Lieutenant
General Joseph A. Ryan
Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Army
Lieutenant General Joseph Ryan assumed duties as the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7 (Operations, Plans, Training), Headquarters, Department of the Army in November 2024. Originally from New York, Lieutenant General Ryan graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics and commissioned into the Infantry. He is married with three children.
Over the course of his career, Lieutenant General Ryan served in Europe in the 1st Armored Division and in the United States in the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division, and in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army.
As a General Officer, he served as Deputy Commanding General (Support), 4th Infantry Division; as Commanding General, Train Advise Assist Command (East), U.S. Forces Afghanistan; as Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps; as Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations,
U.S. Forces Afghanistan; as Commanding General, 25th Infantry Division and U.S. Army Hawaii; and as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7.
He is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Joint and Combined Warfighting School, and the Army War College where he served as a Fellow at Columbia University in New York City.
Lieutenant General Ryan holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from Webster University and is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI Fellow.
