Major General Curtis Taylor

Commanding General, 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss

Maj. Gen. Curt Taylor assumed duties as the Commander of the 1st Armored Division and the Senior Commander of Fort Bliss, Texas, in July 2024. 

Maj. Gen. Taylor graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May 1994 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Armor branch. Over the last 25 years, he has served in various command and staff positions in Armored, Cavalry, and Infantry formations up through division level. His combat service includes two tours in Afghanistan and two tours in Iraq.

In 2010, Maj. Gen. Taylor commanded 3rd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment in Grafenwoehr, Germany, and deployed with it to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Following battalion command, he served as the Brigade Senior Trainer at the JMRC in Hohenfels, Germany. Following senior service college, he served as the Director of the Commander's Initiatives Group at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, focused on the development of innovative approaches to talent management and leader development across the Army. In that capacity, he also served as the Director of Strategic Assessment for the CSA 39 Transition Team in 2015.

From 2015 to 2017, Maj. Gen. Taylor commanded the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team at Fort Carson, Colorado, which transformed during his command into a Reconnaissance and Security Brigade Combat Team and executed a series of exercises to demonstrate the ability of a brigade combat team to perform the traditional roles of operational cavalry on the 21st century battlefield.

Following brigade command, Maj. Gen. Taylor served as the Chief of Staff of Fort Riley, Kansas, and the 1st Infantry Division, where he oversaw the deployment of multiple combat brigades to Europe and execution of a large-scale Warfighter exercise.

From June 2019 to April 2021, Maj. Gen. Taylor activated and commanded the 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade, consisting of specially selected and uniquely trained combat advisors who deployed across the INDOPACOM area of operations. 

From April 2021 to June 2024, Maj. Gen. Taylor served as the Commanding General of the National Training Center and Fort Irwin, California, for 28 rotations, where he oversaw the NTC’s adaptation to Multi-Domain Operations with two division-level rotations, two major Capstone experiments by Army Futures command and sustained changes to the training environment to keep pace with lessons from conflicts in Europe and Israel.  

Maj. Gen. Taylor has two master’s degrees in security studies.