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Major General James V. Young JR.

Commander

75th Training Command

On 16 May 2014, Major General James V. Young Jr. became the Commanding General for the 75th Training Command in Houston, TX. Prior to this assignment MG Young served as the Chief of Staff for the Army Reserve.

In 1983, MG Young was commissioned in the Regular Army in Military Intelligence from Davidson College and was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, where he served as an Assistant Brigade S2, Light Infantry Rifle Platoon Leader, and Infantry Battalion S2. Follow on assignments include command of A Company, 337th MI Battalion (TE) (ABN) from 1992 to 1995 and Assistant Inspector General, 81 st RSC, from 1995 to 1997. From 1997 to 2002, he served as Battalion S3, 345th MI Battalion and as Commander of the 1st Battalion, 347th Infantry (TS) (CSS) a First Army training battalion.

MG Young commanded the 203d MI Battalion (TI) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, from 2003 to 2005. He deployed the battalion to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and also served as the Army Component Commander and co-J3 for the Combined Joint Captured Enemy Material Exploitation Center. His Brigade level command was the Theater Support Command, from 2005 to 2007, consisting of ten Military Intelligence MTOE battalions nationwide. From 2007 to 2009, he commanded the Joint Reserve Intelligence Unit, J2, on the Joint Staff, and was the senior reserve advisor for the J2. As a Brigadier General, he commanded the Military Intelligence Readiness Command, the Army Reserve’s Functional Intelligence Command, from 2009 to 2011 and served the Army Reserve’s senior intelligence officer. He most recently served as the Deputy Chief, Army Reserve, where he worked as the CAR’s Deputy with a primary focus as the Army Reserve’s senior human capital executive and later as Chief of Staff of the Army Reserve staff.

MG Young holds a BA in Economics from Davidson College, an MBA from Emory University and an MSS from the Army War College. His military education includes the Military Intelligence Basic, Advanced, and Tactical Intelligence Courses, Inspector General Course, Observer Controller Academy of the National Training Center, Army War College and CAPSTONE.

His awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Ranger Tab, Parachutist Badge, Royal Australian Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge and Joint Staff Identification Badge.

As a Citizen-Soldier, he is a Chief Operating Officer of Galloway Consulting, a professional services/consulting firm specializing in providing strategic and operational improvements for the healthcare industry. Specific responsibilities include: strategic planning, business development, business analytics integration, sales strategy and support, human capital, advisory joint venture management, as well as managing consultant capacity, deployment and development. He began his civilian career as a strategy and human resources consultant with one of the country's largest consulting firms and has served as President and or senior executive for three national design and manufacturing organizations.

He is married to the former Valarie Hyde and they have four children: James III, a 1LT and combat veteran in the Army Reserve, Madeleine, Grace, and Caroline.