Major General
Paul L. Greenberg

Major General Paul L. Greenberg ws born in Chicago, Illinois on September 25, 1935. Upon completion of his Reserve officer training and undergraduate studies at Texas A&M University, in 1959 he was commissioned a second lieutenant and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He entered active duty in 1959 as a nuclear weapons instructor at Sandia Base, New Mexico.

He served in the Vietnam Conflict as the first commander of the 191st Ordnance Battalion, and as a missile staff officer, Ammunition Division, G4, U.S. Army, Vietnam. During the conflict, he helped to create the requisitioning system for ammunition used in Vietnam by developing and implementing a credit allocation system to manage critically short items.

In 1976, as the commander of Longhorn Ammunition Plant, he rescued the plant from the closure list and was successful in gaining an increased share of business for the plant. As the commander of Rock Island Arsenal in 1981, he initiated the construction phase of the greatest modernization program of the Army arsenal system since World War II.

He provided the leadership during the Persian Gulf War required to supply record quantities of ammunition and other war materiel to combat soldiers deployed to Southwest Asia, and as a capstone to his distinguished military career, he devised the only successful Defense Reutilization Program in the country for Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition plants that were scheduled for closure. General Greenberg is a vice president at Day and Zimmerman and the president of the Ordnance Corps Association.