George M. Tronsrue Jr. *66

George Tronsrue, retired Army colonel, died Dec. 30, 2013, at age 83.

Tronsrue graduated from West Point in 1952. After tours in the United States and Japan, he taught at West Point, and was an adviser in Vietnam from 1961 to 1962. After attending the Command and General Staff College, he earned an MPA degree in 1966 from the Woodrow Wilson School.

He volunteered to return to Vietnam and served from 1967 to 1968, and during the Tet offensive, when his battalion was decorated for action in battle. After returning to the United States, Tronsrue served at the Pentagon and was a principal staff officer during the Paris peace talks, which later ended the U.S. role in Vietnam. He retired in 1977, after heading Western Regional Recruiting during the beginning of the all-volunteer Army.

Tronsrue became a certified financial planner and worked at Dean Witter Reynolds from 1978 to 1988, after which he started his own financial-planning firm. He retired in 2010. He was the honorary colonel of his old infantry regiment from 2000 to 2007, which included a deployment to Bosnia in support of a peacekeeping mission.

He is survived by his wife, Judith; her two daughters; his three daughters; 15 grandchildren; and his former wife, Florence.

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