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NATIONAL SECURITY IN GLOBALIZED WORLD TOPIC OF PANEL |
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February 11, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College will host a seminar on “Shaping National Security in a Globalized World” Feb. 25 in the Crawford Hall auditorium on campus. The event, which will feature panelists from the U.S. Army War College, is free and open to the public.
The panels are at 10 and at 11 a.m. Panelists, who are members of the Eisenhower Series College Program at the Army War College, include: Col. Mike Hoadley, U.S. Army; Lt. Col. Jeffrey Kelly, U.S. Air Force; Col. Lawrence Killmeier, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps; and Col. Scot MacKenzie, U.S. Army.
Hoadley is the director of the National Security Legal Studies at the Army War College and is the faculty director of the Eisenhower Series College Program. Since 1980, he has served on active military duty in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. From 2004 to 2005, he deployed as the staff judge advocate of the 25th Infantry Division (Light) and served in Operation Enduring Freedom V as the staff judge advocate for the Combined Joint Task Force-76 in Afghanistan. Hoadley has a Master of Strategic Studies degree from the U.S. Army War College and a law degree from University of Tulsa College of Law.
Kelly has 19 years of experience and more than 2,250 flying hours in the F-15E Strike Eagle and F-111F Aardvark fighter aircraft. As commander of the 9th Air Support Operations Squadron and Detachment 1, 4th Air Support Operations Group, he led units in combat in Baghdad as well as a task force for Hurricane Katrina relief. He also performed operational airborne jumps into Bosnia during Operation Rapid Resolve and into Hungary during Allied Mobile Force-Land. He holds his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from Louisiana Tech University. In addition, he earned his master’s degrees in military operational arts and airpower strategy arts and science from Air University.
Killmeier, a decorated Marine pilot, has combat experience that spans from the 1991 Gulf War through his March 2007 return from Iraq. His first combat tour was as a squadron helicopter pilot and training officer serving with the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He later was operations officer for Marine Air Group 26 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He commanded the Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 167 and returned to Iraq for two tours conducting squadron operations in Al Anbar province. Killmeier holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Connecticut.
MacKenzie has served in infantry, signal corps, air defense artillery, intelligence, aviation and professional military education assignments throughout his 22-year career. Most recently, he served in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom as the mentor to the Afghan National Army communications chief, where he was responsible for Army staff reform and for designing, procuring and integrating a nation-wide command, control and communications architecture. He is a Distinguished Military Graduate of Illinois State University ROTC and holds a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Navy War College.
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