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March 10, 2010

Wells selected for top NGB post

Brigadier General Joe M. Wells, Assistant Adjutant General for Georgia has been selected as Director of Intelligence and C4I (command, control, communications, computers and (military) intelligence) operations at the National Guard Bureau.

In his new position, Wells will have responsibility over the development of plans, policies, and programs relating to the National Guard’s Intelligence and C4I activities. This will be an additional duty assignment for Gen. Wells pending the availability of a general officer’s line position. The assignment is anticipated to last two years.

Wells was promoted to Brigadier General in November 2008 and is the first African American general officer in the Georgia Army National Guard in its 256-year history.

Prior to this new assignment, General Wells was Deputy Commanding General Army National Guard (RC) United States Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, Az. His principal duty was to advise the Commanding General on all matters pertaining to reserve component forces as it relates to training and readiness.

General Wells was commissioned in 1982 into the Georgia Army National Guard. Prior to receiving his commission, General Wells served as an enlisted member for the 1st/30th, 3rd Infantry Division (Europe) and the 159th Military Intelligence Company, Dobbins, Air Reserve Base, Georgia. He received a Masters of Arts in Strategic Intelligence in 2000 at Manassas Park, Virginia and in 2002 an additional Masters of Arts in Strategic Studies at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.  In his civilian career, Wells is a commercial pilot with Continental Airlines.

Contacts:

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ken Baldowski, (678) 569-6064

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Maj. John Alderman, (678) 569-6060

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