Quartermaster
Command Sergeant Major

Command Sergeant Major Ricky A. Vernon is a native of Grand Haven, Michigan. In 1970 at seventeen years old he entered the United States Army and attended initial training at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Command Sergeant Major VernonVernons assignments include the 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; The Second Infantry Division, Korea; The Berlin Brigade, West Berlin, Germany; The Fourth U.S Army, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, The Second Corps Support Command, Germany and the Third Corps Support Command, Germany.

Command Sergeant Major Vernon has been awarded and performed duties in military occupational specialties in all three components of arms, as Infantry in Combat Arms, as an Engineer in Combat Service and as Quartermaster in Combat Service Support. He has served in the positons of Squad Leader, Platoon Sergeant, First Sergeant, and Command Sergeant Major. CSM Vernon is currently the Command Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Center and School.

His professional education includes honor graduate, third U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officers Academy, Airborne and Jumpmaster School, and the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy Class Number Twenty-Eight.

Command Sergeant Major VernonVernons awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal with Four Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Occupational Medal, Master Parachutist Badge and The German InfantrymanVernons Badge.