LTC(R) Greg Mogavero

Mr. Greg Mogavero, United States Military Academy Class of 1991, is a former three-star letter athlete who played on the last Army football team coached by Jim Young. A native of Buffalo, New York, he majored in computer science and was a member of USCC Company B-2 “Bulldogs.” He commissioned as an Army aviator and served in Germany, Turkey, Iraq, Japan, and Korea.

After completing two platoon leader and three company command tours, Mogavero was selected for resident command at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He transitioned to the information operations career field just before the Global War on Terrorism and participated in multiple deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Qatar, supporting the 1st Cavalry Division, the International Security Force-Afghanistan, and other organizations. His final military assignment was as a division chief for Special Operations Command, Africa. Broadening assignments included serving as an Army officer career manager and as a researcher and analyst for a Joint Advanced Warfighting Program at the Institute for Defense Analyses.

As a senior government civilian, Mogavero served as lead strategic communication planner, deputy director, and acting director of the Public Affairs Division at U.S. Africa Command.

He and his wife, Carin, also from Buffalo, are parents of Brian, a Marine infantry platoon commander and 2019 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and August, a rising senior at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. The couple is actively involved at West Point and remain engaged with the academy community. Mogavero enjoys tinkering, CNC machining, and woodworking.