Maj. Benjamin Ordiway is a civil affairs officer who teaches officership at the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Previously, he was a civil affairs team leader and chief of the Civil Affairs Planning Team, 92nd Civil Affairs Battalion (Special Operations) (Airborne). He enlisted in the Army in 2004 as a cavalry scout and commissioned as an armor officer from West Point in 2012.