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The California National Guard’s Moreno Valley Readiness Center will be renamed in honor of retired Lt. Gen. Herbert R. Temple Jr.
A ceremony is scheduled to be held Saturday.
Temple, 86, was in charge of the National Guard Bureau from 1986 until he retired four years later, according to a report first published in The Press-Enterprise.
A Palm Desert resident, Temple held the highest position in the National Guard and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which advises the president and members of his administration on military issues.
Temple served in the Korean War and was in the Army National Guard, which he joined immediately after graduating high school in 1947.
The Moreno Valley Readiness Center is used to train local National Guard troops. Temple already has several training centers named after him, at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in Arkansas, according to the report.
