Brigadier General Rodney Faulk

Brigadier General Rodney Faulk was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant from Army ROTC in 1986 and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration degree from Western Michigan University in December 1987 as a Distinguished Military Graduate. 

Brigadier General Faulk has held numerous command and staff assignments from company to division level. His earliest assignments include service as Platoon Leader for the 755th Maintenance Company in Battle Creek, Michigan. He then served as Adjutant, 406th Maintenance Battalion in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then as Commander for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 406th Maintenance Battalion. He served as Commander, 310th Maintenance Company in Jackson, Michigan. Following his company command tour, he served as Battalion S-2/S-3 and later as the Executive Officer for the 406th Corps Support Battalion in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

In 2002, he deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where he served as the Deputy Inspector General for Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Upon return from active duty he served as Principal Inspector General for the 300th Military Police Brigade in Inkster, Michigan. In 2004, he assumed command of the 785th Military Police Battalion in Fraser, Michigan, and subsequently mobilized and deployed the battalion to Iraq to command the world’s largest military detention facility at Camp Bucca in the Southern Iraqi desert. Upon return from Iraq in 2006, he assumed duties as the Chief of Staff for the 300th Military Police Brigade in Inkster, Michigan, and subsequently deployed with the brigade to Iraq to conduct detention operations as part of the Iraq “Surge” Campaign. At the conclusion of this mission, he was assigned as the Deputy Commander for the 300th Military Police Brigade in Inkster, Michigan. Brigadier General Faulk assumed command of the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) (Rear Detachment) in January 2011 and he helped the 310th ESC to become the top ranked General Officer command within the 377th Theater Sustainment Command in 2011. From 2013 to 2014, he served as the Chief of Staff for the 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), and then as acting commander for the 103rd ESC from July 2014 to December 2014. He then served as the Deputy Commanding Officer of the 103rd ESC in Des Moines, Iowa until May 2016. He is currently the Commanding General, Atlantic Division, 75th Training Command on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) in New Jersey.

Brigadier General Faulk’s military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with one silver and one bronze oak leaf cluster, the Army Commendation Medal with one silver and two bronze oak leaf clusters, the Army Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster, and the Order of the Marechaussee in Bronze. In 2011, Brigadier General Faulk was inducted into the Western Michigan University ROTC Wall of Fame. In 2013, he was recognized as the Distinguished Alumni from Western Michigan University Haworth College of Business Department of Management. 

Brigadier General Faulk was the distinguished graduate of his class at the U.S. Army Quartermaster Officer Basic Course in 1988. He also is a graduate of the U.S. Army Ordnance Officer Advanced Course, the U.S. Army Military Police Branch Qualification Course and the U.S. Army Inspector General Course. He earned his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Wayne State University in 1993 and graduated from the United States Army War College in 2009. His civilian career includes experience in project management and technology management with Comerica Bank and IBM. Currently his civilian position is in system acquisition and management for the United States Army.