John K. Love

Major General John K. Love is currently the commanding officer of the Second Marine Division which is based in the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in North Carolina. .

Career
Love graduated from Texas Tech University. After, he was a corporal in the Marine Reserves and in 1984, he was commissioned. He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2009. His assignments as a general officer included the time he participated in Operation Unified Protector in 2011 as part of NATO. As of 2018 he is a Major General in the Marine Corps after being nominated for promotion by the Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter and then being approved by the U.S. Senate in March 2015.

In June 2018, Love was nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as military representative to the NATO Military Committee.

Awards
While he was a Brigader General, he won the Legion of Merit.