Brooks family rises through the Army ranks

FORT STEWART - Colonel Vincent Brooks is on the road to becoming a part of Army history. <br> <br> His father, Leo Brooks Senior, is a retired brigadier general. Brother Leo Brooks Junior is also a brigadier general who will soon become commandant of cadets at West Point. <br> <br> And Vincent&#39;s turn is coming. He&#39;s on a promotion list for brigadier general. <br> <br> If he earns his first general&#39;s star, his family will become one of the few black families in which a father and two sons are Army generals. <br> <br> Vincent Brooks has the credentials. He graduated from West Point in 1980, and he&#39;s the first in that class to get a nomination for general officer. He&#39;s also the youngest soldier on the list. <br> <br> Leo Junior and Vincent also are a rare example of brothers serving as Army generals at the same time. <br> <br> Vincent learned of his nomination last week. It must be approved by the Senate. <br> <br> Yesterday, he left his post at Fort Stewart and the Third Infantry Division, where he served the past two years as 1st Brigade commander, for a position at the Pentagon. <br> <br> During Vincent Brooks&#39; time at Fort Stewart, he led three-thousand troops on a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, where they worked with the 101st Airborne Division. <br> <br> Brooks doesn&#39;t talk about his nomination without crediting those around him. <br> <br> He said, ``We&#39;re role models to a lot of young people not just African-Americans and soldiers. People can see the achievement and how hard work leads to it.&#39;&#39;

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