New Member - COL (R) TROY A CLAY
795, 05 Apr 2013
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Biographical Resume:
Colonel Troy Anthony Clay was commissioned as a Finance Corps Officer upon graduation from Monmouth University as a Distinguished Military Graduate and a Baccalaureate Degree in Accounting in 1984. His military education includes the Finance Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Execution Systems Course, Combined Arms Services Staff School, Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, and Airborne School. Colonel Clay holds a Master of Accountancy from the University of South Carolina, a Masters in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Monmouth University.
In 1984, Colonel Clay was assigned as the Chief of Commercial Accounts and the Commander of a Finance Support Team for the 18th Area Finance Support Center in Frankfurt Germany. Additionally, he served as the Disbursing Officer for the 5th Finance Group in Frankfurt, Germany. After completing the Finance Officer Advanced Course, Colonel Clay served as the Finance Officer Basic Course Director at the United States Army Finance School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana and the Aide De Camp for the Commander of the United States Army Soldier Support Center and Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Following his duties as Aide, he went on to serve as the Commander of the Finance Advanced Individual Training Company, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. After completing Advanced Civil Schooling at the University of South Carolina, he served as a Staff Finance Officer in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Resource Management at the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Virginia from 1993-1995. Upon completion of Command and General Staff College, he was assigned to the 8th Finance Battalion in Baumholder, Germany where he served as the Battalion Executive Officer from 1997-1999. After returning from Germany, Colonel Clay was reassigned to the United States Army Finance School at its new home at Fort Jackson, South Carolina where he served as the Chief of the Finance Operations Division and Course Director for the Finance Captains' Career Course. Colonel Clay went on to serve as the Director of the Finance Training Department and as the Finance School Chief of Staff until May 2002. Colonel Clay took command of the 4th Finance Battalion at Fort Carson, Colorado on 14 June 2002 and deployed his battalion in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Following command in 2004, he was assigned to the Pentagon where he served as the Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller. He later went on to serve as a Department of the Army Budget Analyst in the Army Budget Office where he managed the Army's Operating Tempo program and the Military Personnel, Army appropriation. After leaving the Pentagon in 2006, Colonel Clay went on to attend the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. In 2007, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Soldier Support Institute where he served as the Director of Capabilities Development and Integration. In 2008 he went on to serve as the 35th Commandant of the United States Army Financial Management School and Chief of the Finance Corps for a ten month period. In 2009 Colonel Clay was selected as the 13th Commander of the United States Army Financial Management Command. After command, in 2010 he returned the school to once again serve as the 37th Commandant of the United States Army Financial Management School and Chief of the Finance Corps. Colonel Clay served as Commandant until October 2012. Colonel Clay retired from the Army on 1 February 2013.
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