Military career
Poppas was commissioned from the United States Military Academy in 1988 as a second lieutenant. His early career included time with the 3rd Infantry Regiment at Fort Myer, Virginia, as a rifle platoon leader, executive officer, and assistant operations officer; the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, as a company commander, operations officer, logistics officer, and in several other roles; and as a foreign area officer with the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion in Thessaloniki, Greece. [4] [10]
Poppas served as an operations officer in the Operations Directorate (J3) of the Joint Staff in Washington, D.C., before returning to the 82nd Airborne Division in 2005. He was the commander of the 3rd Battalion, 505th Infantry, and then commanded 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, during which time he was also deployed to Iraq. Poppas later served in the 101st Airborne Division, first as the commander of its 1st Brigade Combat Team and then as the division's deputy commanding general (operations). In both roles, he had deployments to Afghanistan. Following this, he returned to Washington, D.C., as Deputy Director for Regional Operations and Force Management on the Joint Staff, and then was Director of Force Management in the Army Staff. [10] In 2017 he was made commander of the 101st Airborne Division [5] and in 2018 he was promoted to lieutenant general. [11] While serving as commander of the 101st Airborne he was deployed to Afghanistan again. [10]
He later served as the Director for Operations of the Joint Staff, and after that he was the Director of the Joint Staff. In 2022, Poppas became the commanding general of the United States Army Forces Command, the largest command in the Army, [10] and was promoted to general. [12]
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