Colonel Henry W. (Bill) Suchting, III

Colonel Henry W. (Bill) Suchting III graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1975 and began his 28-year Army career.

He achieved battalion command in 1992 when he was assigned to the 194th Separate Armored Brigade. This support battalion maintained over 6000 Soldiers with an annual budget of over $10 million dollars. By reducing repair timelines, despite the deployment of troops to support operations in the Middle East, Haiti and Cuba, he increased equipment readiness rates of the brigade and maintained that improvement over his two year span of command.

Following his assignments as the Director of Logistics at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and as the G-4 for the 4th Infantry Division, he became the Commander of the Letterkenny Army Depot in 1998. In addition to being responsible for the rebuild and overhaul of combat and tactical weapon systems, he relentlessly explored business opportunities resulting in a 25% increase in workload, while leveraging opportunities during a time of decreasing operating personnel and resources.

In 2000, Colonel Suchting became the G-4 for III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas. While reducing deployment timelines by managing a program to acquire or repair over 3,000 transportable MILVAN containers, he organized an effort for III Corps to lead the Army into the Single Stock Fund.

Colonel Suchting culminated his career as the Executive Officer to the Commander of U.S. Army Materiel Command in 2001. He advised the commander on logistics and acquisition topics of interest and directed the activities of the office of the commander to include scheduling, briefings, correspondence, and travel.