Thomas F. Metz

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Thomas F. Metz has nearly 40 years of commissioned service in the US Army. He brings the experience of a combat commander who led over 120,000 coalition troops belonging to Multi-National Corps-Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2004-2005), to his current role as a mentor, advisor and consultant for a broad range of international public and private organizations.

General Metz was a key player in laying the groundwork for the Army’s ongoing transformation as the Director of the 4th Infantry Division’s Experimental Force, 1995-1997, then as the Assistant Division Commander for the same command the following year. From 1998-2001, General Metz served in two key billets for prioritizing and allocating resources for the Armed Forces as a Deputy and Vice Director in the Joint Staff Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment Directorate, J-8. Prior to the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he served as the Central Command’s Chief of Staff.

General Metz has served in a series of positions of increased responsibility throughout a distinguished career as a leader and trainer of soldiers from Europe to Korea, Iraq and the United States. From his start as a platoon leader in the 1st Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Mainz, Germany, General Metz has commanded at every level from a rifle company up to III Corps and Fort Hood, Texas.

After over three years as the III Corps Commander, he served as the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command’s Deputy Commanding General. General Metz’s final assignment was the Director of the Joint IED Defeat Organization, where the mission was to defeat the IED as a weapon of strategic influence in support of all the US Combatant Commands with an annual Congressional budget of $4 billion.