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Major General Gary H. Cheek currently serves as
the Deputy Commanding General of Third Army, US Army Central
(USARCENT), Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC).
MG Cheek graduated from the United States
Military Academy in 1980. His first duty assignment was with the
1st Battalion, 13th Field Artillery (203mm, SP), 24th Infantry
Division, Fort Stewart, Ga. He served as a Battery Fire Direction
Officer, Battery Executive Officer, and Battalion Fire Direction
Officer.
After the Officers Advanced Course, MG Cheek was
assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 28th Field Artillery (155mm, SP),
VII Corps Artillery, Ansbach, Germany. He served as the Battalion
Fire Direction Officer, Assistant S-3, and Commander of Battery A.
He next served as an Instructor in Gunnery at the Canadian Field
Artillery School at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick.
Canada. After attending the Command and General Staff College, he
served as a Plans Officer in G-3, 24th Infantry Division, Fort
Stewart, Georgia and as the Executive Officer of 1st Battalion,
41st Field Artillery (155mm, Paladin).
MG Cheek then served as the Field Artillery
Branch Representative at the United States Military Academy, West
Point, New York. He then returned to Fort Stewart to command 1st
Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, (155mm, Paladin), 3rd Infantry
Division. After command, he served as the Senior Fire Support
Trainer at the National Training Center. After attending the United
States Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., he assumed
command of the 25th Infantry Division Artillery and subsequently
deployed to serve as the commander of Combined Task Force Thunder
as part of Combined Joint Task Force 76, Afghanistan.
He then served on the Joint Staff as the chief of
the Strategic Planning Division, War on Terrorism Deputy
Directorate, J-5 Plans and Policy and then on the Army Staff as the
Deputy Director, U.S. Army's Strategy, Plans, Policy and
Joint/International Affairs Directorate. Following his assignment
to the J-5he was assigned as the Assistant Surgeon General for
Warrior Care and Transition/Commanding General, Warrior Transition
Command, Falls Church, Virginia. Prior to assuming his current
position, MG Cheek was the Director, Military Personnel Management,
G1, United States Army, Washington, DC.
MG Cheek is a graduate of the Field Artillery
Officer's Basic and Advanced Courses, the Canadian Instructor in
Gunnery Course, the Command and General Staff College, the School
of Advanced Military Studies, and the U.S. Army War College to
include the Advanced Strategic Arts Program. His awards include the
Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion
of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Bronze Star, Meritorious
Service Medal with four Oak Leave Clusters, The Joint Service
Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with four Oak Leaf
Clusters, Army Achievement Medal, the Southwest Asia Service Medal
with campaign star, the Parachutist Badge, Combat Action Badge,
Ranger Tab, Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge and the Army
Staff Identification Badge.
Major General Cheek is married with two
children.
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