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Updated April 12, 2013. 

President of the United States
Governor, State of Mississippi
Secretary of Defense
Chief, National Guard Bureau

Major General Augustus L. (Leon) Collins is the Adjutant General of Mississippi and serves as the Commanding General of both the Mississippi Army and Air National Guard. He is responsible for providing the State of Mississippi and the United States of America with a ready force of more than 12,275 Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen, equipped and trained to respond to any contingency, natural or manmade. General Collins directs the Mississippi Military Department and oversees the development and coordination of all policies, plans, and programs of the Mississippi National Guard in concert with the Governor and legislature of the State.
 
General Collins began his career when he enlisted in the Mississippi Army National Guard's Company B, 1st Battalion, 198th Armor Regiment in March 1977. He was commissioned in July 1980 upon completion of Officer Candidate School. He has served in various command and staff positions in units at every level to include Company, Battalion, Regiment, Brigade, and the Adjutant General’s primary staff in both a traditional and Active Guard Reserve status.
 
General Collins served on active duty in Operation Desert Shield/Storm as well as commanding the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team during combat operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004-2006. Collins was promoted to brigadier general on May 10, 2005 while in Iraq, making him the first African American to attain the rank of general officer in the history of the Mississippi National Guard. 
 
Following his deployment to Iraq, Collins was assigned as Director of Mobilization, United States Army Forces Command, Fort McPherson, GA. He held that post from February 2006 until he retired in October 2007.
 
Upon his retirement from the military, he was appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to serve as one of the three Commissioners for the Mississippi Worker's Compensation Commission. He held that post until July 2010 when he accepted a position with MINACT Incorporated where he served as the Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning.
 
When Governor Phil Bryant took office in January 2012, he appointed Collins the Adjutant General of Mississippi. He was promoted to the rank of Major General on March 14, 2012. 
 
Collins is a 2007 inductee into the University of Mississippi Alumni Hall of Fame.  He was the 2006 Mississippi Trailblazer of the Year.  He is a 2006 inductee into the Mississippi Military Academy Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame.  He has twice been awarded the National Guard Bureau's Minuteman Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Citizen Award by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., in 2009. He was the 2012 recipient of the Sam Haskell Spirit of America Award presented by the Mississippi Trailblazers.
 
His many military awards and decorations; the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, the Iraqi Campaign Medal, the Mississippi Magnolia Cross, the Order of Saint George Medallion for excellence in Armor and the Combat Action Badge.
 
Collins currently serves on the Board of Directors of Friends of Mississippi Veterans and the Board of Directors for MINACT Inc. He previously served on the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance and the Governor's Commission for Physical Fitness and Sports.  He is a member of the Beta Gamma Boule of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and was inducted into the National Collegiate Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
 
Collins is a member of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson, MS, where he serves on the Deacon Board.
 
Collins received an Associate of Arts Degree from Northeast Mississippi Junior College, a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the University of Mississippi, a Master of Business Administration Degree from Jackson State University, a Master of Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College and has completed the General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
 
Collins is married to the former Debra Fitzgerald. They have two sons, William and Benjamin.
 
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Major General Catherine S. Lutz is the Assistant Adjutant General for Air, Mississippi Air National Guard, also serving as commander, Mississippi Air National Guard. General Lutz is responsible to the Adjutant General for directing Air National Guard operations and establishing policy to ensure mission readiness of two airlift wings, combat readiness training center, air support operations squadron, air control squadron and civil engineer squadron.
 
General Lutz was commissioned in the Mississippi Air National Guard in 1982 as a Flight Nurse; and in 1987 she was re-commissioned as a Medical Service Corps Officer. As a member of the Air National Guard, General Lutz commanded three units: an Air Expeditionary medical unit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an aeromedical evacuation squadron and a medical squadron. In 2004, she transferred to the Air Force Reserve Individual Mobilization Augmentee program after serving over 21 years in the Mississippi Air National Guard. During her Air Force Reserve tour she served as the Health Services Administrator to the 81st Medical Group at Keesler Air Force Base. In October 2005 she returned to the Air National Guard as Special Assistant to the Mississippi Adjutant General. In March 2006, she was assigned as the Air National Guard Assistant to the 59th Medical Wing at Lackland Air Force Base. On 1 Dec 2008, she served as the Air National Guard Assistant to the Chief Nurse of the Air Force at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, District of Columbia. General Lutz was appointed to her current position in December 2011.
 
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Brigadier General Jessie R. Robinson was appointed Assistant Adjutant General – Army, on January 1, 2013. As the Assistant Adjutant General, he guides the formulation, development and implementation of all programs and policies affecting the Mississippi Army National Guard and its nearly 10,000 Citizen-Soldiers.
 
General Robinson was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Infantry, on May 22, 1985, through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served in command and staff positions at every level, including: Commander, 890th Engineer Battalion; Deputy Commander, 168th Engineer Brigade; Chief of Staff, Joint Force Headquarters, Mississippi Army National Guard; and most recently as Commander, Camp McCain Training Site, Mississippi Army National Guard.
 
General Robinson served on active duty as Commander, 150th Combat Engineer Battalion, 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team during combat operations in Operations Iraqi Freedom in 2005.
 
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Command Sergeant Major George M. Miller was appointed as the 6th State Command Sergeant Major for the Mississippi Army National Guard (MSARNG) on December 3, 2010.  As the State Command Sergeant Major, Miller serves as the Senior Enlist Advisor to the Assistant Adjutant General, Army, and to the Adjutant General of Mississippi regarding all enlisted-related matters, particularly in areas affecting Soldier training and quality of life. He also travels with the Adjutant General visiting Mississippi Guardsmen deployed around the world. 
 
Command Sergeant Major George M. Miller began his military career on 07 November 1976 where he enlisted in the Mississippi Army National Guard, 123^rd Medical Company, in Tupelo, Mississippi.  He attended Basic Training at Fort Knox Kentucky and Advance Individual Training at Fort Rucker, Alabama.  During his military career he served with the 123^rd Medical Company, 323rd Aviation Company, 1-185^th Aviation Battalion (Air Assault), 185^th Theater Aviation Brigade, and 66th Troop Command. 
 
Command Sergeant Major Miller served as the Command Sergeant Major for the 1-185^th Aviation Battalion (Air Assault), 185^th Theater Aviation Brigade, and 66^th Troop Command.  He deployed in 2007-2008 with the 1-185^th Aviation Battalion (Air Assault) to Camp Bondsteel Kosovo as the Multi- National Task Force East Aviation Command Sergeant Major. 
 
Command Sergeant Major Miller attended Saltillo High School, Saltillo Mississippi and continued his education at Itawamba Community College and completed this civilian education with King School of Aeronautics in Nashville Tennessee. Command Sergeant Major Miller is a 1997 graduate of the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. Command Sergeant Major Miller was employed at the Army Aviation Support Facility for the past 28 years as an Aircraft Technical Inspector.
 
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Chief Master Sergeant Andrew M. Papania is the eleventh Command Chief Master Sergeant for the Mississippi Air National Guard assigned to the Joint Force Headquarters, Mississippi Air National Guard, Jackson, Mississippi.  
 
Chief Papania is responsible for reviewing promotion, retention, and assignment policy affecting over 2,300 enlisted personnel; conducting counseling and interviewing sessions through a visitation program to 29 units; and indentifying issues and recommending action directly to commanders.  He maintains liaison between the enlisted personnel, The Adjutant General and the Assistant Adjutant General for Air/Commander, Mississippi Air National Guard.
 
Chief Papania resumed responsibility as the State Command Chief Master Sergeant for the Mississippi Air National Guard on September 1, 2012.
 
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