INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana National Guard Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Courtney P. Carr and the commanding general of the 38th Infantry Division, Maj. Gen. David C. Wood, proudly announce a new commander for the 38th Sustainment Brigade, headquartered in Kokomo, Ind.
Lt. Col. Kimberly M. Martindale, Indianapolis, will assume command of the 38th Infantry Division’s sustainment brigade effective Nov. 1, 2015.
“The brigade will be in good hands,” said Carr. “Kim has a long and distinguished record of performance at successively higher levels of responsibility in sustainment organizations and is well postured to command this unit.”
Martindale joined the Indiana National Guard in July 1982 as telecom center operator for the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. She’s worked in many positions throughout the Indiana National Guard to include the 113th Brigade Support Battalion’s Executive Officer and eventually the Battalion Commander during combat operations in Iraq, and most recently as the 38th Infantry Division’s information operations officer.
“I am honored and excited to be selected for this prestigious position to command the soldiers of the 38th Sustainment Brigade. I know this position comes with tremendous responsibilities, and there are exciting and challenging missions ahead,” said Martindale, who is originally from Bedford, Ind. “My promise to the soldiers of the 38th Sustainment Brigade is that together we’re going to continue to cultivate the seeds of greatness as we stand taller with pride and dedication to mission accomplishment.”
Martindale, a Bronze Star Medal and Meritorious Service Medal recipient among many other awards, has deployed twice in her 32-year military career: in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1991 and in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2008.
Martindale will replace Col. Troy Joslin who will become the 38th Infantry Division’s chief of staff.
Joslin, with almost 25 years in the Indiana National Guard, is logistics and quartermaster qualified. He has served in a variety of logistics-related assignments since 2001 with the former 38th Division Support Command and was the full-time officer-in-charge of the reorganization of that headquarters into the 38th Sustainment Brigade and its relocation from Indianapolis to Kokomo. He commanded the 38th Division Special Troops Battalion from 2007 to 2009 and then deployed to Bagram Airfield Afghanistan as part of the 38th Division Headquarters where he served as chief of operations of the largest military operating base and busiest airfield in theater comprising almost 30,000 military and civilian personnel. He also served as a senior logistics planner during a 38th Infantry Division warfighter command post exercise in 2007.
“I want to thank Maj. Gen. Carr, Maj. Gen. Wood and the senior leaders of the Indiana National Guard for the opportunity to command the 38th Sustainment Brigade: it was an honor and a privilege. I also wish Lt. Col. Martindale the best in her new assignment,” said Joslin. “I will miss working with the 38th Sustainment Brigade Avengers, yet I am also looking forward to working with the soldiers of the storied Cyclone Division and to begin another exciting chapter in my military career.”