Chairman's Award
2006 Recipient
Claude Christianson
Lieutenant General Claude V. Christianson is director for logistics at the Joint Staff in Washington, D.C assuming this position in 2005. He has a B.S. in industrial engineering from North Dakota State University and is also a distinguished military graduate of the Army ROTC program at NDSU. His military education includes the Infantry Officer's Basic Course, Ordnance Officer's Advanced Course, the Armed Forces Staff College and the Army War College.
Christianson began his military career in 1971, assigned to the 1st Infantry Division where he gained early leadership experience with infantry and maintenance battalions. His first overseas assignment was Thailand where he served as chief of shop operations and a customs officer. Christianson then went on to serve as a commander and operations officer with division support command and then as director of logistics with the Southern European Task Force in Vincenza, Italy. In 1989 he commanded the 725th main support battalion, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and later becoming assistant chief of staff G4, 25th Infantry Division. Christianson's military career then took him to Italy as chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation, American Embassy and then onto Germany where he commanded the 3rd and 1st infantry division support commands and G4, U.S. V Corps.
In 2000, he was named assistant chief of staff for logistics for the United Nations Command with the Eighth U.S. Army in Korea. Christianson was then assigned as assistant deputy chief of staff for logistics for coalition forces in Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before his assignment to the Joint Staff, he served as deputy chief of staff for logistics at headquarters for the Department of the Army.
His highest awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.
