Biography 

CSM(R) Christopher G. Lewis 

Vice President - Operations 

National Infantry Museum Foundation 

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Background information: 

• • Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Christopher Lewis has been the Vice President of Operations for the National Infantry Museum Foundation [NIMF] since May 2023. He previously served as the Director of Education and Volunteer Services for the Museum from February 2020 to April 2023. 

• • He is originally from Foxboro, Massachusetts, entering the United States Army in June 1987 at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he completed One Station Unit Training (OSUT) as an 11C Indirect Fire Infantryman [Mortars], followed by the Basic Airborne Course. He was then assigned to the 60mm Mortar Section, Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in October 1987. 

• • In his 32 years of service, CSM(R) Lewis served in a variety of assignments, to include Airborne, Mechanized Infantry, Light Infantry and Stryker units, to include the 1st Armored Division, 1st Infantry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 10th Mountain Division, and the 82nd Airborne Division. CSM(R) Lewis performed additional duties as an Army Recruiter from 1999 to 2002 in Waterville, Maine, and as a Drill Sergeant and Senior Drill Sergeant with the 193rd Infantry Brigade at Fort Jackson, South Carolina from 2005 to 2008. 

• • He has served at every position within a Mortar Section and Mortar Platoon and has also served as a Stryker Infantry Company First Sergeant, Headquarters and Headquarters Company First Sergeant, Battalion Operations NCOIC, Brigade Operations Sergeant Major, G-3 Operations Sergeant Major, and his final assignment as the Battalion Command Sergeant Major for the 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, Georgia. 

• • He has six combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and four peacekeeping and security assistance missions to the Balkans [Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Slovenia]. 

• • CSM(R) Lewis has completed an associate degree in general studies from Excelsior College and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in history with the University of Maryland – Global Campus. 

• • He is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Infantry Association and is the Unit Historian for the 551st Parachute Infantry Association. He is also a member of the Sergeant Audie Murphy Association, 505th Panther Association, Sergeants Major Association, WWII Airborne Demonstration Team [ADT] and is a Lifetime Member of the 82d Airborne Division Association, 50th Infantry Association, Special Forces Association Chapter IX, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. In May 2022, he was named Honorary Sergeant Major of the 50th Infantry Regiment. 

• • He is married to the former Miss Mikey Steen of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and has one son, Samuel Gavin Lewis, who is a college student in his Senior year at Virginia Tech.