REAR ADM. ERIC YOUNG Deputy Chief of Navy Reserve
Rear Adm. Eric Young is currently serving in the Pentagon as the deputy chief of Navy Reserve.
His staff
and shore assignments include command- ing Officer, Naval Re- serve Center Terre Haute, Indiana; com-
manding Officer Naval Reserve Center Danville, Illinois; manpower analyst in the Surface Warfare Directorate, Chief of Naval Operations (N86); manpower and personnel director in Naval Reserve Readiness Command South; command- ing officer, Navy Operational Support Center San Diego, California; and deputy director, Training Transformation and Technology in the Office of Secretary Defense (Reserve Affairs). Young’s tours as a Surface Warfare Officer included ordnance officer, USS Reid; Navigator, USS San Jose (AFS 7); operations of- ficer, USS Wadsworth; combat systems officer, Destroyer Squadron Thirty One;
executive officer, USS Ford; commanding officer, USS John L Hall; and com- mander, Destroyer Squadron ONE. Under Young's command, Destroyer Squadron ONE became a permanent Sea Combat Commander for a Strike Group. He is a 1984 graduate of Angelo State University in San Angelo Texas, where he received a bachelor of science degree in Chemistry. He received his commission as an Ensign from Officer Candidate School in Febru- ary 1985. He holds a master of science in financial management from Naval Postgraduate School and a master of arts degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
U.S. MARINE CORPS
LT. GEN. WALTER GASKIN SR. Deputy Chairman, NATO Military Committee
Lt. Gen. Walter Gaskin assumed his current duties as the deputy chairman of the Military Committee on March 22, 2010. The Brussels, Belgium-based body is the senior military authority in the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion (NATO) and the primary source of military advice to NATO’s civilian decision-making bodies―the North Atlantic Council and the Nuclear Plan- ning Group. Lt. Gen. Gaskin is the first Black Infantry officer to earn a three-star in the Marine Corps. As a major general, he served as commanding general of the 2nd Marine Division from June 2006 until July 2008. In addition to this role, he simultaneously served as command- ing general of II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) (Forward). During this tour, Gaskin led II MEF (FWD) while on its year-long deployment to Al Anbar, Iraq,
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as commanding general of the 35,000 member Multinational Forces-West. His previous assignments as a major general include service as the vice director of The Joint Staff, Washington, D.C., from July 2008 until May 2009 and commander of Marine Corps Recruiting Command in Quantico, Virginia, beginning in July 2004. As brigadier general, he served as the chief of staff, Naval Striking and Support Forces-Southern Europe, and deputy commanding general, Fleet Ma- rine Forces-Europe in Naples, Italy from 2002 to 2004. He is a 1974 bachelor of science graduate of Savannah State University’s Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship Program, and he also earned a master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1992. He completed the Senior Executive Seminar from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2002. His professional military education includes The Basic School and Amphibious Warfare School (1982 to 1983), the Army Command and Staff College, (1986 to 1987); and Army War College, (1993 to 1994).
LT. GEN. WILLIE WILLIAMS Director, Marine Corps Staff
Lt. Gen. Willie Williams assumed his current position in July 2009. He began his career with the 11th Marine Ar- tillery Regiment, followed by a tour with the 3rd Force Service Support Group as the officer-in-charge, Inventory Control Point, Iwakuni, Japan. After a year in Iwakuni, he returned to the U.S. for duty at Marine Barracks, North Island, San Diego, California. Next, he moved to
Quantico, Virginia for duty as platoon commander, Officer Candidate School. He then assumed the post of supply offi- cer, Mountain Warfare Training Center in California followed by assistant division supply officer, 3rd Marine Division, Oki- nawa, Japan. His joint tours include duty with the Department of Defense Inspec- tor General’s Office. Later, he assumed command of the 31st Marine Expedition- ary Unit (Special Operations Capable) MEU Service Support Group followed by an assignment as assistant chief of staff G4, 3rd Force Service Support Group. He then moved to 1st Force Service Sup- port Group, initially as assistant chief of staff, G3, and in 1998 as the command- ing officer of Brigade Service Support Group 1. His tours as general officer include: commanding general, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler; commanding general, 3rd Force Service Support Group III Marine Expedition-
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