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 124 STAT. 2780 PUBLIC LAW 111–262—OCT. 8, 2010 Public Law 111–262 111th Congress An Act To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of five United States Army 5-Star Generals, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisen- hower, Henry ‘‘Hap’’ Arnold, and Omar Bradley, alumni of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to coincide with the celebration of the 132nd Anniversary of the founding of the United States Army Command and General Staff College. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘5-Star Generals Commemorative Coin Act’’. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds the following: (1) The United States Army Command and General Staff College, founded in 1881, has in its many evolutionary forms, served this country consistently and well for 127 years. (2) The Command and General Staff College has played a decisive role in the education and training of officers, particu- larly in their field grade years of service, in times of war and peace, since its establishment. (3) The Command and General Staff College has had a salutatory effect on many fields of battle by providing its officer student bodies the necessary skills of battle management, leadership development, and the most modern and effective command and staff action procedures, all of which have been key to this Nations’ success in its many conflicts which, thereby, have preserved its freedoms and way of life. (4) The Command and General Staff College, the Nations’ oldest military staff college, does not have a commemorative coin cast in celebrating its long and honorable history, dis- playing its heritage, and serving as a reminder to the holder of such coins the service to the Nation its graduates have provided in war and peace. (5) The United States Army Command and General Staff College is the Nation’s largest and oldest military staff college, continuing to educate officers from all United States branches of military services, select members of our civil government, and officers from many friendly and allied nations from around the globe. Located in the middle of the American heartland, will continue to serve as a beacon of light to the proposition of intellectual curiosity and professional military excellence in the development of its students, and serve as a link to 5-Star Generals Commemorative Coin Act. 31 USC 5112 note. Oct. 8, 2010 [H.R. 1177]