(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Brigadier General Thomas Joseph McGuire, Jr., United States Army, was awarded a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Army Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Deputy J-5, Plans and Policy Directorate, Headquarters, Readiness Command, from 1971 to 1974.