Joseph George

About Joseph George...

Enlisted into the Army in November 1974, attended Basic Combat Training (BCT) at Ft. Knox, KY, Advanced Individual Training (AIT) graduating from the Vulcan Short Range Air Defense Course (SHORAD) at Ft. Bliss, TX. In 1975 he was assigned to 2/5 ADA, 2d Armored Division Ft. Hood, TX. In 1977 he graduated the Nike Hercules Missile Crewman Course at Ft. Bliss, TX and reassigned to 2/1 ADA, 32d AADCOM in Wackernheim, Germany. In November 1978 he was reassigned to 6/56 ADA at Bitburg Air Base, Germany and promoted to Sergeant. In 1983, he was promoted to Staff Sergeant and attended The Officers Candidate School, graduated, and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant assigned in the Infantry. Aspired to all leadership positions in the Infantry units in the Army, as well as a number of staff assignments at Battalion, Division, Army Staff, and Combined Joint Task Force Operations levels. Served Deputy Provost Marshal for the 8th U.S. Army in South Korea and deployed in 2003 with USCENTCOM CCJ5 as a Coalition Operations Officer, in Iraq. Redeployed to Afghanistan in 2007 with the 82d Airborne Division, and in 2008 with the 101st Air Assault Division as the CJTF Force Protection Officer. Upon return from overseas deployments, was reassigned to USCENTCOM as the Force Protection Officer and served from 2009 until retirement January 2012 he had twelve deployments eight of which were in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.