David Thompson

Profile Updated: June 18, 2018
David Thompson
Residing In: Fort Lee, VA USA
Spouse/Partner: Melissa (from Abingdon, Illinois)
Occupation: Lieutenant Colonel in the Army's Logistics branch
Children: Monica Hope, born on June 12, 2001 in Temple, Texas.

Morgan Lee, born on April 8, 2010 at Madigan More…Army Medical Center, Washington.
Military Service: Army  

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-Served our great country and Army as a Logistics Specialist from July 1991 to June 1996 in Germany, Korea, and Texas.

-Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Western Illinois University in May 1999 and subsequently commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army's Ordnance Corps, becoming an Army Maintenance Management Officer.

-Married my college girlfriend, Melissa, in Galesburg, Illinois in October 1998.

-Led a 75-soldier maintenance platoon in the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas from 1999 to 2000.

-Second-in-command of a 234-soldier logistics company in the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas from 2000 to 2002.

-Became the proud father of Monica Hope (www.monicahope.net) in June 2001.

-Primary Logistics Staff Officer for a 7-unit, 952-soldier air and missile defense battalion at Fort Bliss, Texas from 2003 to 2004.

-Company Commander of a maintenance company at Fort Bliss from 2004 to 2005.

-Company Commander of the active duty and Army Reserve recruiting company covering 35 counties of God's country (central Illinois!) from 2005 to 2007.

-Received a Master of Arts in Organizational Management in 2007, finally.

-Senior Brigade Combat Logistics Advisor embedded with a 2,600-soldier Afghan National Army Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Khost, Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan from 2007 to 2008.

-Completed the 10-month Intermediate Level Education Course at the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 2009.

-Served as the Support Operations Officer (primary logistics/sustainment coordinator) for a 4,000-soldier Stryker Brigade Combat Team at both Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington and in the Diyala Province, Iraq from 2009 through 2011

-Became the proud father of Morgan Lee in April 2010.

-Selected in 2011 to participate in the Advanced Military Studies Program under the School of Advanced Military Studies at the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This year-long course will be a great experience in 2012 to once again be in the midwest and engender a strong, unified bond with my wife and two children.

-2012 to 2018 is one big blur. Afghanistan.....31 countries in Europe and then Battalion Command in Virginia.
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Posted: Dec 16, 2013 at 11:54 PM
The "big three" of my team as the Support Operations Officer (SPO) for the battalion and Stryker Brigade Combat Team I'm a part of. From right to left, my Noncommissioned Officer-in-Charge (Master Sergeant Darren Nixon) and my Deputy SPO (CPT Josh Peeples). Taken in the month of August while we trained for war at the Army's National Training Center near Barstow, California.
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Melissa, Monica, Morgan, and I at my brigade's Thanksgiving Day meal in November 2011 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
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Enjoying a calm ride in my un-air conditioned, non-uparmored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) at the Yakima Training Center in Washington in May 2011.
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Melissa and I at my battalion's ball in September 2011.
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A few days after my return from Iraq in August 2010, my brigade conducted a redeployment ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.
Posted: Dec 16, 2013 at 11:54 PM
August 13th, 2010, despite Morgan being over four months old, it was the first time I held her. My only hope is that both she and Monica forgive me later in life for missing part of their childhood.
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A "Thompson Family" photo in central Illinois in early-May 2011.
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Graduating from the Army's Command and General Staff College in December 2009---an awesome school to attend and graduate from as it brought perspective and balance to our lives.
Posted: Dec 16, 2013 at 11:54 PM
In late-2008 while serving in eastern Afghanistan as a Logistics Advisor embedded with the Afghan National Army, I participated in one of my last named operations as a captain. This one, a 28-day mission near the Pakistan border, was one of the most humbling experiences of my life that I'll never forget nor will anything be able to replace the bond established with the eight great Americans I was there with.




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