Major General Gwendolyn Bingham is an officer in the United States Army and is the current Commander of the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command headquartered at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan.
Education
Gwen Bingham is a native of Troy, Alabama. She graduated from the with a Bachelor of Science degree in general business management. She was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps as a distinguished military graduate of Army Reserve Officers Training Corps. She has a Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University and a Master of Science in national security strategy and resources from the National Defense University.
Her military schooling includes the Quartermaster Officer Basic and Advanced Courses.
The Personnel Management Course.
Combined Arms and Services Staff School. Commissary Management Course.
Army Command and General Staff College. The Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and the Army Inspector General Course.
Career
She was the 51st Quartermaster General of the United States Army and Commandant of the United States. Army Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia - the first female officer to hold these positions. Bingham has served in a myriad of staff and leadership positions throughout her career to include: Platoon Leader and Executive Officer, Headquarters&A Company, 9th Supply and Transport Battalion, 9th DISCOM, Fort Lewis, Washington. Battalion S1, 2d Forward Support Battalion, 9th DISCOM, Fort Lewis, Washington.
Field Services Officer, 1st COSCOM, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Group S1/Adjutant, 507th Transportation Group, 1st COSCOM, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Commissary Central Distribution Center, Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), Manheim, Germany.
Chief, Aviation Supply Branch, 4th Corps Materiel Management Center, Fort Hood, Texas. Battalion S3 and Battalion Executive Officer, 4th Corps Materiel Management Center, Fort Hood, Texas.
Chief, Plans Division, ACofS, Materiel, 13th COSCOM, Fort Hood, Texas.
Gwen Bingham was nominated for promotion to Brigadier General on August 27, 2010 and received that rank on April 22, 2011. The President sent her nomination for promotion to Major General to Congress on March 20, 2013. On June 25, 2014 MG Gwen Bingham became the first female commander of the United States Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC).
