Thomas K.
Hensley ’92
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Air Force Brig. Gen.
Alexandria, VA
Brigadier General Thomas K. Hensley serves as the Director of Intelligence for the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, Southwest Asia. He leads intelligence operations and analysis for the CJTF-OIR Commander and staff in order to accomplish the military mission of defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
General Hensley received his commission in 1992 as a graduate of Texas A&M University. After completing Intelligence Officer Training in 1993, he was assigned as an Intelligence Officer at Aviano Air Base, Italy. General Hensley served in various operational intelligence assignments, including tours at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho; Nellis AFB, Nevada; and Peterson AFB, Colorado. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Weapons School, Joint Military Intelligence College, and the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, and has served as a Squadron, Group, and Wing Commander. General Hensley supported contingency operations during operations SOUTHERN WATCH and ENDURING FREEDOM. Prior to this assignment, General Hensley was the Senior Military Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster
Bronze Star Medal
Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters
Joint Service Commendation Medal
Air Force Commendation Medal
Air Force Achievement Medal with oak leaf cluster
Craig
McPike ’92
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Air Force Brig. Gen.
Acworth, GA
Brig. Gen. Craig McPike is Commander of the 94th Airlift Wing, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, GA. The wing is equipped with eight C-130H3 cargo aircraft that support joint service and multi-national airlift missions both in the United States and around the world. The wing is comprised of nearly 2,000 personnel, and includes a headquarters element, three groups and 13 squadrons.
Additionally, Brig. Gen. McPike has command responsibility for the entire installation serving as host for over 12,000 tenant personnel and 13 tenant units, including 22nd Air Force, Air Force Plant 6 and Lockheed-Martin, the Georgia Army and Air National Guard and the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Reserve.
Brig. Gen. McPike is a graduate of Texas A&M University and was commissioned through ROTC in 1993. He entered active duty in 1994 and graduated from undergraduate pilot training at Laughlin AFB, Texas in 1995. He was then assigned to Kadena Air Base, Japan as a KC-135 pilot and has since been assigned to five different major commands at the unit, group, wing, MAJCOM, and Air Staff levels. His duties have included Chief of Standards and Evaluations; Chief of Group Training; Deputy Chief, Programs and Requirements and Operations Group Commander. Prior to his current position, the general was the Commander of the 916th Air Refueling Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C.
Brig. Gen. McPike has flown combat and combat support missions in support of operations Southern Watch, Allied Force and Freedom’s Sentinel. He is a command pilot with more than 3,700 flying hours in tactical, combat, educational, and test operations.
Patrick R.
Michaelis ’93
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Army Brig. Gen.
Fort Knox, KY
Brig. Gen. Patrick R. Michaelis is a Distinguished Military Graduate from Texas A&M University and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Armor in 1993. He currently serves as the Commanding General at Fort Jackson.
Previous assignments include Deputy Commanding Officer (Maneuver) for the 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, and Commander, Mission Command Element, Operation Atlantic Resolve, United States Army Europe; Executive Officer to the Under Secretary of the Army; Commander of the 2d Recruiting Brigade, United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC); G3 (operations officer) for the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas, and as the Chief of Staff to the commander of the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Iraq (CJFLCC-I) in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in Baghdad, Iraq; Commander of the 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2-2 Stryker Brigade, where he had operational responsibility for Kandahar City, Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom 12-13; Special Assistant to the Vice Chief of Staff, Army; Operations Officer for the 1st Ironhorse Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas during Operation Iraqi Freedom 06-08; Executive Officer and Operations Officer for 1st Squadron, 7th U.S. Cavalry; Battle Command and Chief Knowledge Officer for the 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom II; and as the Deputy Commanding General (Operations) for the United States Recruiting Command.
He received a B.A. in history from Texas A&M University, a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College, specializing in strategic planning.
His military training and education also includes the Armor Officer Basic and Advanced Course, Scout Platoon Leaders Course, Cavalry Leaders Course, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Command and General Staff College, Airborne, Air Assault, and Ranger School.
He has served in various other command and staff positions, to include Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; Ground Troop and Headquarters Troop Commander for the 1st Squadron, 7th U.S. Cavalry at Fort Hood, Texas; Tank and Scout Platoon leader, Troop Executive Officer, and Assistant Operations Officer, 1st Squadron, 4th U.S. Cavalry, Schweinfurt, Germany and Operation Joint Endeavor.
He is married to the former Bonnie Elizabeth Tate of Weaver, Alabama.
Barrye
Price ’94
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Army Brig. Gen.
Ft. Knox, KY
Brigadier General Barrye L. Price is the Deputy Commanding Officer of the United States Army Cadet Command, a geographically dispersed command comprised of Junior and Senior ROTC Detachments throughout the United States and within U.S. Territories.
