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Patricia E. McQuistion

Patricia E. McQuistion is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Army. She served as deputy commander and chief of staff for the United States Army Materiel Command from 2012 until her retirement in 2015.[1][2]

Military career

Patricia McQuistion received her initial army officer training in the ROTC program at the University of Akron in Ohio. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and received her commission as a second lieutenant for the United States Army Ordnance Corps in 1980. She later earned a master's degree in acquisition management at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and a master's degree in national resource strategy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

McQuistion's nomination for promotion to colonel was received by the Senate along with 429 others on February 2, 2000, and approved on April 27.[3] McQuistion assumed command of the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania on July 12, 2001,[4] and held that position until July 2003.[5

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Lt. General
Patricia E. McQuistion

Lieutenant General Patricia E. McQuistion graduated from the University of Akron in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. She was commissioned as an Ordnance Officer through the ROTC program at the university.

In her 35-year Army career, Lieutenant General McQuistion has served in numerous command positions; to include, Company Commander, 56th Field Artillery Command, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, West Germany; Commander, Special Troops Battalion, 64th Corps Support Group, 13th Corps Support Command at Fort Hood; and Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania. In addition, she has served on the Army General Staff as speechwriter for the Chief of Staff of the Army, special assistant for personnel and logistics  for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, and Director for Strategy and Integration within the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army (G-4).

Upon promotion to Brigadier General in September 2006, Lieutenant General McQuistion went to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as Deputy Commanding General, Army Field Support Command wi

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McQuistion takes reins of Army Sustainment Command

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Maj. Gen. Patricia E. McQuistion became commanding general of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command during an Oct. 28 change of command ceremony on Memorial Field.

McQuistion took command of ASC from Maj. Gen. Yves J. Fontaine, who had served as commanding general since Sept. 2009. In a retirement ceremony following the handover, Fontaine was honored for more than three decades of service.

Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, commanding general of the U.S. Army Materiel Command, presided over both ceremonies.

Marking the change of command in time-honored fashion, Dunwoody received the ASC colors from Fontaine, then passed them to McQuistion. With her position as commanding general established, McQuistion then passed the flag to ASC's top enlisted Soldier, Command Sgt. Maj. Stephen D. Blake, for safekeeping.

"Today's ceremony is a little different than the traditional passing of the colors," said Dunwoody, "because we are also retiring a great American, a great patriot and a great Army Soldier."

Dunwoody remark

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