Join BeaverFit for an outdoor workout at 6 a.m. May 13 in the parking lot at Hall A entrance. Get your blood flowing with a morning workout at the 12’ Beyond Trailer, a mobile gym on wheels. No signup required, just show up ready to get #DamStrong.

TMAR-M is a moving mindfulness practice. Participants will be guided through a 45-minute physical practice that is modifiable to individual experience level and limitations. There will also be a 15 minute mindfulness practice at the end of the physical session. TMAR-M is designed to cultivate a mind-body connection, downregulate the nervous system, and promote mobility.

Students will need to bring their own yoga mat, and if they wish a towel and water for the practice. Registration required, only 100 spots available.

Lieutenant General David J. Francis
Commanding General, United States Army Center for Initial Military Training

Lieutenant General David J. Francis assumed duties as the Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) / Commanding General, United States Army Center for Initial Military Training (CIMT), on August 1, 2024. Prior to his assignment as the TRADOC Deputy Commanding General and CIMT Commanding General, he served as the Chief of Staff, United States Africa Command located in Germany.

He received his Regular Army commission in 1989 as a graduate of the Gannon University Reserve Officer Training Corps program in Erie, Pennsylvania and assigned to the Aviation Branch. His professional military education includes the Rotary Wing Officer Basic Course, Aviation Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Air Command and Staff College, United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College where he received a Master of Military Studies. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Master of Business Administration from Touro University International.

He served in a variety of command and staff assignments at every level including Director of Operations, U.S. Africa Command; Commanding General, U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama; Director, Army Aviation, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7; Commanding General of the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center / Director of Army Safety at Fort Rucker, Alabama; Deputy Commanding General (Support), 2nd Infantry Division (Combined), Eighth Army, Republic of Korea; Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, Fort Rucker, Alabama; Commander, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Fort Drum, New York; Commander, 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He has deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq.

His awards and decorations include the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with 4 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Bronze Star Medal (with 2 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster), Air Medal (with numeral 2), Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (with 3 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Combat Action Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Master Army Aviator Badge, and the Army Staff Identification Badge.

Lieutenant General David J. Francis
Commanding General, United States Army Center for Initial Military Training

Lieutenant General David J. Francis assumed duties as the Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) / Commanding General, United States Army Center for Initial Military Training (CIMT), on August 1, 2024. Prior to his assignment as the TRADOC Deputy Commanding General and CIMT Commanding General, he served as the Chief of Staff, United States Africa Command located in Germany.

He received his Regular Army commission in 1989 as a graduate of the Gannon University Reserve Officer Training Corps program in Erie, Pennsylvania and assigned to the Aviation Branch. His professional military education includes the Rotary Wing Officer Basic Course, Aviation Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Air Command and Staff College, United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the United States Army War College where he received a Master of Military Studies. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Master of Business Administration from Touro University International.

He served in a variety of command and staff assignments at every level including Director of Operations, U.S. Africa Command; Commanding General, U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama; Director, Army Aviation, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7; Commanding General of the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center / Director of Army Safety at Fort Rucker, Alabama; Deputy Commanding General (Support), 2nd Infantry Division (Combined), Eighth Army, Republic of Korea; Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, Fort Rucker, Alabama; Commander, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Fort Drum, New York; Commander, 2nd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He has deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq.

His awards and decorations include the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (with 4 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Bronze Star Medal (with 2 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster), Air Medal (with numeral 2), Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (with 3 Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Combat Action Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Master Army Aviator Badge, and the Army Staff Identification Badge.

Mr. Peter I. Belk
Acting Assistant Secretary of War for Readiness

Peter I. Belk is the Acting Assistant Secretary of War for Readiness (ASW(R)). In this capacity, he serves as principal advisor to the Secretary of War and the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness on all matters related to the readiness of the Total Force.  As Acting ASD(R), Mr. Belk develops policies and plans, provides advice, and makes recommendations for Total Force readiness programs, reporting, and assessments to execute the National Defense Strategy. 

Most recently, Mr. Belk served as the U.S. Northern Command Deputy Director of Operations, providing strategic and operational guidance for the planning and execution of multi-domain, globally integrated Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities operations. Mr. Belk also served as the U.S. Special Operations Command Deputy Director for Strategy, Policy, Plans, and Concepts where he led command planning, campaign design, and risk assessments development, as well as the command’s implementation and integration of the Joint Strategic Planning System. He also developed Special Operations Forces enterprise priorities for force posture and allocation, the command Program Objective Memorandum, and force design.

Previously, Mr. Belk was the Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Threats at the National Security Council where he planned, directed and coordinated policies for nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological threats, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, and international arms control and nonproliferation mechanisms.

Mr. Belk has held numerous other roles in government to include Principal Director (Acting) for the Chemical and Biological Defense Program Office in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs (NCB), Director of Strategic Relations, International and Interagency and Deputy Director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction in NCB. Mr. Belk was a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and an analyst in the Office of Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs in INR for Middle East and South Asia political-military affairs.

