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173RD Airborne Brigade Commander

Col. Joshua M. Gaspard

COL Joshua M. Gaspard is originally from Texas. He commissioned as an infantry officer from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2002. 

Over the course of his career, Josh has held leadership and staff positions in the 173rd Airborne Brigade, 3rd Brigade Combat Team / 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), 1st Brigade Combat Team / 82nd Airborne Division, Alaskan Command (US Northern Command), 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) / 25th Infantry Division, and the 25th Infantry Division.

In addition, Josh is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and was an academic instructor at the United States Military Academy in the Department of Systems Engineering. 

Most recently, Josh graduated from the US Army War College as a Hoover Institution National Security Affairs Fellow at Stanford University.

Josh is married to Andrea Gaspard (West Point 2003 graduate and former Sky Soldier) and they have four children: Penelope (16), Joshua (16), GiGi (14), and Hudson (9). 

 

Col. Joshua M. Gespard
     173RD Airborne Brigade, Brigade Commander

173RD Airborne Brigade Sergeant Major
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4-319TH BATTALION COMMANDER

LTC Neil B. Stark

LTC Stark currently serves as the Commander of 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment stationed in Grafenwoehr, Germany, and in direct support of the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne).

LTC Stark was born in Nurnberg, Germany to dual-military parents and he grew up at a number of US Army installations in the United States and Europe. In 2001 he graduated from Brookfield R-III High School in Brookfield, Missouri and enrolled in the US Army Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery in May 2005 and attended the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

His first duty assignment was with 1st Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and he deployed to Mosul, Iraq in 2006. He commanded A Battery, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment and deployed to Khost, Afghanistan in 2011, and then commanded Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 18th Fires Brigade (Airborne). LTC Stark then served as a Plans Officer in G3 Operations Division, Human Resources Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky. As a field grade officer he served as the Division Fires Planner in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan in 2018. He then served as a Brigade Fire Support Officer in 2nd Brigade (“Strike”), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and a Battalion Operations Officer 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment and deployed to Yavoriv, Ukraine in 2019 in support of the Joint Multinational Training Group – Ukraine. In his most recent assignment, he served as a Joint Operations Planner in the J35 Future Operations & Plans Division at Headquarters, United States European Command.

LTC Stark’s military education includes the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, the Maneuver Captain Career Course, Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape High Risk (Level C) Course, the Command and General Staff Officer Course, and the School of Advanced Military Studies. He holds a Master’s of Military Art and Science in Operational Art and Science from the United States Army Command and General Staff College and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal (2nd award), the Meritorious Service Medal (3rd award), the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (5th award), the Afghanistan Campaign Medal (3rd award), and the Iraq Campaign Medal. He has earned the Ranger tab, Senior Parachutist badge, and the Air Assault badge.

Stark is married to the former Kelly Trosen of Kirksville, Missouri. Together they have two daughters, Reagan (11) and Whitney (6).

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