[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 139 (Friday, September 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S6954]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                     TRIBUTE TO COLONEL JENNY DAVIS

 Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I wish to recognize and pay 
tribute to COL Jenny W. Davis, legislative assistant to the Chairman of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for her service to our country. Her 
retirement later this year marks more than 26 years of devotion to our 
military and our Nation.
  A Maryland native, COL Davis was commissioned into the Adjutant 
General's Corps in May 1989 upon graduation from the United States 
Military Academy, West Point, NY, and served her initial 4 years in the 
Army as a branch detailed officer in the Air Defense Artillery. Her 
military education includes the Air Defense Artillery Officer Basic 
Course and Adjutant General Officer Advanced Course and the U.S. Marine 
Corps Command and Staff College.
  COL Davis has held assignments ranging from platoon leader, battery 
executive officer, and battalion adjutant, 6th Battalion, 43d Air 
Defense Artillery, 32d AADCOM, and V Corps, Ansbach, Germany; 
detachment commander, B Detachment, 546th Personnel Services Battalion, 
3d Personnel Group, and chief of officer management, 2d Armored 
Division, Fort Hood, TX; HHC commander, 8th Personnel Command, 8th U.S. 
Army, Camp Coiner, Korea; joint staff intern serving in the offices of 
the J1 and the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Manpower and Reserve 
Affairs, the Pentagon; company grade assignment officer, chief of 
officer management division and chief of personnel management division, 
I Corps, and battalion executive officer, 22d Personnel Services 
Battalion, 1st Personnel Group, Fort Lewis, WA; strategic planner, Army 
G-1, Headquarters Department of the Army, HQDA, the Pentagon; DoD 
Congressional Fellow, office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, 
Washington, DC; legislative liaison--Personnel Policy Portfolio, Office 
of the Chief of Legislative Liaison, OCLL, the Pentagon; Strategic 
Initiatives Group, I Corps/U.S. Forces--Iraq, OIF; legislative 
liaison--Arlington National Cemetery, OCLL.
  COL Davis's awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service 
Medal, with four oakleaf clusters; Joint Service Commendation Medal, 
with one oakleaf cluster; Army Commendation Medal; Army Achievement 
Medal, with two oakleaf clusters; Parachutist Badge; and Joint Chiefs 
of Staff and Army Staff Identification Badges.
  Jenny is married to Grant Davis. They have two sons, Zach, 16, and 
Ben, 14.

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