Major Wallace Cole Hogan, Jr. served in the U.S. Army for 10 years and 11 months. Wallace served with the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans - and the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne). Wallace served in the Cold War, the War in Afghanistan and the Global War on Terrorism, and during the years of Gulf War. Wallace was 40 years old.
He was commissioned from Officer Candidate School in 1981 and joined the Georgia Army National Guard as a rifle and mortar platoon leader. He served with the 19th Special Forces Group in Colorado as a detachment executive officer and then commander, took the Special Forces Officer Qualification Course at Fort Bragg, and served with the 20th Special Forces Group in Alabama as a detachment commander. He went through the infantry officer advanced course at Benning and the Special Forces Thai language course at Bragg.
He took an active duty appointment as a captain in April 1993 and served with the 1st Special Forces Group at Fort Lewis as battalion operations officer and detachment commander, and commanded the Special Forces instructor detachment at the Army Jungle Operations Training Battalion at Fort Sherman in Panama.
He was fond of a line of Colin Powell's: all my life I have always wanted to be a soldier. He was looking forward to commanding a Special Forces company later that year.
He cycled the many miles from his house to the Pentagon, worked out hard every day, rose early to get the most out of it, and had a voice and a manner that stood out in a crowd. He read military history, particularly the Civil War, and he and his wife visited the battlefields.
They met when he fell ill at the jungle warfare school in Panama and she was the doctor in charge of his treatment. She says that to be around him you had to be energetic.
A native of Macon, Georgia, Major Wallace C. Hogan Jr. died as a result of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.
On graduating from Valdosta State College, Hogan accepted a commission in the Georgia Army National Guard as an Infantry Officer. He served in the 19th and 20th Special Forces Groups before gaining a Regular Army commission in 1993.
MAJ Hogan was serving as a Special Operations staff officer and was the executive officer to the Army’s Chief of Plans and Policies at the time of his death. His office was located near the point of impact of the commandeered American Airlines Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon.
Awards & Decorations
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For service and achievement
Meritorious Service Medal two oak leaf clusters ×3
Army Commendation Medal one oak leaf cluster ×2
Army Achievement Medal five oak leaf clusters ×6
Unit awards
Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal two oak leaf clusters ×3
Burial Information
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