Patrick J. Murphy, the 32nd under secretary of the Army
and chief management officer, will visit Fort Riley Sept. 20, meeting withImage may be NSFW.
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1st Infantry Division Soldiers and speaking with “Big Red One” leaders.
During his visit, Murphy will attend a Soldier’s Medal award ceremony,
observe training and have lunch with Soldiers who are transitioning out of
the Army.
The under secretary leads the management and operation of the Army. His
focus is on dynamic and efficient business operations, transforming the Army
to be more innovative and responsive, expanding the Soldier for Life
initiative, public-private partnerships and aggressively utilizing social
media to tell the Army story to new audiences in a more compelling way.
Murphy, a third-generation veteran, was commissioned as a second lieutenant
and later served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps as a
criminal prosecutor and as an assistant professor in the Department of Law
at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. Following 9/11, he
served two overseas deployments – Tuzla, Bosnia, in 2002 and Baghdad, Iraq,
in 2003-04. While serving in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division, he led a
Brigade Operational Law Team and earned a Bronze Star for his service.
Overseeing the justice system for the 1.5 million Iraqis in south central
Baghdad, he prosecuted two high-level terrorists in Iraq’s highest court.
From 2007-2011, Murphy served as the first Iraq War veteran elected to the
U.S. Congress, representing the Eighth Congressional District of
Pennsylvania and served on the Armed Services, Select Intelligence and
Appropriations committees.
