John Laird

Foreign Ambassador Liaison

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Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States

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Timeline
About me
EOD Career Manager (2LT-LTC)
Education
- Combined Logistics Captains Career Course
  2013 - 2014
  Military Operational Logistics Honor Graduate
  Activities and Societies: Certified Master Logistician by SOLE -The International Society of Logistics This course was slightly longer than 21 weeks designed to build an institutional foundation in military tactics, doctrine, and leadership while enhancing the understanding for multifunctional logistics. Upon completion, every graduate is capable of successfully developing a concept of support necessary to sustain a Brigade Combat Team throughout a theater of operations.
- NAVSCOLEOD
  2010 - 2010
  Explosive Ordinance/Bomb Disposal
  EOD Specialists perform duties locating, identifying, rendering safe and disposing of foreign and domestic conventional, biological, chemical, or nuclear ordnance and IEDs; WMDs and large vehicle bombs; they conduct intelligence gathering operations on first seen ordnance and IEDs, and support very important persons (VIP) missions for the U.S. Secret Service, State Department and other Federal agencies.
- Officer Basic Course
  2009 - 2010
  Army Ordnance Corps
  Ordnance officers are responsible for ensuring that weapons systems, vehicles and equipment are ready and available — and in perfect working order — at all times. They also manage the developing, testing, fielding, handling, storage and disposal of munitions.
- Basic Officer Leader Course II
  2009 - 2009
  Army Small Unit Tactics
- United States Military Academy at West Point
  2004 - 2008
  Bachelor of Science (BS) Latin American Studies
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
  2018 - 2019
  Master of Military Arts and Science General Studies (Leadership) 3.74 GPA
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
  2018 - 2019
  Professional Military Education Level 4 Intermediate Level Education Level 4 (JPME1)
Experience
- United States Military Academy at West Point
  May 2008 - Jul 2009
  Foreign Ambassador Liaison
  While on staff I was charged to coordinate trip sections for West Point cadets traveling to Spanish-speaking countries for cultural immersion; coordinating and heading up cultural immersion opportunities for Spanish-speaking officers, cadets, and ambassadors; coordinating semester abroad learning opportunities for West Point cadets; test administration; and financial management for the Spanish Department.
- 129th EOD Company
  Dec 2010 - Jun 2012
  Platoon Leader
  Platoon leader 3rd platoon 129th EOD. Deployed to AFG from Apr 2011 to Apr 2012 in support of OEF.
- US Army
  Jun 2012 - Apr 2013
  Operations Officer
  3d EOD BN
- 702D EOD
  Apr 2014 - Apr 2016
  Company Commander
- State College Recruiting Company
  May 2016 - Jun 2018
  Company Commander
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
  Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
  Resident Student
- 25th Infantry Division
  Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
  25th ID EOD Staff Officer
- 303D Ordnance Battalion (EOD)
  Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
  Operations Officer
- 303D OD BN (EOD)
  Jun 2021 - May 2022
  Battalion Executive Officer
- U.S. Army Recruiting Command (USAREC)
  Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
  Executive Officer to the Commanding General
- U.S. Army Human Resources Command
  Jun 2023 - now
  EOD Career Manager (2LT-LTC)
Licenses & Certifications
- Support Operations
  Army Logistics University
  Jun 2019
- Defense Support of Civil Authorities Phase II
  U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
  Jun 2019