Division West Chief of Staff

COL Green deployed in support of Operation Desert Storm with the 11^th ACR when still in company command. While a Major, he served at Fort Hood, Texas, first as the Executive Officer for the 4^th Infantry Division's 1^st Battalion, 66^th Armor, and later as the S3 for the Division's 2^d Brigade.

He deployed with the 2^nd Squadron, 3^rd Armored Cavalry Regiment as a Lieutenant Colonel.  COL Green joined the 1^st Cavalry Division in June 2006 as the G3/Operations Officer serving as part of the Multi-National Division Baghdad throughout OIF 06-08.

Later, COL Green commanded the 1^st Cavalry Division’s 1^st (IRONHORSE) Brigade Combat Team at Fort Hood and deployed with the brigade as part of OIF 09-10.

Colonel Green’s service, when not posted to operational assignments, includes time in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, where he taught International Relations. He also supported law enforcement agencies in the counter-drug effort as part of Joint Task Force-Six (JTF-6) in El Paso, Texas.  COL Green also previously held the position of Senior Trainer for the Armor-Mech Battalion and Brigade Task Force Observer-Controller teams while assigned to the former Combat Maneuver Training Center (CMTC) in Hohenfels, Germany. He later served at Fort Irwin, California as the Commander of Operation Group at the National Training Center.

In addition to his USMA degree, COL Green completed his graduate work at the Johns Hopkins' Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., receiving a Master of Arts in International Relations. Colonel Green’s military education includes the Officer Basic and Advanced Courses at Fort Knox, Kentucky, as well as the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. COL Green also spent a year at Harvard University as a National Security Fellow in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.