Major General
Lynn A. Collyar

Major General Lynn A. Collyar is a 1979 distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy from which he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Ordnance Branch.

Major General Collyar served in a variety of company and field grade command and staff positions, including Commander, 50th Ordnance Company, 43rd Area Support Group, Fort Carson, Colorado; Commander, 189th Corps Support Battalion, 46th Corps Support Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and Commander, 29th Area Support Group, United States Army – Europe. In the course of his assignments, he participated in Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti and Operation Iraqi Freedom as a part of Joint Task Force-North in Turkey. 

Following his assignment as Chief of the Focused Logistics Division, Force Development on the Army Staff, Major General Collyar assumed command of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Defense Distribution Center at Susquehanna, Pennsylvania in August 2006. During his command, he expanded forward DLA supply points in Iraq and Afghanistan and established a retrograde supply point in Kuwait to facilitate the recovery and reuse of supplies.

In June 2008, Major General Collyar became the 35th Chief of Ordnance. He directed the relocation of the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School from Aberdeen Proving Ground and Redstone Arsenal to their new consolidated training facilities at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia without any interruption in the training and education of Ordnance soldiers.

Following his two year assignment as the Director of Logistics Operations for the Defense Logistics Agency in which he was charged with supervising the execution of DLA’s world-wide acquisition, storage, distribution, and retrograde operations, Major General Collyar culminated his 35-year Army career as Commander of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal between May 2012 to June 2014.