DVIDS – News – twentieth CBRNE Command operations officer promoted to colonel on Aberdeen Proving Floor

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – The operations officer from the U.S. army’s premier all hazards formation was promoted to colonel on Aberdeen Proving Floor, Maryland, Oct. 28.

Col. Vance M. Brunner pinned on his eagles throughout a extensively attended ceremony on the twentieth Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command Headquarters.

A local of Kailua, Hawaii, and graduate of the College of Hawaii in Honolulu, Brunner is a profession U.S. Army Chemical Corps officer who has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Brunner stated the spotlight of his two and a half a long time in uniform has been commanding the U.S. Army Headquarters Battalion, the premier headquarters unit within the U.S. Army that has oversight over 8,500 Troopers within the nationwide capital area.

He additionally served because the plans officer-in-charge for the Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction Mixed Joint Interagency Coordination Group in South Korea and attended the Middlebury Institute of Worldwide Research at Monterey, California.

Brunner stated serving round profitable individuals in excessive caliber items has helped him to succeed.

The colonel stated he welcomed the chance to function the operations officer (G3) for the twentieth CBRNE Command and to assist to fight all hazards around the globe and throughout the nation in help of joint, interagency and allied operations.

“Because the twentieth operations officer, I get to work together with all of our subordinate items and see them in motion throughout workouts,” stated Brunner. “I get pleasure from getting out of the workplace and seeing our Troopers getting after CBRNE coaching missions. Additionally, the G3 crew has nice civilians, NCOs and officers that I get to work with daily.”

American Troopers and U.S. Army civilians from twentieth CBRNE Command deploy from 19 bases in 16 states to fight the world’s most harmful hazards in help of army operations and home authorities.

The command is dwelling to 75 p.c of the active-duty U.S. Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians and Chemical, Organic, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) specialists, in addition to the first Space Medical Laboratory, CBRNE Analytical and Remediation Exercise, 5 Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordination Groups and three Nuclear Disablement Groups.

“Profitable items have profitable leaders of their group,” stated Brunner. “I’ve at all times tried to be in items which have a repute for being profitable. That is one of many explanation why I actually needed to come back to the twentieth CBRNE Command as a result of they’ve a repute of being a profitable {and professional} group.”

Brunner stated sturdy noncommissioned officers and battalion commanders have helped him to develop as chief all through his profession.

He singled out retired Col. James F. Reckard Jr., retired Col. Eric B. Cities and retired Col. Sean G. Kirschner for modeling profitable management by way of their actions and phrases.

Brunner additionally thanked and credited his spouse, Emily Brunner, for supporting his army profession by way of three deployments and 11 everlasting change of station strikes.