CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2024!
ON 27-28 JUNE 2024 WE WILL INDUCT FOUR NEW MEMBERS INTO THE MI HALL OF FAME!
Colonel James M. McCarl was one of the Army’s early information operations experts who transitioned the Land Information Warfare Activity to the 1st Information Operations Command to identify and counter threats to Army networks. As a civilian, he spent thirteen years at the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization developing tactics, techniques, and procedures that disrupted and neutralized enemy threat networks at the operational, strategic, and national levels. His innovative efforts to counter improvised threats saved countless warfighters’ lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lieutenant Colonel John R. (Randy) Brooks developed one of the DoD’s first automated communication systems, INET, and provided access to electronic messaging and intelligence databases to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence’s Army Operations Centers on the ground during Operation JUST CAUSE. During Operation DESERT SHIELD, he led the project to produce all-source intelligence products across the theater. As the G-2, 4th Infantry Division, he oversaw the development of a program providing a digital integrated battlefield map to ground forces as part of Task Force XXI. Other key assignments included deputy director of Information Management at the Army Intelligence Agency and deputy commander of the 111th MI Brigade.
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Robert Rendon, an expert in Army Counterespionage and Strategic Counterintelligence Operations (SCIO), planned, coordinated, and conducted successful operations against foreign intelligence threats, including one that disrupted Iraqi defenses at the beginning of Operation DESERT STORM. Later, his seven years in the 650th MI Group in Belgium contributed to the successful evolution of the group into the multi-national Allied Command Counterintelligence (ACCI) and significantly strengthened information sharing and CI interoperability within NATO. Training and operational techniques he developed at the 650th were later adopted into CI and G2X doctrine.
Master Sergeant Charles L. Jobe III served as a voice intercept operator for various Special Forces and Army Special Mission Units throughout the 1980s and 1990s, primarily working with electronic warfare systems to produce valuable intelligence to commanders. During DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM, he developed a radio intelligence network to circumvent overcrowding on the satellite networks. While deployed to Bosnia during the civil war in 1992, he provided valuable intelligence to higher headquarters, and after uncovering crucial intelligence of an Islamic terrorist group operating out of Sarajevo, helped shut the organization down.
Full biographies will be available on the Hall of Fame Members page soon.