Joseph K. Bratton
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Joseph K. Bratton (born on April 4, 1926 in St. Paul, Minnesota) was an American Army officer and nuclear engineer. He graduated third in the class of 1948 at the United States Military Academy and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He served with an engineer battalion in Austria in 1949-52 and with the divisional 13th Engineer Combat Battalion in Korea in 1953-54, both before and after the armistice there. He later commanded the 24th Engineer Battalion, 4th Armored Division, in Germany (1964-65) and the 159th Engineer Group in Vietnam (1969-70). Bratton also held numerous staff assignments. He was a military assistant to Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor in 1967-69 and Secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1970-72. Having received a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959, Bratton served as Chief of Nuclear Activities, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE), in 1972-75 and Director of Military Applications at the U.S. Department of Energy in 1975-79. His last assignments before becoming Chief of Engineers in October 1980 were as Division Engineer of the Corps' South Atlantic Division (1979-80) and then briefly as Deputy Chief of Engineers.
His military awards included;
- the Defense Distinguished Service Medal
- the Army Distinguished Service Medal
- the Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters
- the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
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This article contains public domain text from Lieutenant General Joseph K. Bratton. Portraits and Profiles of Chief Engineers. Retrieved on August 20, 2005.
| Preceded by: John W. Morris |
Chief of Engineers 1980—1984 |
Succeeded by: Elvin R. Heiberg III |
