(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Brigadier General Thomas Everett Griess (ASN: 0-25533), United States Army, was awarded 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 a Professor in the Department of Military Arts and Engineering, and culminating as Head of the History Department, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, from 1963 to 1969.