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Years of service
  
1985–

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service/branch
  
British Army

Rank
  
Lieutenant general

Name
  
Mark Poffley


Mark Poffley

Commands held
  
13 Air Assault Support Regiment 102nd Logistic Brigade

Battles/wars
  
Gulf War Bosnian War Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia War in Afghanistan Iraq War

Awards
  
Order of the British Empire

Battles and wars
  
Gulf War, Bosnian War, 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia, War in Afghanistan, Iraq War

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Lieutenant-General Mark William Poffley, OBE (born 1960) is a senior British Army officer. Since 2014, he has been Commander Force Development and Capability. He was also the Deputy Chief of the General Staff. In January 2016, he was appointed as Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Military Capability) at the Ministry of Defence.

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Military career

Poffley was commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1985. After seeing action in the Gulf War and then in the Bosnian War, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for 24 Airmobile Brigade and then as Staff Officer responsible for Plans and Doctrine in the Attack Helicopter Team. He became commanding officer of 13 Air Assault Support Regiment in 2001, and was deployed to Macedonia in August of that year and Afghanistan in 2002.

Poffley went on to be Colonel Army Plans in 2003 and commander 102nd Logistic Brigade in 2005, seeing active service in Iraq in that capacity. He went on to be Principal Staff Officer to the Chief of the Defence Staff in December 2006, Chief of Staff Land Forces in March 2009 and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Resources and Plans) in November 2011: he was given the additional title of Master General of Logistics in June 2012. He went on to be Commander Force Development and Capability in February 2014 as well as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff in Spring 2015. After that he was appointed Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Military Capability) at the Ministry of Defence in January 2016.

References

Mark Poffley Wikipedia