Brig.-Gen. Richard Malcolm Cutts, III (USMC)

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Following his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1923, General Cutts, a descendant of Francis Scott Key, spent much time overseas, and achieved distinction by winning both in 1926 and 1927 the United States national rifle championship. Upon the election in 1932 of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was attached to the White House as an aide to the President, serving there until his marriage in 1934.

During those early years of his military career, General Cutts gained recognition as an inventor, particularly of the Cutts Compensator, a device that lessens the recoil of a rifle or submachine gun. The compensator, which he developed with his father, Colonel Richard Cutts, had a great impact on firing concepts in weapon development. General Cutts also helped foster advances in ordnance, lubrication and the photography of projectiles in flight.

Among his posts, following White House duty, he was stationed in China during the Sino-Japanese War. In 1944 he was with the 2nd Marines during the final stages of fighting in the Pacific, seeing action in Saipan, Okinawa and the in the initial occupation of Nagasaki. He retired from active duty in 1936.