George Huston BARE

George Bare was an officer in the US Army when he competed in the 1924 modern pentathlon. Bare graduated from the US Military Academy in 1920. He became a career officer, retiring as a colonel. During World War II he was given the Legion of Merit for meritorious conduct while stationed in Italy from 1944-46. Although he died in Tacoma, Washington in 1981, Bare was buried at West Point.