BRIG. GEN. SAMUEL NICHOLS JR. Commander, 290th Military Police Brigade
Brig. Gen. Samuel Nichols has served as deputy commander of Joint Task Force
Guantanamo. He has commanded the 3rd Personnel Command and the 87th Army Reserve Support Command (East) in Birmingham, Ala. Additionally
he was an Army Senior Service Fellow at the Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Brig. Gen. Nichols graduated from Mississippi State University with both bachelor and master of science degrees in education. A native of Mississippi, he received an ROTC commission as a second lieutenant in the Military Police Corps in 1977. Nichols has served in recruiting positions in Mis- sissippi, Louisiana and Illinois. Other as- signments include service as chief of the Secretariat for Department of the Army Selections Boards (Reserve Component); systems automation officer, U.S. Army Information Systems Command-Army Reserve Personnel Center; and programs officer, U.S. Army Recruiting Command. A citizen-soldier, Nichols is director of Enterprise Records Service for the Veter- ans Administration.
BRIG. GEN. RENWICK PAYNE Adjutant General, District of Columbia Army National Guard, Washington, D.C.
In July 2012, Brig. Gen. Renwick
Payne took up his current assignment at the adjutant general, District of Columbia Army National Guard, Washing- ton, D.C. Most recently, Payne served as assistant adjutant general- Army, New York
National Guard. He enlisted in 1974 and received his commission as a second lieutenant of field artillery on Aug. 17, 1979. Since being assigned to the National Guard Bureau in October 1993, he has served as a senior service fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also affiliated with the National Guard Association of the United States, Militia Association of New York, Association of the United States Army and the 369th Historical Society. He
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BRIG. GEN. BRYAN ROBERTS Commanding General, U.S. Army Training Center and Fort Jackson
Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts assumed command of Fort Jackson April 10, 2012. Just prior to tak- ing command of Fort Jackson, he served as direc- tor, Iraq Training and Advisory Team — Army and Chief of Staff, Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq.
He has served the Army for nearly 29 years in command and staff positions in the United States, Germany, Bosnia and Iraq. Roberts is a distinguished military graduate of Eastern Michigan University and commissioned as second lieutenant of Armor in 1983. His other assign- ments include Bosnia for Operation Joint
earned a bachelor's degree from Gover- nor’s State University.
BRIG. GEN. BARRYE PRICE Director, Human Resources Policy Directorate, Army G1
Brig. Gen. Barrye Price is a 1985 distinguished military graduate of the University of Houston’s College of Business Ad- ministration. He earned a master's in history in 1994 from Texas A&M University and in 1997 became the first African-
American to obtain a doctorate degree from the Department of History. Price served on the president and first lady’s task force on “Raising Responsible and Resourceful Teenagers” in 2000; on President Clinton’s “Mississippi Delta Task Force;” and is also the author of the 2001 volume: “Against All Enemies Foreign and Domestic: A Study of Urban Unrest and Federal Intervention Within the United States.” He holds a master’s degree in national security strategy from National Defense University. He has served as deputy commanding general of the Army Cadet Command and he served as the first J1 of United States Forces- Iraq. He also served as an associate pro- fessor of history at West Point and was a White House Fellow, serving as special assistant to the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Endeavor; New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina Relief Operations; and Iraq dur- ing Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn, and Recruiting Command. He earned a bachelor’s degree in com- mercial marketing and merchandising from Eastern Michigan University and a master’s in administration from Cen- tral Michigan University, plus master's degree in national security strategy and strategic studies from National War Col- lege.
BRIG. GEN. A.C. ROPER JR. Commander, 415th Chemical Brigade
Brig. Gen. A.C. Roper commands the 415th Chemical Brigade in Green- ville, S.C.. He previously served with the 81st Regional Readi- ness Command and the 87th Regional Sup- port Group East, based in Hoover. He was deployed
during the Gulf War and in the Operation Enduring Freedom, where he served as a spokesman for all U. S. Army person- nel in Afghanistan. He has been awarded the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal and the General Douglas McAr- thur Leadership Award. The Hoover Chamber of Commerce awarded him their 2007 "Freedom Award.” He is chief of the Birmingham Police Department. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Troy University, a master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Alabama and a master’s in strategic studies from the Army War College. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Southeastern Law Enforcement Executive Development Course.
BRIG. GEN. LESTER SIMPSON Commander, 176th Engineer Brigade, Texas Army National Guard, Dallas
Brig. Gen. Lester Simpson received an early commission in 1980 through the Texas Army National Guard and ROTC at the University of Texas. His previ- ous assignments include deputy Commander, 176th Engineer Brigade, Texas
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