COL Joseph A. McCarthy

Prior to arriving to the 25th Infantry Division, Colonel McCarthy most recently served as the Director of the Directorate of Evaluation and Standardization, Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Novosel, AL. His previous command assignments include serving as the Commander, 4-3 Assault Helicopter Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, and Company and Troop Commands in 159th the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY.

His staff and special assignments include service as the Chief, Aviation Center of Excellence Commanding General’s Initiate Group; Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Joint Staff; Army Initiatives Group Strategic Planner, HQDA G-3/5/7; and Junior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Secretary Defense, as well as other Brigade and Battalion Field grade and Company grade staff positions.

He has multiple combat and operational deployments in support of operations in Afghanistan and numerous exercises in the INDOPACIFIC and EUCOM areas of responsibility.

COL McCarthy was commissioned from the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School in 2002 as an Infantry Officer, and later branch transferred to Aviation in 2006. In his civilian studies, he holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a Master’s in Public Policy Management from Georgetown University, and Bachelor of Arts and Science degrees in Psychology and Criminal Justice from Rutgers University. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, VA, and the Joint and Combined Warfighting School, Norfolk, VA.

COL McCarthy is married and has two children.