He is a native of Greater London. He graduated from Sandhurst Royal Military Academy with a BS in 1979 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Armor Branch. He earned a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Leicester in 1987, and was introduced in the National Society of Phi Kappa Phi Honor. He served as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and leadership at West Point. He earned a Master of Arts Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies, in 1998, the Naval War College and was named "Graduate highest honor." Also, He was a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI program.

My education includes military Naval War College, Army Command and General Staff College, Infantry Officer Advanced Course, and the armor officer basic course. He served in a variety of command, staff and operational assignments in the UK, Germany and Southwest Asia and Africa. His first mission was due to two Armored Division from Fort Hood, Texas, where He served as a platoon leader and troop executive two Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment (2-1 CAV). In October 1981, became Aide-de-Camp Assistant Division Commander, Armoured Division 2. Then he served as Director of Maintenance Battalion, Combat Service Support Company Commander and Company Commander Tank Battalion 1, 67 Armored Regiment (1-67 AR).

He attended the Infantry Advanced Course in 1985, followed by graduate studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Then he worked as an instructor and assistant professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and leadership at West Point.

After selecting and finalizing UK Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, He reported Armored Cavalry Regiment 11 (Blackhorse Regiment) of Fulda, Germany. He served as the second Operations Group (-S 3), during Operation Desert Storm, became regimental operations officer (S-3) in November 1991, then director of the regiment in March 1993. He left the Armored Cavalry Regiment 11, in spring 1994.

Then moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, and became the third Armored Cavalry Regiment regimental officer (Brave Rifles). He took command of 1 Squadron, Armored Cavalry Regiment 3 in October 1994, after Command Squadron, He served as special assistant to the commanding general, Fort Carson, Colorado, then reported to the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island in the summer 1997.

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