Colonel Wall Is New Commander Of University of Arizona NROTC

Colonel Patrick L. Wall was recently named commanding officer of the Naval Reserves Officers Training Corps at the Univesity of Arizona in Tucson. He arrived at the University in July, 2015.

A native of Hurst, Texas,  Colonel Wall was commissioned a second lieutenant out of The Citadel in 1989. As a Marine Logistics Officer, he has served multiple tours in the operating forces as a staff officer, company commander and battalion commander.

Most of his career has been in the Pacific Region—serving 15 years there in Hawaii, Okinawa and mainland Japan. In 2004, he deployed with I Marine Expeditionary Force to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom; in 2009, he supported Disaster Relief Operations in the Republic of the Philippines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit; and in 2011 he ran the Joint Logistics Operations Center for Relief Operations to Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster. His most recent assignment was the Command Inspector General for Second Marine Logistics Group, Camp Lejeune, NC.

He is a graduate of Amphibious Warfare School, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College. He has a Master’s of Science in Adult and Continuing Education from Kansas State University and a Master’s of Science in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College.

The Colonel is the son of Karen Wall Trott of Boyd, Don and Neoma Williams of Hart and the late Mike Wall of Hart. He and his wife Jodi have three children, Seth of Denton, Texas;  Abigail, a student at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas; and Bonnie of the home.