Colonel Allan F.P. Cruz, USMC (Ret.)

Commander General 2020-2021

Col. Cruz was born in San Francisco. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on 20 February 1966 and served on active duty from 1966-1970; served in Vietnam as a sergeant/ operations chief in Mike Btry 4/12 and Kilo Btry 4/13 for 21 months with the 3d Marine Division; affiliated with the Marine Corps Reserve as a staff sergeant in 1971; received direct commission in 1975, after receiving his BA in Engineering from San Francisco State University in 1975.

He was activated for Battle Griffin-91 in Norway during Desert Shield/Desert Storm as the Executive Officer of 1st Bn, 14th Marines (attached 2d Marine Division); activated again for Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom in November 2002 and served 17 months in theater; assigned as the Asst C/S G-4 Logistics for I MEF at Camp Pendleton, California, until he retired from the Marine Corps on 1 Apr 2005.

He has completed the NATO Joint Warfare Course in the United Kingdom, the Naval War College's Joint Operations, Strategy and Policy, and National Security Decision Making Courses, the Reserve Components National Security Course and the U.S. Army’s Airborne Course and Air Delivery Course. He qualified as a nuclear test engineer, under Admiral Rickover’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion Systems Program at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California.

He was a vice president with Enova Engineering Services, a nuclear engineering and information services consulting firm in Walnut Creek, California; vice president with Radiance Services Company, a laser-cleaning technology company for microelectronics industry; project director for ABB Energy Systems, an energy management and information systems engineering firm in Santa Clara, California.

Colonel Cruz and his wife, Susan Lynn, live in Walnut Creek, California. They have two sons: Nathan, who works as a financial manager for the District of Columbia in Washington, DC, and Brian, a LCDR in the U.S Navy Reserve, who works for the National Security Agency.

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