Chief Warrant Officer Four Rhonda L. Sloan

CW4 (R) Rhonda Sloan joined the US Army in October of 1983 and trained as a 55B Ammunition Specialist. Early in her career she was noted for her professional and technical guidance provided in the ammunition field. Knowing she could have a greater impact in the US Army, she was encouraged to apply for and was accepted for the Warrant Officer Candidate School in 1996. Upon completion of WOCS, she attended Warrant Officer Basic Course and was appointed a W01, 910A in February 1996.

Throughout her military career, she has served at nearly every level of ammunition operations. She has served in Germany, Korea, Honduras, and numerous stateside assignments. She also has combat tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait.

While stationed at Ft. Hood, as one of the last active-duty Accountable Officers; she developed a comprehensive management program which identified over 200 short tons of unserviceable ammunition. She also coordinated DA G4, JMC for disposition instructions and the local EOD unit to have all CC:H destroyed; thus, increasing storage capability at the ASP. Another accomplishment was her ASP receiving commendable ratings by the Worldwide Army Audit team, a first for the unit and Ft. Hood. She also served as Accountable Officer for 84th Ordnance Company, 6th Ordnance Battalion, Camp Carroll Korea and while deployed in Kandahar, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Assigned back to Ft. Bragg and in the 82nd Sustainment Brigade, she took control of the Support Operations-Munitions section. Her persistence to utilize soldiers to relocate the Installation Ammunition Supply Point, saved the Directorate of Logistics $1.2 million in civilian overtime and contracting savings. Also, provided valuable pre-deployment training for the brigade ammunition and transportation soldiers. CW4 Sloan’s final active-duty assignment took her to Ft. Lee as the senior 890A Capabilities Developer. Throughout her extraordinary military career, she’s provided intensive ammunition plans, given technical guidance for daily operations and utilized her knowledge and experience on future changes for the Ammunition Community. From her early assignments she has demonstrated the ability to recognize shortfalls throughout the Army when it comes to ammunitions operations. Always identified expedient corrective actions were put in place thus saving the Army millions of dollars. A proven combat veteran, operating Ammunition Supply points in CONUS, Iraq, Korea, and Afghanistan with 100% accountability even with split base operations.

After retirement from active duty, Rhonda continued her commitment as a deployed Department of the Army Civilian. She served as the JMC Theater Ammunition Manager, providing the Army and Joint Forces with ready, reliable, lethal munitions at the right place and the right time to sustain global operations within Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and UAE. She was responsible for coordinating with the 1st TSC and DA G4 to facilitate the theater quarterly resupply vessel and identify munitions for stateside retrograde. Currently, she is assigned to 406th AFSB-Bragg as a Maintenance Management Specialist, Installation Maintenance Division (IMD), Fort Bragg, NC. Her career has been the epitome of a very special ordnance soldier. Go Ordnance!