Major General
Robert M. Radin  

MG Robert M. Radin was born on August 6, 1954 in North Plainfield, New Jersey and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1976. Upon a commission in the Infantry, he served with the 1st Armored Division in Germany as a Platoon Officer and Battalion Motor Officer, and subsequently attended Infantry Officer Advanced Course at Fort Benning Georgia.

In 1981, MG Radin began his career in the Ordnance Branch as the Technical Supply Officer with the 702nd Maintenance Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea. Afterwards, he served as the Armament-Combat Vehicle Maintenance Officer for the XVIII Airborne Corps and participated in Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada.

Following a position as the logistics officer in the Division Support Command for the 82nd Airborne Division in 1984, he began schooling at the Florida Institute of Technology and Army Command and General Staff College. Upon graduation, he joined the 47th Support Battalion, with the 1st Armored Division, in 1989, with which he participated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

After an assignment as a Logistics Staff Officer, later Military Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, U.S. Army, in June 1991, MG Radin became the commander of the 702nd Main Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, in Korea. Following his command assignment, he became the Logistics Plans Officer for the Eighth Army in Korea in 1995.

Following a year assignment as a student at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces beginning in 1996, he became the Chief, Ordnance Branch, at the U.S. Total Army Personnel Command in Alexandria, Virginia.

In June 1999, MG Radin became the commander of the 101st Airborne Division's Division Support Command (DISCOM), the largest brigade in the division and the most complex in the Army. His immense knowledge of maintenance expertise took the division's HEMTT fleet from totally broken to over 96% mission ready.

In July of 2001, MG Radin reported aboard as the Chief, Logistics Operations Division (J4) at U.S. Central Command. He served as the essential principal interface with the wholesale logistics system, providing proactive support to all deployed forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa.

In 2003, MG Radin became the Commanding General of U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command. He increased industrial base small arms production for all services by over 300%, from fewer than 400 million rounds per year to more than 1.2 billion rounds per year, filling a dire shortage in stocks due to the exponential increase in ammunition expenditures in support of the Global War on Terrorism.

During his tenure, from December 2003 to December 2004, he deployed to Kuwait as the Commanding General, Army Material Command Forward – Southwest Asia/C-4, Coalition Forces Land Component Command, Operation Iraqi Freedom. While deployed supervised a reclamation program which processed over $600 million of ammunition which otherwise would have been deemed unserviceable and simply demilitarized but instead was put back into the system. He also spearheaded an unparalleled retrograde program which saved the Army over $3.5 billion in Class III, V, VII, and IX, by returning unused and undocumented supplies and equipment back into the Army supply system.

He departed U.S. Army Joint Munitions Command in 2005 to become the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and Operations, U.S. Army Material Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

In 2007, MG Radin was selected to be the Commanding General of United States Army Sustainment Command. During his tenure, Army Sustainment Command earned its reputation as Army Materiel Command's "single face to the Soldier" by establishing add-on armor installation sites throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, creating in-theater refurbishment centers, receiving and issuing over 11,000 MRAPs and 330 SPARK Mine Rollers, adding ballistic protection to over 1,500 fuel tankers, up-armoring over 9,000 vehicles, maintaining an over 95% readiness rate, repairing/issuing Theater Sustainment Stocks, and managing the property accountability of all Theater Provided Equipment.

Following this assignment, his 35-year career culminated as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, United States Army from 2009 to 2011.

MG Robert M. Radin retired in 2011.