"Serving Our Country: Robert L. Ord III", The Daily Times, April 15, 1990. Accessed July 5, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Robert L. Ord III, son of Laird and Ruth Ord of Galena, has been promoted in the U.S. Army to the rank of major general. Ord is commanding general of the U.S. Total Army Personnel Command in Alexandria, Va. In 1958, he graduated from Rancocas Valley Regional High School, Mount Holly, N.J., and received a master's degree in 1972 from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta."
