Lieutenant Colonel David Pendleton

Lieutenant Colonel H. David Pendleton, age 48, has served over 23 years in the military. After leaving the active duty Army in 1986, Pendleton realized he missed military life and decided to join the Army Reserve and later joined the Active Guard-Reserve (AGR) program.

From December 1999 until March 2000 Pendleton was deployed to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovina. Serving as the Operations Officer for the Combined-Joint (CJ)-9 (Civil Military Operations) section of the NATO Stabilization Force, Pendleton was responsible for tracking the movement of dislocated civilians whole lives were disrupted by the Civil War in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Pendleton is proud to have contributed to safeguarding the United States and he continues to do so today as a contractor.

In his civilian career, Pendleton is the Senior Personnel Analyst for the United States Army Information Operations Proponent at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.