Colonel Glenn A. Waters graduated from Bethpage High School in 1984. He was on the football, wrestling, and lacrosse teams. Glenn was Student Council President, Lacrosse Team Captain and Captain of the Football Team.  After attending the Military Academy Preparatory School, he went on to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point where he played lacrosse.  In 1989, Glenn graduated USMA and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army with the Field Artillery branch.

From 1984-2018, Glenn faithfully served our Nation while traveling all over the world moving nineteen different times, lived in seven different countries, deployed to the First Gulf War, Haiti, Afghanistan, and Iraq. During this last deployment to Iraq in 2009, Glenn was a Battalion Commander and responsible for over 750 Soldiers. While there, Glenn was shot by an Iraqi sniper in Tikrit. Glenn would be a recipient of the Purple Heart for this “thru and thru” combat wound.

In August 2018 Glenn retired after his last assignment as the Deputy Director for the Army Human Resources Staff at the Pentagon. In this job, he was responsible for the Army’s resiliency program, suicide prevention program, substance abuse program and risk management program.
He is a graduate of Combined Arms Service Staff School, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College and earned master’s degrees from Central Michigan University in Human Resource Management and from the United Stated Army War College. 

Glenn’s awards and decorations include the three Legion of Merit, three Bronze Star Medals, Purple Heart as well as the Combat Action Badge, Air Assault Badge, Airborne Badge, and Ranger Tab.
Glenn currently lives in Lawton, Oklahoma where he runs his own energy and cellular service company.  He volunteers with the Association of the United States Army, the USO, Friends of Fort Sill, Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Church, and mentoring military members. 

Glenn has two daughters- Kayleigh, Kelsey and a son Kyle.