Major General
Christian Patte

MG Christian Patte was born in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 25th, 1935. He immigrated to the United States in 1944 and obtained U.S. citizenship in 1950. MG Patte began his 33-year Army career by attending Ordnance Officer Basic Course at Aberdeen Proving Ground in August 1956

Following a career of ever-increasing leadership responsibility, including service in Vietnam and battalion command, MG Patte was selected as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe, and Seventh Army, Heidelberg, Germany in 1984. He supervised the operations of all logistical activities of U.S. Army Forces in Europe, with direct control over the 200th Theater Materiel Management Center. The scope of his oversight included logistics units and activities in Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and the BENELUX countries. He supervised the development and coordination of theater and strategic logistical plans and studies for NATO countries and the U.S.

From 1986 until his retirement in 1989, MG Patte served as Director of Logistics and Security Assistance for US Central Command (J4/J7) and was responsible for engineering, transportation, acquisition, supply, maintenance, services, prepositioning, host-nation support, and war planning. His responsibilities included directing a $1.7 billion yearly security assistance program, supervising offices and teams in 13 Middle-East and African countries, and an internal staff of 115 and 800 field personnel. He also programmed and budgeted, testified before US Congress, and negotiated support agreements and prepositioning equipment and materiel programs with foreign governments.

Following retirement in 1989, MG Patte served until 1996 as the Director of Logistics on the International Staff at Headquarters, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Brussels, Belgium.