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Lieutenant
Colonel James A. Stocks was born in Newport News,
Virginia and is a graduate of Guilford College in Greensboro, North
Carolina. He received his commission in 1990 and was subsequently
assigned as a logistics officer.
His initial operating forces tour was with the 3rd Force Service
Support Group in Okinawa, Japan where he served as a platoon commander
and the executive officer for C Company, 3rd Landing Support Battalion.
subsequently assigned to the 2nd Marine Division he served as the
Maintenance Management Officer for 2nd Assault Amphibious Battalion and
as the Assistant Chief of Staff G-4 Assistant Operations Officer. He
also served as the Inspector Instructor for the Landing Support
Detachment in Wilmington, North Carolina.
As a field grade officer he served in the 2nd Force Service Support
Group and commanded a Combat Service Support Detachment in support of
operations in Norway. His staff assignments have included tours as the
operations officer of 2nd Transportation Support Battalion and the
Deputy G-4 for the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (Anti-Terrorism).
Additionally, he served three years with the Marine Corps Operational
Test and Evaluation Activity as an operational test project officer and
the Combat Service Support Test Branch Head.
In July 2006 he was assigned as the Assistant Chief of Staff G-4
Operations Officer for the 2nd Marine Division. during this tour he
deployed with II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) for service in
Operation Iraqi Freedom as the Multi National Force-West Assistant
Chief of Staff G-4 Operations and Plans Officer. He is currently
assigned as the Inspector-Instructor and Site Commander for the 4th
Landing Support Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington.
LtCol Stocks has a Masters of Science in Business Administration from
Boston University and is a graduate of the Basic School, the Amphibious
Warfare School, and the Command and Staff Non-Resident Program.
His personal decorations include: the Bronze Star, the Meritorious
Service Medal (with gold stat), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation
Medal (with two stars), the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
LtCol Stocks and his wife have three children; Benjamin, Matthew, and
Caroline.
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In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, lieutenant
colonel is a field grade military
officer rank just above the rank of major and just below the rank of
colonel. It is equivalent to the rank of commander in the other
uniformed services.
The pay grade for the
rank of lieutenant colonel is O-5. The insignia for the rank consists
of a silver oak leaf, with slight stylized differences between the
Army/Air Force version and the Marine Corps version.
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LtCol
Stocks, it was learned after Vern asked, has jumped 5 times.
This
is interesting to Vern because his Mom, a Can-Do Single MOM of WWII,
who made parachutes. We know chutes are different today but that image
above is the way she made them. Click the image.
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