Command Group

 

General Alan R. Gronewold is The Adjutant General, Oregon. He is responsible for providing the State of Oregon and the United States with a ready force of more than 8,100 Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen, equipped and trained to respond to any contingency, natural or man-made. He directs, manages, and supervises the administration, discipline, organization, training and mobilization of the Oregon National Guard, and the Office of Oregon Emergency Management. He is also assigned as the Governor’s Homeland Security Advisor. General Gronewold develops and coordinates all policies, plans and programs of the Oregon National Guard in concert with the Governor and legislature of the State.

General Alan Gronewold received his commission from the United States Military Academy in 1996.  He holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from USMA and an M.S. in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA. His military education includes Air Assault school, Airborne school, Initial Entry Rotary Wing training, UH-60 A/L qualification and maintenance test pilot course, CH-47D/F qualification and instructor pilot course, C-12 qualification, Aviation Officer Basic Course, Combined Logistics Officer Advanced Course, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Intermediate Level Education, and U.S. Army War College.