Col. Scott Blanchard is the provost marshal and chief of protection for I Corps, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Previously, he was the military adviser to the Afghan chief of general staff, and before that, he was battalion commander for the 91st Military Police Battalion, Fort Drum, New York. He has deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo. He has two master’s degrees, one in kinesiology from Texas A&M University and one in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.