Bryan D. Brown

Bryan Douglas Doug Brown was a fourstar United States Army general, who retired in 2007 after four decades of military service. In his final assignment, he served as the seventh commander of U.S. Special Operations Command , from September 2, 2003 until July 9, 2007. As USSOCOMs commander, he was responsible for all unified special operations forces , both active duty and reserve.

Brown, a native of Fort Meade, Maryland, was born in 1948 and grew up in a military family. His father, Arnett Brown, was a member of the 89th Infantry Division during World War II, who became a Command Sergeant Major and served in the Vietnam War. His mother was Mary Lou Brown. Brown played baseball and basketball in high school, and eventually made it onto a semipro baseball team in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In a 2009 interview with The Year in Special Operations, he commented on his shortlived semipro baseball career, saying, I played three games with them and found that life couldnt be sustained onper game. Losing interest in college, and with his father in Vietnam, he walked into a recruiting office and joined the Army as an infantryman. He is married to Penelope Penny Brown , a native of Fayetteville. Together, they have two daughters and five grandchildren.

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