WMU ROTC WALL OF FAME AWARD

Colonel Andrew McConachie currently serves as the director for the Army Financial Management Optimization Task Force in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller). He was commissioned in 1987 as a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery through ROTC at Western Michigan University, where he was a distinguished military graduate and earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, where he received his master’s degree in strategic studies.

McConachie began his career in 4th Battalion 14th Field Artillery in Bamberg, Germany, where he served as a Fire Direction Officer (A Battery), Platoon Leader (C Battery) and Battalion S4. Following the Field Artillery Officers Advanced Course, he served in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). There, his assignments included Fire Support Officer, 3rd Battalion 502d Infantry; and Commander, C Battery 1st Battalion 320th Field Artillery.

His previous financial management assignments include Budget Officer for the Office of Defense Cooperation in Athens, Greece; 4th Infantry Division Comptroller; 7th Infantry Division Comptroller; U.S. European Command Program—Budget Officer; Chief of both Proponency, and Doctrine and Combat Development at the U.S. Army Financial Management School; the
Multi-National Corps—Iraq CJ8 Budget Officer at Camp Victory, Iraq; the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Deputy Chief of Staff—Resource Management (G8), the Third Army/U.S. Army Central, Deputy G8 (Resource Management), and the U.S. Army Europe, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G8 (Resource Management).

McConachie’s awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, and the Global War On Terrorism Service Medal.

McConachie is Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger Qualified, holds a Department of Defense Financial Management Level III certification and is credentialed as a Certified Defense Financial Manager. He and his wife Tracy are from Kalamazoo.