Background
Heiser, Joseph Miller was born on January 22, 1914 in Charleston, South Carolina. Son of Joseph Miller and Alma (Maetze) Heiser.
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A Soldier Supporting Soldiers is the second in a series of works by distinguished U.S. Army logisticians that focus on firsthand experience in the organization of combat service support. These studies seek to describe and analyze problems still familiar to those who provide the materials and other support required by today's Army. Their authors also clearly underscore the challenges that their successors will face in an era of limited resources. With active careers that span the last half century of Army history General Carter B. Magruder, in the recently published Recurring Logistic Problems As I Have Observed Them and Lt. Gen. Joseph M. Heiser, Jr., in the pages that follow, have much to say to the student of military operations about what constitutes efficiency and effectiveness in military logistics. General Heiser's study marks a clear departure from the Center of Military History's policy of refraining from publishing biographies or memoirs. Although we believe that the compelling reasons for establishing such a policy fifty years ago still pertain, we also think an exception should be made in this case. General Heiser has a unique skill in conveying important logistical lessons through personal anecdotes. Especially in his early chapters, he uses specific incidents from his own career to illuminate for his reader larger principles of logistics. Thus in this special instance our audience is treated to an extended, personal account that in some ways has just as much to say about military leadership and ethic as it does about logistics. The logistical principles discussed in this study appear especially vital to today's military students, given the recent massive challenges to logisticians posed by operations in the Persian Gulf and possible future contingency operations. I urge them to study and reflect on the insights provided in the engaging chapters that follow. Harold W. Nelson Washington, D.C. Brigadier General, USA December 1990 Chief of Military History
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Heiser, Joseph Miller was born on January 22, 1914 in Charleston, South Carolina. Son of Joseph Miller and Alma (Maetze) Heiser.
Student, Providence College, 1932-1934; student, The Citadel, 1939-1941; student, Command and General Staff College, 1949; Master of Business Administration, University of Chicago, 1956; postgraduate, National War College, Washington, 1960-1961.
Enlisted as private, United States Army, 1942;
1st sergeant, United States Army, 1942-1943;
Second lieutenant, United States Army, 1943;
advanced through grades to Lieutenant general, United States Army, 1969;
assistant Executive officer, Office Chief of Ordnance, 1946-1949;
Executive officer, Office Chief of Ordnance, 1956-1960;
ammunition supply officer, World World War II, European Theatre of Operations, 1943-1945;
assistant ordnance officer, Pusan Base Command, 1950;
ordnance officer, 7th Infantry Division, 1951;
Executive officer, director training, Ordnance School, CONUS, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland., 1951-1954;
assistant chief of staff, G-4, 4th Logistical Command, Verdun, France, 1961-1962;
chief of staff and deputy commander, 4th Logistical Command, 1962-1963;
chief of staff, United States Army Communications Zone, Europe, Orleans, France, 1963-1965;
commanding general, United States Army Communications Zone, Europe, 1965;
special assistant, CINCUSAREUR, 1965;
assistant deputy chief of staff for logistics, Department Army, Washington, 1966-1968;
commanding general, 1st Logistical Command, United States Army, Vietnam, 1968-1969;
deputy chief of staff, Department Army, 1969-1973;
vice president, Wilbur Smith and Associates, Columbia, South Carolina., since 1973. Board directors 1st Citizens Bank & Trust Company. Consultant, lecturer General Accounting Office, Secretary Defense, Logistics Management Institute, Washington.
Headquarters North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels. Comptroller general annual award for service General Accounting Office, 1977. United States Presidential adviser.
Adjunct Professor University of Southern California, Appalachian State University. Board advisers Society Logistics Engineers.
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District chairman Fleur-de-Lis (France) council Boy Scouts American, 1963-1965. Member of national board Boy Scouts American. Past president, board directors, camp and athletic director Boys Clubs American, Columbia, South Carolina., 1928-1934.
Member American Defense Preparedness Association (officer, board advisers), Association United States Army, National Security Industrial Association (honorary life member, certified of merit, award of Logistics Emeritus 1980), American Management Association, Society Logistics Engineers (president logistical education fund, Founders award 1982), Retired Officers Association (director).
Married Edith Cox, September 24, 1937. Children: Annette Heiser Ficker, Joel M., Joan Heiser Weitzel.