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LTG Whitcomb

Commanding General, Third Army, U.S. Army Central Command

Lieutenant General Whitcomb was commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation from the University of Virginia. He served in his first assignment as a rifle and weapons platoon leader in Company C, 2d Battalion, 508th Infantry (Airborne), 82d Airborne Division. His first Platoon Sergeant was Sergeant First Class Richard Sikes.

Branch transferring to Armor, his initial assignments included Commander, Company B, 2d and then 3rd Battalion, 64th Armor, 3rd Infantry Division. First Sergeant Jones served as the company's First Sergeant. Following company command, he served as Assistant Professor of Military Science, California University of Pennsylvania.

Next assigned to the Republic of Korea, LTG Whitcomb served as S3, 524th Military Intelligence Battalion. Posted to Fort Hood, Texas he served as Deputy G2, 2d Armored Division, and then S3 and XO, 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor, as well as Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General, III Corps and Fort Hood.

His next assignment was in Germany where he commanded the, 2d Battalion, 70th Armor, 1st Armored Division, deploying the battalion to combat in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The Battalion Command Sergeant Major was Command Sergeant Major Broughton. After battalion command, he served as a staff officer in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Headquarters Department of the Army.

LTG Whitcomb served as Commander, 2d Brigade, 24th Infantry Division, with elements of the brigade deploying to Somalia and Haiti. Command Sergeants Major Ben Palacios and Joseph John served with him. His follow-on was a second tour at Headquarters, Department of the Army as a director in Force Development followed by service as Executive Officer to the Vice Chief of Staff, Army.

After completing his tour of duty at Headquarters, Department of the Army, LTG Whitcomb assumed the duties of Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, deploying with elements of the Division to Bosnia, followed by an assignment as Deputy Commanding General, Fort Knox, Kentucky with Command Sergeant Major Christian.

During his second tour of duty in the Republic of Korea, LTG Whitcomb served as the C3/J3, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea, and Deputy Commanding General, Eighth United States Army.

He was again reassigned to Fort Knox, Kentucky where he served as the Commander, U.S. Army Armor Center-Command Sergeants Major Christian and then Gainey served as part of the command team. In January 2003, he was assigned to US Central Command, serving as the Chief of Staff, CENTCOM during OIF and OEF.

LTG Whitcomb assumed command of Third Army, US Army Central, on October 13, 2004-there he serves with Command Sergeant Major Ashe.

LTG Whitcomb's education includes the Infantry Officer Basic Course, Counter Intelligence Officer Course, the Armor Advance Course, Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College. His civilian education includes a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in History from the University of Virginia and a Masters Degree in Education from California University of Pennsylvania.

Lieutenant General Whitcomb and his bride of 33 years have two daughters.

Brigadier General Luckey

Commanding General, Office of Security Cooperation MNSTC-I, Baghdad, Iraq

Brigadier General Luckey was commissioned as an Infantry officer in the Regular Army after graduating from the University of Virginia in 1977 with a Bachelors of Arts (with Distinction) in English.

During his years of service on active duty Brigadier General Luckey served in various organizations to include assignments in the 1st Armored Division as a Platoon Leader, Weapons Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer and Battalion Adjutant with the 1st Battalion, 52nd Infantry.  After completion of the Special Forces Officer Qualification Course, he was assigned as the Commander, Operational Detachment (Alpha) 216, 10th Special Forces Group. Upon receiving a Juris Doctorate with Honors from the University of Connecticut in 1985, Brigadier General Luckey served in various positions in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 82nd Airborne Division.

In 1991 Brigadier General Luckey entered the Army Reserve with the 108th Division. During his assignment with the 108th Division he served in various positions to included service as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate; the Secretary to the General Staff; Commander, 2nd Battalion, 485th Regiment; and Commander, 1st Brigade, 108th Division(IT) from 2001 until 2005, where he oversaw the Brigade’s expansion and relocation into Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Puerto Rico.

Brigadier General Luckey was appointed to his current rank upon taking command of the 81st Regional Readiness Group (RRG), at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in April of 2005, where he oversaw the training, mobilization and deployment of over six thousand soldiers from units throughout the Southeastern United States.  The RRG was inactivated in October of 2006, as part of the reorganization of the Army Reserve, and Brigadier General Luckey was reassigned to the 81st Regional Readiness Command in Birmingham, Alabama, were he served as the Deputy Commanding General (North).

Reassigned as Commanding General, 78th Division (TS) at Edison, New Jersey in April of 2007, BG Luckey assumed responsibility for transitioning the “Lighting Division” into on Operations Group, overseeing and orchestrating collective training exercises for Army Reserve units at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. In April of 2008, BG Luckey was mobilized and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He currently leads the Office of Security Cooperation for the Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq, in Baghdad. He is projected to return to the United States sometime in 2009.

Brigadier General Luckey is a graduate of the Army War College, where he was awarded a Masters in Strategic Studies in 2001. His other awards and decorations are typical of an officer of his years of service who has had the good fortune to return safely from a variety of worldwide deployments and operations. They include the Legion of Merit w/OLC, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Special Forces Tab, Combat Action Badge, Expert Infantry Badge, Pathfinder Badge and Parachutist Badge.  He is blissfully married to a Tar Heel, the former Julie Marie Fisher, of Greensboro, North Carolina. His three children, Lissa (25), Max (22) and Tim (19) will all be serving in the US Army, soon.

CPT Johnson

Brigade Judge Advocate, 3rd BDE Combat Team 1st Infantry Division

CPT Johnson graduated from UVA in 2002. He received an educational delay from his active duty obligation to attend law school. CPT Johnson graduated, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2005. Following admittance to the Virginia State Bar, CPT Johnson entered active duty as an officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He was assigned to FT Hood, TX upon completion of the Officer Basic Course at the JAG School in Charlottesville.  He is currently serving as the Brigade Judge Advocate for the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, FT Hood, TX. In this capacity, he practices military justice, administrative law, ethics, and operational law as the Officer-in-Charge of the Brigade Legal Team as it prepares for deployment.  Also, CPT Johnson plans to attend Ranger School in order to eventually serve as a Judge Advocate in the 75th Ranger Regiment.