Brig. Gen. Price is a 1985 Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Houston's College of Business Administration. He earned a Master of Arts Degree in History in 1994 from Texas A&M University and in 1997 he became the first African-American to obtain a doctorate from the Department of History in the 134-year history of Texas A&M University. He also earned a Master of Science Degree in National Security Strategy from the National Defense University in 2004.
Brig. Gen. Price's previous assignments include: Executive Officer of the 5th Personnel Services Company, Commander of the 5th Replacement Company, Chief of Personnel/Adjutant General Plans and Operations for the 5th Infantry Division, Fort Polk, La.; Regimental Adjutant for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment I in both Doha, Kuwait, and Fulda, Germany; Assistant Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Washington, D.C.; Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Personnel for the Army Materiel Command, Fort Belvoir, Va.; and most recently as the Director, J1, United States Forces-Iraq.
Brig. Gen. Price served on the President and First Lady's Task Force on "Raising Responsible and Resourceful Teenagers" in 2000; served on President Clinton's "Mississippi Delta Task Force" which sought to revitalize the 207-county, seven-state region that comprises the Mississippi River flood plain from 1999 through 2000.
Brig. Gen. Price is the benefactor of the Elaine Yvonne Cook-Price Memorial Scholarship within the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He has served as a Council-member at-large with the Houston Alumni Organization. He was selected as one of 20 American's for the U.S.-Japan Foundation's Young Leaders Fellowship, and he was the 1997 winner of the Arter-Darby Military Writing Award from the Army's Command and General Staff College. He is a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the Society of Military History, the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, and a is a life-member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Brig. Gen. Price's military awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, five Meritorious Service Medals, Joint Commendation Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, two Army Achievement Medals, National Defense Service Medal, Overseas Service Medal, Outstanding Volunteer Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Staff Badge, and the Airborne and Air Assault Badges.
Winifred N.
Carroll ’97
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Air Force Maj. Gen
San Antonio, TX
Maj. Gen. Winfred N. "Chuck" Carroll is mobilization assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. He supports the DCS/IL in managing and integrating Air Force civil engineering and services; improving supply, transportation and
equipment maintenance policy; preparing budget estimates reflecting enhancements to both productivity and combat readiness; and measuring the logistics performance of subordinate commands against Air Force standards. He is responsible for the overall policy guidance and management of the DCS/IL individual mobilization augmentee program.
The general was commissioned in the Air Force in 1963 through the ROTC program at Georgia Institute of Technology. Upon completion of pilot training, he served as an instructor pilot to students from Vietnam and 22 other countries. He spent two years in South Korea in the Air Force Military Assistance Advisory Group as the air training adviser to the Republic of Korea air force. After leaving active duty, he flew as aircraft commander in KC-97L and KC-135 aircraft with the Ohio Air National Guard at Rickenbacker Air Force Base, Ohio. Since 1984, he has been in the Air Force Reserve. Prior to his current assignment, he was mobilization assistant to the Director of Logistics, Air Combat Command. He is a command pilot with more than 3,500 flying hours.
Scott L.
Efflandt ’98
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Army Brig. Gen.
Fort Riley, KS
Brigadier General Scott L. Efflandt currently serves as the Deputy Division Commander for Maneuver in the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. He received an Army commission in 1985 from Marion Military Institute as a Distinguished Military Graduate. For the next two years he served as an Infantry Platoon Leader with the 3rd Battalion, 130th Infantry in the Illinois Army National Guard. Upon receipt of a Regular Army commission in 1987, Scott assessed to active duty as an Armor Officer. Over the next 30 years BG Efflandt served in operational assignment in a variety of armor and cavalry organizations in Europe, Iraq, Kuwait and several locations across the United States.
Institutional and enterprise assignments held by BG Efflandt include, faculty at the United States Military Academy in the department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership; faculty of Joint Operations at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.; Army office of Congressional Liaison, Washington, D.C.; and executive officer to the commanders of both TRADOC and FORSCOM.
BG Efflandt’s education includes, an associate degree from Marion Military Institute; a bachelor’s degree in Administration of Justice from Southern Illinois University; a master’s degree in sociology from Texas A&M University; a master’s degree in strategic studies from the Army War College; and continued graduate study at Salve Regina University. His military education began with the Armor Officer Basic Course and continued through the Army War College. His membership and affiliations include, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society fellow, Association of the United States Army, Military Officers Association of America, American Legion, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Scott Efflandt remains happily married to his wife of 30 years, the former Ann Pycz of Posen, Ill. Scott’s awards and decorations include, Legion of Merit with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star with two OLC, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with four OLC, Meritorious Unit Citation, Naval Unit Citation, Army Commendation Medal with three OLC, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Medal with star, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Parachutists Badge and Eagle Scout.
