Colonel A.J. Pasagian
Chief of Staff
Marine Corps Systems Command
A.J. Pasagian enlisted in the Marine Corps in April 1987. After graduating recruit training at Parris Island, South Carolina, he entered a commissioning program and was commissioned a second lieutenant in May 1990.
Colonel Pasagian’s assignments in the operating forces include platoon commander, detachment commander, company executive officer, squadron logistics officer, brigade support group executive officer, and battalion executive and commanding officer. He deployed with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit during Operation Continue Hope in Somalia, and with Brigade Service Support Group-2 in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Other assignments include the Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence Directorate at Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia, and as Requirements Officer for various future expeditionary warfare ship programs at the N85 Division of the Navy staff. He then served as Product Manager for Infantry Combat Equipment and as Director of the Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity. He was then assigned as Military Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Colonel Pasagian is a graduate of the City University of New York in New York City, the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California, and the Eisenhower School at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
Colonel Pasagian assumed his current duties as Chief of Staff, Marine Corps Systems Command in February 2016.