ON THE MOVE


1: PEO LEADS PROMOTION CEREMONY Col. Timothy McDonald, right, was promoted to the rank of colonel during a ceremony March 8 at Redstone Arsenal. Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Todd III, PEO Aviation, administered the oath of office. McDonald is currently assigned to PEO Aviation headquarters, where he works on international operations with an emphasis on Afghanistan. (Photo by Michelle Miller, PEO Aviation)


2: LOGISTICS CHIEF RETIRES Edward M. Ward received a certificate of retirement from Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Todd III, PEO Aviation, during a ceremony March 15 at Redstone Arsenal marking Ward’s retirement. Ward joined PEO Aviation in 2010 as the logistics chief and product support manager for the Un- manned Aircraft Systems Program Office before becoming the director of G-4, Logistics, in 2017. (Photo by Michelle Miller, PEO Aviation)


3: SPOUSES EARN DUAL PROMOTIONS Spouses Jared Thompson, center, and Josephine Thompson recited the oath of office administered by Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Todd III, PEO Aviation, during a ceremony Jan. 4 at Redstone Arsenal promoting them to the ranks of chief warrant officer (CW) 5 and colo- nel, respectively. CW5 Thompson is an experimental test pilot for the Aviation Flight Test Directorate and senior warrant officer at Redstone


Test Center. He is one of only five experimental test pilots who hold the CW5 rank. Col. Thompson is product director for Medical Evacuation for PEO Aviation’s Utility Helicopters Project Office, and is the active Army’s second-most senior medevac acquisitions officer. (Photo by Dorothy Moore, PEO Aviation)


4: APACHE ASSISTANT PM RETIRES Lt. Col. Lance Culver, right, accepted a certificate of retirement from Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Todd III, PEO Aviation, March 29 at Red- stone Arsenal, in honor of his 28 years of service. Culver served as as- sistant project manager for PEO Aviation’s Apache International Division. (Photo by Shannon Kirkpatrick, PEO Aviation)


5: AVIATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS RECOGNIZED Col. Chad Smith, left, presented the Meritorious Service Medal to Lt. Col. Tim Bracken for outstanding performance in several critical positions from March 2018 to February 2019, culminating as the G-3 contingency operations officer. Bracken was responsible for program management, research and development, logistics support and fielding of critical aviation systems that ensured safe commercial and combat op- erations for Army aviation assets deployed worldwide. He has departed PEO Aviation for an assignment at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. (Photo by Paul Stevenson, PEO Aviation)


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