Chuck Arneson

Affiliation:	Army Veteran
Location:	3640 Col Glenn Hwy, 328 Fawcett Hall Dayton, OH
Hometown:	Janesville

About Me: Lieutenant Colonel Arneson received his commission in 1976 as an U.S. Army Signal Officer from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville where he received a BS degree in Urban and Regional Planning. He was initially assigned to the VII Corps’ 307th Military Intelligence Brigade in Stuttgart, FRG as the HHC Signal Platoon Leader. He was reassigned to the 1st Infantry Division (Fwd) 1st of the 16th Infantry Battalion Signal Officer in Bobligen, FRG in 1978. In 1980 he was reassigned to the 7th Infantry Division where he served as the Battalion Signal Officer for the 3rd of the 32 Infantry BN (Queen’s Own). In December of that year he assumed command of B Company, 127th Signal Battalion. In 1982 he passed the Company guideon and became the Assistant Division Signal Officer of the Division until his reassignment in 1983. From 1983 to 1986 he served as an Assistant Professor of Military Science and Commandant of the Cadet Corps at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He attended the Lafollette Institute of Public Affairs where he received his MA degree in Public Policy and Administration in 1986. From1987 to 1988 he served as the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Armored Division, Signal Staff Officer in Geinhausen, FRG. In 1988 he did an Intra-Theatre Transfer to Frankfurt, FRG, to serve as the Operation and Training Officer for the 143rd Signal Battalion. In 1990 he was selected as the Assistant Division Signal Officer (ADSO) of the 3rd Armored Division. During this period he was principally responsible for the complete fielding of the multi-million dollar Mobile Subscriber Equipment throughout the entire division. Moreover, he served with the Division as the ADSO in Southwest Asia during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. LTC Arneson was then redeployed from SWA to Europe and was reassigned to the Joint Interopretability Test Center (JITC) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, serving as a Joint Staff Officer where he performed operational testing and evaluation for DOD. In 1994 he was reassigned to HQ Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Deputy Chief of Staff for Doctrine. Assigned to the Future Battle Directorate, he helped shape the Army’s future doctrine by working on Force XXI Operations, and was the primary author for FM100-6, INFORMATION OPERATIONS. In August 1996 took command of the Army ROTC Fightin’ Gator Battalion serving as the Professor of Military Science at the University of Florida until his retirement on 30 June 2000. He has support the US Army Cadet Command mission of recruiting, retaining, developing, training and assessing the future junior officer military leadership for our country’s Army since 2000. Selected as the best Recruiting Operations Officer in 7th brigade throughout the past decade. He is selected routinely as the SME at the US Army Cadet Command ROO course. LTC Arneson has never failed to meet or exceed mission since 2002. LTC Arneson attended and graduated from the following military courses the Signal Officer Basic Course, the Telecommunications Officer Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia in 1976; the Communication Security Officer Course at Bad Tolez, Germany in 1977, the Signal Officer Advance Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia in 1980; the Combined Arms Service Staff School (CAS3) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1983; Corps and Division Signal Operations Course at Fort Gordon, Georgia in 1987; the GTE Mobile Subscriber Equipment Network Planner’s Course; the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1991, the Operational Test and Evaluation Officer Course at Fort Hood, TX in 1992, the Joint Information Warfare Officer Course at Fort McNair, Virginia in 1994 and the School of Cadet Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia in 1996. LTC Arneson’s military awards include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Army Meritorious Service medal with two oak lead clusters, Army Commendation Medal with oak lead cluster, Army Achievement Medal with two oak lead clusters, the Southwest Asia Service Medal, Defense Service Medal, Reserve Officer Service Medal, Southwest Kuwait Liberation Medal, and the Kuwait Liberation Medal.