Lt. Col. Marshall McGurk, U.S. Army, is the strategic plans division chief, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Liberty, North Carolina. He served as the special operations forces plans chief and lead special operations observer controller/trainer at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana, now known as Fort Johnson. He deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He graduated in 2005 from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. He has two master’s degrees: one in diplomacy from Norwich University, Vermont, and one in military operations from the School of Advanced Military Studies.