Brigadier General Gene Meredith graduated in 1989 from the University of Arkansas and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army’s Field Artillery (FA) Branch. Upon completion of the Officer’s Basic Course, he was assigned to 8th Battalion (BN), 8th FA Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Stanley, Korea for 2 years. After completion of the FA Officer’s Advanced Course, he was assigned to the 319th Airborne FA Regiment (AFAR), 82nd Airborne Division, where he served as a Battalion Fire Support Officer (FSO) for 2nd BN, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment; Targeting Officer; Plans Officer; and Commander of both C Battery/1st BN, 319 AFAR and Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 319th AFAR.
Following attendance at the Command and General Staff College, MAJ Meredith was assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vicenza, Italy as the Brigade FSO. From there, he moved to Germany and served with the 1st Armored Division as an Assistant Fire Support Coordinator; Battalion Executive Officer (XO) for 1st BN, 94th FA during Operation Iraqi Freedom I and II; and as the 1st Armored Division’s Division Artillery XO.
LTC Meredith’s next assignment was to Special Operations Command Europe where he served as an FSO, Ground Branch Operations Officer deployed to Afghanistan, and the Secretary Joint Staff. He then returned to FT Bragg where he commanded 1st BN, 321st AFAR, 82nd Airborne Division, to include a deployment to Afghanistan. He followed BN Command with attendance at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
Upon graduation from the War College he moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma where he served as the Chief of FA Concepts and the Commander of the 428th FA Brigade. After Brigade Command, COL Meredith returned to Korea where he served as the
Chief of the Commander’s Initiatives Group, United States Forces Korea. He then returned to Europe where he served as the Executive Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the U.S. European Commander at SHAPE HQ, Belgium.
Following his tour in Belgium COL Meredith was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division, 8th United States’ Army, Korea as the Deputy Commanding General for Maneuver. After promotion to Brigadier General he was assigned as the Deputy Commander General of the United Kingdom’s 3rd Division (The Iron Division) in Tidworth, UK. BG Meredith’s last assignment was as the Commanding General of the Army’s Combat Readiness Center where, after 35 years of service, he retired.
Brigadier General Meredith has several combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and has been operationally deployed/stationed overseas multiple times. His civilian education includes a Bachelor of Arts in history, a Master of Arts in human resources, and strategic studies. He is married to the former Mrs. Sam-Hyang Hong of Chun-Chon, South Korea.
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