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IN THE NEWS
Aug 10, 2022
Cardwell wins Loudon special election
“Now is the time to get to work for the people of Loudon,” Cardwell said.
Cardwell said he has high hopes for the future of the city. One of his primary goals is to ensure the integrity of council’s decision-making processes.
“At the end of the day, we may disagree, but I want everyone to agree that the decision-making process was fair, open and disciplined,” he said.
June 15, 2022
Cardwell will command Loudon VFW
Huff Post 5150 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Loudon celebrated a change of command ceremony, installing John Cardwell as the new post commander.
As commander for Post 5150 and junior vice commander of VFW District 2, Cardwell boasts the experience of a long U.S. Army career and family legacy. His father, James Cardwell, was commander of Post 5150 from 1960-1961. The father and son legacy is the first for the post.
June 01, 2022
Memorial day events honor fallen veterans
Cardwell said that the VFW has embarked on several plans to locate, identify and mark the final resting places of as many Loudon county veterans as possible. The VFW will, with the consent of family, put up markers and clean the gravestones of any veterans. Some veterans do not have information on the markers that identify them as veterans, he said.
“We found six graves at Riverview that had military markers that were not on our list,” he said.
Source: www.news-herald.net/lcn/memorial-day-events-honor-fallen-veterans/article_52252dde-e018-5363-881b-b1acb7cf6af8.html
May 03, 2020
Loudon County History Project
Major General Cardwell is a native of Loudon Tennessee and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Loudon High School in 1980.
Source: https://www.loudoncountyvirtualarchives.com/services
Nov 12, 2021
Army ROTC Alumni Council Inducts 16 New Members to Hall of Fame
Inductees into the Army ROTC Hall of Fame include both UT alumni and honorary members, and are selected based on service to their country and communities.
“It says a lot about the character of the folks that in addition to graduating from UT and going out and having a great career, they chose service to their country as well,” said retired Brigadier General Geoffrey A. Freeman, a 1978 UT graduate and the current president of the Army ROTC Alumni Council. “We certainly want to honor those graduates who have excelled in their military and civilian careers. I think that in most cases these inductees would tell you that a large part of their success they’ll attribute to the military: the discipline they learned, the ethics, and the professionalism.”
Oct 04, 2015
Cardwell reflects on military career, command in Pacific
Cardwell was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, which is the highest peacetime medal, for his job as commander from January 2013 through August 2015.
Nov 01, 2017
Cardwell gets dream promotion
“I always tell people that you don’t expect, but you sure do dream about it,” Cardwell said. “... It’s very special to be able to have this. Normally the promotions are done somewhere else, but to be able to have it here in the community is very special.”
The promotion to two-star general raises Cardwell to a rank not many achieve in the reserves.
“There are only 39 two-stars in the Army Reserves,” retired Maj. Gen. Gary Beard said. “There are 78 one-stars. So that’s a big deal for someone to make it to the next rank. There’s only one three-star and that’s the chief of the Army Reserves. So for most of us, to make two stars, that’s it. That’s as high as it can get.”