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MG David Mikolaities

Adjutant General - New Hampshire National Guard

Major General David J. Mikolaities assumed duties as The Adjutant General, New Hampshire on September 23, 2017.  General Mikolaities serves as both the Military Chief of Staff to the Governor and as the Commissioner of the Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services.  In these roles, he is responsible for the strategic direction of Army and Air National Guard operations and all aspects of Veterans Services, including the Division of Veterans Services, the Division of Community Based Military Programs as well as the State Veteran’s Cemetery. 

General Mikolaities received his commission through the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1987.  Once commissioned, he served on active duty holding numerous leadership and staff positions within the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Carson, Colorado.  He transitioned to the reserve component where he completed the Special Forces Officer Qualification Course and served as a Detachment Commander with C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne).  Following this assignment, General Mikolaities served with Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT) where he held numerous staff positions.  In 2007, General Mikolaities joined the New Hampshire Army National Guard.  Throughout his career, he has served in various operational and staff assignments that included Commander, 54th Troop Command.  His operational assignments include deployments to Qatar and Iraq in 2003-2004 with SOCCENT and Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula and to Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010, serving in multiple roles with that country’s Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering and also holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College and a Master’s Degree in Management from Webster University.  General Mikolaities is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Combined Arms Services and Staff School, Command and General Staff College, Joint Forces Staff College, and the Army War College.  He has also completed Ranger, Special Forces, Mountain Warfare, and Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat training.  
Prior to his current assignment, General Mikolaities served as the Construction and Facilities Management Officer (CFMO) for Joint Force Headquarters-New Hampshire.  While chairing this position, he served as the senior engineer staff officer for the Adjutant General. 

Department Leadership

Shawn P. Buck

Shawn Buck was selected as Director of the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery located in Boscawen, New Hampshire in October 2018. As Director, he is responsible for the operations and supervision of the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery (NHSVC) encompassing 104 acres in Boscawen, NH. He is responsible for interacting with senior legislators and leaders of state veterans’ organizations. He works directly with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on all matters concerning the cemetery.

Mr. Buck was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in May 1987.  His assignments include Fire Direction Officer, 2d Infantry Division (Korea), Platoon Leader and Fire Support Officer, 24th Infantry Division (Fort Stewart, GA and Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm), Battery Commander, 25th Infantry Division (Hawaii), Assistant Professor of Economics at West Point, NY, Market Analyst with U.S. Army Recruiting Command, Professor of Military Science at UCLA, and Chief, Market Research and Analysis with U.S. Army Accessions Command.  He is Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger qualified.  He retired from active duty in July 2008.

From 2008-2018, Mr. Buck worked as a Director of Operations and Planning, Director of Supply Chain, and Vice President of Operations for two private companies.  He also served as an Admissions Liaison for the U.S. Military Academy and was a member of the Board of Directors of Family Promise of Concord.

Mr. Buck received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.  Mr. Buck and his wife, Diana, reside in Bow, NH. They have three grown children.

Brenton K. Fraser

Brent Fraser was appointed as Director of Community Based Military Programs in July 2023.  As Director he is responsible for leading the Division in its mission to operationalize delivery of quality services to New Hampshire Veterans, Service Members and their families through collaboration, coordination, and communication with military and civilian provider groups across the Granite State.

Brent was born in Portsmouth, NH, raised in the Monadnock region and graduated from the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.  A Distinguished Military Graduate, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and served 25 plus years in the United States Army.

His last operational overseas assignment was as Chief, Provincial Security Force Advise and Assist Team, 101st Airborne Division, where he led a team advising the Kunar Provincial Governor, Chief of Police and Director of Joint Operations Center on all aspects of planning, operations, and civil/military relations to contribute to the province's security, stability, governance and commerce.  He retired in 2015 as the Army Capability Integration Center's Fires Division Chief.  After retirement he was employed for a year as a Strategic Management Advisor and later Program Manager for a technology company supporting the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Army Training Support Center.  Since August 2016 he has served as a Department of the Army Civilian with the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC).  Most recently, from 2021-2023, he served as the acting Director for USASMDC's Capability Development Integration Directorate where he led a geographically distributed team of military, civilian and contract professionals in the development of the Army's space, stratospheric high altitude, and strategic missile defense capabilities, providing holistic and integrated solutions for the warfighter in large scale combat operations for the multi-domain operations fight.

His military and civilian awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit (1 oak leaf cluster (OLC)), Bronze Star (2 OLC), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (3 OLC), Army Commendation Medal (4 OLC), Army Achievement Medal (2 OLC), the Combat Action and Parachutist's Badge, and various unit, service and campaign awards as well as the Superior Civilian Service Medal and Meritorious Civilian Service Medal.  He holds a master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff, U.S. Naval War College.

Brent and his wife Cammy have two grown children, Ryan and Catherine.

William Gaudreau

William Gaudreau serves the State of New Hampshire in the capacity as the Director for the State’s Division of Veterans Services.  As Director he leads a talented, hardworking group of Veteran Service Officers whose responsibilities are to advocate for New Hampshire Veterans and their families in the attainment of their State and Federal Veteran’s benefits.

Son to William and Linda Gaudreau of Manchester, NH, Retired Senior Chief Petty Officer Gaudreau was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts but grew up and attended school in New Hampshire.  In the spring of 1986, he graduated High School in Weare, New Hampshire and by fall of that same year, he had shipped out to Recruit Training Center (RTC) San Diego, California.  He attended and graduated from Cryptologic Technician Collections school in Pensacola, Florida and began an illustrious 29-year career as a cryptologist in the United States Navy before retiring in June of 2016.

In those 29 years, he deployed on more than 20 THIRD and SEVENTH Fleet Naval Combatants, has visited more than 20 countries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and in the Arabian Gulf, been assigned to eight different duties stations, spent nine years stationed in Japan and promoted to the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer while leading thousands of Sailors.
 
During his 29 years of service, William has had a great many successes which have earned him numerous recognition and awards.  His most important success has been his nearly 30-year marriage to his wife Victoria and the birth and the raising of their daughter, Katelyn Margaret.

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