COL Victor M. Deekens serves as the deputy department head of the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership department at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York. 

He was commissioned as an officer in the Signal Corps in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Virginia. Deekens earned both a master's degree (educational psychology, measurement, and evaluation) and doctorate (learning sciences and psychological studies) in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a master's degree in information technology management from the University of Maryland Global Campus. 

Deekens has served in a variety of leadership positions beginning as a platoon leader and then, serving as an assistant battalion operations officer, 57th Signal Battalion, Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood), Texas. Next, he served in a combined joint task force headquarters in Afghanistan before commanding three units at the detachment/company level in the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii and deployed to Iraq.