MAJ Antonio Mendoza

MAJ Antonio Mendoza is an instructor in the Department of English & World Languages at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

He 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 1998-2003. After a combat deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mendoza attended the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the ROTC program, earning a bachelor's degree with honors in sociology.

Upon commissioning, he was branch-detailed to the field artillery. 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 2013-17, and later at Fort Hood, Texas, with the 1st Cavalry Division from 2018-19, during which he deployed to Poland and Germany in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve.