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MG Tony Cucolo
Commanding General
3rd Infantry Division

Major General Tony Cucolo assumed command of the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia on 14 July 2008.

Major General Cucolo was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of infantry in 1979. He has served 16 of the past 29 years in infantry and armor divisions. He commanded two companies and was an operations officer at both the battalion and brigade level. He commanded an Infantry battalion in Germany and deployed his unit as a combined arms task force for the first eleven months of the Balkans NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in the contested area of Brcko, Bosnia. Major General Cucolo also commanded 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, and was the Assistant Division Commander for the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New York. While in this capacity, he deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom and served as Deputy Commanding General, CJTF-180, during the 10th Mountain Division's service there in 2003-2004.

Major General Cucolo's other Joint assignments include duty with the Joint Staff at the Pentagon from July 2001 to July 2003, with service in the Strategy and Policy Directorate (J5), Chief of the Future Operations Group in the Operations Directorate (J3) immediately after 9/11, and then Chief of European and NATO Policy, J5. His most recent joint assignment was as Director, Joint Center for Operational Analysis, US Joint Forces Command, from September 2004 through May 2006. While in this capacity, Major General Cucolo deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times, embedding in joint operational headquarters there, as well as duty with JTF-Katrina to develop the lessons learned from civil support operations in the US Gulf Coast region. Major General Cucolo's most recent assignment was a two year tour in the Pentagon as the Chief of Public Affairs for the United States Army.

Major General Cucolo has been a staff officer at Division and Army level and was the Director of Combined Arms Tactics and Doctrine at the US Army Infantry School. He is a graduate of the US Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College. He holds a bachelor's degree from the US Military Academy and a master's degree from the University of San Francisco.