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in strategic studies from the Army War College. His operational assignments as a general officer include a tour of duty as deputy commanding general for the 10th Mountain Division and deputy command- ing general for the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan. He also has served as a commander and staff officer with air assault, light infantry and training units.


MAJ. GEN. SANFORD HOLMAN Commander, 200th Military Police Command, Fort Meade, Md.


Maj. Gen. Sanford Holman leads more than 15,000 soldiers and has com- mand and control of the majority of Army Reserve military police units. These


units are engaged around the world, including Af- ghanistan, Iraq and Korea. Holman graduated from the U.S. Military


Academy and was commissioned in the infantry in 1978. In 1992, he left active duty to pursue a civilian career. He also began his Army Reserve service in the 80th Division Institutional Training. He served as military police brigade commander; battalion, commander; the Combat Service Support Brigade executive officer; military police brigade operations officer; and inspector general. He returned to active duty in 2007 and deployed as deputy commander of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa of the U.S. Africa Command. His most recent assignment was as vice com- mander of the Joint Warfighting Center and deputy joint-force trainer at the Joint Forces Command. He earned a master's degree in operations research from the Florida Institute of Technology and another in national security strategy from the National Defense University.


MAJ. GEN. CHARLES HOOPER Director of Strategy, Plans, and Programs


United States Africa Command Maj. Gen. Charles Hooper is direc- tor, strategic planning and policy at the Africa Command Following his promotion to the rank of brigadier general, he was appointed as a defense attaché to the People’s Republic of China,


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where he served from 2007 to 2009. Eight years earlier, he served as a country director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A 1979 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he served as a company officer at the Army Armor Center before he was assigned, in 1981, to the 1st Bri- gade, 25th Infantry Division. In the 1st Brigade, he served as a platoon leader, a battalion air operations officer, a brigade air operations officer, and an infantry company commander. In 1989, he earned a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. While at Har- vard, he was awarded the Don K. Price Award for Academic Excellence and Public Service and was the first Kennedy School of Government student selected as graduate commencement speaker at Harvard.


MAJ. GEN. REUBEN JONES Deputy Commanding General for


Operations


Installation Management Command Maj. Gen. Reuben Jones was pro- moted to his current rank of major gen- eral in January 2010. He has served as adjutant general of the Army; command- ing general, Army Physical Disabil- ity Agency; and executive director of the Military Postal Service. He graduated from Jackson State University in 1978 with a bachelor's


degree in sociology and he was commis- sioned through the ROTC program at Jackson State. He also holds a master's degree in strategic studies from the Army War College and a master's degree in administration from Central Michi- gan University. His military education includes several courses at the Adjutant General Airborne School, the Combined Arms Services Staff School, Command and General Staff College and the Army Senior Service College.


MAJ. GEN. ADOLPH MCQUEEN Deputy Commanding General, United States Army North (Fifth Army)


Maj. Gen. Adolph McQueen has


served in his current position since June 2012. Previously, he served as deputy commanding general for detention opera- tions and as the provost marshal general for United States Forces–Iraq. In this role, he oversaw 1,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and civilians, with over-


all responsibility for detainee operations to include care, lawful interrogations and prosecution in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, along with coordination with the Government of Iraq, United States Embassy, United Nations, Depart- ment of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice and


other agencies. He first joined the Marine Corps in the enlisted ranks in 1971. Eleven years later, in 1982, he received a direct commission into the Army. Since then he has held several command posi- tions including commander, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Cuba. In his civilian career, he serves as investigative super- visor with the Office of the Attorney General, Michigan. The general holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Wayne State University and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the Army War College.


MAJ. GEN. LAWARREN PATTERSON


Commanding General, U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon Maj. Gen. LaWarren Patterson took command of the Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon in July 2012. Prior to becoming the chief of signal, Maj. Gen. Pat- terson commanded the 7th Signal


Command. He relinquished command as he was frocked to major general in a change of command ceremony held in the summer of 2012. In a separate event before the ceremony, he was presented with the Distinguished Service Medal for his service as 7th Signal's command- ing general during the past two years. As commander of 7th Signal Command, he directed operations and defense of the Army’s Land-WarNet in the western hemisphere. 7th Signal provides unity of command for network operations in the Army North and Army South opera- tions, consolidating loosely affiliated networks into a single network enter- prise. Patterson graduated from Norfolk State University, earning a bachelor of science degree in mass communications, and received his commission as a second


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