Ricky D. Gibbs

Start of career While in college, Gibbs participated in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which he completed as a Distinguished Military Graduate. After returning to the United States, he served at Fort Benning, Georgia as a rifle platoon leader with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and branch chief of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade's Long Range Surveillance School.

Infantry Officer Basic Course Airborne School Ranger School Air Assault School Jumpmaster School Pathfinder School Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course Infantry Officer Advanced Course Combined Arms and Services Staff School Command and General Staff College Army War College (Master of Strategic Studies degree, 2004)

Continued career Following graduation from the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, Gibbs was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he commanded Company C, 2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, served as a brigade assistant operations officer (Assistant S-3), and was assigned as aide-de-camp to the division commander during the Gulf War. Gibbs also commanded Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. He served as the 1st ID's chief of staff from February 2007 to June 2009, when he was assigned as assistant division commander for maneuver. Among his projects was a 2016 report on the impact proposed force reductions at Fort Hood would have on the city of Killeen, Texas.