SCHWARZKOPF, Herbert Norman

ObitsArizona.com Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf August 22, 1934 ~ December 27, 2012 Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78. Schwarzkopf died Thursday in Tampa, Fla. A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper. He lived in retirement in Tampa, where he had served in his last military assignment as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. That is the headquarters responsible for U.S. military and security concerns in nearly 20 countries from the eastern Mediterranean and Africa to Pakistan. Former President George H. W. Bush, who is hospitalized, said the general was a "true American patriot and one of the great military leaders of his generation.