LTC Wesley Ogden Instructor Deputy Director - Center for Applied Engineering Civil and Mechanical Engineering Center for Applied Engineering wesley.ogden [at] westpoint.edu About LTC Wes Ogden currently serves as the Deputy Director for the West Point Center for Applied Engineering.He entered the Army after graduating from the United States Military Academy in 2006. After graduation, he was assigned to the Aviation Branch and entered flight school at Fort Novosel, AL.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, CO, and Fort Riley, KS. This assignment included two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2008 and Operation New Dawn in 2009-10. He served as Company Commander of the Contemporary Operating Environment Forces Aviation Company (SOKOL) 2916th Aviation Battalion at Fort Irwin, CA.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 (FLRAA), and Chief of the Rotorcraft In-Flight Laboratory branch in the Combat Capability Development Command at Fort Eustis, VA. LTC Ogden is a Master Aviator, qualified in the OH-58D, UH-72A, C-12C/D, UH-60L, and UH-60M aircraft.