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==Career==

==Career==

Stroud received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the State of New York and studied as well at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, [[Kansas]], and the Army War College in Carlisle, [[Pennsylvania]]. He joined the Louisiana National Guard in June 1947. In 1962, he was named president of the National Guard Association of Louisiana. In 1989, he was appointed director of the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness. He was president too of the National Guard Association of the United States and president of the Adjutants General Association of the United States. Under Stroud, some 6,400 Louisiana National Guard personnel in 1991 were mobilized during [[Operation Desert Storm]], in which [[Iraq]]I forces were quickly expelled from [[Kuwait]]. Units under Stroud trained and participated in joint military exercises with other countries world-wide. Stroud worked to develop the Youth Challenge Program, which operating in thirty-seven states has sought to rehabilitate troubled young people and to give them the skills to render productive lives.<ref name=obit/>

Stroud received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of the State of New York and studied as well at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, [[Kansas]], and the Army War College in Carlisle, [[Pennsylvania]]. He joined the Louisiana National Guard in June 1947. In 1962, he was named president of the National Guard Association of Louisiana. In 1989, he was appointed director of the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness. He was president too of the National Guard Association of the United States and president of the Adjutants General Association of the United States. Under Stroud, some 6,400 Louisiana National Guard personnel in 1991 were mobilized during [[Operation Desert Storm]], in which [[Iraq]]I forces were quickly expelled from [[Kuwait]]. Units under Stroud trained and participated in joint military exercises with other countries worldwide. Stroud worked to develop the Youth Challenge Program, which operating in thirty-seven states has sought to rehabilitate troubled young people and to give them the skills to render productive lives.<ref name=obit/>

In 1972, Governor Edwin Edwards in the first of his four terms in office, named Stroud the assistant adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard. Edwards' first successor and two-time opponent, David Treen, elevated Stroud to adjutant general in 1980. In 1991, Stroud spoke out while in uniform against [[David Duke]], the former [[Ku Klux Klan]]sman and [[Republican party|Republican]] gubernatorial candidate who lost that year to [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Edwin Edwards. Stroud said the endorsement of Edwards was his only venture into politics but he would again if needed speak out against Duke.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theamericanscholar.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-david-duke/#|title=The Rise and Fall of David Duke: Breaking the code of right-wing populism in Louisiana|publisher=''The American Scholar''|author=Lawrence N. Powell|date=September 1, 1995|accessdate=September 15, 2017}}</ref>

In 1972, Governor Edwin Edwards in the first of his four terms in office, named Stroud the assistant adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard. Edwards' first successor and two-time opponent, David Treen, elevated Stroud to adjutant general in 1980. In 1991, Stroud spoke out while in uniform against [[David Duke]], the former [[Ku Klux Klan]]sman and [[Republican party|Republican]] gubernatorial candidate who lost that year to [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Edwin Edwards. Stroud said the endorsement of Edwards was his only venture into politics but he would again if needed speak out against Duke.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theamericanscholar.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-david-duke/#|title=The Rise and Fall of David Duke: Breaking the code of right-wing populism in Louisiana|publisher=''The American Scholar''|author=Lawrence N. Powell|date=September 1, 1995|accessdate=September 15, 2017}}</ref>