MAJOR GENERAL SANFORD E. HOLMAN Vice Commander, Joint Warfighting Center, Deputy Joint Force Trainer J-7


Major General Holman is a warrior- citizen with 14 years of experience as a program and project manager, analyst, engineer, programmer, tester, and trainer for systems and software supporting the U.S. Army, Air Force and Intelligence Community. In 2008, he was appointed vice commander of the Joint Warfight- ing Center and deputy joint force trainer at U.S. Joint Forces Command. While at JFCOM, he also served as the deputy commander for Combined Joint Task Force-950 for the U.S. Second Fleet. Maj. Gen. Holman graduated from the


U.S. Military Academy and was com- missioned in 1978. He returned to active duty in 2007 and deployed to Djibouti as the deputy commander–Horn of Africa. He remained on active duty following his return and was assigned to JFCOM. He is also serving on the Secretary of the Army’s Reserve Forces Policy Commit- tee. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College, and holds two master’s degrees from the Florida Institute of Technology and the National Defense University.


BRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES W. HOOPER Deputy Director of Strategic Planning and Policy J-5, U.S. Pacific Command


Brigadier General Hooper is fluent in Mandarin, and has served several tours in China. Following his promotion to brigadier general, he was appointed U.S. defense attaché to the People’s Republic of China, serving from 2007-2009. Recently, the West Point graduate was the keynote speaker for the Achievement Week Banquet hosted by the Lambda Beta Beta chapter of Omega Psi Phi Inc. in Hawaii. Brig. Gen. Hopper served in Hawaii with the 25th Infantry Divi- sion from 1981 to 1983. The ranks of Omega are filled with some of America’s most prolific and talented men, including


Charles R. Drew, the physician and surgeon who developed improved techniques for blood storage; physicist and NASA astronaut Ronald McNair, Bill Cosby, and Carter G. Woodson, who pioneered the celebration of Black History Month.


BRIGADIER GENERAL


FREDERICK J. JOHNSON Alabama Army National Guard


Brigadier General Johnson was commissioned second lieutenant in the Army Reserve on December 16th, 1976 from the ROTC at South Carolina State University. He entered active duty Janu- ary 1977 at Ft. Knox, and was assigned to the Armor Officer Basic Course. He served in various active duty assign- ments from 1977 to 1988. Two years later, he entered the Alabama Army National Guard, where he served in numerous staff positions in operations, training, and intelligence and later as the assistant chief of staff at Headquarters, 62nd Troop Command. He served with distinction as the commander of the 3rd Battalion 200 Leadership Regiment; 167th Materiel Management Command; and the 621st Troop Support Command. Upon his promotion to brigadier general, he was assigned as the assistant adjutant general, Army Joint Forces Headquarters, Alabama Army National Guard.


BRIGADIER GENERAL LEODIS T. JENNINGS Special Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff G8, Headquarters, Department of the Army


Brigadier General Jennings enlisted in 1975 and served as an armor crewman, gunner and tank commander. He earned his commission after completing the ROTC program at North Carolina State University; he graduated with a Bachelor of Sci- ence degree in materials engineering in 1983. His most recent assignment was as the operational assistant to the director, Army National Guard. He has served in various other senior level positions in the Army National Guard to include the G-3, and as chief, Force Management Division. Prior to his return to the Army National Guard Readiness Center in 2006, he served as chief, Force Assessment, in the Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment Directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he developed analysis to assist in implementing the National Security Strategy. Brig. Gen. Jennings is both a force manager and strategic planner, having served in numerous and varied positions at the Army National Guard Readiness Center, Headquarters, Department of the Army and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.


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