Since 1993, Mr. Belk has served in the U.S. Army on active and reserve duty as a civil affairs and military intelligence officer – to include support for Operation Inherent Resolve, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Allied Force – in key leadership, staff, operational, and planning positions.

Mr. Belk is a licensed attorney in the District of Columbia and the State of New York with extensive private sector experience in law, finance operations and consulting. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Arts in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University School of Law. Mr. Belk is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Tim Murray, PhD, MBA
Health Economist and Research Statistician
Director, Data and Decision Sciences Program
U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

Dr. Tim Murray is Health Economist and Research Statistician at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), where he also serves as the Director of the Data and Decision Sciences Program. His work is dedicated to using advanced applied statistics and machine learning techniques with large, complex medical and performance data to drive evidence-based solutions impacting Soldier’s health outcomes, performance, readiness, and lethality. USARIEM’s Data and Decision Sciences Program manages the Soldier, Performance, Health, and Readiness Database (SPHERE), which aggregates and maintains current and historical medical, performance, and personnel records from over 25 Department of War systems of record.

At USARIEM, he leads the effort evaluating the Holistic Health and Fitness System (H2F) Return on Investment analyses along with other research efforts studying DNBI, injuries in deployed environments, injuries in austere environments, blast overpressure, and other health outcomes that impact deployability.

Dr. Murray holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. in Economics from Old Dominion University, an M.S. in Business Administration from Old Dominion University, and a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Old Dominion University.

Newton Cheng
Former Director of Health and Performance at Google

Newton Cheng is a husband and father, a world champion powerlifter, and former Director of Health + Performance at Google. He teaches vulnerable leadership as a powerful skill that any leader can develop. His goal is to create a world where high performance doesn't require pretending to be superhuman.

He spent 17 years at Google developing and scaling global wellbeing programs, earning recognition as an international keynote and TEDX speaker. He's also a three-time world and nine-time US national powerlifting champion who has set multiple world, US, and California state records.

Despite his credentials and expertise, Newton burned out twice. This fundamentally changed how he thinks about sustainable performance. Rather than hide these struggles, he's made them central to his work, openly sharing his journey through burnout, mental health leave, and recovery to demonstrate what vulnerable leadership actually looks like in practice.

His talks and workshops help leaders recognize burnout in their teams before it's too late, practice authentic vulnerability as a skill rather than a performance, and take specific actions towards building cultures where people can be honest about struggle while pursuing ambitious goals.

He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Finally, Newton writes online where he explores what humans actually experience in high-stakes environments and what becomes possible when we're honest about our struggles.

TMAR-M is a moving mindfulness practice. Participants will be guided through a 45-minute physical practice that is modifiable to individual experience level and limitations. There will also be a 15 minute mindfulness practice at the end of the physical session. TMAR-M is designed to cultivate a mind-body connection, downregulate the nervous system, and promote mobility.

Students will need to bring their own yoga mat, and if they wish a towel and water for the practice. Registration required, only 100 spots available.

Brigadier General Deydre S. Teyhen
DPT | PhD | FAPTA
Commanding General, Medical Readiness Command, Pacific
Director, Defense Health Network Indo-Pacific

BG Deydre Teyhen was born in Canton, Ohio and received her Bachelor of Arts in Sports Science at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1993. She earned her Master’s Degree in Physical Therapy from the U.S. Army-Baylor University in 1995, completed her Ph.D. in Biomechanics from the University of Texas in 2004, and her Doctoral Degree in Physical Therapy from the Baylor University in 2008. BG Teyhen graduated with honors as a distinguished graduate from the U.S. Army War College with a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies in 2014.

Prior to becoming the Commanding General, Medical Readiness Command, Pacific and Director, Defense Health Network Indo-Pacific, she was the Director of the Defense Health Network-National Capital Region. Key senior leader positions include: Commanding General of Brooke Army Medical Center, Deputy Director of the San Antonio Market, and Deputy Chief of Staff (Support, G-1/4/6) at the Office of the Surgeon General. During the pandemic, she served as the Department of Defense Lead of Therapeutics for Operation Warp Speed at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as the Commander for Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Department of Defense’s largest biomedical research facility. She has also Commanded the U.S. Army Health Clinic-Schofield Barracks and Public Health Command Region South. Previous assignments included Assistant Chief of Staff - Public Health at the Army’s Office of the Surgeon General; Deputy Director, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center; Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Physical Therapy Research for the U.S. Army-Baylor University Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy; Officer-in-Charge of Task Force 10 Delta Med in Al Kut, Iraq; Chief of Musculoskeletal Care Center and Chief of Physical Therapy at Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center; Chief of Outpatient Physical Therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Chief of Physical Therapy, 21st Combat Support Hospital in Tuzla, Bosnia; and Physical Therapist at Darnall Army Community Hospital.

