Reviewing Officer

LtCol Marianne S. Waldrop was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1987 and graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

She trained for and served as a Signals Intelligence officer at Camp Lejeune, NC, and Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and Misawa, Japan.

Most recently, she has served at US Central Command, Tampa, Florida and 11 MEF, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where she deployed to support Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa in Djibouti, Africa, and Multinational Forces-West, Camp Fallujah, Iraq.

Since February 2006, she is assigned as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Third Marine Aircraft Wing, Miramar, CA. She currently resides in Carlsbad, California.

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