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 1932 - 2006 (74 years)
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| Name |
Robert W. Bauchspies |
| Nickname |
Bob |
| Birth |
17 May 1932 |
Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
22 Dec 2006 |
Alpharetta, Fulton, Georgia |
| Person ID |
I911 |
Georgia Society Member Graves Registry |
| Last Modified |
19 Jan 2008 |
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| Notes |
- Bob spent 30 years as an officer in the Corps of Engineers, United States Army. He was the third of four brothers, all officers, and a sister married to an army officer. Collectively, the Bauchspies’ have served over 175 yers in the armed services.
Bob Retired from the service in 1984 having served as Chief, Systems Analysis and Evaluation Dictorate, Ballistic Missile Defense Program Office with the Army General Staff, the Pentagon. A decorated veteran of the Viet Nam war, his last overseas assignment was as Commander, Joint Task Force, Defense Nuclear Agency, Enewetak Atoll, in the Marshall Islands. The Atoll had been used as an experimental site for the expenditure of 43 atomic weapons and the first H-Bomb in the 1950’s. Bob’s 13 month assignment was to clean up the residual radiation in the Atoll’s 47 Islands, restore the Atoll, and return it to the Marshallese people which was successfully accomplished.
After moving to Georgia in 1995 form the Washington area, Bob joined the Piedmont Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and served in several capacities, from Deputy Commander of the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution Color Guard, Chairman of the JROTC and Senior ROTC, as well as President of the Piedmont Chapter. Bob was also co-founder of the Casimir Pulaski SAR
Chapter in Carrollton and served as the founding Secretary.
Bob served a two year appointment by the Mayor as a Board Member of the Alpharetta Development Authority which was instrumental in relocating the North Metro Branch of the Georgia State University to Alpharetta. He recently served on two City Police Promotion Boards, and was a Board Member of the Windward Homeowners’ Association, and an active member of the Windward Association of Retired Men and Veterans of Foreign Wars and many other fraternal/military organizations.
Bob held a BS degree (magna cum laude) in Business Administration from Benedictine College and was a graduate of the USA Engineer Advanced Course, the USA Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a Noble of the Systic Shrine.
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