{"id":37,"date":"2025-10-31T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:41:44","slug":"lt-gen-paul-e-funk-usa-ret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/lt-gen-paul-e-funk-usa-ret\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. Gen. Paul E. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Funk (USA, ret.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Board Member<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Portrait_of_U-1.S._Army_Maj._Gen._Paul_E._Funk-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Portrait_of_U-1.S._Army_Maj._Gen._Paul_E._Funk-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Portrait_of_U-1.S._Army_Maj._Gen._Paul_E._Funk.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Lt. Gen Paul E. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Funk (USA, ret.)<\/b>\u00a0served as Commanding General, III Corps; Commanding General, US Army Armor Center and Fort Knox, and Commanding General, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Armored Division during the Gulf War.\u00a0 During Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, he became the first Commander to lead the Division in combat since World War II. \u00a0LTG (ret) Funk was also Commander, Fort Hood, Texas.\u00a0 Following his military service, he was Director of the Army War College program at Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Texas in Austin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board Member Lt. Gen Paul E. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Funk (USA, ret.)\u00a0served as Commanding General, III Corps; Commanding General, US Army Armor Center and Fort Knox, and Commanding General, 3rd Armored Division during the Gulf War.\u00a0 During Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, he became the first Commander to lead the Division in combat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}