Our forty-seventh recipient, Colonel David C. Hyman, is currently attending the 2024 AMP at Harvard Business School and serves as the Branch Head, Manpower Management Officer Assignments, Manpower & Reserve Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps in Quantico, VA.  He is responsible for ensuring that the right active component officers are assigned to the right billets at the right time, and remain, by assignment, competitive for advancement from Warrant Officer through Colonel.  David served four years as an enlisted Marine before earning a Marine Officer commission.  As a Marine officer, David commanded at the lieutenant colonel and colonel levels and served as a military police (MP) officer for most of his career serving in key leadership positions in the supporting establishment (police department) and the Fleet Marine Force.  Outside of the MP career field, David served in a variety of challenging/high visibility billets such as the Marine Security Guard (MSG) Program where he was responsible for the readiness of 16 MSG detachments located at U.S. embassies throughout eastern and southern Africa; Marine Corps recruiting duty where he was responsible for officer and enlisted accessions from eastern Maryland, eastern Virginia, and Washington DC; and Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) where he was responsible for the training, screening, evaluating, and final selection of 5,500 Marine officers through OCS.  Additionally, David served on The Joint Staff in the Pentagon and was assigned an interagency international country portfolio within the Global Operations Directorate and was a Military Faculty Advisor at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.  David is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and holds two advanced degrees from the Naval War College and the Marine Corps War College.

David and his wife, Karna, have one daughter.