Colonel Percy G. Parker was commissioned as an Aviation Officer after graduation from the Officer Candidate School Class 3-86, 8 August 1986. Colonel Parker’s first duty assignment was Scout Platoon Leader, 5th Squadron/6th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas. | His subsequent duty assignments include: Scout Platoon Leader, 5th Squadron/6th Cavalry Regiment, Wiesbaden, Germany, Squadron Property Book Officer, 5th Squadron/6th Cavalry Regiment, Saudi Arabia, Executive Officer, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Military Intelligence Battalion, Orlando, Florida, Battalion Assistant S-3, Military Intelligence Battalion, Orlando, Florida, Commander, D/1-223rd Aviation Regiment, Fort Rucker, Alabama, and Project Director, Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command, Orlando, Florida. Additionally, he has served as Dislocated Civilian Officer, 350th Civilian Affairs Command, Pensacola, Florida, Deputy G-2, 350th Civilian Affairs Command, Pensacola, Florida, Small Group Leader (CGSOC), 11th Battalion, 108th Training Division, Concord, North Carolina, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 Operations, Task Force 44th Medical Command, Baghdad, Iraq, and Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5 Civil Military Operations, Task Force 44th Medical Command, Camp Victory, Iraq. He also served as Civil Affairs Plans and Operations Officer, Special Operations Command Central, Tampa, Florida, and Executive Officer to the Assistant Military Deputy, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisitions, Logistics, and Technology), Washington, D.C.; Commander, United States Army Sustainment Command, Detachment-Thirteen-Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisitions, Logistics, and Technology), Washington, D.C. | Colonel Parker's military awards and decorations include: the Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (1Oak Leaf Cluster), the Army Commendation Medal (1Oak Leaf Cluster), the Army Achievement Medal, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal with two bronze stars, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with silver hourglass and M device, Southwest Asia Service Medal with two bronze stars, the Iraqi Campaign Medal with one bronze star, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Kuwait Liberation Medal-Saudi Arabia, the Kuwait Liberation Medal-Kuwait, the Overseas Service Ribbon (2), and the Army Service Ribbon. Colonel Parker has earned the Combat Action Badge, the Senior Army Aviator Badge, the Parachutist Badge, the Pathfinder Badge, the Army Staff Identification Badge, the Norwegian Parachutist Badge, the Kenya Parachutist Badge, and the Dominican Republic Parachutist Badge.