Peter S. Lennon

Peter S. Lennon served in the United States Army and achieved the rank of Major General.

His military career spanned nearly four decades (Active and Reserve) with crucial leadership assignments in war-zone and non-combat environments. The highly decorated veteran received two Army Distinguished Service Medals, the Defense Superior Service medal, three Legions of Merit, a Bronze Star, seven Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals, Army Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, and the Global War on Terrorism Award.

Graduating from Bucknell University in 1977, Mr. Lennon began his military career with Paratrooper training and Officer Basic Training. He was assigned to the 8th Infantry Division in Germany as a transportation platoon leader in Cold War Europe. He also led a “Forward Area Support Team” charged with providing front-line supply, transport and maintenance in the event of a Soviet breach of the German-Czechoslovakian border.

After returning to the United States, then-Captain Lennon took on various roles, serving in Honduras and Hungary, and leading Army Reserve units here at home.

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, he was recalled to active duty to plan and coordinate the secure movement of arms and munitions throughout the United States.

In 2003, he was selected by the White House to serve as a transportation advisor to Ambassador Bremer and the international Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, where he established and served as the first operational-level director for the United Nations’ $10 billion “Oil for Food Programme."

In 2008, then-Brigadier General Lennon was assigned to U.S. Central Command as the Director of the Deployment and Distribution Operations Center for the command’s 23-nation Middle-East area of responsibility based in Kuwait.

Mr. Lennon then took on several senior leadership positions, including his final assignment in uniform at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he was responsible for the training structure of the 200,000 soldiers of America’s Army Reserve Command.

Upon retirement from the military, Mr. Lennon returned to Central New York where he remains active in numerous military support activities. He was a driving force for Chenango County’s Innovative Readiness Training (Medical) program, the initial director of the Chenango Micro-loan Program, and is Mayor of the Village of New Berlin.