Please note that the content of this book mainly consists of articles that are available online from Wikipedia or other free sources. Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez (born September 9, 1953) is a retired general of the United States Army who served as the commander of the V Corps of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic in the United States Army when he retired on November 1, 2006. At the time of his retirement, Lieutenant General Sanchez described his career as a casualty of the Abu Ghraib scandal. Sanchez was born into a poor Mexican-American family in Rio Grande City, Texas. During the Vietnam War (1969-1973), Sanchez was in college. He spent a year at the University of Texas at Austin on an ROTC scholarship and eventually transferred to Texas A&M University in Kingsville, Texas, where he graduated in 1973 with a double degree in mathematics and history.