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MULLER APPOINTED CERDEC DIRECTOR MG John F. Wharton, commanding general (CG) of the U.S. Army Mate-
riel Command’s (AMC’s) Research, Development and Engineering Command, appointed Henry J. Muller Jr. director of the U.S. Army Communications- Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), effective March 22.
Muller’s previous assignment was as director for CERDEC’s Intelligence and Infor- mation Warfare Directorate (I2WD), where he led the Army’s working group for development of its cyber materiel strategy, released in February. Muller entered the Senior Executive Service (SES) in November 2008 as director of CERDEC’s Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate. Before that, he served four years as CERDEC’s associate director and two years as chief of the Information Operations Division of I2WD. (Photo by Conrad Johnson, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Public Affairs)
WYCHE SUCCEEDS MCQUISTION AS AMC DEPUTY CG
AMC welcomed its 45th deputy commanding general (DCG) and chief of staff in a formal ceremony at Redstone Arsenal, AL, on April 13. LTG Larry D. Wyche officially assumed the duties as AMC’s second in command April 10. This assignment marks a return to AMC head- quarters for Wyche, who served as its deputy chief of staff for operations and logistics from August 2010 to June 2012. In 2008, Wyche took command of the Joint Munitions and Lethal- ity Life Cycle Management Command, a major subordinate command of AMC.
“He knows our mission; he knows our workforce and he knows our customer—the Soldier,” said GEN Dennis L. Via, AMC CG. “He is cer- tainly the right person at the right time to keep AMC moving in the right direction.” As the new DCG, Wyche will be responsible for the day-to- day operations of the command, including the organic industrial base, logistics readiness cen- ters and major subordinate commands.
Wyche takes over from LTG Patricia E. McQuistion, who had served in that position since August 2012. McQuistion culminated more than 34 years of service to the Army with a retirement ceremony April 10 at Redstone Arsenal.
Although she grew up in an Army family and rose to become one of five three-star female Army generals on active duty at the time of her retirement, McQuistion told the Redstone Rocket that she did not intend to build a career as a Soldier. As it happened, a master sergeant approached McQuistion while she was waiting in line to enroll for her first semester of classes at the University of Akron in Ohio. He told her about ROTC and the possibility of a stipend and scholarship. She “liked the idea of ROTC,” she said, and agreed to take the one-hour introduc- tory ROTC course if she could find the course number in the catalog before reaching the front of the line.
She did, and signed up for ROTC and a four- year commitment to the Army, during which she met and married her husband, now-retired COL Leif Johnson. They raised three children, now grown, as they juggled family and careers—for McQuistion, seven commands and multiple overseas tours, among other assignments.
“The Army has provided me a world of opportu- nities that wouldn’t have been available to me in any other endeavor that I would have ever considered,” she told the Redstone Rocket. “I am simply proud that I was allowed to serve.”
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