Supporting the Surviving Children of Our Fallen Patriots

 Kevin McDonnell attended North Carolina State University and was commissioned as an Army officer in 1982. His military career spans almost 30 years with command and staff assignments in the 5^th and 3^rd Special Forces Groups at Fort Bragg, NC, Fort Campbell, KY, the Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C. as well as assignments outside the Department of Defense and overseas assignments throughout Southwest Asia.

He served as a Special Forces Battalion Commander in Afghanistan on multiple deployments from early 2002-2003 and as the 5^th Special Forces Group Commander and Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Commander in the Arabian Peninsula in Iraq from 2005-2007. From 2007 until his retirement in 2011, he served as the Director of the US Special Operations Command Washington Office in the Pentagon. Upon his retirement from active duty, he served for three years as the Director of the US Special Operations Command Care Coalition at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL.

Mr. McDonnell is a graduate of North Carolina State University and holds master’s degrees in National Security and Strategic Studies from the US Naval War College in Newport, RI, and the National War College in Washington, D.C. He currently holds positions on a variety of corporate and nonprofit boards and serves as a consultant for a law firm in Washington, D.C., and several corporations across the US.