Lieutenant Colonel Johnson is from Grants Pass, Oregon and entered the Marine Corps in October 2005 and reported to Officer
Candidate School. He graduated in December 2005 and reported to The Basic School in January 2006 where he was assigned Military
Occupational Specialty 0402, Ground Logistics Officer. He reported to Logistics Operations Course in Camp Johnson, NC in July 2006
and graduated in October 2006.
Lieutenant Colonel Johnson's Fleet Marine Force assignments include: maintenance management officer, assistance S-4 officer, motor
transport platoon commander, logistics advisor to Iraqi Army, battalion landing team logistics officer, and battalion logistics officer 2d
Battalion 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California; battalion logistics officer, special operations logistics
advisor to Afghan National Army, 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion, Marine Special Operations Command, Camp Pendleton,
California; current operations officer, 2d Marine Logistics Group, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; logistics advisor to Afghan National
Army, Task Force Southwest, 6th Marine Regiment, II Marine Division; and operations officer, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2d
Marine Logistics Group, Camp Lejeune, NC.
Lieutenant Colonel Johnson's supporting assignments include logistics war plans and exercise planner, Marine Corps Forces Pacific,
Camp Smith, Hawaii; logistics staff exercise planner, Marine Corps Logistics Operations Group, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat
Center, 29 Palms, California; logistics planner and exercise planner, Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, Marine Corps Air
Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, California; and director of logistics, Blount Island Command, Jacksonville, Florida.
Lieutenant Colonel Johnson's professional military education includes: The Basic School, Camp Barrett, Quantico, Virginia; Logistics
Officer's Course, Camp Johnson, North Carolina; Tactical Logistics Operations Course, Quantico, Virginia, Basic Advisor Course,
Camp Pendleton, California; Amphibious Warfare Staff Planners Course, Okinawa, Japan; Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape, Warner
Springs, California; Airborne School, Fort Benning, Georgia; Expeditionary Warfare School, Quantico, Virgina; Joint Humanitarian
Operations Course, Camp Smith, Hawaii; Maritime Prepositioning Force Staff Planner's Course, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina;
Command and Staff College, Quantico, Virginia; Intermediate Advance Logistics Operations Course, 29 Palms, California, Advanced
Logistics and Technology, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Cornerstone, Quantico Virginia.
His personal decorations include: Meritorious Service Medal (4th award); Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (2d award).