A BACKGROUND article here on the commander of the 1st Armored Division who is about to receive his 3d star and take over as commander of V Corps. It may not actually be true that in America anyone can grow up to be president...but it is true that anyone has the opportunity to make much of himself in the Army.

"We lived on welfare, in a single-parent home" in Rio Grande City, he recalled in a recent interview in his temporary office here in an old airport warehouse. Sanchez, 52, did not come from a military family, but said he decided in eighth grade that he would become a soldier. "I saw that as a means of escaping poverty."