Previously Held MOS 92B-Supply Material Management Officer
92D-Aerial Delivery and Materiel
92F-Petroleum Supply Specialist
92A-Quartermaster Officer
90A-Logistics - TC
Col(ret) Wellington W. Samouce, USA & USMC, Gulf War & Iraq War vet (cousin) Col(ret) Thomas W. Russell, USMC, Gulf War vet (brother)
Maj Barbara R. Bucknam, USAF, Gulf War vet (sister)
Col(ret) Mark A. Bucknam, USAF (brother-in-law) Col(ret) Thomas B. Russell, USA, Vietnam vet (father) LTC(ret) Lawrence Russell, III, USA, Vietnam vet (uncle) COL(ret) Warren A. Samouce, USA, Vietnam vet (uncle) Capt John W. Samouce, USMC, Vietnam vet (uncle) T/5 John A. McDaniel, USA & USN, WWII & Korea vet (father-in-law) LTC(ret) Lawrence Russell, Jr., USAR, WWII & Korea vet (grandfather) COL(ret) Wellington A. Samouce, USA, WWII vet (grandfather) COL(ret) James A. Samouce, USA, WWII vet (granduncle) MAJ(ret) George A. Samouce, USAR, WWI & WWII vet (granduncle)
Nicholas A. Samouce, USA, WWI vet (granduncle)
Capt.(ret) Carrol L. Tyler, USN, WWII vet (granduncle-in-law) BG(ret) William R. Woodward, USA, WWI & WWII vet (granduncle-in-law) COL(ret) Fred B. Inglis, USA, WWI & WWII vet (granduncle-in-law) COL(ret) Warren W. Whitside, USA, Span. Amer. War, Punitive Exped & WWI vet (gr-grandfather) LTC Archie Miller, USA, Span. Amer. War vet and Medal of Honor recipient (gr-granduncle-in-law) MAJ Victor M. Whitside, USA, WWI vet (gr-granduncle) BG(ret) Samuel M. Whitside, USA, Civil War, Indian Wars, Span. Amer. War vet (gr-gr-grandfather)
LTC Charles B. Bostwick, NY Vol, Civil War vet (gr-grandfather)
MAJ Henry A. Bostwick, NY Vol, Civil War vet (gr-granduncle)
1LT John H. Russell, NY State Militia, War of 1812 vet (gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
Dr. Thomas Russell, CT Line, Revolutionary War vet (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
CPL Enos Wood, VT Militia, Revolutionary War vet (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
SGT Samuel Smith, VT Militia, Revolutionary War (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
CPT Reuben Bostwick, CT Line, French and Indian War & Revolutionary War (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
Benajah Stone, IV, CT Line, French and Indian War (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
1LT James McGavock, Sr., VA State Militia, French and Indian War & Revolutionary War (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
Jacob Wead, CT Line, French and Indian War vet (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
Capt James Turner, Jr., VA State Militia, Revolutionary War (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
Capt William Curtis, Conn. Colonial Officer, King Philip's War (gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandfather)
Other Comments:
COL Sam Russell was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps in 1988 after graduating from the Virginia Military Institute. He is a fifth-generation Army officer and the father of three wonderful children. Prior to his arrival at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, as the Chief, Proponency Division at the Peace Keeping and Stability Operations Institute, he was the Chief, G4 Mobility Division, Third Army, U.S. Army Central at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, and Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
COL Russell's Operational Force assignments include serving as a lieutenant with the 142d Supply and Service Battalion, Wiesbaden, Germany; as a captain with the 528th Special Operations Support Battalion (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina; as a major with the 2d Infantry Division at Camp Red Cloud, Korea, and with the 3d Infantry Division and the 24th Corps Support Group at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia; and as a Lieutenant Colonel where he commanded the 94th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Ft Polk, Louisiana and Baghdad, Iraq. His Generating Force assignments include service as a Quartermaster Assignments Officer, US Total Army Personnel Comamnd, Alexandria, Virginia; J4 Executive Assistant, US Atlantic Command, Norfolk, Virginia; and Chief, Office of the Quartermaster General, US Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia.
COL Russell is a graduate of the Army War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from VMI, a Masters of Military Arts and Science in History from USAC&GSC, and a Masters of Strategic Studies from USAWC. He has deployed in support of Operation Uphold Democracy (Cuba), Operation Enduring Freedom (Kuwait, Qatar and Pakistan), and twice to Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq). His awards include the Legion of Merit with bronze oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with silver oak leaf cluster, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster, Army Achievement Medal with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Combat Action Badge, the Ranger Tab, the Senior Parachutist Badge, the Rigger Badge, and numerous other campaign and service medals and ribbons.
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Best Friends LTC Shawn Morrissey, DCO MAJ Kim Daub, Dep SPO MAJ Jim Kazmierczak, Bde S3 MAJ Leona Knight, Plans SGM Gloria Farrow, S3 SGM Maj. Ian Skipper, HMRLC
Best Moment Visiting an Iraqi grass hut village to deliver soccer uniforms.
Worst Moment I served as the Division Logistics Effects OIC. While in Iraq from Jun - Dec 2005 I was dubbed the Baghdad Logistics Effects Coordinator or BLEC (Bleck!). This not an authorized position, but I was about to be promoted to LTC and COL Layer didn't want to lose me to a higher level staff. Effects based operations was the new buzz word in the Joint community, so he capitalized on this and created the position. The position didn't catch on, and I believe I'm the only officer to ever hold that title.
Chain of Command COL Brian Layer - Bde Cdr BG Mark O'Niel - DCG(Support) MG William Webster - 3ID CG
Other Memories We called the unit the Division Support Brigade or DSB as it was no longer a DISCOM and the generic modular design name of Sustainment Unit of Action or SUA sounded silly. Later SUAs would be called Sustainment Brigades, and the unit officially became the 3d Sustainment Brigade. Because of this transitory period with no official designation, The Institute of Heraldry designated the unit name as the 3d Support Brigade for its first year, Jun 2005 to Jun 2006. June 2006 is the first time the unit members removed the 3ID patch from their right shoulder and donned the 3d Sustainment Brigade patch, a patch they designed (my input was adding the blue and white stripes in the background that harkend to its 3ID lineage). I never wore this patch, as I moved from the DSB to the 3ID G4 the week before the patch ceremony, but COL Layer stated we were all authorized to wear it as a Combat Shoulder Sleeve Insignia because technically it was our authorized patch for the last 6 months in Iraq. Like his fellow DISCOM Commanders at the time, he was reluctant to take off the Division patch and don the Sustainment Brigade Patch. He would not change the patch in Iraq because he didn't want to send an unintended message that the DISCOM was gone and the new Sustainment Brigade didn't work for the Division.
