COL (R) Anthony J. Puckett

COL(R) Tony Puckett, Field Artillery, USA
Owner, AccuFires, LLC
Consultant for Fires Programs

Tony Puckett was commissioned into the Field Artillery after graduating from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY in 1980. He commanded Field Artillery units in the US Army from Battery through Corps Artillery, served as an Operations Officer (S3/G3) from Battalion through Corps, and as a Fire Support Officer/Fires Coordinator from Battalion through Corps. As a Regimental/FA Brigade commander, He commanded the 30th FA Regiment (redesignated 428th FA Brigade), responsible for all enlisted AIT, Warrant Officer and Officer field artillery training and education. His final Army assignment was DCOS Operations (CJ2, CJ3, CJ5, CJ6, and CJ7) of NATO Rapid Deployable Corps-Italy. Operational deployments include Operations Just Cause, Desert Shield/Storm, JTF Provide Promise with duty in the United Nations Protective Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, UNTAG/Namibia, IFOR Bosnia (2), SFOR Bosnia, OIF 1, OEF 9, New Dawn, and AUFOR Darfur Sudan and S. Sudan. Since retiring from the Army in 2009, he has served as civilian Field Artillery Deputy Commandant of the US Army Field Artillery School, Program Manager (PM) for the Field Artillery Technical and Tactical Assistance Program to the Iraqi Army, directing all Field Artillery officer and MOS training, equipment fielding, and crew-through-regiment collective training of all Iraqi Army Field Artillery units, then as PM Artillery Fire Control, all with Northrop Grumman Corporation. For the last seven years, he has provided tactical and technical expertise to the Mandus Group and AM General on development of the Hawkeye (105mm SP-wheeled) and Brutus (155mm SP-wheeled) Mobile Howitzer Systems.

Tony's educational experience includes earing Masters in Management and Leadership from Webster University, and in Resourcing National Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF).