Our twenty-second recipient, Brigadier General Kelvin W. Gallman, completed the AMP at Harvard Business School in October 2017.  Kelvin is a helicopter and tiltrotor pilot who is currently serving as the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing Assistant Wing Commander.  He was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1994, earned his wings as a naval aviator in 1997, and was selected to fly the CH-46E Sea Knight.  Kelvin later transitioned to the MV-22B Osprey.  He has extensive operational and tactical experience in both the CH-46E and the MV-22B, including several deployments aboard amphibious shipping as part of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and combat experience from multiple deployments to Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.  He commanded Marine Aviation and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) in Yuma, AZ, from May 2018 to November 2019 and Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261) from June 2013 to April of 2015.  Kelvin’s staff tours have been with MAWTS-1 as a Weapons and Tactics Instructor; Aviation Plans, Programs and Budget Branch of Headquarters Marine Corps Aviation; Executive Officer of The Marine Corps’ Officer Basic School (TBS) and the Joint Staff J8 as the Joint Capabilities Division Chief / JROC Secretariat.  He received his undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from Tuskegee University. He is also a graduate of the Naval War College in Newport, RI; where he earned a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies; and the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he earned an additional Masters in National Security Strategy.

Kelvin is married to his wife, Janna.