Colonel George J. David
Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Cyberspace Warfare Group
Col David was commissioned in 1994. He served in Signals Intelligence at 1st Radio Battalion as officer-in-charge of two detachments and five different platoons before serving as platoon commander and Reconnaissance & Surveillance coordinator for the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean executing operations in the Middle East. He then served as Company A Commander, 1st Radio Battalion in 1998 supporting 1st Marine Division. From 1999 to 2001 he commanded Company E, Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion in Misawa, Japan, and simultaneously served as Assistant Operations Officer to the Naval Security Group Activity.
In 2001, he moved to 3rd Intelligence Battalion in Okinawa, Japan as both the battalion S4 Logistics and S6 Communications officer before transferring to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in 2002 as the Assistant S2 Intelligence Officer, serving four deployment cycles in the Western Pacific. In 2004, he reported to the Joint Staff J2 and Defense Intelligence Agency where he was Senior Operations Officer for the National Military Joint Intelligence Center in the Pentagon. He then moved to J2O Operations as a National Intelligence Support Team Leader and deployed in 2006 and 7 to Operation Iraqi Freedom as a special mission advisor under a DIA program supporting State Department office of regional affairs. He served subsequently as the Senior Desk officer for US Central Command for the Defense Intelligence Operations Center at DIA. In 2008, he attended Defense Language Institute via the Foreign Service Institute preparatory to the Spanish / NATO Staff College Madrid in 2008 and 9.
From 2009 through 2011, he was the G2 for 3d Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), deploying to Afghanistan, and merged with the British Joint Helicopter Force Afghanistan operating in Regional Command Southwest. He was the deputy G2 of the Wing main element at the same time. He then assumed command of Region 2, Marine Corps Embassy Security Group from 2011-13 responsible for the Marine Security Guards at all diplomatic posts in the Middle East and South Asia, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Selected for Foreign Top Level School, he attended the Inter American Defense College in Washington, taught in four languages. He served with HQ, US Marine Corps in DC/PP&O current operations as a Branch Chief in Readiness. Finally, from 2015-17, he was Chief of Intelligence Department’s Executive Support Division, providing current intelligence to the Secretary of the Navy, Commandant of the Marine Corps and Deputy Commandants and in support of strategic planning. Since 2017, he has served as the Chief of the USCENTCOM CCJ2 Operations Division in Tampa.
Col David has a Masters of Science in Hemispheric Defense and Security, a Masters of Strategic Intelligence, and Bachelor’s in Physics and Government. He is a graduate of MIT’s Seminar XXI, Air War College, Spanish and NATO Staff College, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Amphibious Warfare School and an honor graduate from the MAGTF Intelligence Officer’s Course. A Joint Qualified Officer and an Information Operations planner, he is also a European Foreign Area Officer and a Regional Affairs Officer for both the Middle East / North Africa and Latin America regions, with professional competence in four foreign languages. He is married with three children.