In 2015, he commanded a Combined Joint Interagency Task Force, and in 2017 he commanded Special Operations Command Forward – Yemen, both within the US Central Command Area of Responsibility. He later served as Operations Officer at the Battalion and Group level, and Commander at the Company and Battalion level. He later served as a Ranger Platoon Leader with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia.ĬOL Walenda graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course in 1999 and was assigned as a Special Forces Detachment Commander in the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Lewis, Washington. Army Officer (Infantry), from the United States Military Academy at West Point.Īs an Infantry Officer, he served as a Rifle Platoon Leader with 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment and Executive Officer for the Long Range Surveillance Detachment, both part of the 2nd Infantry Division in the Republic of Korea. He was commissioned in May 1994 as a U.S.
Walenda was born at Fort Polk, Louisiana and grew up in Ellsinore, Missouri.
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