Who's Who Flashcards
Col Farley
TECOM G-5
Logistics Background
2 daughters - older one is 25 and is either special needs or volunteers with Special Olympics
Lives in Spotsylvania
Adam Kubicki
Retired Marine LtCol
In process of becoming SES
Anecdote about gardening / farming growing up - tried to grow watermelon in Wisconsin
Cole “Chemo” Herron
Fresno USNA 2007 ran track - team captain
Knows Ryan Engle
Flew Hueys
WTI instructor
Two sons - volleyball, basketball, baseball
Andre Salvanera
Retired Arty LtCol
3 Kids - oldest son graduated UVA, Daughter sophomore at VT, younger son rising junior in HS - wrestler - can’t join USMC b/c of peanut allergy
Comment about how FBI is not in good graces b/c they’re politically motivated and putting Catholics on watchlists
Des Kinney
Worked at TECOM since 2010. Hired as a change management, Organizational architecture, writer.
2 sons - 1 autistic
autistic son very interested in trains
Mark Saville
Taking command at 1/5
IOC instructor, RSCO,
Great turnover at TECOM G-5
Married 2 kids - 1 boy, 1 girl
LtGen Watson was his Bn Cmdr for both deployments
Phil Warren
General Watson
Major General Watson graduated from Cornell University in 1991 with a BA in history, and was commissioned through the NROTC program. After The Basic School and Infantry Officer Course, he reported to 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, in Camp Lejeune, NC, where he served as a Rifle Platoon Commander, Weapons Platoon Commander and Executive Officer with Company K, including deployments with the 24th and 26th MEU(SOC).
Major General Watson’s other operational assignments include: Commanding Officer, Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, and Operations Officer, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, from 1999-2002, including deployments with the 22nd and 24th MEU(SOC), participating in Operations Provide Promise and Deny Flight in and around the former Yugoslavia, as well as Operation Dynamic Response in Kosovo; G-3 Future Operations Planner, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), from 2006-2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, including service with Regimental Combat Team-7; G-3 Plans Officer, 1st Marine Division, from 2007-2008; Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, from 2008-2011, including deployments as Battalion Landing Team 3/1 on a 31st MEU deployment, and to Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom; Assistant Division Commander, 2nd Marine Division, from 2016-2017; and Commanding General (CG) of Task Force Southwest in Helmand and Nimroz Provinces, Afghanistan, from January to November 2018 in support of Operation Resolute Support and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
His service outside the operating forces includes duty as a tactics instructor at The Basic School from 1995-1997, and the Infantry Officer Course from 1997-1998. From 2002-2005, he served as an instructor and faculty advisor at the Expeditionary Warfare School. From 2012-2013, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Senior Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs. From 2013-2014, he was assigned to the Office of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for duty as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff. Major General Watson served as the Commanding Officer of Marine Barracks, Washington D.C. (8th & I), from 2014-16. From 2018-2019, he served as the CG of Marine Corps Installations East / Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, and from 2019-2022 as CG of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory / Futures Directorate and Vice Chief of the Office of Naval Research. In July of 2022, Major General Watson assumed command of the 1st Marine Division.
Major General Watson is a graduate of the Marine Corps Summer Mountain Leaders Course, Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps Command & Staff College (Non-Resident), Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting (Masters - Military Operational Studies), and the National War College (Masters - National Security Studies).
General Iiams
Wife - Susan
From New Orleans
1985 USNA - wrestler for a year. Football in HS
Daughters - Samantha & ____
Dog - Camille
Shot by SAM in Desert Storm, but made it back
Stuart Dickey
Retired Marine Col
Was the Director at EWTGLANT in 2008 time-frame
Currently the
Director, Joint/Service Training and Naval Integration · United States Marine Corps Forces Command
Scott Kinner
MCTOG - head of doctrine and standards.
Mr. Kinner possesses 30 years of military operational, training, concept, and doctrine development experience, from rifleman to regimental operations officer, from Operations Desert Storm and Shield, to Somalia, to the demilitarized zone of South Korea to multiple tours in Iraq. As a federal employee, he currently leads the Doctrine and Standards Department of the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group (MCTOG) and is involved in concept development projects from force design and ground combat strategy to urban warfare development within the Service, the Joint community, and NATO. He lives in Montana with his wife, and spends his free time serving as a company officer and Medical Service Manager for his local, volunteer fire department.
Joe Lomangino
RTPD
Trident lead
Col Whited
CWO4 Elliott Weidel
MARDET Ft Sill
Hosted AFEC CCRB
Chris Wagner
PM MAGTF C2
Put on the C2 Interoperability WG in July 2024
