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	Deputy Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
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        <h1 class="title">Deputy Commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command</h1>
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        Lieutenant General Sklenka is from Marietta, Georgia and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1988 after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science Degree in History.  <br /><br />His service in the Operating Forces includes: Headquarters Company, 6th Marines (March 1989-March 1990); S-4, Marine Detachment UNITAS (March 1990-November 1990); 6th Marines Regimental S-4A (November 1990-January 1992); 6th Marines S-4 (January 1992-May 1992); S-4, Company Executive Officer, Detachment S-3, Detachment Commander, and Company Commander, with 1st Landing Support Battalion (July 1992-June 1995); S-4, 7th Marines (August 1998-June 2001); Executive Officer, Combat Service Support Group-15 (June 2004-March 2005); Commanding Officer, MSSG-11/Combat Logistics Battalion-11, 11th MEU(SOC); AC/S G-3, 1st Force Service Support Group (Fwd) (February 2010-December 2010); Chief of Staff of 1st Marine Logistics Group (Fwd) and Commanding Officer, Combat Logistics Regiment-15 and the Logistics Combat Element of the ISAF MAGTF (December 2010-May 2013); Commanding General, 1st Marine Logistics Group (July 2017-July 2019).<br /><br />His service outside of the Operating Forces includes: Instructor Group and as Commanding Officer of Training Support Company, Support Battalion, The Basic School (June 1996-August 1998); Current Operations Branch and then Prepositioning Head in Expeditionary Policies Branch of Plans, Policies, and Operations (PP&O), Headquarters Marine Corps (July 2002-June 2004); Materiel Division Head and Deputy J4, US Special Operations Command (June 2007-January 2010); Principal Director for South and Southeast Asia in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (September 2015–June 2017); J5, Director for Strategic Planning and Policy, United States Indo-Pacific Command (August 2019–August 2021).<br /><br />His deployments include Operation JUST CAUSE, Panama; Marine Detachment UNITAS, South America; Operations DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; Operation RESTORE HOPE, Somalia; Operation VIGILANT WARRIOR, Kuwait; Operation IRAQI FREEDOM II, Iraq; 11th MEU(SOC), Pacific and Central Commands; Operation ENDURING FREEDOM-10 and ENDURING FREEDOM-12, Afghanistan.<br /><br />He has completed The Basic School, Ground Supply Officers Course, Logistics Officers Course, Amphibious Warfare School, Naval Command and Staff College, Air War College (Nonresident), and was a CMC Fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He received a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, and a Master’s Degree with a concentration in Unconventional Warfare from American Military University.  He has also completed the Timothy T. Day Foundation Marine Corps Executive Fellowship at the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program.<br /><br />Lieutenant General Sklenka assumed the duties as Deputy Commander, United States Indo-Pacific Command on 16 August 2021. <br /><br /><br />(Updated: 01 Sept 2021) 
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