Gregory W. Kruse

Major Gregory Wayne Kruse is a judge advocate general in the United States Air Force.

Personal life

He lives with his wife, Emily Kruse, and his three children, John Taylor Kruse, Mary Katherine Kruse, and Gina Nicolle Kruse. He is a very loving father and loves to help his daughter Gina with softball and encourage Mary Kate with her ballet. Right now, he is trying to get his son to college in California.

Current Assignment

He is currently assigned to the United States Forces Korea Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, at Yongsan Garrison, Seoul, Korea, where he is the Chief of International Agreements.

Expertise

Major Kruse is an expert in International Law having earned his Juris Doctor and Masters in Transnational Law from the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. He earned his BA in Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles. He speaks fluent Spanish and has worked and traveled throughout Mexico, Central America, South America, Spain and Kuwait.

Professional experience

Kruse is an experienced international negotiator, having served as a key member of the U.S. negotiation team that negotiated the 2002 Protocol of Amendment to the Agreement for Defense Cooperation between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain.In 1994 he created the concept of developing a model code of military justice for use throughout the Americas. After leading a three-year cooperative effort of over 40 U.S. and Latin American civilian and military legal experts the "Codigo Modelo de Justicia Militar" was published in 1998.

In 1995 he helped establish the Military Legal Committee of the Americas (COJUMA). He has taught Human Rights, Law of War, Military Justice, Operations Law, and Counter-Narcotics seminars at numerous foreign military schools and conferences.Major Kruse received the Keenan Award from the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School for the Air Force JAG who contributed the most to the fields of operations law or international law for the year 1996.

External links

* [http://www.tsupacific.net/faculty/faculty.shtml "Troy University Profile"]