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LIEUTENANT COLONEL
William Galinger
TDA POS:
Professor of Military Science and Leadership
ASSIGN: 13 June 2011
BRANCH: Ordnance
SOURCE OF COMMISSION: University of Miami (Florida) 1994
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Lieutenant Colonel Bill Galinger was
born and raised in Cincinnati, attending Glen
Este High School near Eastgate. Upon graduation,
he
attended the University of Miami (Florida) on
a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship, earning a Bachelor
of Science in Chemistry.
Commissioned as an Ordnance
Officer in 1994, then Lieutenant Galinger’s
first assignment was with the 63rd Ordnance Ammunition
Company where he served as a Platoon Leader and
Company Executive Officer. After a brief assignment
with the 20th Corps Materiel Management Center,
he was selected to serve as the Aide-de-Camp
to the Commanding General of the US Army’s
Armament, Research, Development and Engineering
Center at
Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, where the Army
has designed and tested every weapon system since
WWII.
After the Captain’s Career Course, then
Captain Galinger commanded B Company, 602nd Aviation
Support
Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Stanley,
Korea; responsible for the direct support maintenance
to the Division Aviation Brigade’s ground
fleet and the Division Cavalry. He then served
as an Ordnance Officer Basic and Advanced Course
instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland,
and was recognized as the officer instructor
of the year for 2002. He then served as the Service
Detachment Commander, 10th Special Forces Group
(Airborne), Fort Carson, Colorado. Upon promotion,
then Major Galinger served as the first Support
Operations Officer of the newly activated 10th
Group Support
Battalion for the 10th SFG(A).
Lieutenant Colonel Galinger
has two deployments with the Special Forces to
Iraq in support of the Combined Joint Special
Operations Task Force – Arabian Peninsula
(CJSOTF-AP). After attending the Command and
General Staff
College at Fort Leavenworth, Major Galinger was
assigned
to the 21st Theater Sustainment Command in Kaiserslautern,
Germany, where he served as the G3 Current Operations
Officer and later as the Secretary of the General
Staff to the Commanding General.
Currently, Lieutenant Colonel Galinger leads
the MacArther Award winning University of Cincinnati
Army ROTC program ranked in the top 8 out of
273 Army ROTC battalions in the Nation.
Lieutenant Colonel Galinger’s awards and decorations
include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service
Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Ordnance
Order of Samuel Sharpe.
He also earned a Master’s Degree in Procurement and Acquisition Management
from Webster University.
He and wife Melanie have two boys, Matthew and
Michael, and a German Shorthair Pointer, Piper.
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Professor of Military Science and Leadership 
