Yvonne M CormierLTC (ret), U.S. Army

Yvonne M. Cormier was born in November of 1962 in Allentown, Pennsylvania to Thomas E. Cormier Sr and Carolyn (Kimes) Cormier. She attended Panther Valley High School, where she commanded the school’s first Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). She graduated in June 1980 and enlisted in the Pennsylvania National Guard that Fall, where she served for two years before receiving a 2-year ROTC scholarship at Penn State University. She earned an undergraduate degree in Business Management and was a Distinguished Military Graduate, having commanded Penn

State’s Corps of Cadets. Upon graduation, she was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army’s Military Police Corps in May of 1984. She later obtained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Syracuse University in 1993, while attending the Department of Defense Comptroller Program.

LTC Cormier’s assignments include:

• Platoon Leader, 284^th MP Co; Headquarters’ Detachment Commander and Battalion S-1 for the 709^th MP Bn in Frankfurt, Germany;
• Supply, Maintenance, Transportation and Dining Facility Officer (Battalion S-4) for the 519^th MP Bn, and Company Commander, US Army Garrison MP Co at Fort Meade, Md;
• Operations & Maintenance Appropriation Budget Officer for Office of the Chief Army Reserve (OCAR) HQs at the Pentagon;
• Attended Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS
• Director of Security, Plans, Operations & Training (Brigade S-3), S. Army Chemical Activity Pacific (USACAP) on Johnston Island
• Budget Officer for the Army Reserve Personnel Command (ARPERCEN) at Louis, MO
• Project Manager & Program Evaluation Director, Department of Defense Inspector General, Pentagon, Crystal City, VA