MAJ Antonio Mendoza

MAJ Antonio Mendoza, a native of El Paso, Texas, is an Army adjutant general officer (AG, 42B) and prior-service enlisted Marine. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and was assigned to the 1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, from 1998 to 2003. After a combat deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, MAJ Mendoza attended the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the ROTC program, earning a Bachelor of Arts with honors in sociology.

Upon commissioning, he was branch-detailed to the Field Artillery branch. MAJ Mendoza has served as a fire support officer, battery executive officer, and battalion S1 staff officer at Fort Bliss, Texas, with the 1st Armored Division from 2013 to 2017, and later at Fort Hood, Texas, with the 1st Cavalry Division from 2018 to 2019, during which he deployed to Poland and Germany in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.