Col Charles Anklam III

Colonel Anklam enlisted in 1994 and attended Recruit Training at Parris Island, S.C.. In 1996, he deployed with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit to Operation SILVER WAKE. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in 2002.

Following Infantry Officer’s Course, he was assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. There he served as a rifle and weapons platoon commander in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM II and III, in Iraq in 2004/05. As a Captain he was assigned to 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, 2d Marine Division, as the Echo Company and Weapons Company commander during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan in 2010,11,12. As a Major, he deployed to Okinawa, Japan in 2017 with the Unit Deployment Program as Executive Officer, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, 2d Marine Division. As a Lieutenant Colonel he commanded 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Division and deployed to Okinawa, Japan in support of Unit Deployment Program, 23.1.

His staff assignments include the Commanding Officer of the Marine Detachment and Liaison to the Commanding General, United States Army Infantry Center, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Marine Officer Instructor and Associate Professor of Naval Science for the Naval Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, Purdue University; Speechwriter to the 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps; Joint Force Development Team Strategist, Joint Staff, J-7; Deputy Program Manager – Assault Breaker II, DARPA, and Director – Wargaming Division, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate.

Colonel Anklam is a graduate of the U.S. Army Infantry Captains Career Course and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He is a MIT fellow at both the Security Studies Program and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Strategy and Statecraft. He graduated from Columbus State University with a Master of Public Administration degree in 2008 and completed a Ph.D. from Purdue University Polytechnic Institute in May 2015.

Col Anklam has 2 Bronze Star Medals with Combat “V”, Purple Heart Medal, Joint Meritorious Service Medal, 2 Meritorious Service Medals, 4 Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals (2 with Combat “V”), 3 Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals (1 with Combat “V”), and 2 Combat Action Ribbons.