LTC Wesley Ogden

LTC Wes Ogden is deputy director of the Center for Applied Engineering at the United States Military Academy (USMA). He also is an instructor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at West Point.

He entered the Army after graduating from USMA in 2006. After graduation, he was assigned to the Aviation Branch and entered flight school at Fort Novosel, Alabama.

LTC Ogden’s military assignments include serving as an OH-58D platoon leader and assistant operations officer with the 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Carson, Colorado, and Fort Riley, Kansas. This assignment included two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2008 and Operation New Dawn in 2009 to 2010. He served as company commander of the Contemporary Operating Environment Forces Aviation Company (SOKOL), 2916th Aviation Battalion, at Fort Irwin, California.

He joined the Acquisition Corps as an experimental test pilot in 2016 and served as the division chief of Redstone Test Center’s Aircraft Survivability Equipment Test Division; assistant product manager for Apache production and fielding; assistant product manager for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft(; and chief of the Rotorcraft In-Flight Laboratory branch in the Combat Capability Development Command at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

His military education includes Initial Entry Rotary Wing Training and Aviation Basic Officer Leader Course (distinguished graduate), Engineer Captain's Career Course (honor graduate), and the Command and General Staff Officer College (honor graduate).  He is a graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School (Class 148) and has flown over 30 different aircraft.

LTC Ogden is a master aviator, qualified in the OH-58D, UH-72A, C-12C/D, UH-60L and UH-60M aircraft.