Lieutenant Colonel Ariel R. Rodriguez

Lieutenant Colonel Ariel R. Rodriguez is a Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Puerto Rico’s ROTC Program. His first duty assignments were as Transportation Officer, Supply Officer, and Executive Officer in the Supply and Transportation Troop, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Bliss, Texas from 1990 to 1995. He was later reassigned to the 2nd Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Korea, where he served from 1995 to 1996 as the Forward Battalion Logistics Officer. Later, he was transferred to the 565th Maintenance Company, 31st Air Defense Artillery, Fort Bliss, Texas, where he served from 1996 to 1998 as a company commander. While assigned to 565th Maintenance Company, he deployed his company to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Defense Freedom. Lieutenant Colonel Rodriguez was next assigned to the Houston Recruiting Battalion where he served from 1998 to 2000 as the North Recruiting Company Commander. In July 1998, LTC Rodriguez was next assigned to US Army South, Puerto Rico from 2000 to 2002, where he served as an assistant to the General Staff for all South America and Central America Logistical matters. In November 2002, LTC Rodriguez was selected for the Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. After a year in the Command and General Staff College, LTC

Rodriguez was sent to Fort Hood, Texas from 2003 to 2007 where he served as the Special Troop Battalion Executive Officer. While assigned to Fort Hood, LTC Rodriguez deployed to Operation Iraq Freedom II from 2004 to 2005 where he served as the assistant to the General Staff Operations Officer and from 2006 to 2007 where he served as the direct supervisor to the 3rd Iraq Brigade Border Patrol Logistics Officers near Syria Border. LTC Rodriguez assumed command on 30 May 2007 of the Texas A&M University in Kingsville and Texas A&M International University (Laredo) ROTC Battalion.

His professional military education includes the Quartermaster Officer Basic and Advance Courses, Quartermaster Air Rigging Course, Army Recruiting Course, and the Command and Staff General College. Lieutenant Colonel Rodriguez earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education from the University of Puerto Rico in 1990 and a Master of Arts and Science Degree in Management in 1993 from Webster University College. Lieutenant Colonel Rodriguez’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and Humanitarian Service Medal. In addition, LTC Rodriguez has been awarded the US Army Combat Action Badge, the US Army Airborne Badge, US Army Rigger Badge, and US Army Recruiting Badge.

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