The Army Foreign Area Officer Associaiton Hall of Fame Class of 2025
COL (R) Richard Cassidy- 2025
COL (R) John Haseman- 2025
COL (R) Charles Lane- 2025
COL (R) Nicolas Lovelace- 2025
COL (R) Tim Mitchell- 2025
COL (R) Hector Ponton- 2025
LTC (R) Charles “Chuck” Rey- 2025
LTC (R) Andre Rivier- 2025
COL (R) Sue Ann Sandusky- 2025
COL (R) Matthew Sousa- 2025
The Army Foreign Area Officer Associaiton Hall of Fame class of 2024
COL (R) John D’Agostino – 2024
FAO Tours:
Office of Military Cooperation – Kuwait
US Defense Representative – Sana’a, Yemen
Defense Attache – Baghdad, Iraq
Chief Current Operations, DAS
Chief DAS Ops Middle East/North Africa
Deputy DAS Operations Worldwide
BG (R) Robert “Brian” Davis – 2024
FAO Tours:
Military staff of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations
Assistant Army Attaché in China
Director for China Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Army Affairs Officer in the American Institute in Taiwan
Army Attaché in Thailand and as Army Attaché in China
Chief of the Strategic Assessments Division, Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, HQDA
Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China
MG (R) Robin Fontes – 2024
FAO Tours:
Military Representative and later Defense and Army Attaché in the Republic of Tajikistan
Central Asia Political-Military Affairs Officer for U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base
Chief of Political-Military Affairs and later Chief of Regional Engagement for Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan
Commander of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan
Chief of the Security Assistance Office, Office of the Defense Representative in Pakistan
Commander, Regional Support Command-North, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission Afghanistan/Combined Security
Transition Command-Afghanistan
Senior Advisor to the Commander and Director of the Election Support Cell, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command in
Afghanistan
Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché in the Republic of India
Deputy Director for Strategy, Plans and Policy for the U.S. Army Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (G-3/5/7) in Washington, D.C.
Commander, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan
MG (R) Mark Gillette – 2024
FAO Tours:
Special Assistant to the Army Staff, Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army
Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache, United States Defense Attache Office Egypt
Chief of Staff, United Nations Command
Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Policy, J-5, INDOPACOM
Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache, United States Defense Attache Office China
Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache, United States Defense Attache Office Cambodia
United States Army Attache, China
Defense and Army Attache, United States Defense Attache Office Mongolia
Defense and Army Attache, United States Defense Attache Office Haiti
LTG (R) Charles Hooper – 2024
FAO Tours:
Assistant Army Attaché to the People’s Republic of China, U.S. Embassy Beijing, China
Deputy Division Chief, War Plans Division, G35, Army Staff
Senior Country Director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Chief, Army International Affairs Division, G35, Army Staff
U.S. Defense Attaché to the People’s Republic of China
Deputy Director for Strategic Planning and Policy, J-5, United States Pacific Command
Director of Strategy, Plans, and Programs, J5, United States Africa Command
Senior U.S. Defense Official/U.S. Defense Attaché and Chief, Office of Military Cooperation, U.S. Embassy Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt
MG (R) John Leide – 2024
FAO Tours:
Assistant Army Attaché in Hong Kong.
Commander, 1st Special Forces Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
G2, 82nd Airborne Division
Chief, Far East Division, Directorate of Estimates, at the Defense Intelligence Agency
Military Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1982
Commander, 500 MI Group in Japan
Defense and Army Attaché, in Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China
J2 of US Central Command (CENTCOM)
Director for Intelligence throughout Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM
Director of the National Military Intelligence Collection Center
Director of the Central Measurement and Signatures Intelligence Office
COL (R) Dan Pick – 2024
FAO Tours:
Commander ISAF staff
48D/G/H/I assignments officer the US Army Personnel Command from 1999-2001
HUMINT team attached 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) during the invasion of Iraq in 2003
Army Attache in the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan
Iraq Policy Officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
FAO Program Director at the Defense Language Institute
Commander the Defense Language Institute
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict
BG (R) Joseph Rank – 2024
FAO Tours:
Principal Director to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache, United States Defense Attaché Office, United Arab Emirates
Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché, United States Defense Attach Office, Jordan
Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché, United States Defense Attaché Office, Lebanon
Chief, PoliticallMilitary Plans Branch, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, J5, Joint Staff
Defense and Army Attaché, United States Defense Attaché Office, Republic of Yemen
Deputy Chief, All Source Assessments Division l Iraq, Defense Intelligence Agency