John H. Thompson

John H. Thompson is the current chief of Kaiserslautern Cold Storage Facility for DeCA. He has worked for the Department of the Army as a civilian for number years and also is a Major in the United States Army Reserve.

Early life
John Thompson was born on May 19, 1966 in Charleston West Virginia to Carol and John R. Thompson. His father was serving a tour of duty in Vietnam when he was born and did not see him until he was two months old. When he was six months old he moved to Germany and became ill and had to move to Fort Carson, Kansas. They returned to Germany while John R. Thompson served another tour of duty in Vietnam. Afterwords, they moved to Fort Hood, Texas where he spent the remainder of his childhood. He graduated from Ellison High School in Killeen, Texas in 1984 and went to Civillain Flight School for 3 years. Immediately following he joined the United States Army. After Joining the Army he attended the University of Mary Hardin Baylor where he met and married his wife Kathy Thompson.

Military career
He joined the United States Army in 1987. He worked in Flight Operations and then a Crew Chief on UH-1 "Huey" and UH-60 "BlackHawk" in 149th Aviation Regiment. After Graduating College he went through OCS in 1993. After OCS he went through Armor Officer Course to become a tanker. He was in the 1/112 Armor Regiment in Dallas, Texas in the Texas National Guard from 1993-97. From 1997-99 he worked with the Battle Protection Group for combat simulators for the United States Army. In 2000 he moved to Georgia to be a company commander in the 357th Corps Support Battalion. In 2003 he deployed to Iraq for 15 months with the 357th Corps Support Battalion. In 2006 he was in the 94th Division as the Internal Review Chief. In 2009 he was mobilized again with the United States Corps of Engineers.