Paul Berg

Paul Berg (’95 M.B.A.), Fort Leavenworth, Kan. was promoted to assistant professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. He also was selected to be a battalion commander for the 1-223rd Aviation Regiment at Fort Rucker, Ala. He has previously been assigned to Hawaii; Fort Campbell, Ky.; Fort Rucker, Ala.; and Fort Hood. He was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, with the 101st Airborne Division in 2001 just four months after the Sept. 11 attacks to support Operation Enduring Freedom and was a company commander during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom I. He deployed again with the 1st Cavalry Division in Kirkuk, Iraq, in 2009 and also deployed with Task Force Attack in Sharana, Afghanistan, in 2011. He has been a leadership instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College since 2011. He has been selected by the Department of Army to command the 1-223rd Aviation Regiment at Fort Rucker, which is responsible for Army rotary wing flight school training for primary, instrument, C-12, Mi-17 and CH-47F flight training. At a pre-command course at Fort Rucker and Fort Jackson, he met John L. Smith (’90), who will be a brigade commander at the 128th Aviation Brigade at Fort Eustis, Va. Berg and his wife, Tanya Anderson Berg (’94), whom he met when at UNT, have two children, Kaela and Logan.