A Brief Look At Lieutenant Colonel Gardner

For exceptionally meritorious service from 01 August 2006 to 31 July 2016, while serving in various command and staff positions in the United States Army. In Lieutenant Colonel Gardner’s 20 years of selfless service, he has demonstrated his superior contributions, outstanding performance, dedication to duty, and legacy of leadership will leave a lasting impression on all who served with him in the United States Army Human Resources Command (HRC) and the United States Army.

Lieutenant Colonel Gardner has served the Army for over twenty years in a variety of difficult assignments increasing in responsibility and scope, ranging from Engineer Platoon leader for the 326th Engineer Battalion within the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) to the
He modeled and instructed them to understand the profound responsibility of leadership and how the consequences of their decisions and actions affected not only the lives of Soldiers, but also their families, the enemy and non-combatants. He further taught these emerging leaders how to apply this knowledge across established competencies to achieve mission success through various training exercises and professional development sessions, focusing on preparing them to serve as leaders in the Global War on Terrorism. Under his leadership, his Company won several awards and consistently ranked among the best in all major categories that Cadet Companies were rated. Later, while serving as the Director of Cadet Programs, Lieutenant Colonel Gardner was responsible for the management and operation of 115 intercollegiate clubs and teams which further enhanced the development of Cadets by providing organized, comprehensive, and diverse programs. His efforts in this capacity were instrumental in leading the organization to its best cash position in over 12 years, thereby enabling them to provide more opportunities to develop Cadets into leaders of character. He also served as the Officer in Charge (OIC) for Baptist Student Union and as an Officer Christian Fellowship
He expertly managed the team to defend and maintain the Pacific LandWarNet (PLWN), and he stood up the first ever USARPAC forward TNOSC as part of the Theater Security Cooperation Program exercise Cobra Gold in Thailand. He was critical to transforming the PLWN from a federation of garrison networks to a single expeditionary theater network in support of a four-star warfighting headquarters. Lieutenant Colonel Gardner’s team also excelled in the successful completion of 6 major USARPAC exercises, hundreds of real-world computer network defense response actions, and an extremely successful Command Cyber Readiness