Thomas F. Metz

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Thomas F. Metz brings to Intelligent Waves’ Board of Advisors 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) combined with almost 40 years of commissioned service in the US Army.

General Metz was commissioned as an infantry officer following his graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1971. He 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.