Education
Boston University; Virginia State University. United States Army Command and General Staff College. United States Army War College.
Boston University; Virginia State University. United States Army Command and General Staff College. United States Army War College.
He assumed responsibilities as the 18th Commander of the United States Army Materiel Command (Administrative Management College) August 7, 2012, headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
A native of Martinsville, Virginia, General Via was commissioned on May 18, 1980 in the Signal Corps after graduating as a Distinguished Military Graduate from Virginia State University. He holds a Master"s Degree from Boston University, and is a graduate of the United States. Army Command and General Staff College (class of 1991) and the United States. Army War College (class of 1999). He began his career with the 35th Signal Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg.
He deployed to Southwest Asia in October 2011 as the Commander, Administrative Management College Responsible Reset Task Force with the mission of leading the strategic integration of the Materiel Enterprise for the Retrograde of equipment and materiel out of Iraq at the conclusion of Operation New Dawn.
Prior to that, he served as Director for Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems, J-6, The Joint Staff, Washington, District of Columbia The General"s command assignments include the 82nd Signal Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina 3rd Signal Brigade, III Armored Corps, Fort Hood, Texas.
5th Signal Command, United States Army Europe and 7th Army, Mannheim, Germany. And the United States Army Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command and Fort Monmouth, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey