Major General Deborah L. Kotulich

Major General Kotulich, is the Chief of Staff of U.S. Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. She is responsible for the development of plans, policies, and procedures to ensure efficient operation and seamless interface between headquarters staff, component commands, and subordinate organizations. She oversees command policy and programs which support the Combatant Commander’s mission to project and sustain military power globally in order to assure our friends and allies, deter potential adversaries, and if necessary, respond to win decisively. 

MG Kotulich received her commission in 1990 as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Political Science. She also holds a Master’s Degree of National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. 

General Kotulich’s command tours include command of 77th Sustainment Brigade, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey; 655th Regional Support Group, Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts; 359th Transportation Battalion (Terminal), Fort Eustis, Virginia; and Headquarters Company, 55th Materiel Management Center (Theater Sustainment Command), Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Prior to her current assignment, she served as Commanding General,143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), Orlando, Florida. She has three deployments to Iraq and Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Operation Inherent Resolve, and Operation Spartan Shield. 

She has served in several joint positions to include assignments at the Defense Logistics Agency, North East Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and at the Headquarters Deployment Distribution Operations Center, Kuwait. Her awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, the Parachutist Badge, and Air Assault Badge. (Current as of June 2019)