Jon A. Jensen (born 1963) is a lieutenant general in the United States Army. He currently serves as the 22nd director of the

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. He previously served as the adjutant general of the Minnesota National Guard from November 2017 to August 2020. Prior to that, he was assigned as commanding general of the 34th Infantry Division from January 2017 to October 2017 and as deputy commanding general for United States Army Africa from 2015 to 2017. He assumed his current assignment on 10 August 2020, with an effective date of rank of 3 August 2020.

Education

Jensen attended Lewis Central High School in

Council Bluffs, Iowa Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. The city is the most populous in Southwest Iowa, and is the third largest and a primary city of the Omaha–Council Bluffs ...

, graduating in 1982. He is a 1986 graduate of

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. Jensen later earned master's degrees from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and the United States Army War College in

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Military career

Jensen enlisted into the Iowa Army National Guard as a Private (PV1) combat medic in November 1982. He served for six and a half years and reached the rank of Staff Sergeant before attending the Army's Officer Candidate School, and received his commission upon graduation in 1989. As a second lieutenant, he was assigned to the 1st Battalion of the

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of the 34th Infantry Division. He was deployed to Kuwait in 2001, Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2003 as a major and Iraq in 2007 as a lieutenant colonel and in 2009 as colonel for a second deployment to Iraq.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jensen, Jon A. 1963 births Living people People from Council Bluffs, Iowa Northwest Missouri State University alumni Iowa National Guard personnel United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni United States Army War College alumni National Guard (United States) generals People from Apple Valley, Minnesota Minnesota National Guard personnel