Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm J. Wilson III assumed command of the Army Field Support Battalion-Riley at Fort Riley, Kansas, June 17, 2025.
His previous assignment was senior sustainment observer/coach/trainer, Mission Command Training Program, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Other assignments include G4 (Operations) officer, NATO Rapid Deployable Corps in Istanbul, Turkey; brigade executive officer and Support Operations Distribution Integration Branch chief, 1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade; battalion executive officer, 541st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion; G5 (Plans) sustainment planner, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley; Future Operations planner, U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois; G4 (Logistics) planner, 1st Army, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; commander and executive officer, B Company, Warrior Transition Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas; and Support platoon leader, 2nd Infantry Division, at Camp Hovey, South Korea.
LTC Wilson deployed to Kuwait in 2012, and to Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and NATO Resolute Support in 2019. He has also participated in multiple NATO, joint, multinational operations and exercises in the Pacific and European theaters.
His military education includes the Ordnance Officer Basic Course, Combined Logistics Captains Career Course, the Theater Logistics Studies Program, and the Command and General Staff College.
LTC Wilson received his commission in 2007 in the Ordnance Corps after graduation from Officer Candidate School. He is a graduate of North Central University earning a bachelor’s degree in pastoral studies. In 2014, he earned a master’s degree in logistics management from the Florida Institute of Technology.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, five Meritorious Service Medals, four Army Commendation Medals, three Army Achievement Medals, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medals, NATO Medal (Resolute Support), and the Ordnance Order of Samuel Sharpe.
LTC Wilson is married and has three children.