Tucker B. Mansager

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Mansager was commissioned in the Infantry upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1985.
After initial schooling, he was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 502nd Infantry in the Berlin Brigade from 1986 to 1989, where he served as a rifle platoon leader, mortar platoon leader, company executive officer, assistant battalion operations officer and battalion personnel officer.
COL Mansager returned to the United States for further schooling and was then assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1989 to 1992, where he served as battalion personnel officer and commanded B Company.
During his time in the 82nd Airborne Division, he deployed to Saudi Arabia and Iraq for nine months in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
COL Mansager studied Polish and Russian at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California in 1993, and was assigned as the first U.S.
Army officer to attend the Polish Command and Staff College in Rembertow, Poland in 1994, under the auspices of the Army's Foreign Area Officer In-Country Training Program.
Returning to the U.S.
in 1995, he received his master's degree in Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University in 1996, and graduated from the U.S.
Army's Command and General Staff College in 1997.
On Aug.
17th 2005, COL Mansager became the Commandant of the Defense Language Institute, and Commander of the Presidio of Monterey and Ord Military Community.