Our fourteenth recipient, Colonel (Ret) James T. Jenkins II, completed the AMP at Harvard Business School in October 2015.  Jim is currently providing executive coaching through his company, Integris Leadership, and is serving as an advisor and flight instructor for the Saudi Arabian National Guard in Riyadh.  He works as a faculty member for the University of San Diego, teaching in their Law Enforcement and Public Safety Leadership Master’s program.  Jim is also serving on the advisory boards for MD3 Consulting, Vita Inclinata, Inc., and THRIVE, a non-profit that teaches entrepreneurship to underprivileged youth in Newark, NJ.  In March of 2023, he completed 5 years as an advisor and flight instructor for the UAE Army in Abu Dhabi, helping to establish an AH-60 Armed Blackhawk battalion.  An AH-1 pilot, he retired from Active Duty in February 2018 after serving 2 ½ years as the Director of Science and Technology and Experiment Divisions, and establishing the Rapid Capabilities Office at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, VA.  Receiving his commission in 1990, Jim has completed four Marine Expeditionary Unit deployments, conducting combat operations in Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, the Horn of Africa, and Iraq, and deployed as part of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-CARIB to conduct stability operations in Haiti.  He commanded the “Gunrunners” of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 from May 2007 to May 2009, completing two additional deployments to Iraq, while simultaneously supporting operations in Afghanistan with part of his unit.  He also commanded the “War Eagles” of Marine Aircraft Group 29 from May 2013 to June 2015, leading nine subordinate squadrons in supporting multiple global deployments.  As a staff officer, Jim has served in Operations, Training, Maintenance and Safety positions at the squadron and battalion level; as the operations officer at the Marine Corps’ Training Command; as Standardization and Safety Officer at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1; and as an operations officer on the Joint Staff focused on the Pacific region.  His personal awards include two Legions of Merit, two Bronze Star Medals, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, two single mission Air Medals with Combat V, nine strike/flight air Medals, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.  He holds a BA from Cornell University; a Masters of Social Sciences degree from Syracuse University; and a Masters of National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.

Jim and his wife, Anneliese, have two children.