ISSUED: 19 January 2022
MEDIA CONTACT: Dana Costa
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — The Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice will present a talk by S. Marshall Wilson titled “Formal Education as Preparation for Integrated Emergency Operations” via Zoom on Wednesday, January 26, from 1:10-2 p.m. Wilson will discuss his personal biography, educational experience, background in military operations, and service to the state and local communities.
Wilson is an instructor of command leadership in Liberty University’s Military Operations Master of Arts program, a Ph.D. candidate in public policy (national security) at Liberty, and taught ROTC at Louisiana State University. Wilson served in the Maryland Army National Guard, most recently as chief of operations, and in the Louisiana National Guard, where served as a plans officer on the team that wrote Louisiana’s All Hazard Operations Plan. He commanded A Company (Sapper) of the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Special Troops Battalion. The Sapper Company deployed to Iraq, where it was attached to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (JSOTF), a temporary task force assigned to accomplish a specific mission or to control a specific theater of operations. The JSOTF is made up of special operations units from more than one service. Wilson is a retired combat veteran infantry officer and former Christian missionary who served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 2016-2020 and ran for governor of West Virginia in 2020.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The Zoom link for the lecture is available on the Criminal Justice Presentation Series website.
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