A native of Hurst, Texas, Colonel Wall was commissioned a second lieutenant out of The Citadel in 1989. As a Ground Supply Officer and Marine Logistics Officer, he has served multiple tours in the operating forces as a staff officer, company commander, and battalion commander. Most of his career has been in the Pacific Region – serving 15 years there in Hawaii, Okinawa, and mainland Japan.  In 2004, he deployed with I MEF to Iraq in support of OIF, and in 2009, he supported Disaster Relief Operations in the Republic of the Philippines with 31^st MEU, III MEF. His most recent assignment was the Director of Logistics and Installations with U.S. Forces Japan, where he ran the Joint Logistics Operations Center for Relief Operations to Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster in 2011. He is a graduate of Amphibious Warfare School, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College (Distance Education Program). He has a Master’s of Science in Adult and Continuing Education from Kansas State University and a Master’s of Science in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College. He arrived at 2d MLG in July 2013.