BG Teyhen also served as the 20th Chief, U.S. Army Medical Specialist Corps (2020-2024). BG Teyhen has spent her career focused on improving the delivery of healthcare, holistic health, and readiness (public health, musculoskeletal medicine, behavioral health, resiliency, imaging, and technology). Her research accomplishments include over 360 peer-reviewed publications, editorials, book chapters, and published abstracts; 120 presentations at conferences; and 200 invited lectures.

BG Teyhen’s key military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, six Legions of Merit, the Army Medical Department’s Order of Military Medical Merit, the Surgeon General’s “A” Proficiency Designator, and the U.S. Army War College Commandant’s Award for Distinction in Research. Key civilian awards include Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, Dissertation Award from the University of Texas, the American Physical Therapy Association, and Margaret L. Moore Award for Outstanding New Academic Faculty Member. She has been inducted into the Kinesiology and Health Education Distinguished Alumna Hall of Honor, University of Texas and the Distinguished Achievement Citation from the Ohio Wesleyan University.
BG Teyhen is married to COL (Ret) John V. Teyhen III who served as the Deputy Command Surgeon of the U.S. Indo-PacificCommand before retiring in October 2018 after 34 years of service. He is currently the Deputy Chief of Staff at the Defense Health Agency. They have accomplished their goal to be the first military couple to run a marathon in all 50 states.

Lieutenant General Robert D. Harter
35th Chief of Army Reserve and 10th Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command

Lieutenant General Robert D. Harter was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 1, 2024, and assumed the dual role of Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command.

As the Chief of Army Reserve, LTG Harter is the principal advisor on Army Reserve matters to the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Staff of the Army. As Commanding General of U.S. Army Reserve Command, he leads a community-based force of more than 174,000 Citizen Soldiers and 11,000 Civilians – with a footprint that encompasses all 50 states, five U.S. territories, and more than 23 countries across the globe.

His previous General Officer assignments include Commanding General of the 81st Readiness Division, Deputy Chief of Army Reserve, Chief of Staff for Army Material Command, and Commanding General, 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command (deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom).

After graduating from Virginia Tech in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication, LTG Harter received his Active Duty commission as a Field Artillery Officer. He also holds a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

As his initial Active Duty assignment, LTG Harter served as a platoon leader in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Bad Hersfeld, Germany (deployed to Desert Storm). After branch transferring to the Ordnance Corps, he completed Active Duty assignments with the 101st Corps Support Group, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and the U.S. Army Munition Center and School, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

LTG Harter then transferred from Active Duty to the Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) program in 1999. His AGR assignments include Support Operations Officer, 55th Sustainment Brigade, Distribution Management Center Chief, 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command (deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom), and Assistant Chief of Staff, Office of Chief of Army Reserve.

LTG Harter and his wife Erin have been married for over 35 years and have three children. They currently live in Stafford, Virginia.

CW5 Bradley Palm
Global War on Terrorism Veteran

CW5 Bradley Palm began his Army career in October 2003, completing Basic Training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before attending Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Upon his appointment as a Warrant Officer in 2004, he completed Initial Entry Rotary Wing training to earn his pilot rating in the UH-60A Blackhawk helicopter and subsequently qualified as an Aviation Life Support Equipment (ALSE) Officer prior to his first assignment.

From March 2005, CW5 Palm served with the 78th Aviation Battalion (Provisional), undertaking duties as ALSE Officer, Night Vision Goggle Custodian, and Water Survival Training Officer. Upon successful completion of the assessment and selection process in January 2008, he was assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), reporting to Bravo Company, 4th Battalion at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Following his selection, CW5 Palm completed the CH-47D transition course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and Officer Green Platoon training at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. After earning his Basic Mission Qualification in the MH-47G in December 2008, he returned to 4th Battalion where he steadily advanced within the Regiment, achieving Fully Mission Qualified status in 2010 and earning his designation as a Regimental Flight Lead in 2014.

Throughout his tenure, CW5 Palm held a series of leadership and staff positions of increasing responsibility. His expertise in flight instruction progressed from Platoon Instructor Pilot to Company and ultimately Battalion Standardization Instructor Pilot.

Concurrently, he assumed key operational leadership roles as Company Operations Officer and Company Senior Warrant Officer, while also managing technical duties as the Mission Planning Systems Officer and Aircraft Survivability Equipment Officer.

In July 2020, CW5 Palm transitioned to the System Integration Management Office (SIMO) within the Army Special Operations Aviation Command at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to serve as a Developmental Test Pilot. He quickly assumed roles of significant responsibility, acting as the MH-47G Standardization Instructor Pilot, a Government Flight Representative, and leading several directorates as Branch Chief, including the Sensors and Navigation, Tactical Mission Networking, Research Experimentation and Cyber, and MH-47 Heavy Assault branches.

Building on this experience, he now serves as the Technical Director and Senior Warrant Officer for SIMO. In this senior leadership capacity, he guides the command’s critical research, development, and integration efforts to deliver advanced capabilities across Army Special Operations Aviation.