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His early assignments included platoon leader and staff assignments, primarily in the 1140th Engineer Battalion, and he commanded the battalion's Company C from 1980 to 1983.[9]
He later carried out assignments at the National Guard Bureau before serving as Senior National Guard Advisor for U.S. Army South from 1994 to 1995.[11]
Later career
Lt. Gen. Vaughn (right) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense Paul McHale (left) brief reporters in the Pentagon on the involvement of the military in border security operations on May 18, 2006.
From 1997 to 2000 Vaughn was Chief of the Operations Division at National Guard Bureau,[12] and he was assigned as the Army's Deputy Director for Military Support to Civil Authorities from 2000 to 2002.[13] He was on Interstate 395 en route to the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001. He observed the hijacked Flight 77 Boeing 757 in flight, parked his car, ran to the building, and took part in the initial response to the casualties and damage caused when the plane crashed into the west side of the building.[14]
In September, 2002 Vaughn was assigned as Deputy Director of the Army National Guard, succeeding Michael J. Squier, and he served until November, 2003.[15]
Vaughn was appointed Director of the Army National Guard in June, 2005, and he served until retiring in 2009. He was succeeded by Raymond W. Carpenter in an acting capacity until William E. Ingram Jr. became director in 2011.[17][18]
One of the initiatives that operated during Vaughn's tenure, the Guard Recruiting Assistance Program (G-RAP), was later the subject of controversy and investigations.[19] G-RAP offered a $2,000 bonus to Army National Guard members for each new recruit they helped bring into the National Guard during its expansion as part of the Global War on Terrorism.[20] As a recruiting tool, G-RAP was widely viewed as a success, because it helped the National Guard meet or exceed its annual end strength goal of 350,000.[21] Subsequent investigations indicated that abuse of the program might have involved more than $10 million in fraudulent bonus payments, and perhaps as much as $50 million.[22] In 2015, Vaughn received a written reprimand from the U.S. Army, in which senior leaders criticized him for mismanaging G-RAP; Vaughn strongly denied the allegations.[23] Later investigations revealed that some Army leaders overstated the amount of fraud; of more than 106,000 soldiers who received payments under G-RAP, fewer than 130 were convicted of fraud, and the fraud involved less than $3 million in a program which expended $350 million.[24][25][26][27]
In 2010 the Army National Guard's GED Plus program, which enables recruits to complete their high school equivalency before beginning their initial training, was named for him. Vaughn spearheaded the creation of the program in 2006.[29]
Family
Vaughn's father, Clyde A. Vaughn, Sr., served in the National Guard as a Warrant Officer and retired in 1981.[30][31] Vaughn is married to Carolyn K. Vaughn.[32] Their son Chad is a fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps.[33]
Chronological list of assignments
August 1974 – January 1976, Platoon Leader, 1221st Transportation Company, Dexter, Missouri
January 1976 – May 1976, Platoon Leader, C Company, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Sikeston, Missouri
May 1976 – January 1978, Platoon Leader, Detachment 1, A Company, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Charleston, Missouri
January 1978 – February 1979, Reconnaissance Officer, Headquarters Company, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
February 1979 – January 1980, Engineering Officer, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
January 1980 – November 1980, Executive Officer, C Company, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Sikeston, Missouri
November 1980 – August 1983, Company Commander, C Company, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Sikeston, Missouri
August 1983 – August 1984, Utilities Engineer, 135th Engineer Group, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
September 1984 – December 1984, Operations Officer, 135th Engineer Group, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
December 1984 – June 1985, Operations Officer, 135th Engineer Group, Fort Clayton, Panama
July 1985 – November 1985, Exercise Officer, 193rd Infantry Brigade, Fort Clayton, Panama
November 1985 – June 1986, G3 Staff Officer, 193rd Infantry Brigade, Fort Clayton, Panama
June 1986 – June 1987, Executive Director, C Engineer Division, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, United States Army South, Fort Clayton, Panama
June 1987 – November 1987, S3 Officer, Task Force 1169, Ecuador
November 1987 – July 1988, Executive Director, C Engineer Division, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, United States Army South, Fort Clayton, Panama
August 1988 – June 1989, Student, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
July 1990 – May 1992, Task Force Commander, National Guard Bureau Operations and Training Division, Army National Guard Readiness Center, Arlington, Virginia
June 1992 – May 1993, Chief, Operations and Exercises Branch, Army National Guard Operations Division, Army National Guard Readiness Center, Arlington, Virginia
July 1994 – August 1995, Senior Army National Guard Advisor for Reserve Affairs, United States Army South, Fort Clayton, Panama
September 1995 – November 1997, Commander, Exercise Support Command and Deputy Chief of Staff Reserve Affairs-National Guard, United States Army South, Fort Clayton, Panama
December 1997 – February 2000, Chief, Operations Division, Army National Guard Readiness Center, Arlington, Virginia
February 2000 – September 2002, Deputy Chief of Staff, G3, United States Army, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia
September 2002 – November 2003, Deputy Director, Army National Guard, Army National Guard Readiness Center, Arlington, Virginia
November 2003 – June 2005, Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Guard Matters, Office of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia
June 2005 – May 2009, Director, Army National Guard, Army National Guard Readiness Center, Arlington, Virginia
^National Guard Professional Development Institute, Program of EventsArchived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Speaker’s biography, Clyde A. Vaughn, March 2, 2009, page 18
^U.S. House Appropriations Committee, Hearing Record, Military Construction Appropriations for 2004, Biographical sketch, Clyde A. Vaughn, 2003, page 12
^Yoakum, Frank (May 25, 2016). "Response to 60 Minutes Story on G-RAP". Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States (EANGUS). Alexandria, VA.
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