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Ndi Igbo- Americans have continued to achieve incredible feat in Gods own country , which has led to their emergence as one of the most successful immigrant communities.
Their exploits in military is not an exemption. Among the over 180 Nigerian born Soldiers serving in the US Army some selected few have risen to the post of Colonel. Here are their profiles.


1.Col. Lawrence Anyanwu
Colonel Lawrence A. Anyanwu is currently the most senior Nigerian born serving in the US Military. He is from Amorji-Ogbe in the Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State .
He joined the U.S. Army in 1986 as a private, after spending two years studying Finance and Banking at the Imo State College of Technology in Owerri.

He is a Distinguished Military Graduate of the United States Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania with a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies and also holds a bachelors degree in finance from Alabama A&M University and a masters degree in engineering technology from Murray State University in Kentucky.
Col Anyanwu received his commission in 1992 as a Chemical officer from the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

He has served at the Pentagon, where he is the chief, contingency operations branch, Joint Staff J-8. The J-8 Directorate is charged with providing support to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) for evaluating and developing force structure requirements. J-8 conducts joint, bilateral, and multilateral war games and interagency politico-military seminars and simulations.

Col Anyanwu was previously assigned as commander of the 4th Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) Brigade, a United States Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps brigade based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Col Anyanwu is married and His son, First Lieutenant Ryan Anyanwu, is a Physicians Assistant at Fort Bliss, Texas.


2.Colonel Ike Eweama
Colonel Ike Eweama is a PhD holder whose service in the US Army recently earned him a promotion as a Colonel .Eweama was born in Lagos, Nigeria and is a decorated member of the United States military.


3.Col .Igwekala Njoku
Col. Igwekala Njoku is a scientist, who is in the U.S. military reserve as a Medical Corps. He came to the US in April 1971, as an 18-year-old boy from Enyiogugu, Mbaise, Imo State.

Prior to then, Njoku had his formal education at St Pauls Primary School, Enyiogugu, Mbaise before going to Holy Ghost College.
When he got to US his natural quest for higher education took him through Worcester Junior College, Worcester, Massachusetts, University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York and Hunter College, New York, New York, the various institutions where he obtained the following degrees AS, BS, MS and MSc. His postgraduate studies focused on Nuclear Science/Radiological Physics, Industrial Hygiene and Environmental Engineering Technology.

Njoku, a specialist in nuclear science and radiological physics, enlisted in the United States Army in 1985 on direct commission as 1st Lieutenant and was promoted to a Captain a month later. As at 2003, he was one of the only two black people certified by the American Board of Health Physics. And has since been a diplomat of the American Academy of Health Physics.

In 2003 he became the first African in the United States army to rise to the rank of a colonel. In the intervening years, he held various positions of increasing responsibility, several of which were very strategic to the national security of the United States, and put in a total of 28 meritorious years before retiring in 2013.

Presently there are three other enlisted Njoku (s) in the army.

He was nominated by US top military brass for the Legion of Merit (LOM), a military award of the United States Armed Forces that is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.

sexylassie2:
This is a rubbish article

When is the military a place to get rich

There is nothing like highest paid in the US Army

You collect your salary according to your ranks

Igbochief001:
Why so much hate

sexylassie2:
This is a rubbish article

When is the military a place to get rich

There is nothing like highest paid in the US Army

You collect your salary according to your ranks

sexylassie2:
This is not about hate but saying the fact

There is no highest paid colonel anywhere in the US army, you are paid according to your rank

all officers in a certain rank are paid the same salary

mrjaydee:
You must be a fool to think this guys are still Nigerians... imagine a war btw USA and Nigeria who do you think they will fight for?
Dumb article
Dumb OP

Poloyanabo2:
Nothing but Good news from diaspora Igbos lately.
God bless Naija.
Should i say Igbo amaka?

mrjaydee:
You must be a fool to think this guys are still Nigerians... imagine a war btw USA and Nigeria who do you think they will fight for?
Dumb article
Dumb OP

mbaise1000:
if it were in nigeria, these names will never smell this post, if at all they were taken, they would have retired them since and put a certain people by "MERIT"
PROUDLY 5% ANYDAY