Thomas G.
Smith ’01
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Army Brig. Gen.
San Antonio, TX
Brig. Gen. Thomas G. Smith was born June 24, 1929. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a Masters degree in Educational Human Resources Development.
His military service is as follows:
GENERAL OFFICER, UNITED STATES ARMY (1979 -1981). Assigned as the Deputy Commanding General of the United States Army Engineer Training Center, located at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. This installation of 31,000 persons, is the tenth largest community in the State of Missouri. It graduated 45,000 trainees per year. Personnel were trained in 16 military occupational specialties, such as dozer, crane, grader, and other heavy equipment operators. Annual operating budget was 135 million dollars. Assisted the Commanding General in overall operation of the installation with a primary focus on individual training.
GENERAL OFFICER (1976-1979). Assigned as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, Headquarters Allied Forces Central Europe, stationed in The Netherlands. Responsible for the planning and coordinating the procurement, transport and long term storage of such war materials as ammunition, combat equipment and petroleum for an international military force consisting of approximately three million soldiers, airmen and sailors of seven North Atlantic Treaty Nations. Served as Chairman of the Central European Pipeline Office (CEPO) which exercised managerial, operating and planning control of the international NATO pipeline system which consisted of over 6,000 kilometers: annual budget exceeded 85 million dollars. Prepared the overall compilation and priority ranking of five year projections of infrastructure programs for all of Central Europe.
FIELD GRADE OFFICER, UNITED STATES ARMY (1975 -1976). Team Chief of Headquarters Department of the Army Manpower/Management Survey Team. Traveled worldwide to all major Army Command Headquarters and conducted an in depth analysis of their manpower and staffing requirements.
Concurrently, examined their overall management policies and made recommendations for organizational restructuring when deemed appropriate to the Inspector General of the Army. Planned the reorganization of the National War College and The Industrial College of the Armed Forces into The National Defense University structure, which was briefed to and approved by the Secretary of Defense.
COMMANDING OFFICER OF ARMORED BRIGADE (1973-1974). Commanded a 7,000 man combat brigade for 18 months at Fort Hood, Texas. During that period, planned and executed the air lift of the entire brigade from Fort Hood, to Ramstein AFB in West Germany. At the completion on six weeks of open field maneuvers deployed the brigade back to Fort Hood. The primary mission of the Brigade was to achieve and maintain a state of combat readiness for deployment anywhere in the world, the exercise to Europe demonstrated that level of readiness.
FIELD GRADE OFFICER SERVICE ONTHE DEPARTMENT OFTHE ARMY GENERAL STAFF (1966-1969). Primary duty was as a staff management analyst and briefing officer in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Duties consisted of reducing lengthy staff papers to executive summaries and then brief the Army Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff on the papers and secured a decision from them. Chiefs of Staff worked for were General Harold K. Johnston and General William C. Westmoreland. The Vice Chief of Staff was General Creighton W. Abrams.
Served as the Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion of the 34th Armor Regiment in Vietnam in 1969 for a period of six months subsequently assigned as the Deputy Operations Officer of the II Field Force. He is a veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam wars.
Brig. Gen. Thomas G. Smith is retired from his military career and currently resides in San Antonio, TX.
In the civilian sector, Brig. Gen. Smith’s served on the Public Utility Commission of Texas from 1982-83 setting rates and service standards for all telephone utilities in the State of Texas, and for privately or Investor owned electric, water and sewer utilities operating In the unincorporated areas.
He was Professor and Academic Director at Webster University from l985 to 2007. There, he instructed graduate level courses. During the period of employment as a teacher (22 years) he taught approximately 4,500 graduate students, many were active duty military and veterans.
He was also appointed to the Fund for Veterans Assistance Committee, Texas Veterans Commission in 2008, where he still serves.
CIVIL EDUCATION:
B. A. from Southern Illinois University
B.A. from University of Maryland
B.A. from Saint Mary's University
M.B.A. from Syracuse University
M.S.I.A. George Washington University
M.S. in Educational Human Resources Development from Texas A&M University
MILITARY EDUCATION (All Graduates):
Engineer Officer Basic Course
Armor Officer Career Course
Army Command and General Staff College
National War College
MILITARY AWARDS AND DECORATIONS: Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal, Silver Star Medal,
Legion of Merit (w/2 Oak Leaf Clusters), Soldier's Medal,
Bronze Star Medal (w/"V" and3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Air Medal (w/10 Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal {w/5 Oak Leaf Clusters), Purple Heart Medal, Combat Infantry Badge