Colonel Loomis is from Belleville, NY and originally enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1994 as an air traffic control radar technician. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on May 24, 2002, after graduating from the US Naval Academy.
Col Loomis’s operational assignments include service as a forward observer, platoon commander, and battery executive officer with Battalion Landing Team 2/4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Battery Commander with 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines; Battery Commander with 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, and Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit; Assistant Division Fire Support Coordinator with 1st Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines Battalion Executive Officer, and 11th Marine Regiment Operations Officer; Inspector/Instructor, 6th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company.
Colonel Loomis’s staff assignments include duties as instructor, staff platoon commander, and Artillery Instructor Battery Commander at The Basic School; Congressional Fellow/Legislative Analyst for Congressman Duncan Hunter; Joint Action Control Officer and Aide-de-Camp for the Deputy Commandant, PP&O; G35 Future Operations Director, Marine Forces Pacific; Crisis and Competition Branch Head, USINDOPACOM J35, and Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade Chief of Staff.
Colonel Loomis is a graduate of the Field Artillery Officer Captain Career Course, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and National Defense University’s Joint Advanced Warfighting School.