Joseph GalleIII attended Mississippi College where he received the B.A. in 1954. He attended New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, earning the Bachelor of Divinity in 1961. Galle served as the pastor of First Baptist Church of Larose, Louisiana, a church for which he was the first pastor when the church was built in 1956. In 1961 he was commissioned a U.S. Army chaplain and served at Fort Bliss, Texas, and had several assignments in Germany (1963-1967), before returning to the states to Fort Polk, Louisiana. In 1969 he served with the 25th Infantry Division Artillery in Cu Chi, Vietnam. His service in Vietnam involved regular services for soldiers at fire support bases around and near Cu Chi. Daily flights to fire support bases and back to Cu Chi represented the focus of his work in Vietnam. Chaplain Galle was awarded the Silver Star for heroism for his actions during an overnight attack on one of the fire support bases. Selected at the Chaplains School to serve on the ChaplainÕs Board, Galle received additional schooling. Receiving an M.A. in Sociology from Long Island University in 1972 and the Master of Theology in 1973 from Princeton Theological Seminary, he served on the U.S. Army Chaplains Board (1973-1976), and as editor of the ÒMilitary Chaplains Review JournalÓ from July 1974-September 1976. He then served as Division Chaplain at Camp Casey, Seoul, Korea (1976-1977) before returning once more to Fort Polk, Louisiana, where he retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1981.