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Stuttgart, Germany

 

Major General Daniel L. Shipley

Commander

Major General Shipley became the 8th Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa in 2025.  Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, he commands designated Marine Corps forces assigned or attached to U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command; advises both joint-service geographic...

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Sergeant Major Roland R. McGinnis

Sergeant Major

Sergeant Major Roland R. McGinnis is a native of Laurel, Delaware and enlisted in the Marine Corps in July 2001. He completed recruit training aboard MCRD Parris Island. He attained a variety of certifications and additional military occupational specialties throughout his career, to include...

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Colonel Matthew B. Robbins

Deputy Commander

Colonel Robbins hails from Chesterfield, MA. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1989 and served as an Electronics Technician Second Class and Nuclear Reactor Operator until being nominated to the United States Naval Academy.Commissioned with a degree in Mathematics in 1995, Second Lieutenant...

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Colonel Richard T. Wilkerson

Chief of Staff

Colonel Wilkerson is from Knoxville, TN, and graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, SC, in February 1996. He served as a reservist Combat Engineer in Company D, 4th Combat Engineer Battalion in Knoxville. In August 1999 Colonel Wilkerson graduated from the University of Tennessee...

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