Gregory D. Gadson

Gregory Dimitri Gadson (born February 19, 1966) is an American actor, motivational speaker, retired colonel in the United States Army and former commander of the U.S. Army Fort Belvoir garrison. He is also a bilateral above-the-knee amputee. He served in the U.S. Army for more than 20 years as a field artillery officer and served on active duty for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Operation Joint Forge, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Education and military career Gadson attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1989. He also holds a master's degree in information systems from Webster University and a master's degree in policy management from Georgetown University. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the Advanced Field Artillery Officers Course and in 2010, he became an Army War College Fellow at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. Assignments Commander, U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Belvoir, Virginia Director, Army Wounded Warrior Program, Alexandria, Virginia 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery. 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (Fort Riley). Battalion fire direction officer for 5th Battalion, 18th Field Artillery, III Corps at Fort Sill. Division targeting officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 82nd Airborne Division Artillery. Battalion adjutant, 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment. Battalion fire support officer, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Commander, Battery C, 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment. Commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division for the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. Personnel distribution officer and human resources commander, Alexandria, Virginia. Battalion operations officer, 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery. Operations officer, 25th Infantry Division, executive officer. Special assistant to the commanding general, United States Army Pacific at Fort Shafter. Deployments Platoon fire direction officer, firing battery platoon leader (Desert Shield/Desert Storm) Chief of operations, Multinational Division North, Bosnia-Herzegovina, (Stabilization Force XI), 25th Infantry Division (Light) 25th Infantry Division Artillery, Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom V)