Army Lt. Col. Glenda J. Lock
Army Lt. Col. Glenda J. Lock has graduated from the U.S. Army War College Department of Distance Education program at Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pa. The college is the Army’s senior educational institution.
The two-year program is equivalent to the college’s one-year resident program that prepares officers of all U.S. military services, as well as civilian officials of the federal government, to serve in top-level command and staff positions with the U.S. Armed Forces worldwide.
The student completed the Army’s highest level of formal education which prepares selected individuals to assume operational and strategic leadership responsibilities in military and national security organizations.
The curriculum trains students to better grasp the fundamentals of war and obtain a broader and deeper understanding of the reasons why people fight, nature of conflict, and the conduct of war at the strategic level.
Students study and confer on the great problems of national defense, military science and responsible command, and upon graduation earn a master’s degree in strategic studies.
Lock, a commander of the Vilseck Clinic in Germany, has served 20 years in the military.
She is the daughter of Clara J. Lock and Milton R. Lock, both of Fayetteville, N.C.
Her husband, Michael, is the son of Hugh and Evelyn Henry of Cape Coral.
The colonel is a 1981 graduate of Pine Forest Senior High School in Fayetteville, N.C.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1986 from North Carolina Central University in Durham. In 2002, Lock earned her master’s degree from Webster University in St. Louis, Mo.