Bob graduated with Honors from Miami of Ohio (’81), joined the Marine Corps, graduated with Honors from Marine Amphibious Warfare School, earned a Master’s from Marine Command and Staff College (’96), was Commandant of the Marine Fellows to Penn State’s School of Business (’01-’02), was the only Marine other than General Randolph McCall Pate, the 21st Commandant of the Marine Corps, to serve as the Joint Staff Director of Logistics, served as Director of Logistics and Engineering for U.S. Central Command, commanded at the company, detachment, battalion, regiment, and group levels including on 6 deployments in Operation Desert Storm, the Adriatic Sea, Rwanda, East Timor, and as Commanding General, 1st Marine Logistics Group during combat in Iraq. In his final military assignment as Military Director to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Bob oversaw a staff of 32,000 civilians, contractors, and military personnel. After 36 years of service, he retired in 2017. Bob is now President and CEO of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children, having awarded $120 million to 40,000 children of Marines and Navy Corpsmen. Bob has received many decorations, including the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal, our nation’s highest non-combat military award and highest joint service decoration, awarded only while assigned to a joint activity, and the Legion of Merit, 1 of only 2 U.S. military decorations issued as a neck order (the other – the Medal of Honor), for “exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.”