Colonel Madalyn S. Gainey was commissioned in July 1992 as a Quartermaster Officer at James Madison University. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Computer Information Systems, and a Master of Arts degree in Human Resources Management from Webster University. Her military education includes the Public Affairs Officers Course, Command and General Staff College, Combined Logistics Officer's Advanced Course and the Quartermaster Officer Basic Course.
COL Gainey's initial assignment was with the 493d Supply and Services Company (DS), 68th Corps Support Battalion, Fort Carson, Colorado, from 1994-1997. While in the "Stagecoach" Battalion, she served in various leadership positions to include CIF supply platoon leader, battalion adjutant and assistant S3. COL Gainey's next assignment was at Fort Lewis, Washington, where she served as the 1st Personnel Group Brigade S4 and Headquarters and Headquarters company Commander. Following that assignment, LTC Gainey was selected as an Army intern at the Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. She served as a public affairs officer in several assignments in the National Capitol Region to include the Defense Intelligence Agency and Army Human Resources Command, Alexandria, Virginia. In 2010, LTC Gainey was assigned as the division public affairs officer with the 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas. Following her assignment, she was then selected as the public affairs officer to the Vice Chief of Staff, Army. She is currently assigned as an Army fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., where she will focus her research on cultural diplomacy and gender relations.
COL Gainey has two combat deployments, Mogadishu, Somalia and Basra, Iraq. She also has Peacekeeping operational experience from a tour in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a part of the NATO stabilization Force (SFOR).
Publications:
- “Getting off the Treadmill of Time” coauthored with Colonel Chris Robertson, November-December 2009 Military Review, 104-108.