Colonel Rick Turner The 2021-2022 United States Army War College Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is a United States Army Infantry Officer who has worked at various echelons of the defense enterprise and across two of the three branches of government. He holds a B.S. in Economics with a minor in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and an M.P.S. in Legislative Affairs from the George Washington University. During his 18 years in the Army, Turner has served in four of the Army’s Infantry Divisions with multiple overseas combat deployments. He served as the Legislative Assistant to the 38^th Chief of Staff of the Army, a Defense Fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Army Military Aide to the President of the United States. Most recently, Turner served as the Commander of the 1^st Battalion, 21^st Infantry Regiment in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.