HICKORY — The Lake Hickory Rotary Club will have a brigadier general as guest speaker at its regular meeting at noon Tuesday in the ballroom of Lake Hickory Country Club. Brig Gen Charles Swannack Jr., deputy director of strategy plans and policy will speak on strategy and future planning to fulfill future US military requirements.
   Swannack was commissioned as a second lieutenant of infantry from the US Military Academy in 1971. His first assignment was with the Berlin Brigade Federal Republic of Germany from 1972 to 1975 where he served as a rifle platoon leader, scout platoon leader rifle. company executive officer and aide-de-camp.
   From 1976 to 1979 Swannack served at Fort Bragg as S3, Air and Alpha Company Commander, First Battalion (Airborne) 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.
   He then served as a training and emergency deployment readiness exercise officer at XVIII Airborne Corps From 1981 to 1984.
   Swannack taught mechanical engineering as an associate professor at the US Military Academy. From 1985 to 1991 he served with the 9th Infantry Regiment at Fort Ord Calif. His initial duty was an executive officer 3rd Battalion and subsequently as Regimental S3 and Regimental Executive Officer He later assumed command of the 2nd Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment/
   From 1992 to 1994 Swannack served as politico-military planner and chief Caribbean Basin Branch Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate J5 on the joint staff.. He assumed command of the 2nd Brigade 25th Infantry Division (Light) in June 1994.
   From January to June 1995 he deployed the brigade to Haiti and conducted peacekeeping operations during Operation Uphold Democracy. Swannack was responsible for maintaining a secure and stable environment in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
   From April 1996 to June 1997 Swannack served as the Chief of Staff, 25th Infantry Division (Light) and US Army Hawaii. He then served for a year as assistant division commander for operations 82nd Airborne Division He assumed duties as the deputy director for strategy plan and policy office of the deputy chief of staff for operations and plans headquarters Department of the Army in August 1998.
   For more details call Jim Correll at 324-7333.

[The Charlotte Observer. Charlotte, NC, 20 Oct 1999, Wed, Page 104]