour as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, he reported to Vietnam where he served as an infantry platoon leader, reconnaissance platoon leader, and rifle company commander in the 2d Battalion, 3rd Infantry,[5] 199th Light Infantry Brigade.[6][7] Subsequent tours of duty took him throughout the United States and Germany as he served as an instructor in the U.S. Army Ranger School, a mechanized infantry company commander in the 3rd Infantry Division, and executive officer of an infantry battalion in the 1st Cavalry Division. Non command assignments included Public Affairs Officer for the 1st Cavalry Division and I Corps and the plans officer for the American Forces Information Service.
