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Service Status
USA Retired
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Final Rank
Colonel
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Last Service Branch
Logistics Corps (Officer)
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Last MOS
90A-Logistics - QM
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Last MOS Group
Quartermaster
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Primary Unit
2015-2017, 90A, SME Division (Staff) Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
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Previously Held MOS's
92B-Supply Material Management
92D-Aerial Delivery and Materiel
92F10-Petroleum Supply Specialist
92A-Quartermaster, General
90A-Logistics - TC
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Service Years
1988 - 2017
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| Official/Unofficial US Army Certificates
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom
Cold War Certificate
Order of Saint Martin
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1984, United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
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1992, Association of Quartermasters
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2006, Society of the 3rd Infantry Division
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2008, The National Association of the 10th Mountain Division
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2010, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS)
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2011, Army War College Foundation
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2015, Association of United States Army (AUSA), Carlisle Barracks/Cumberland Valley Chapter (Member-at-Large) (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
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2019, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Post 477, Corp. Orlando Newcomer Post (Life Member) (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
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2019, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA)
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2021, Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Chapter 49 (Life Member) (Newport, Pennsylvania)
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What are you doing now:
Col(ret)Â 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, CTÂ 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)
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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. Â
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1989-1992, 92B, 29th Supply and Service Company, 142nd Supply and Service Battalion
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1992-1995, 92D, HHC, 528th Special Operations Support Battalion (Airborne)
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1995-1998, 92A, HQ, US Army Personnel Command PERSCOM
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1998-1999, 90A, United States Atlantic Command (USACOM)
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1999-2000, 90A, United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM)
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2000-2001, 90A, 2nd Infantry Division
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2002-2004, 92F10, HHC, 559th Quartermaster Battalion
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2004-2005, 90A, HHC, Division Support Command (DISCOM) 3rd Infantry Division
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2005-2006, 90A, 3rd Sustainment Brigade
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2006-2007, 90A, ACoS G4, 3rd Infantry Division
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2007-2009, 90A, 94th Brigade Support Battalion
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2009-2011, 92A, Quartermaster Center & School (Staff) Fort Lee
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2012-2015, 90A, HQ, US Army Forces Central (Third Army, ARCENT), US Army Forces Central (Third Army/ARCENT)
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2015-2017, 90A, SME Division (Staff) Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
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