Robert L . Caslen Lieutenant General Robert L . Caslen Jr . ( born 1953 ) is a United States Army general officer who serves as the 59th superintendent of West Point since July 17 , 2013 He served as the Chief of the Office of Security Cooperation - Iraq ( OSC - I ) . Before that , he served as the commanding general of the U . S . Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth . In December 2009 , Caslen was nominated to be a lieutenant general in conjunction with his nomination to be Commandant of the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth which took effect in March 2010 . Caslen grew up in Connecticut and Massachusetts . He graduated the U . S . Military Academy at West Point in 1975 and played center on the Army football team . He also earned a master ' s degree in business administration from Long Island University and a Master of Science degree from Kansas State University . During Desert Storm he was executive officer of the 2nd Battalion , 187th Infantry , 101st Airborne Division ( Air Assault ) . He was brigade operations officer , 3rd Brigade , 101st Airborne Division ( Air Assault ) ; J - 3 in Honduras for Joint Task Force Bravo in 1998 ; executive officer to the deputy commander in Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy in 1994 - 1995 ; commander of the 1st Battalion , 14th Infantry , 25th Infantry Division ( Light ) ; senior brigade C2 observer / controller , Operations Group , Joint Readiness Training Center ; chief of staff of the 101st Airborne Division ; and commander of the 2nd Brigade , 101st Airborne Division ( 1999 ) . He was at the Pentagon during the September 11 attacks where he was an assistant deputy director of strategic planning and policy . He helped search for wounded and also worked on the air conditioning system following the attack . He was also chief of staff of the 10th Mountain Division ( Light ) ( 2003 ) at Fort Drum ; assistant division commander ( Maneuver ) of the 3rd Infantry Division ( Mechanized ) ( 2004 ) ; deputy director for the War on Terrorism , J - 5 , the Joint Staff ( 2005 - June 2006 ) ; director of the Joint Staff ' s Detainee Affairs Division and commandant of cadets for the Military Academy at West Point , a post he left in May 2008 . From May 2008 to December 2009 he served as commander of the 25th Infantry Division ( United States ) . In October he returned from a tour with the division in the Iraq War . Prior to this he had served two tours in the War in Afghanistan ( 2001 – present ) and one tour in the Gulf War . In Afghanistan he was chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force - 180 ( CJTF - 180 ) in Afghanistan from May through September 2002 He was a commander of Operation Champion Sword . According to a report by the Office of Inspector General " violated the ethical guidelines of the military that forbid officers to promote private organizations " when he appeared in a video for the Christian Embassy . Other generals that appeared in the video included Vincent K . Brooks and Air Force generals Peter U . Sutton and Jack J . Catton Jr . At the time he was Commandant of Cadets at West Point . In a letter he said he would be more vigilant about such improprieties going forward . In July 2011 he was nominated to be chief of Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq .