LTC Kevin Kille

Recalled from retirement to 5th combat deployment. Assigned to Herat, Afghanistan. Worked on staff of Commander of 3rd Alpine Regiment, Italian Army, at PRT Herat. Duty was Commanders Emergency Response Program (CERP) manager. Expended US$14 million for provincial construction projects, to include bridges, roads, flood control dykes, clinics, schools, and refurbishment of the Blue Mosque of Herat.

Civil Affairs Officer in office of G-3/J-3 (Operations). Advisor to the Commanding General on area-specific cultural subjects and emergency management situations in nations in the unit’s Area of Operations (Middle East and Southwest Asia). Train and assist foreign governments in the establishment of emergency management organizations. Provincial Reconstruction Deputy Commander (Iraq) and CERP Program Officer (Afghanistan). Peacekeeping deployment to Bosnia, combat deployments to Iraq (twice) and Afghanistan (twice). Taught emergency management to governments of Bosnia, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq. Persian (Farsi) military linguist. Promoted Lieutenant Colonel 1998. Bronze Star award (3 times). Held US DoD TS Clearance.

Civil Affairs Detachment Commander. Specialties include foreign government and military organizations, foreign cultural subjects, foreign internal defense, unconventional warfare, psychological operations, refugee control, emergency and consequence management, foreign language instructing (Serbo-Croatian), and Battalion Chemical Officer. Arabic and Turkish military linguist. Psychological Operations (MISO) qualification. Deployed to Italy for Bosnia peacekeeping intelligence analysis and operations planning. Taught emergency management to government and military officials in Botswana and Republic of Guinea. Held US DoD TS Clearance.

Wrote Brigade-level OPORDs for blue forces participating in force-on-force activities at NTC.