Leon E. Salomon

In 2019, Salomon received a formal letter of reprimand from the Army for a charge of indecent assault, in which he groped the spouse of the late BG William R. Holmes, GEN Salomon's direct subordinate. Ms. Vance remarried to Major General Robert D. Shadley(USA Retired)in 2018. Ms. Camilla Vance Shadley is the daughter of former SecState Cyrus R. Vance (also DEPSECDEF, SECARMY, GEN COUNSEL Army). GEN Salomon, at the same cocktail party then further sought out a stranger, Ms. Vance's identical twin sister, Grace R. Vance, introduced himself and then made indecent sexual comments about her and her sister. This occurred at a pre-AUSA annual convention social at the General’s home at Ft Belvoir, VA October 1994. The Army refused to investigate his career, as requested by Ms Vance Shadley. The Army determined that they would not seek any further disciplinary action.

Since retiring, Salomon was elected to the GRC International Board of Directors. He also works as a logistics consultant and is affiliated with Gary A. Dunbar, Inc. From 1996 to 1998, he was vice president for procurement and logistics for Rubbermaid and senior vice president for procurement at Rubbermaid from 1998 to 1999. He is on the board of directors for Global Security Management, ATC Materials, Inc. and Eagle Systems and Services, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Columbia Group.

Salomon's next key assignments included Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Army Materiel Command (1988–89), Deputy Commanding General for Logistics U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, Deputy Commanding General for Combined Arms Support, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command and Commanding General, United States Army Combined Arms Support Command and Fort Lee, Fort Lee, Virginia, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the Army. His career culminated as Commanding General, United States Army Materiel Command, from 11 February 1994 to 27 March 1996.

Following his promotion to brigadier general in 1986, Salomon was named the 23rd Chief of Ordnance and Commandant of the United States Army Ordnance Center and School at Aberdeen Proving Ground. During his two-year tenure, he worked to improve the training, doctrine and evaluation programs at the Ordnance School. He encouraged faculty and staff to take a teacher-mentor-counselor approach in the training process, to stress proficiency at all levels, and to place more emphasis on "hands-on" activity in the training process. He stressed improvements in competence for all officers, warrant officers and enlisted personnel, and improved the quality and extent of career development guidance.

Following graduation from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1978, Salomon was assigned to the Office of the Army Chief of Staff as the Chief of the Commercial Industrial Type Activity Team. In 1980, he became the Director of Combat Services Support Systems. He became involved in the drafting of the new proponency regulation that resulted in the recreation of the branch chief concept for Combat Service Support Branches. The end result was the re-establishment of the position of Chief of Ordnance and the rebirth of the Ordnance Corps under the Army Regimental Concept.

In 1974, Salomon transferred to the Ordnance Corps and became Commander of the 19th Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Support Command, in Giessen, Germany. He later became Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics for the 3d Armored Division, in Frankfurt.

Following three years as an infantry officer, Salomon transferred to the Chemical Corps in 1962. Following assignments as a Chemical School instructor and responsibility for an inventory control point in Orléans, France, he became involved in his first assignment with leveraging technology as Chief of the Automated Logistics Tests for the Division Logistics Systems at Fort Hood, Texas. After graduation from the Command and General Staff College (1969), a tour in Vietnam (1969–70), and graduate studies in logistics management at the Air Force Institute of Technology, he was again put to work developing automation systems to support logistics.

General Leon Edward Salomon (born 27 April 1936) is a retired United States Army general who served as Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army from 1986 to 1988.

Salomon was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 27 April 1936 and was drafted into the Army on 18 June 1958. On completion of Infantry Officer Candidate School, he was commissioned a second lieutenant on 24 June 1959. Salomon has Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and biology from the University of Florida in 1958 and a Master of Science degree in logistics management from the United States Air Force Institute of Technology in 1971. His military education includes the Chemical Officer Advanced Course, the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Salomon next went on to command the Division Support Command for the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. Following his tour there, he became the Deputy Commanding General, 21st Support Command, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army in Kaiserslautern, Germany.