Speakers

Lieutenant General Rick Lynch
Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management
Commanding General, Installation Management Command

Lieutenant General Lynch was appointed to the position of Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management and assumed command of the Installation Management Command on 2 November 2009.

Previously, he was Commanding General of III Corps and Fort Hood from 18 July 2008 – 22 September 2009.

Lieutenant General Lynch’s awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Soldier’s Medal, Bronze Star Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (4 Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (3 Oak Leaf Clusters), and Army Achievement Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster). He has also been awarded the Parachutist’s Badge and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge.

Lieutenant General Lynch attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering focusing on Robotics. He utilized that education as the Robotics Project Officer in the Directorate of Combat Development at the Armor Center and later as the Armor Center’s Chief of Force Development. Lieutenant General Lynch’s flag assignments include Assistant Division Commander (Support), 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Hood, Texas and Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, later Chief of Staff, Kosovo Force (KFOR). He also served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Allied Joint Force Command-Naples. While in this NATO command, Lieutenant General Lynch commanded the Deployable Joint Task Force (DJTF) of the NATO Response Force.

Prior to assuming command of the 3d Infantry Division, Lieutenant General Lynch was the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects for the Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) and the MNF-I spokesman. Lieutenant General Lynch assumed command of the 3d Infantry Marne Division and Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield on 13 June 2006. The Division Headquarters and subordinate Brigade Combat Teams deployed to Iraq in early 2007 where Lieutenant General Lynch assumed command of Multi-National Division-Center (MND-C) in Baghdad, Iraq on 1 April 2007.