Major General Kevin O'Connell

Major General Kevin G. O’Connell serves as Commanding General of the United States Army Sustainment Command (ASC) and as Commanding General, Rock Island Arsenal with responsibilities and duties as the Senior Commander for United States Army Garrison, Rock Island. As Commanding General, he leads a global organization responsible for sustaining Army and Joint Forces in support of Combatant Commands. The ASC organizes, trains, and sustains a quality deployable force, while integrating materiel and services for warfighters. ASC provides the US Army with materiel readiness, strategic depth, flexibility, and power projection to meet its world-wide contingency missions. MG O’Connell commands seven Army Field Support Brigades in support of Combatant Commands, the Army’s Distribution Management Command, the Army Sustainment Command: Army Reserve Element, and 20 Army Field Support Battalions consisting of more than 65,000 military, civilian and government contractors. He also provides oversight for logistics operations at CONUS and OCONUS Army installations thru 73 Logistics Readiness Centers. MG Kevin G. O’Connell comes to the U.S. Army Sustainment command from U.S. Army Forces Command, where he served as Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4. He is a native of Clinton, Maryland. He attended High Point College in North Carolina and was commissioned as a Quartermaster Corps Officer through ROTC in 1982. A summary of MG O’Connell’s previous logistical assignments includes: Logistics Officer, 90th Personnel and Administration Battalion and Platoon Leader, 593d Supply and Service and 5th Maintenance Companies, 66th Maintenance Battalion, 29th Area Support Group, 21st Support Command, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Commander, 289th General Supply Company and Battalion S3 Operations Officer, 553d Supply and Services Battalion, 13th Support Command, Ft Hood, Texas; Chief, Supply Division, 19th Corps Materiel Management Center, 3d Corps Support Command, Weisbaden, Germany (OPERATION JOINT ENDEAVOR Task Force Eagle - Lukavac, Bosnia); Support Operations Officer, 123d Main Support Battalion, 1st Armored Divison (Bosnia; Slavonski Brod, Croatia; Dexheim, Germany); Chief, Division Materiel Management Center, 1st Armored Division, Bad Kreuznach, Germany; Chief, Supply and Services Branch, Logistics Resources Division, J4, U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii; Commander, Regimental Support Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and Senior Logistics Trainer, Operations Group, Ft Irwin, California; Commander, 1st Infantry Division Support Command, Kitzingen, Germany; Commander, 1st Sustainment Brigade, Ft Riley, Kansas (OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM-Taji, Iraq); Executive Officer to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Ft Belvoir, Virginia; Director of Logistics, Engineering and Security Assistance, U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii; Commanding General, Joint Munitions and Lethality Life Cycle Management Command/ Joint Munitions Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. His military education includes the Quartermaster Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Combined Arms Services Staff School, the Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He has also completed the Capstone Course. His decorations include the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal , Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Commendation Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Achievement Medal, as well as numerous unit awards, campaign medals, and service medals. He has also been presented with the Noble Patron of Armor, Order of Saint Michael, Somervell Award, Order of Saint Martin, and the Order of Samuel Sharpe for his contributions to the Armored and Cavalry forces, Army Aviation, Logistics Corps, Quartermaster Corps, and the Ordnance Corps respectively. MG O’Connell is married and they have a son and daughter.