Christopher T. Donahue

He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and commissioned as a Second lieutenant into the Infantry Branch in 1992. His first assignment was rifle platoon leader with 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth Army in South Korea followed by service at Fort Polk, Louisiana and 3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment as company executive officer. Donahue then received assignment as rifle company commander in 5th Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment in Camp Kobbe, Panama. In 1998 Donahue transferred to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment as assistant operations officer, rifle company commander, and headquarters company commander.[1] He was then assigned to Washington D.C as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Donahue volunteered and completed a special selection course for assignment to Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, NC. He would serve numerous leadership positions as assistant operations officer, squadron operations officer, squadron executive officer, troop commander, selection and training detachment commander, operations officer, squadron commander, deputy commander and unit commander.[2] Donahue earned a master's degree from the Naval Command and Staff College, Naval War College and completed a Army War College Fellowship at Harvard University, 2013.[3]

Donahue's deployments while serving in the aforementioned positions include Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, Operation Freedom Sentinel and Operation Inherent Resolve. He planned, rehearsed and operated during classified operations in Eastern Europe, Middle East, Southwest Asia and Africa.

His most recent assignments include: Director of Operations, Joint Special Operations Command; the Commandant, United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning; Commanding General (manuever) of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson; Deputy Director for Special Operations and Counterterrorism, J-37 Joint Staff; Commanding General, NATO Special Operations Component Command/Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan, Resolute Support Mission, 2019-2020; and the Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division from 2020 to present.[4]