An officer who has played a principal role in forming the formulation of soldier personnel management policies over the past three years will take over leadership of Human Resources Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on Friday.
Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Seamands, an Adjutant General's Corps officer, will replace Maj. Gen. Richard P. Mustion, who is scheduled to retire after 34 years of service, the last three as commander of HRC.
Human Resources Command is the Army's principal agency for day-to-day personnel management of active-duty officers and enlisted soldiers, and Army Reserve soldiers assigned to the Active Guard and Reserve, the Individual Ready Reserve and the Individual Mobilization Augmentee Program.
For the past three years Seamands has served at the Pentagon as the director of military personnel management, a key policy-making position in the Office of the Army G1. Previously he served as the chief of the Army's General Office Management Office, and as the chief personnel officer for Multi-National Corps in Iraq.
Seamands was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Dayton, and is a graduate of Command and General Staff College. He holds a master's degree from Webster University, and participated in graduate-level fellowships at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The change-of-command ceremony is scheduled for Friday morning at HRC headquarters.
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