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Major General Gary Johnston culminated his 34-year career as the commander of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) from 2018 to 2021, during which time, he addressed the requirements he foresaw MI would need to be successful in future large-scale combat operations. He led the creation of the Army Counterintelligence Command to integrate CI functions across multiple domains and align Army CI with national security priorities and the Army Intelligence Data Platform to support long-range precision fires and multi-domain intelligence. He launched a Data Science program for MI warrant officers that expanded to the integration of data science/literacy across MI organizations. He also pushed for the establishment of the INSCOM Cloud Initiative, the first integrated intelligence training architecture. Prior to his time at INSCOM, Maj. Gen. Johnston made direct impacts to combat operations during multiple deployments to Afghanistan between 2004-2015, including implementation of the most successful Female Engagement Team program that became the standard for the program adopted by U.S. forces across the theater.
Colonel Stuart Herrington, a preeminent Cold War-era human intelligence and counterintelligence officer, became one of the Army’s foremost experts in tactical interrogation operations during his two deployments to Vietnam in the early 1970s. He served as a district intelligence advisor with the Phoenix Project and later worked in the Defense Attaché Office, where he was part of the team that developed the plan for the final evacuation of American personnel from Vietnam in 1975. During his career, he had several assignments in Berlin investigating Soviet Bloc espionage agents, and as commander of the Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, was key to the conclusion of investigations of two Army insider threats selling classified war plans to the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations. His interrogations expertise was also put to use as the commander of the Joint Debriefing Centers during both Operations JUST CAUSE in Panama and DESERT STORM in Southwest Asia.
Chief Warrant Officer Five Michael Campbell, a geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) expert, served as the senior GEOINT officer at Special Operations Command Europe, U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Special Operations Command South, and the United Kingdom's National Centre Geospatial Intelligence from 2004 until his retirement in 2022. Furthermore, he served one year as the chief of GEOINT for TF Observe, Detect, Identify, Neutralize (ODIN) in Afghanistan, providing rapid GEOINT analysis that led to the successful execution of thousands of missions to defeat enemy threats and networks. In addition to his support at tactical and operational levels, throughout his career, he contributed to the development and refinement of GEOINT analytical training for the U.S. Army and foreign partners.
Command Sergeant Major Charles Goodman served as the G-2 Sergeant Major of the 2d Infantry Division and Command Sergeant Major of both the 102d MI Battalion and 306th MI Battalion, before assuming his final position as commandant of the NCO Academy at Fort Huachuca just two weeks after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Over the following four years, he adapted the Academy’s courses to counterinsurgency, incorporated more warfighting functions into training, and spurred the NCO Academy to earn the title of Academy of Excellence in 2002. After retirement in 2005, he became a contract instructor for the MI Basic Officer Leader Course, driving significant improvements to the lieutenants’ course for nearly two decades.
Dr. William Spracher served thirty years in uniform, fifteen of those years as a Latin American Foreign Area Officer with assignments as Defense attaché to Colombia and Army attaché to Peru. His active duty career also included a significant amount of educational endeavors, including teaching social studies at West Point, commanding the school battalion at the School of the Americas, and teaching at the National Defense University Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. For another twenty-one years after retirement, he continued to teach, including eleven years at the National Intelligence University. Also during that period, he volunteered as editor of the National Military Intelligence Foundation’s American Intelligence Journal (AIJ) for thirteen years. He wrote more than 40 articles for AIJ and other publications, gave 250 lectures, mentored 63 master’s theses, and assisted with 350 other academic papers. His efforts helped further MI’s doctrinal and informational base and linked current MI professionals to the past of their discipline.
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